The St. Johns herald., 1921-12-22
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu MexiCO
 and Arizona
Cwsstern Newspaper Union News ser,lesJ


 foot of Picacho hill, thirty miles west of Roswell.
 The Roy, Hagerman and AlamOgOrdO high school stock judging teams, hay ing won the district contest, will com pete in the state contest to be held at Roswell, N. M., Dec. F.
 One man was killed, several others | injured, none seriously, and property was damaged to the extent of $25O,- 900, as a result of a fire in the busi- ness district of Yuma, Ariz.
 Approval of advances aggregating more than $6,5OO,00O has been an- nounced by the War Finance corpora tiOn. Agricultural and live stock loans of $6,42O,OOO were distributed among twenty-fOur states, including Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Ore gOn, Iowa, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Texas.
 The receipts of the office of secre- tary of state of Arizona are mounting higher each month, and where former ly the revenue was negligible, it now amounts to a considerable sum month ly. During the month of November the tidy sum of $14,277.31 was taken in. In 1920 the receipts were $1,579.4S and in 1919, $1,779.77.
 A feature of the boys department of the '. NJ. c. A. for the month of De cember will be the organization of a club among the newsboys of Albu querque, N. NJ. The club will be formed to get all the newsboys of the city into one organization under the leadership of the Y so they will have better opportunities for all kinds of sports.
 Statistics from the 1920 government census show that there are 5,023 reg istered Hereford cattle in Arizona. | This is 4,799 more than any other beef bred, showing how greatly the Here lords predOminate in this state. There | are also 2,90O registered Hereford | bulls in the state as compared with | 215, the greatest number of any other | breed.
 According to reports given out by | spOrtsmen who have just returned | from the Black Range country in New 1 Mexico, the number of hunters in that | section this year has broken all rec | ords. It is estimated that over 300 | hunters were in the Black Range and | the Burro mountains alone, besides | many others in the PinoS Altos and the | Datil hills.
 The twO-year-old daughter of Sheriff | and Mrs NJ. G. MOntoya of Bernalillo, | N. M., died at the hospital as the re- suit of getting the shell of pifon nut | fast in her throat. Several children | had been eating the nuts and as soon | as the trouble was discovered the little | one was rushed to the hospital, but in l spite of all that could be done for her | passed away in short time.
 Mrs. David Sun, wife of David Sun, a Maricopa Indian, died on the Mari | cOpa reservation, about fifteen miles | southwest of Phoenix, being struck in | the face with an axe by her husband. | Sun was arrested and taken to the | county jail. Joseph H. Holub, assist ant United States district attorney, an nOunced that the government would | file murder charge against Sun.
 An injunction permanently restrain ing the Arizona Fire Insurance Com pany from doing business in Arizona | and an order directing that the State | Corporation Commission assume charge of its affairs, were issued in | the Superior Court at Phoenix. Both | were issued at the request of AttOr- ney General w. J. Galbraith, acting | for the State Corporation Commission.
 New Mexico gets $61, ,508 of the more than $1,0O0,000 allotment for road | building carried in the recently passed | $75,00O,000 highway act for every $31,- 492 the state puts up, Highway En- gineer GiIlet has been officially ad- vised.
 A big three days rodeo will be staged at Fort Bayard, N. M, under the aus pices of the American Legion, the dates having been set for Dec. 24, 25 and 26 Liberal prizes will be award ed to the winners of the events, and | besides the hundreds of people from | all over the southern part of the state the big show will furnish amusement for more than a thousand men from the big hospital.
 Mrs. Edna McDowell was awarded | damages in the sum of $15,0OO against Hale Chenoweth by jury in the Su- perior Court at Tombstone, Ariz., fol lowing a short deliberatiOn. Mrs. Mo Dowell had sued Chenoweth for $50,000 for damages due to the death of her husband, Claude McDowell, alleged to