The Holbrook news., 1921-03-04
Southwest News ] From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service

OAAC-
 Frank J. Barry, a prominent attOr
 ley, was stabbed in the left arm al
 Nogales, Ariz., during a fight with one
 of four MeXicans who were rObbina
 his home, a report to the sheriff's of
 flee said The. robbers were put tC flight after footing the house and get
 ting a small amount of money and g few jewels.
 The low cost of living is making it self felt in Cochise county, Ariz., ac
 cording to Miss Beulah Coon, super visor of home economies in the state department of vocational training, who said seventeen school teachers of Douglas are being served complete luncheOns by the home economics girls of the Pirtleville school for 25 cents.
 The Masonic Grand Lodge of New Mexico elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Grand master, Fran cis D. Lester of Mesilla Park; deputy grand master, Lucius Dills, Santa Fe senior grand warden, Joseph Gill, Clay ton; junior grand warden, John w. Turner, Silver City; grand secretary, A. A. Keen, Albuquerque, and grand treasurer, Solomon Spitz, Santa Fe.
 Henry L. Peterson of the school board of Chandler, Ariz., has been in formed that the sale of $170,OOO worth of school bonds had been approved by rhe attorneys of the bonding house. These bonds had been sold about two weeks ago to a Chicago concern and their acceptance means that the work of proceeding With the building of the new structures can go forward at once.
 The Deming, N NJ. representatives of the Winchester Arms Company have been notified that Miss Anna Page of that city has won the craftsmanship medal for the state of New Mexico in the Junior Winchester Rifle Corps competition which was held through out the United States and Canada during the month of January, and the compilation of the scores has just been completed.
 The highway department of New Mexico awarded the contract for the bridge over the Rio Grande at Espan- ola to the J. V. Striker Construction Company. The company's bid was $44,76O. The bridge will be concrete structure and will resist the floods that have battered the wooden strue- ture now in place at that point. The contract calls for completion before the flood season.
 The attendance during the present year at colleges and universities has increased out of all proportion to the increase of population. It is also out of all proportion to the facilities for the accommodation of students. Ari- zona is no exception-in fact the Uni versity of Arizona is an outstanding example of the rapid growth of a state university. Compared with other state universities the percentage growth is remarkable, being 97 per cent.
 The Supreme Court of Arizona up- held the judgment of the Superior Court of Yavapai county which con victed Clarence Sage, former mine guard, of a statutory charge in con- nection with an attack alleged to have been committed upon a young woman in Jerome. She had been married but was a minor. Sage was sentenced to life imprisonment Three other men, including two Jerome policemen, were convicted in connection with the same alleged offense.
 Hundreds of acres of apple trees are being uprooted in the Pecos valley in New Mexico Most of. this apple orchard land will be given over in the future to alfalfa, a great many land owners seemingly being convinced that alfalfa pays far better than apples.
 A drastic anti-cigarette bill in- troduced in the House would prohibit cigarette smoking, possession of cigar cites or materials for making or their transportation into the state of Kan sas. A fine of hot less than $50 or more than $100 is provided.
 The New Mexico Salt Refining Con- pany held its annual meeting at Noun tainair when eight directors were se- lected for the coming year and plans were made for the developing of the salt industry in the county on large scale. Many prominent men of the state, including U. s. Senator Jones, have become interested in the com pany and the prospects for the future are bright. The company owns the Salina grant upon which is located the famous salt lake of the Estancia val ley, where the Mexicans got their salt 300 years ago and hauled it to many points in Mexico overland.
 Many of the farmers in the vicinity of Artesia, N. M., will plant from three to four hundred acres of wheat this season and there is now talk of erect ing large flour mill there. J. P. Bar ton, one of the big growers of the val ley, predicts that wheat will soon be the principal crop of the Pecos coun- try.
 Maricopa county, Ariz., will get full face value, accrued interest and pre- mium, as provided in the sales con- tract, for $3,0O0,OOO worth of road bonds sold to- bond purchasing firm some months ago.
 The county commissioners of El Paso county, Texas, have approved the plans for the Newman road which will run north out of the Pass City and connect with the AlamogordO road, making a direct route to the north into NJ,,-x AFo~-;oo Flha Rit1Ifthio oomnanv