The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-15
Southwest News
From All Over
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
(Western Newspaper Union News Service. J

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One of the worct hail storms ever
known in that part of New Mexiso Wis
tied Roy, the mesa west of Mills, and
extended south to the Union county
line, recently.
Jose Matrecito,-a Mexican customs
officer, was shot and killed few feet
across the border from Naco, Arizona,
by a man wearing United States
army uniform. The slayer fled to the
United States side of the international
boundary.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict
that Mrs. Lucas Borrego, 33 years DID,
died from poison administered by
some unknown person or persons" !"
Lucas Borrego, her husband, was
placed under $1,000 bond on the charge
of murder.
Leo Campbell, aged % years, and
for the past eight years an employe of
the Pearson ranch at the Cottonwoods,
near Roswell, New Mexico was in
stantly killed When the big trailer
which was hitched behind his wagon
passed over his body.
Seven Mexicans, four of them
masked, ransacked the store at Here
ford, twenty miles west of Bisbee,
after having held prisoner for three
hours Robert Reay, one of the propri-
etors. Three suspects, captured by Il
posse of cowboys, are held in the
county Jail at Tohmstone.
Thirteen bonds, with face value of
S1,00 each, which were presented to
the State of Arizona by A. E. Welsh, q
guest at the Pioneers Home at Pres
colt, are worthless, according to word
received by State Treasurer Raymond
Earhart. The information came from
the National Bank of Commerce of
New York.
Governor Mechem of New Mexico
has communted to life imprisonment
the sentence of Sylvester E. Bailey, go,
sentenced to be hanged July 10 for the
murder of James M. Bedore at Vanad-
ium, N. NJ, in 1916 The Governor
acted on the recommendation of Ray
mOnd r. Ryan, the trial Judge, and
eleven of the twelve jurors who con-
victed Bailey. They said the evidence
did not establish to the exclusion of
reasonable doubt that he was guilty
of first-degree murder.
The damage in the great Yuma flood,
which started when the railroad levee
gave way near Somerton, Arizona, has
exceeded one million dollars, accord
ing to authoritative sources. Four
thousand acres of cultivated farm
lands are under water. Over 10J0
men, practically every male inhabitant
of the district, made a desperate en-
deavor to check the flood from further
advancement Farmers in the threat
ened area moved their stock and
equipment to higher ground
Two shooting affairs occurred in
Prescott in one day, in which an under
sheriff and an automobile mechanic
We're killed. The first shooting oc-
Cured when Foster Roak, an automo-
bile mechanic, was killed. Pearl
Woodruff, proprietress of a rooming
house, was arrested in connection with
Roak's DEATH Undersheriff Ed Bowers
was killed by Frank George during a
raid on a house in which George was
staying After Bowers was killed. Po-
lice Inspector E. G. Grove of Phoenix,
who was in Prescott, snoU George,
wounding him twice, and then arrested
him.
The long reader controversy in New
Mexico ended in victory for Scott
Eorsman & Co. publishers of the FL
son reader, when the New Mexico edU-
cation board designated the text as
basal for all grades above the third
and the Searson- Martin reader as
basal" for the first, second and third.
According to announcements just
made Curry county, New Mexico, will
soon have two more consolidated
school districts, three of the districts
already having been decided on. The
other five districts will be decided on
soon, and it is likely that the consoli-
datiOn will be completed by the time
of the opening of the fall term of
school.
Cavalry training is being given at
the Preside of Monterey, California,
for six weeks this summer to 172 col
lege men from the Oregon Agricultural
College, University of Arizona, Texas
81 tie College of Agriculture and Me-
cl.enical Arts and the New Mexico Mil
itary Institute. During the college year
the students are members af the re-
serve officers training corps units at
their schools. Only Western universi-
ties with cavalry companies are repre-
sented.
Yale Gordy, Navajo Indian. who
escaped from the custody of the Indian
agent at Fort Defiance, killed himself
rather than permit the posse of Indian
police who were chasing him to re-