Taiban Valley news., 1921-07-15
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona


,he State.
One of the worct hail storms ever
known IN that part of New MeXiso Wis
tied Roy, the mesa west of Mills, and
extended south To the Union county
line, recently.
Jose Matrecito, Mexican customs
officer, was shot and killed few feer
across the border from Naco, Arizona,
| by Il man wearing Il United States
army uniform. The slayer fled to the
United States side of the international
| boundary.
\ cOroner's jury returned Il verdict
that Mrs Lucas Borrego, 33 years old,
died from poison administered by
some unknown person or persons
| Lucas BolTego, her husband, was
placed under $1,000 bond on the charge
of murder.
Leo Campbell, aged % years, AMI
for the past eight years an employe Of
| the Pearson ranch at the COttonwoodS,
near Roswell, New Mexico, was in
stantly killed when the big trailer
which was hitched behind his wagon
passed over his body.
Seven MeXcans, four of them
masked, ransacked the store at Here
ford, twenty miles west of Bisbee,
after having held prisoner for three
hours Robert Reay, one of the propri-
etors. Three suspects, captured by Il
posse of cowboys, are held in the
county Jail at Tombstone.
Thirteen bonds, with face value of
%1,0O each, which were presented to
the State of Arizona by a. Il. Welsh,
guest ut the Pioneers Home at Pres
colt, are worthless, according to word
teceived by State Treasurer Raymond
EaIhart. The information came from
| the National Bank of Commerce of
New York.
Governor Mechem of New Mexico
has communted to life Imprisonment
the sentence of Sylvester f. Bailey, go,
sentenced to be hanged July IL for the
murder of James NJ Redore ut Nanad-
ilm. n. NJ, in 1916. The Governor
acted on the recommendation of Ray
mond II. Ryan, the trial judge, and
eleven of the twelve jurors who con-
victed Bailey. They said the evidence
did not establish to the exclusion of
reasonable doubt that ha was guilty
If first-degree murder.
The damage in the great Yuma flOad.
which started when the railroad levee
gave way near Somerton, Arizona, has
exceeded one million dollars, accord
ng to authoritative sources Four
thousand acres of cultivated farm
mdS are under wafer. Over 1,O0O
men. practically every male inhabitant
| # i.e district, made Il desperate en-
leayOr to check the flood from further
advancement. Farmers in the threat
pncd area moved their stock and
'quipment to higher ground
Two shooting affairs occurred in
Prescott in one day, in which an under
sheriff and an automobile mechanic
were killed. The first shooting oc-
cured when Foster ROak, an automo-
bile mechanic, was killed. Pearl
Woodruff, proprietress of Il rooming
house, was arrested in connection with
R0ak'S death. Undersheriff Ed Bowers
was killed by Frank George during a
raid on a house in which George was
staying. After Bowers was killed, PO-
lice Inspector +. G. Crowe'of Phoenix,
who was in Prescott, shot George,
Wounding him twice, and then arrested
him.
The long reader controversy In New
Mexico ended in victory for Scott
Eorsinan & CO., publishers of the FL
son reader, when the New Mexico edu-
cation board designated the text ms
'Easal" for all grades above the third
and the SearSOn- Martin reader as
"basal" for the first, second and third
According to announcements just
, made, Curry county. New Mexico, will
soon have two more consolidated
school districts, three of the districts
already having been decided on. The
other five districts will be decided on
soon, and it is likely that the consoli
dation will be completed by the time
of the opening of the fall term OF
school.
Cavalry training is being given al
the Preside of Monterey California
for six weeks this summer, to 172 col
lege men from the Oregon Agriculture
College. University of Arizona, Texas
, 81 te College of Agriculture and Me
q nical Arts and the New Mexico Mil
itary Institute During the college yeai
the students are members af the re
serve officers trimming corps units a
. their schools. Only Western universi
: ties with cavalry companies are repre-
sented.
Yale Gordy, Navajo Indian, whit
escaped from the custody of the Indian
agent at Fort Defiance, killed himsel
rather than permit the posse of Indal
police who were chasing him to re
capture him. according TO word brough
. to Phoenix by Ed A. Weage, United