Williams news., 1921-06-17
Southwest News
 From All ODer NelU Mexico
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 The graduating class of 1921 num-
 bers S3, the largest in the history of | the University of Arizona. 1 The University of Arizona Oatalog
 for 192O-1a21, with announcements for ton.
 The Kansas Boy Scouts. who will tour a part of New Mexico during the | summer, will be invited to Gallup by | the Kiwanis Club of that city Three new subJects, including a his tory of the World War, a two years course in French and half a years | course in physiology, will be added to the curriculum of the high school next year at Albuquerque.
 Gallup business men and various or ganizations of the city are making an tional Old Trails route between that city and the Arizona line Nearly $500 has already been subscribed. William Evans, 40 years old. of Los Angeles, died in a hospital at Phoenix as the result of broken neck, which he suffered in an automobile accident in that city. The automobile in which Evans was riding collided with a milk truck.
 Tucumcari, \. Mex, now has a taber- nacle which will seat over 200 people, the big building being erected by the citizens of the town and all of the work and material donated. It will be used for all kinds of public gath erings
 The students at the University of Arizona constitute a representative na- tiOna1 body. The distribution of stu dents according to the high schools from which they come, shows repre- sentation from 4S states and foreign countries.
 The SSS, 1000 school bond issue for Raton, N. Mex, carried by a majority of 173 votes in the bond election. The sale of the bonds will be advertised at once and the proceeds will be spent in erecting the most modern high school building in the state.
 More than 1000 free assays of ore have been made in the science depart ment of the Globe, Ariz., high school since the school began making such as says a few weeks ago, according to school officials. The work has been suspended, however, as the school term has closed.
 Phoenix voted in favor of issuing $465, 900 worth of bonds, the money to be used in making various public Improvements. All of the six proposed bond issues carried by substantial ma jorities, the one for S175,OOO for com pletion of the Verde Water System receiving the biggest majority.
 The state banks of New Mexico dropped $3,411 ,615.S1 in deposits from May 4, last year, to April 2S, the date of the latest report of the condition, State Bank Examiner James B. Read sta ted. They cut down their loans and discounts by $5SS, 1S3. .S5. Mr. Read re- garded this as good, although, he said, under more favorable conditions the loans and deposits would follow the trend of the deposits more promptly.
 Pete Crimson, an old time trapper of Colfax county, New Mexico, captured three large gray wolves recently which for some time have been doing much damage to the cattle in that part of the state. For over two years the cattlemen have offered a reward for the capture of the animals and Mr. Crimson has been after them for six or eight months. The bounty and re ward offered will net him over $500 for his work
 lhc DOSS dIu SlTlS CIuDS lluay county, New Mexico, now have a total of 300 registered pigs result of the club work of last year. Several i thoroughbred calves have recently | been received from Wisconsin,.
 A delegation of elderly Yuma In- dians, in full tribal rega1ia. conducted their tribal ceremony of mourning at | the funeral of Mrs. Ivy Pohalmus in | Yuma, Ariz. The Indians first filed | past Mrs. Pohalmus' coffin and then | held the ceremony in the yard. Old l residents of Yuma say this ceremony | for a white person was unusual even | in the early days of the town, and | such an occurrence has not occurred | for many years.
 The Mexican government has made | settlement with Mormons in CoIonia Sonora, south of Douglas Ariz., paying them $1OO.OOO as dam ages and title for the Mormon colony there. which was confiscated during the revolution. The land, according to Capt. Jose Estrada, commander of the fiscal guards in Agua Prieta, will be turned over for homeSteading Jose Lopez Portillo, representative of Pres ident ObregOn, conducted the negotia- tions for the government.
 RatQn, N. Mex, sportsmen are now to erect one of the largest | arenas ever put up in the state to