Williams news., 1921-06-03
Southwest News From AU OUer NelU Mexico
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service.

an annual affair.
 Sheepmen in the vicinity of Mazda lena, N. Mex, report that the season
 has been the best for lambing in many years. The crop in most places is re
 ported to be nearly 100 per cent.
 Frank G. Kaerwar. a prominent min
 ing man of Fl PasO, has secured d
 thirty-day option on the Ruth silver
 mine near Lordsburg, N. Mex. It is
 said that development work will be
 started at once.
 Orders have been issued to Mexican
 immigration officers at border points
 to prohibit further entry of Chinese
 immigrants into Mexico, according to messages received in Agua Prieta, op- posite Douglas, Ariz-
 Aacario Valdez, who was convicted ago, was sentenced by Judge Leahy of Las Vegas, N. Mex, to serve not less than five years nor more than ten in the state penitentiary- )-
 Flag day, June 14, will be ceie- never before attempted, it has been announced by the Elks, under whose auspices the celebration will be held Committees are at present working on the program and definite announce ments will be made soon.
 The University of Arizona has been hOnored thru the election of Dean G. M Butler of the College of Mines and Engineering to the office of national director of the American Association of Engineers, an organization consist ing of about 25.OOO members with it's headquarters at Chicago.
 Martin Kriscola, 49 years old, min CT, shot and killed Rosa Franco, 19, at Globe, Ariz., and then turned his re- volver and fatally wounded himself with a bullet through the head. Kris cola was said to be Suitor to the girl, who refused him because of the differ ence in their ages, according to the po- lice.
 At a meeting of the school board at the school building recently in Gallup, N. Mex, the contract for the new High school building was let to Wegs & of this city, their old being SIP, ,43o.5O. This will include all of the electrical work, but the plumb ing work will be let in a separate con- tract.
 In the southern and eastern dry land
  tinue to decline, but in the irrigated districts and in the northern counties, general crop conditions are favorable, according to a repoft issued by L.. NJ. in charge of the office of the United States Bureau of Crop Esti- mates
 The state treasurer's office opened | a new fund at Phoenix, Ariz., under | he name of the Colorado River fund. | The fund was created by the Legisla | ,ure to enable the state to play her | part in arriving at an estimate of the | amount of water the state will require | rom the Colorado for irrigation pur- | poses.
 At the dental clinic held at Raton, Y. Mex, at the request of the Parent Teachers Association, the reports howed that out of a total of all the of the schools of the city, over talf have defects. The dentists exam ned 1,O3S children during the five weeks of the clinic and found that | otal of 615 needed dental attention of Ome sort, while there were only 423 hat did not need attention.
 The three youths charged with kill ng Ventura BencOmO, jailer, were con- icted of first degree murder in the District Court at Silver City, N. M. The enalty is hanging. The three youths re Eleuterio Corral, Rumaldo Luzano nd Jesus ROchOa. The youngest, Cor al is Is years old, and the eldest, ,OchOa, p.
 The membership in the recently or anized University of Arizona Club at hoenix is growing rapidly. This club, yhich was started at the beginning of lay by some of the alumni consists of [. of A. graduates, undergraduates, ormer students, professors and mem CTS of the board of regents, resident or near Phoenix
 Bernice, the 2-year-old daughter of IT.. and Mrs. T. A. Green of Deming, [. M, was found dead with her body lmmed into keg of water which had cen left in the back yard of the home. he child had evidently been playing the yard and had fallen into the keg nd died without a struggle. She was issed in the morning and the police ad been searching for her for some me when a neighbor made the grue- ,me discovery
 Tombstone, Ariz, is to have big Ourth of July celebration and has sked Douglas, Bisbee, Benson and her metrOpolises to join in and make
 real celebration. There will be any stunts carried out to make it as vely as possible. Among these will , military baseball, boxing and other