Williams news., 1921-07-29
Southwest News
 From All OEer NelU Mexico
 and ArizOnd
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service.

Stamping Yuma as the premier al-
 falfa seed district of the world, Mul-
 ford Winsor in Phoenix declared that
 Yuma county, Arizona, will produce
 the biggest seed crop in its history this
 year.
 Suffering from the effects of a
 wound received when a revolver he
 was cleaning was accidentally dis
 charged, ROsalio Martinez, young
 man of Bernal, near East Las Vegas,
 N- Mex, is dead.
 Fees collected by the state motor ve-
 hicle department of Arizona during the
 first six months of the present year amounted to $1S7, ,434.75, according to an announcement made by Ernest R. Hall, secretary of state.
 The Clayton, N. Mex, postoffice has been officially notified that, beginning September 20, the city will have free mail delivery Plans are now being made for the new service, and an exam ination will soon be held for carriers.
 Producing mines in the state of Ari- Zona were valued at SAB, ,0S2, ,735, or 9 per cent. less than a year ago, in a re port made public by the state tax con- mission. The valuation placed on pro- ducing mines in 1920 was $453, ,O94,- S46.26.
 According to word received by her parents, residing in Las Vegas, Mrs. Perfilia Teneria committed suicide by pouring kerosene over her clothing and igniting it. She died at Schomberg, eighty-five miles from Las Vegas, N. Mex. A quarrel with her husband is alleged to have been the reason for her act.
 If the present plans are carried out, the mining district of the Tres Her mans mountains will soon have one of the largest concentratOrs in the south west. The big plant will be built to take care of the low-grade silver-lead ores from the mines, and will be erect ed under the supervision of eastern 
 Walter Hudson, one of the two men at Solomonville, Ariz., when they surrendered Orval McKinstry, H. year-old Lakin, Kan, boy to officers, confessed to Sheriff J. c. Hillyard of Lakin that he kidnapped young McF<fn- stry, according to that officer. Orval was spirited from Lakin, Kan, after the fatal shooting of his father, prominent rancher.
 A thief who must have been a Steeple ack and who undoubtedly must have possessed information concerning the lature of his prospective haul, recently got away with $40O worth of platinum rom the highest point on the new prick SmOkestack at the International | melter at Globe, Ariz. The platinum | Idorned the topmost points of the four | lightning arresters used to safeguard | he stack from stray atmospheric cleo rical bolts.
 What will probably be the largest erd of high-grade dairy cattle in the United States will soon be placed on ract of land, 64,O0O acres in extent, he southern boundaries of which lie ew miles north of Deming, N Mex. The United States public health bu- eau, which will operate the big farm, lans to place on the tract about 5000 cad of the finest dairy cattle in the ountry, together with all the equip lent which goes to make up an indus " of this kind.
 The wOrkmen's compensation act asSed by the last Legislature of Ari- Ona, creating the state industrial com lissiOn, is invalid, according to a de- lSlOn nanueO OOWn by the state Su- l reme Court. The decision upheld the nding of Superior Judge R. C. Stan )rd, who issued a permanent injunc- on restraining the commissioners 'om exercising any of the powers iven to them by the act and directing le state treasurer and auditor to pre- ent the commission from spending ny of the states money. Efforts of the Santa Fe and of the outhern Pacific railroads to force the riZona corporation commission to put
 force in intraState business rates by the interstate commerce have failed. Sitting in Id Oscar Trippet, Circuit Judge Er- I ,ine Ross in Los Angeles denied the V otiOn of the railroads for an injunc- r on to restrain the Arizona commis- C on from interfering with the applica- S on of the intrastate rates to intra- b ate traffic, indicating that before i, anting such an injunction it would n necessary to go into the merits of a e matter. O According to the report of the over CT of the camp ground in Portales, T
 Mex, June was a record month and le of the best in the history of the :, ty. The report shows that during ., e month S1 automobiles, 271 tourists, e 4 soldiers, 37 trucks, officers cars = Id 50 Boy Scouts visited the grounds n John J. Hyatt, 30, a cattleman, was A rnck nv HQbtDinp and A