The St. Johns herald., 1921-12-15
Southwest News From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service )

verdict or not guilty after being out little less than an hour. The verdict was reached on the second ballot.
 Superintendent Blake of the New Mexico Reform School at Springer, N. M., has put in movie machine for the entertainment of the boys. A picture show is given every Wednesday night. These pictures are shown in the coal camps and then sent to Springer for use of the reform school.
 P. R. Mines, state immigration com missioner, has written Ely Martin, secretary of the Douglas Chamber of 1 Commerce and Mines, asking for an unemployment survey of Douglas which the governor of Arizona and the President of the United States have called for from every city in the coun- try.
 No Mexican labor will be imported in the state of Arizona this year to help pick the cotton crop, according to P. R. Mines, Arizona immigration commissioner. Labor is slowly moving into the Salt River valley and although the supply is not equal to the demand sufficient number of men is being secured with which to get by.
 The office of the attorney general of Arizona in a letter to Raymond Earhart, state treasurer, held that a transfer of money from the fund ere ated by the enabling act of Congress for the erection of state buildings to the fund to pay for the construction of the west wing of the capitol, which cost $125,0O could not be made.
 George Newell, who is alleged to have forged the name of former At tOrney General Palmer and Senator Miles POindexter of Washington to cer- tain important documents, according to the police, is in the city jail at No gales, Ariz, following his deportation across the border by Mexican immigra- tiOn officials as an undesirable alien.
 Identification of bones found near Buckeye, Ariz., as the skeleton of J. J. Knight, wealthy resident of Wichita Falls, Texas, has been made virtually certain, according to an announcement by the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office said the teeth in the skull cor responded with those of Knight as de scribed in a telegram from Wichita Falls.
 H. J. McClung, president of the Phoenix National Bank, has been elected president of the Arizona Cen tral Bank and Northern Arizona Se- curities Company of Flagstaff, is has been announced. He was a member of the board of directors of the Central Bank, and in assuming the presidency will not relinquish his post as presi- dent of the Phoenix National.
 Frank T. French, chairman of the road and highway committee of the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, said he had taken up with members of the State Highway Commission the matter of a new road from Picacho bridge to Cambray, on the Dona Ana Luna counties line. This road would shorten the distance about five miles between Fl Paso and Deming via Las
 Contracts for new hospital buildings for the Public Health Service at Fort Bayard, N M., and the installation of all equipment in such buildings, have been awarded, according to news re- ceived from Washington. A Philadel- phia engineering firm gets the con- tracts for the new buildings and R. E. Mckee, general contractor of Fl PaSo, will install all equipment in the new structures. The expenditures will az gregate approximately $1,OOO,OOO. Cruces.
 The board of regents of the Univer- sity of Arizona will hold meeting in Tucson on Dec 2S to consider ap- pointment of a successor to Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid as president of the uni versity, according to an announce ment made at Phoenix.
 The work on the Clovis-P -Portales highway in New .dexico is being rap idly completed now and will be fin ished by about the middle of Decem- Der, The foundation has been com pleted and is being surfaced with ca- liche, which consists of a mixture of | underground clay and ground rock. | This surfacing is put on in a thick ness of about a foot and makes fine | road after being properly rolled and | packed.
 The Mesa Cooperative Company, corporation, office at Roy, Harding county, N. M., has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States dis trict clerks office. Its business is that | of grain dealer; it's assets are given as $27,641.3S and its debts as $47,- 958.32. Most of the creditors with un- |