The St. Johns herald., 1921-09-22
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
(western New.papsr Unlon Nsxs ssrrics.l

Work on the big paving program at Las Cruces, N. M., has been started,
 and when completed will cost nearly | $40,000. Practically all the principal streets of the city will be paved.
 The new highway between Clovis and Portales, N. M., has been con- nected up. The road is open to travel and when all completed will be one of the finest stretches of highway in that part of the state.
 The American National Bank of Tucumcari, N. M., will soon celebrate Its seventh anniversary The business of the institution has been greatly in- creased during the past year and the bank is now one of the sOundest in the state.
 Livestock men in the vicinity of Magdalena, N. M., report that the ranges are the best for many years and will carry double the stock that there is now grazing on them. Grass is found everywhere and if there is fair winter there will be plenty of feed for all the stock that can be placed on the ranges.
 Belief in the possibility that the mines of Arizona and New Mexico would open about the first of the year was expressed recently by Dr. L. D. RickettS of Warren, Ariz., consulting engineer for the Inspiration COnsOli- dated Copper Company, the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company and the International Smelling and Refining Company.
 Preliminary work on the construc- tion of power dam over the PecOs river near Dexter, N. M., has been started and the sOundingS of the stream has been taken. A concrete dam 800 feet in length, 20 feet in height, is proposed, and it is eSti- mated that with the normal flow of water at this point several thousand horsepower can be developed.
 Joe Wiggins, former convict, who killed two men and wounded two oth- CTS at dance at Allison, N M., vowed to his friends as he left Gallup earlier that evening that he would kill five men before morning, according to their statements. They thought him joking. He picked five men in a cor ner and fired five times with his re- vOlver. Ramon Garcia and J. F. Alca- mo were so badly injured that they died, and Ben Ortiz and Dave GrincO were seriously wounded.
 Two important appointments of Arizona men have just been made at Washington. The first was that of Frank l.. Thomas, who successfully passed the examination given by the comptroller of the currency for Ma tiOnal Bank Examiner and has been | commissioned at a salary of 5000 a year and expenses and assigned to | Los Angeles district. The second is B. | O. Norman, who has received the ap- pointment as Register of the Farm Land Bank at Berkeley, Calf.
 Manuel Garcia and Jose Perez were found guilty of first degree murder | at Tombstone for staying Jess Fisher, | foreman of the John Slaughter ranch | on the Arizona Sonora border, eighteen | miles east of Douglas, Ariz., on May | last. The jury deliherated two hours | and thirty minutes before reporting it's | verdict, which carried a recommends tiOn that the court sentence Perez | and Garcia to life imprisonment. Mir Fisher was shot and killed while re- sisting an attempt to loot the stores on the Slaughter ranch.
 During a heavy electrical storm, lightning struck the line of the Noun tain States Telephone Company be- tween WinslOw and Flagstaff, Ariz., splintering about twenty poles and putting the line out of commission. 1t took the repair gangs nearly two days to get the line working properly again.
 R. Martin. confessed rObber of the bank at Curlew, Iowa, learned that his companion in the robbery double crossed" him out of $3,65O of the rob- bery proceeds Sheriff J. N. Jackson of Emmetsburg, Iowa, told Martin this when he came to Globe, Ariz., to take Martin back to Iowa. Martin got only $250 of the total of $500 cash and ST. 900 bonds taken in the Aug. 19 rob- bery.
 The program committee of the Fri State Hereford Breeders Association has completed the list for the first show which will be held in Fort Sum- ner, N. M., the middle of October. In- dicatiOns are that this will be one of the most successful shows of its kind ever held in this part of the state and many of the breeders are now making nrana ra tinnS tn enter the aYhihit ih |