The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-07
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
CW..t.rn Newspaper Union Nsv. Service. )

l a new $100,OO0 station at Tucumcari, N. M.
 Work on the federal aid road be- tween Socorro and San Antonio, a dis tance of ten miles, is going ahead rap idly and much of the grading has al ready been finished.
 The New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association will hold its an- nual meeting at Pennington August 25 and 26 The farm bureau picnic will be held on the same dates.
 Jesus Medina has been acquitted at Taos, N. M, on the charge of assault ing pr. Horatio Taylor, Presbyterian mission doctor, near Dixon last fall, as the physician was driving along the road.
 The annual convention of the Ari- zona Lumber Mems Club was held at Flagstaff with wholesale and retail lumber men from all sections of Ari- Eona, Texas, New Mexico and Cali fornia in attendance.
 With the largest enrolment in the history of the Normal University at Las Vegas, N. M., Prof. Jonathan Wag- ner and the board of regents are hay ing hard time finding quarters for the 1,200 students which have been en- rolled.
 The first quarterly meeting of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow ers' Associations executive board was held at the Aragon hotel in Magdalena June 20. Many problems connected with the stock raising in lustry were taken up.
 Bisbee and Tombstone claim the dis tinction of having the most typically western titles for streets. Tombstone points with pride to Tough Nut street, on which the county courthouse and jail are located and Sweet Nut street. One of the principal thOroughfares of Bisbee is Tombstone CaTon. Another bears the title of Brewery Gulch.
 Three complaints, containing charges of forgery, embezzlement and attempt | ing to utter a fictitious note, have been filed in Phoenix Justice Courts against Fred J. Wright, proprietor of the Phoenix detective agency of his name. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Wright, who, when last heard from, was in Hermosillo, Mexico.
 Water was flowing through more than half of the town of San Marcial, N. M., as a result of two breaks in the dikes on the Rio Grande. Peo- pie were moved out of the flooded dis trict, while large crews were working on the dikes north of the city to pre- vent them going out and flooding the entire town. The flood water did not reach the business district.
 Justice of the Peace Nat T. Mckee of Phoenix has dismissed the case against Ben R. Clark, former deputy state land commissioner of Arizona. Although five complaints were filed against Clark, alleging that he had committed illegal acts while he held the state office, his preliminary hear ing was held on one charge only, that of withholding records belonging to the office from his successor.
 The problem of the eight-mile draw which has been bothering the road builders of Chaves county, N. M., for many years will soon be solved by the construction of a big cement spillway at Roswell. For many years every time there was a big rain and the flood waters came down this was washed out and for a time the road would be impossible but with the aid of the highway commission the entire draw will be cemented.
 Andrew B. Stroup of Albuquerque received his commission as supervising federal prohibition agent for the bor- der district.
 According to reports received in Sil- yer City from the Gila country, the wheat crop this season will be up to the standard but the straw will be much shorter than that of last year. The wheat is now heading and if the weather continues warm the cutting will start about the first of July. Ow- ing to the increased acreage many of the farmers have been purchasing new binders and other machinery to take care of the crop.
 In the Superior Court of Graham county, at Stafford, Ariz., W. F. Lath- rop, former manager of the Stafford branch of the Gila Valley Bank and Trust Company, who had plead guilty to the embezzlement of some $2O,O0O of the banks funds, was given an in- determinent sentence by Judge Cham