The Holbrook news., 1921-03-11
Southwest News
 From i'll OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
Cw....rn Newspaper Union News ssrios.3


 propriate a sufficient sum to permit
 the United States bureau of immigra-
 ton to deport stranded Mexicans in
 Arizona to Mexico.
 A new turntable is being installed in
 the Santa Fe shops at Las Vegas, N.
 NJ. It Is a wholly modern and up-tO-
 date table and will take some time to
 install. The cost will be approximate ly $50,OO0.
 The Globe Plaster and Mining Com pany is now surveying the grade from its plant north of Carlsbad, N. M., to the Santa Fe with the idea of building a railroad to the factory. A short line will enable the company to put all its product on the cars at Avalon.
 According to repOrt by J. J. Foley, district manager of the Continental OH Company, a new $75,000 office build ing will be started soon. The new building will be erected on the com pany's ground in Albuquerque and will be one of the finest of it's kind in the state.
 The Mountain States Telephone Company is now busy installing new lines in Artesia, N M., and will also put in considerable new equipment in the local plant. Many of the city lines will be restrung on new poles and all the lines out of the city will be reinsu- lated.
 Seized with a cramp while swim. ming in the Salt river at the foot of Nineteenth street in Phoenix, Miguel Gamboa, 20, drowned before compan- ions could come to his rescue. The body was recovered by two men fish ing along the river. No inquest was held.
 After being stalled on the desert of southern Nevada, where hunger drove him and his wife and baby to seek sue cor at the nearest habitation, Willis E. Hastings was arrested at Kingman, Ariz., on a charge of violating the by CT act in the alleged stealing of an au- tomobile and conveying 1t to another state.
 The Salt River Valley Cotton Con- pany's gin at Florence, Ariz., has sus- pended operations after a season of four and one-half months. The opera tions this year have been far more sue cessful than last year. Last year but 40 bales were ginHed, while this year l. O60 bales were turned out. Of this amount over 500 bales are in storage in the Salt River valley.
 Charged with trying to smuggle l. 900 rounds of ammunition into Mexico, Joaquine Matus, a Mexican, was ar rested at NacO by Customs Inspector Chatham. BIatus was given a hearing before James Allison, U. s. Commis- sioner at Bisbee, Ariz, and bound over for trial in the Federal Court on S2,OOO bail. Being unable to make bond he was locked up in the jail.
 Paul J. Rainey, a big game hunter of international reputation, will go to Mexico early in the spring to hunt bear, and will be accompanied by sev- eral of the residents of Silver City, N. NJ. MT. Rainey will spend most of his time in the Sierra Madre mountains and the plans for the trip are being ar- ranged by Grayson and Harrington of New Mexico.
 Work on the new road between Ar tesla, N. M., and Hope has been start ed and some twenty miles will be graded and covered with a hard sur face. This is one of the mist import ant roads in that part of the state as It will furnish an outlet for a large number of ranches in the vicinity of the Sacramento mountains, which are now almost shut off from the eastern part of the state.
 Santiago Gurule, a rancher living near Albuquerque, shot and killed his wife because, he told police, he found her with another man." Mrs Gurule was a teacher in the Corrales school. Gurule surrendered immediately fol- lowing the shooting.
 Work of placing a concrete top over the subway near the Baptist church in Tombstone canon, in Bisbee, Ariz., for use as a parking place for autos, is progressing satisfactorily under the di- reetion of P. H. Halleck, city engineer, and is about One-third completed. Hal leck said that it would take month to complete the work. The parking place will go a long way toward re- Iieving congestion on the downtown streets.
 Five members of the local order of the Knights of Pythias of Raton, N M., had a narrow escape when the auto in which they were returning from Trinidad, skidded on the wet slushy road near the Colorado line, and turned over. The car fortunately left the road where there was a low drop, and although the five men were thrown into the ditch none of them were seriously injured, but all received a good shaking up.
 Of the 100000 head of cattle in New Mexico on Jan. 1, 1920, over 50 | per cent or more than 6OO,OOO head be- ong to members of the New Mexico | Cattle and Horse Growers Association while the members of the association | number somewhat in excess of 40 per | ,ent of all of the cattle owners in the | ;tate. The figures give some indica- ion of the importance, not only to the ,attle industry but to the state as a whole, of the seventh annual conven- ion of the association, which will be leld at Albuquerque March 29, 30 md 31.
 Several cases arising out of the ,ranting of race increases to the rail- oads by the Interstate Commerce