The Holbrook news., 1921-09-02
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
lweslsrn Nerspspsr unIan Nsw. ser,Icel

The Winchester Junior Rifle Club
 is the newest organization in Magda-
 lena. W. Mex. The boys will he under
 the supervision of l.. H. CanOll, who
 will instruct them in the use of the
 rifle
 Work will begin at Las Cruces. N.
 Mex. early in October on town pay
 ing Improvements estimated to cost
 S3I ,SS4.22, it was announced today by J. II. Paxton, chairman of the board
 of trustees of Las Cruces
 Authentic information has been re-
 ceived at Gallup, \. Mex. that new
 cartridge factory iS soon to be erect ed at Fort Ningate which will employ
 over 200 men and will have q month
 ly payroll of about STOOD.
 The Automobile Club of Arizona has
 shipped to it's various offices through out tle state metal signs to be placed in front of such offices on metal stand ards, already erected. This will mater
 ally aid the travelling public.
 The RatOn, N Mex. Chamber of Commerce reports that the Texas tourist traffic alone has amounted to over S1,000 day during the summer. This is probably about 90 per cent of what has passed through the city.
 The gasoline tax in Arizona will amount to much more than was sup posed at the time it was imposed. Re turns received at the office of the sec retary of state show that there was collected for the month of July the sum of $13,000; the receipts for the last twenty days of the month were 5000.
 According to A. l.. Hamilton, cOun- ty agent, Porter valley and the cOun- try in the vicinity of San Jon, N. Mex is rapidly developing into one of the big wheat belts of the state. The crop this season has been q great sue cess and it is estimated that during the next year at least 5000 acres of wheat will be planted.
 James Haverty, cattleman, broke down and wept in court when Judge A. C. Lockwood sentenced him to not less than six nor more than ten years for staying his brother. Richard Hav- erty, following a quarrel on April 23. James Haverty was found guilty of manslaughter, following trial on a charge of murder at Tombstone.
 The local Game and Fish Protective Association of Taos, \. Mex, is now doing good work in the stocking of the local trout streams and will plant thousands of trout fry during the fall. In spite of the fact that most of the streams in that vicinity are fished by hundreds of people every year, there is still splendid fishing
 A woman who says she is Baroness Victoria Wolff vOn TOtenwOrth of Germany, was arrested at AlbuQuer- que with her son, charged with hay ing crossed the Mexican border with out passport. She says she lost her fortune in the war and was trying to make her way to New York where she hoped to obtain employment as cook and her Son as a waiter.
 A big meeting will be held at Lords burg, N. Mex, on the second Friday i'll September when the LOrdsburg Chamber of Commerce will be succeed ed by the Hidalgo County Chamber of Commerce and q full set of officers will be elected. Every outside pre- cinct will send representatives to the meeting which will be the largest of its kind ever held in the county.
 The names of the members of the | Arizona National Guard rifle team that will represent Arizona ill the na- tiOnal rifle matches at Camp Perry, O., | Aug. 27 to Sept. %, have been an- nounced by Maj. E. $. Linton at Phoe- nix.
 The new high school building at Ariz., will be completed sO that school will commence Monday, Sept. 12. The work is being rushed to as rapidly as possible It will be a beautiful and cOmmodiOus structure.
 The Santa Cruz county tax rate for Arizona for 1921, as fixed by the board of supervisors, is $1.637. Las year it was $1.26: The total rate to be paid this year by residents of NOgales, in- rluding state, county, city and school district levies, is $4,389.
 The recent order of the Treasury Department prohibiting transportation If liquor in bond through the United States was rescinded in orders re- reived by Charles l.. Fowler, collector of customs at Nogales, Ariz. The new order provides that liquor in bond nay be transported from one point in Mexico, through the United States, to mother point in Mexico.
 The Santa Fe, RatOn & Des MOines 'ailrOad is to be sold at auction Oct. LG, eat RatOn, N. Mex, as the result If the fOreclOsing of a mortgage held ,y the United States Mortgage and Trust Company. The mortgage se- ,ured a bond issue of S1,OOO,OO0 and vas made in 1906.
 Gallup has raised over $500 for the epair work on the National Old Trail 'oute between that city and the Ari- .Ona line. The LuptOn Adamana | ! stretch of the route is said to be the worst in the state and it is planned to 'aise $10,000 to put it in good shape.
 According to a new law in Arizona t will hereafter be a violation for merchants or others to sell youths un- Ter 21 tobacco of any nature. It will IlsO be violation for boys to have ObaccO, especially cigarettes, fin their ,