Williams news., 1921-07-15
Southwest News
 From All OUer NelU Mexico
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service. )

Cwestern Newspaper Union News service)
 Contracts have been let for the inn
 proving of the Alamogordo electric
 light plant, and the city will soon have
 one of the best plants of its kind in | the State.
 One of the worct hail storms ever
 known in that part of New MeXisc wis
 ited Roy, the mesa west of Mills, and
 extended south to the Union county
 line, recently.
 Jose Matrecito, Mexican customs
 officer, was shot and killed a few feer
 across the border from Naco, Arizona,
 by a man wearing a United States
 army uniform. The slayer fled to the | United States side of the international
 boundary.
 A coroner's jury returned verdict
 that Mrs. Lucas Borrego, 33 years old, | died from poison administered by
 some unknown person or persons
 Lucas Borrego, her husband, was
 placed under $2,OOO bond on the charge | of murder.
 Leo Campbell, aged 2s years, and | for the past eight years an employe of | the Pearson ranch at the Cettonwoods,
 near Roswell, New Mexico, was fn-
 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 posse of cowboys, are held in the county jail at Tohmstone.
 Thirteen bonds, with a face value of $1 1,OO each, which were presented to the State of Arizona by A. B. Welsh, a guest at the Pioneers Home at Pres colt, worthless, according to word l 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, 6O sentenced to be hanged July 15 for the murder of James M. Bedore at Vanad- ium, N. M., in 1916. The Governor acted on the recommends ton of Ray mond R. Ryan, the trial judge, and eleven of the twelve jurors who con- yicted 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 1evee | 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 1000 men, practically every male inhabitant | of the district, made desperate en- deavor to check the flood from further Farmers in the threat ened area moved their stock and equipment to higher ground.
 Two shooting affairs occurred in 1 Prescott in one day, in which an under sheriff and an automobile mechanic | were 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 was killed by Frank George during a raid on house in which George was | staying. After Bowers was killed, Pc l ice Inspector E. G. Grove of Phoenix, | who was in Prescott, shot George, Nounding him twice, and then arrested Jim.
 The long reader controversy in New Mexico ended in victory for Scott Corsman & Co.,, publishers of the FL on reader, when the New Mexico edu- ,ation board designated the text as basal" for all grades above the third md the SearSon- Martin reader as basal" for the first, second and third.
 According to announcements just . made, Curry county, New Mexico. will Z oon have two more consolidated s chool districts, three of the districts ' lready having been decided on The I ther five districts will be decided on r oon, and it is likely that the consoli- | 2 ation will be completed by the time I f the opening of the fall term of | h chOOl. n Cavalry training is being given at s he Presidio of Monterey, California, t pr six weeks this summer to 172 col \ ege men from the Oregon Agricultural ollege. University of Arizona Texas t"te College of Agriculture and Me s.nical Arts and the New Mexico Mil Il ary Institute. During the college year a le students are members af the re- K erre officers training corps units at leir schools. Only Western universi- es with cavalry companies are repre- ,nted. II Yale Gordy, a Navajo Indian. who