The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-03
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper UniOn'Nsws serics.)

| Of the institution, asking that It De made effective not later than Jan. l, 1922.
 Cotton picking in the Pecos valley in the vicinity of Roswell, N. M., is gO- ing ahead rapidly and there is a small colony in the fields every day. It is estimated that the total production for the valley for the season will be about 5000 bales.
 William Singleterry of Clovis, N. M., has a fine crop of peanuts this season. Some of the samples will be sent to the big fair which is soon to be held in Dallas, Texas. The acreage will be increased during the next year throughout the county.
 Believing that the boys of the city can do much to aid in the prevention of fires, the Las Vegas, N. M., fire de partment has enlisted the aid of the local Boy Scouts in the work. At the suggestion of the firemen a lecture was given by the district attorney on the prevention of fires to the troops of scouts at the T. M c. A.
 Patrick T. Brennan, who, in com pany with two other navy enlisted men, is accused of having abscOnded with $72,O00 of the paymasterS' office in the navy yard at Norfolk, Va, on Dec. p, 1920, was arrested at Phoenix. Brennan's story was told in a written confession made by the prisoner, ac- cording to agents of the federal De paTtment of Justice.
 The contract for the Grady highway out of Clovis, N M., will be let the 1st of November and the work will be started as soon as the material and equipment can be placed on the ground. The new highway will run north out of the city for thirteen miles and will be hard surfaced with caliche, and when the job is completed the to- tai cost will be over $100,0O0.
 W. P. Walker, former deputy Co chise county treasurer, on trial since Oct 10 at Tombstone, Ariz., for al- legged embezzlement of county funds, brought his trial to a close by enter ing a plea of guilty to the charge of misappropriating $234.48, the first of eighteen charges filed against him in- vOlving shortages in the county treas urer'S office said to total $35,000.
 Perry Hooper, a negro, one of the twelve prisoners who escaped from the Santa Cruz county jail on June g. was depOrted from Mexico at NOgaleS, Ariz., and was immediately arrested by Sheriff George White and placed in the county jail. Hooper was taken to Florence to serve life sentence in the state prison for killing Della Rog CTS, also negro, last November.
 Returns to the Farm Bureau Mar keting Association from c. H. Weaver & O., Chicago, who handled part of the cantalOupe deal in the Mesilla val ley, N. M., this season, show $20, ,575.41 total net for 55,167 crates or an aver age of 36.9 cents crate. Thirty three growers in this deal devoted 234 acres of land to melons, The average acre yield was 238.2 crates. The aver age net acre return to the growers was S86.91.
 A limit of 40 per cent was fixed by the Automobile Club of Arizona with respect to the number of auto dealers who may be signed up as dealer-mem- bers of the club in any one commuu- ity This action was taken as prOtec- tion against dealers who have already signed up and who felt that they would receive no particular benefit from this membership if every garage and re- pair shop in the town should become members.
 Miss Edith Snowden of Phoenix was appointed chairman of the State Board of Nurse Examiners by Governor Thomas E. Campbell to succeed Miss Bertha c. Rowe of Tucson, resigned.
 New Mexico's first state fish hatch cry is now completed and will be ready to start matching fish by the first of the year, according to a report by Game Warden Thomas P. Gable. The superintendent's cottage is now under construction and it is thought by next spring the hatchery will be in position to release at least a million trout for the streams of the state. The total cost of the hatchery, including the cottage, will be about $35,000.
 The county supervisors of Pinal county, as we'll as Santa Cruz, have voted to cooperate with the AutOmO- bile Club of Arizona in the posting of permanent road signs, according to an announcement from state headquar- ters of the club. Santa Cruz agreed to help pay for the signing two weeks ago. Agreements have been entered