The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-28
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service. )

l
 directly onto Santa Fe track in front
 of westbOund Santa Fe passenger train
 No. g, J. c. Woodward, station agent
 at Hebron, N. Mex, was instantly
 killed.
 Thrown into the Eastern canal,
 probably by the kick of a horse, Mrs.
 w. H. Wrenck, wife of southside
 rancher, was drowned near Phoenix.
 The body was recovered after a search
 of nearly three hours.
 One of the largest shipments of cat tie to be made from the yards at Mag
 dalena, N. Mex, was shipped by Field,
 Payne & Medley, when they loaded
 over 1000 head of two-year-olds. The
 price was $2O per head.
 Many properties are getting ready to
 work in the Tombstone district that
 have not been producing in the past.
 The chance of the Huachuca Water Company being able to furnish water will start many of them soon.
 The first annual session of the MOntezuma Baptist Assembly will open at the MOntezuma College at Las Vegas, N. Mex, July 20, and will close July 27, and preparations are now be- ing made to care for large crowd.
 The Chamber of Commerce is mak- ing an effort to improve the city by putting new signs on all the streets, and every street in Gallup, N. Mex, is now marked. Many other improve ments will be made during the sum- mer.
 Curry and Roosevelt counties, New Mexico, are making plans to hold a joint teachers institute some time in the fall. If the present plans are car ried out, the institute will take place at POrtales from August 29 to Septem- Der 2.
 Fire which started in the Mazata range in the TOnto National Forest, northwest of Roosevelt, Ariz., broke away from the thirty-five fire fighters and, driven by high wind, cut deeply into the forest on two sides before it was extinguished
 The c. & A. Mining Company, op- erating near Lordsburg, N. Mex, will sink the shaft another $50 feet at once. | This will make the main shaft 1850 | feet below the entrance of the tunnel. | About thirty men will be added to the l force during the coming week.
 Marching four abroad, 25O Mexicans paraded down Washington street to i the capitol building at Phoenix recently | in an effort to induce Governor Camp bell to intercede in their behalf with | the Mexican government toward ob- taining food and to assist them in re- turning to Mexico.
 A free hotel for ex-soldiers who are out of work and strangers in the city soon will be established in Douglas. Ariz., by the American Legion. The building will be equipped with cots, dishes and cooking utensils, so that for few cents the hungry strangers can prepare meal.
 While attempting to pass another car on the narrow canon road along the CimarrOn river, north of Roy, N Mex, the automobile driven by J. W. Rob- ertsOn jumped over an embankment and rolled down the hill into the river, turning over three times before it landed in the water.
 More than 65 per cent. of the 1,4OO men stationed at Camp Harry J. Jones, near Douglas, Ariz., have expressed a desire to leave the service before the expiration of their enlistment period, { following receipt of orders from head quarters granting camp officers the : privilege of discharging men who are dissatisfied.
 A resolution adopted by the joint meeting at Flagstiff, Ariz., of the Ari- | .ona Cattle Growers Association 2 lrged consumers of meat in Arizona 2 o demand reduction of 60 per cent. 2 n the retail price of meat to core ;pOnd with what the resolution de- Jared had been the decline in the ! ,rice paid for livestock in the last 7ear.
 Crop conditions in Arizona on July were generally better than on June 1 1 fl if this year, despite the fact that crop a conditions over the United States were poorer on July 1 than on June 1, ac- f ,orGing to report issued by L. NJ . Harrison, agricultural statistician, in { harge of the local office of the United States bureau of markets and crop es- mates at Phoenix.
 At conference of the border off ials of the Salvation Army in Fl PasO turing the past week, it was decided