The St. Johns herald., 1921-10-06
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
(wsstsrn Newspaper Union News se1ic..D

Work on the new grade school build ing at Des MOines is progressing rap idly and will probably be finished by the first of November.
 The cornerstone of the Children'S hospital at Albuquerque was laid with the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. NJ. in charge of the ceremonies.
 Work is to start soon on the new bridge in the western part of Mazda lena to replace the one which was washed away during the recent floods.
 Handcuffed and guarded by Pima county deputy sheriffs armed with ri- fles, five Mexicans were brought into | Tucson, following a free-fOr-all fight at Vail station, near Tucson.
 Plans for the leasing of all proper ties owned by the Arizona Gypsum Company to the Arizona Gypsum Pro- ducts Company of Los Angeles, have been completed in Phoenix.
 Deputy game wardens in the vicin- ity of Des Moines, N M., are making drive on SpOrtsmen who have been | fishing without licenses. Several men have been arrested and fined to the limit.
 Work will be started at once on the new high school at Logan, N. M., which when completed will cost $26OOO. The new building will be built of native rocks and will contain six large class rooms.
 At recent meeting of the city coun- cil of Clayton, N. M., it was decided to purchase a modern fire fighting ma chine for the city which will include new motor truck, two fOrty-gallOn chemical tanks and 300 feet of fire hose.
 At a recent meeting of the school board of Capitan, N. M., plans were completed for the purchase of the Howard hall, which will be used for the athletic department and manual training in connection with the high school.
 N. c. Frenger, secretary of the board of regents of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has announced the appointment of H. J. Bardsley of Lexington, Ky, as the head of the poultry department at the State College farm.
 A complaint directed against the Apache Railway Company and seeking relief from alleged exOrbitant freight rates on wool from Cooley to Hol- brook has been filed with the corpor- atiOn commission of Arizona by the A. B. Sinister Company of Holbrook The rate now charged, the complaint sets forth, is 5S.6 cents a hundred pounds.
 Three penitentiary prisoners have been pardOned recently by Governor Mechem of New Mexico, two upon the recommendation of the penitentiary board and one upon the recOmmenda- tiOn of District Judge Harry P. Owen, the trial judge, and responsible citi- zens. Those pardoned were: Regino Gonzales, Valencia county; Jose A. Morin, Curry county; Luis Carranza, Valencia county.
 The live stock sanitary board of Ari- zOna is sending out warning to cattle men to guard against "black leg" There have been no reports of a prev | alence of the ailment which is the most | fatal of all to cattle, but it is pointed | out that the conditions are right for | the inception and spread of it, as cat | tie are more susceptible to it when | undergoing a change from a period of | Short feed to one in which they rapid | ly take on fat.
 Preliminary arrangements are being | made for the erection of large cotton | seed mill at Loving, N. M. If the plans | are carried out, the new mill will be | put in operation in the next two | months and will cost over $25,000.
 Policing of Sonora, Mexico, interna- tiOnal boundary line has been redou- bled to the end that raids by outlaws be prevented, according to message received by Acting Governor Ernest Hall of Arizona from Francisco s. Eli as, governor of Sonora.
 The gross bonded indebtedness of Ari- zOna is $4.496, ,275.29, according to statement prepared by State Treasurer Raymond Earhart. The statement, which is in the form of an affidavit, has been prepared for the First Ma tiOnal Bank of Los Angeles, successful bidders for $1,OOO,OOO worth of Arizona tax anticipation bonds, he explained.
 Grape growers of Arizona met in Phoenix recently and effected the or ganizatiOn of the Arizona Grape Graw- CTS Association. More than 1000 acres of grape lands were signed up in the