The Holbrook news., 1921-02-11
Southwest News From All OUer MeW MexicO
 and Arizona
(Wssssrn Newspaper Union SeSI serTiee.)
 COMING EVENTS. State Automobile Show at Santa Fe, N. M, March 3, 4. 5. 1921.

The total receipts of the parcel post department of the Albuquerque post office last year was $6O7 100, which Is
 the largest in the history of the office
 The Roswell, N. M, juvenile band, which gave several concerts on the court house grounds last summer, is now making plans to supply the music for the regular summer concerts for the season of 1921.
 Roswell is planning big tree plant ing campaign for the coming spring, the proposition to be backed by the Chamber of Commerce The plan is to have shade trees on every street in the city.
 The Roy. N. M, Chamber of Com merce is now putting on membership drive and it is expected that by the first of the coming month the member ship will be at least 100. W. H. Me | Carger is the secretary.
 On the ground that Pueblo Indians have no right to alienate their reser- vation lands, the government has filed | suit in the Federal Court at Santa Fe to eject RupertO Archuleta and 155 other residents from lands alleged to have been acquired from the San Ilde- fonso Indians.
 The Southwestern Tularosa Basin oil and Refining Company has 'com- pleted preparations for the completing | of it's well south of AlamOgordo and will resume drilling soon. The com pany is now officered by Fl Paso men and has some 1S,O00 acres in its hold ings which were carefully selected on expert advice.
 Seeking the passage by the New | Mexico Legislature of law creating a commission to work with a Colorado commission for the amicable settle ment of the La Plata river interstate controversy, State Senator D. E. Car penter of Greeley, Colo, was in Santa Fe and conferred with the governor, state officials and legislators. The Arizona State Legislature has been asked for $1, ,381 1884 by the Uni versity of Arizona at Tucson. This amount is expected to cover operation, maintenance and various activities such as extension work. The appro- priation is now being considered by both houses. The money is for the bi ennial period ending June 30, 1923.
 Mosquero, N. NJ, has so outgrown it's school facilities that it has been nee essary for the directors to rent the Methodist church for some of the class es, until the new high school can be erected. Another teacher has been Se- cured and some of the grades have already been moved into the new quar- ters for the balance of the term.
 Petitions bearing 4O,294 signatures, protesting against enactment of the bin making a day of rest compulsory and enforcing almost total suspension of ordinary activities on that day have been presented in the House of Rep resentatives of the Arizona Legisla- ture. Another petition bearing ST sig natures, urged passage of bill to pre- vent dancing in public schools, includ- ing the State University.
 A big forestry day with a wide spread planting of evergreen trees throughout New Mexico and Arizona when 10000 young trees will be dis tributed free is planned by the forest service early in April, it has been an- nounced at the district headquarters in Albuquerque. The trees are made available for free private and public planting through the abandonment of a forest service nursery made neces- sary through lack of, funds.
 Plans are being made for the annual convention of the New Mexico Wool Growers Association which will be held in Albuquerque on March 25 and 26. The convention committee meet ing in that city prepared a tentative program and outlined business which will be taken up during the two days of the convention.
 One of the recommendations made by Governor Campbell in his message to the Arizona Legislature came before the House in the form of a bill by Representative J. c. Phillips, MaricO- pa, to amend the divorce law. The bill House bill No. 79Aprovides that courts issue interlocutory decrees, with absolute divorce to be granted at the end of one year.
 In the Poster Contest held during Farm and Home Week as the Univer- sity, the first prize was won by Roy Demo of Douglas, the subject of whose poster was Power Improves Waste Land" The second prize was taken by Dorothy Jaynes of Tucson, the title of her poster being "The Des- ert Reclaimed-IrrigatiOn. The first prize was in black and white and the second was in colOrs.
 Five men, three of whom are alleged to have been auto thieves and wanted in Denver, have escaped from the Clay. ton jail. The escape was made by saw ing the bars of a window and then leaving the city in high powered car which was waiting for the men on the outside
 Over one-half of the men discharged from the Santa Fe shops in Albuquer- que have been re-emplOyed by the LOm- l'any and it is expected that the bal | ance will be put to work soon. Nor mally there are about 1,20O men em- ployed in the shops.
 The Commonwealth Milling Company | of Albuquerque is considering the | erecting of large flour mill at Tu- cumcari and officials have taken the |