The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-11
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
CEestsrn Newspaper Union News service.)

IL was decided to hold the annual
 roundup this year September 5, 6
 and 2.
 The school of vocational education
 at Las Vegas, N. M., has grown so fast
 during the past two months that 1t has
 been necessary to add two extra teach
 CTS to the staff The school now has
 over thirty pupils.
 Range conditions in Arizona and
 New Mexico are more encouraging
 than they have been for months past,
 according to a report issued by the
 local office of the United States wealth
 CT bureau at Phoenix
 Bids for the fish hatchery at Lisboa
 spring, N. M., the first built by the state, and the superintendent's cottage
 will be called for as soon as T. C. Gaastra, the architect, finishes the plans, already practically ready for final approval.
 The POstoffice Depar.ment is adver- Using for bids for new postoffice loca- ton at Wilcox, Ariz. The room must contain 1,SO0 square feet of floor space and be conveniently located. The de- partment requires more space than the present pOstoffice contains.
 Total shipments of cantalOupes from the Salt River Valley this year have been approximately 400 carloads greater than last year and 400 car loads less than in 1919, according to the bulletin issued by Homer A. Har- ris, representative of the United States bureau of markets and crop estimates at Phoenix.
 Abstract of assessment rolls of Pima, Yuma and MOhave counties, Ariz., have been filed with the State Tax Commission. The commission now has received copies of the assess ment rolls from ten of the fourteen counties in the state. The valuation placed on assesSable property in Pima county was given as $61, ,619,249 The MOhave county roll totaled S23, ,505,- | 7S3. Yuma county's assessable prop | erty was valued at $21, ,351, ,315.
 The State Board of Vocational Edu- | cation has fixed the budget for voca- tiOnal education work in Arizona dur | ing the coming year at $2O0OOO, ac- cOrding to M. l.. DOner, assistant state director of vocational education. | Doner said that the S2OO,00O budget, | which is $141, ,339 less than last years budget, was recommended by him. The smaller budget, he said, did not indi- | cate any lessening in the efficiency of | the work.
 Antonio Carpio must hang at Silver | City, N. M., on Aug. 19 for the murder | of Efren Rios at Central on Aug. If, 1919, according to the decree of the State Supreme Court, which affirmed | CarpiOS conviction and set the date for his execution. CarpiO, the evidence showed, jealous of attentions paid by rival 10 a girl at a ''baile,'' shot to kill CasimirO LucerO, and the bullet struck Rios, a second shot wOundins Lucero. The court held that shooting the wrong man did not exempt the shooter from crime.
 Copies of the Arizona 1921-22 Blue Book, compiled by Ernest R. Hall, | secretary of state, have been distrib- uted. The little volume is replete with information concerning the state. bit of history, it's population and the population of its incorporated cities and towns, the value of it's crops, it's newspapers, commercial and miscel- lane0us organizations, are a. few of the things contained in addition to the usual list of federal, state and county officials, state boards and national guard of the state.
 The state will benefit approximate ly $1 POO from the estate of Elmer Pirtle, who established the town of Ariz. Pirtle died August 5, 1920, leaving an estate, according to the appraisers, of $339, ,744.61. Since the property was held jointly by Pirtle and his wife, the state can collect in- heritance tax on only one-half the 
 Camping and fishing will not be de- nied visitors to the Apache reserva- tiOn in the White mountains northeast of Globe, AriZ. An order curtaiing these privileges was issued this year for the first time, by Superintendent Davis. Information from the state game warden said an order from the Indian commissioner had restored these privileges.
 The contract for the new high I school building at Estancia, N. M., and much of the material is already Oh the site. The new building will be made of adobe blocks and will be S2 by 12O feet, with six class rooms about 24 by 34. All of the walls will be laid in lime Innrtar which it- is thn11crht mill