Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-09
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News ssrics,)


charged with the murder of Lupe Con
zales at Roswell, N. NJ, returned d
verdict of not guilty after being out
little less than an hour. The verdict
was reached on the second ballot.
Superintendent Blake of the New
Mexico Reform School at Springer, N.
NJ, has put In movie machine for the
entertainment of the boys. A picture
show is given every Wednesday night.
These pictures are shown in the coal
camps and then sent to Springer for
use of the reform school.
p. r. Mines, state immigration COM
missioner, has written Ely Martin,
secretary of the Douglas Chamber of
Commerce and Mines, asking for an
unemployment survey of Douglas
which the governor of Arizona and the
President of the United States have
called for from every city in the coun-
| try.
No Mexican labor will be imported
| in the state of Arizona this year to
help pick the cotton crop, according to
=. II. Mines, Arizona immigration
commissioner Labor is slowly moving
into the Salt River valley and although
the supply is not equal to the demand
a sufficient number of men is being
secured with which to get by.
The office of the attorney general
of Arizona in letter TO Raymond
Earhart, state treasurer, held that
| q t1,.
ated by the enabling act of Congress
for the erection of state buildings to
the fund to pay for the construction
of the west wing of the capitol, which
cost S125000, could not be made.
George Newell, who is alleged to
have forged the name of former At
tMney General Palmer and Senator
Miles Poindexter of Washington to cer-
tain important documents, according
TO the police, is in the city Jail at No
| gales, Ariz., following his deportation
across the border by Mexican immigra-
ton officials as an undesirable alien
Identification of bones found near
Buckeye, Ariz., as the skeleton of ]. J.
Knight, wealthy resident of Wichita
Falls, Texas, has been made virtually
certain, according to an announcement
by the sheriffs office. The sheriffs
office said the teeth in the skull COR
responded with those of Knight as de-
scrbed In telegram from Wichita
| Falls.
II. J. McClung, president of the
| hnG
elected president of the Arizona Cen
trail Bank and Northern Arizona Sc
curlties Company of Flagstaff, is has
been announced. He was a member OF
the board of directors of the Central
Bank, and in assuming the presidency
will not relinquish his post as presi-
dent Of the Phoenix National.
Frank T. French, chairman of the
road and highway committee of the
Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce,
said lie had taken up with members
of the State Highway Commission the
matter Of new road from Picacho
bridge to Cambray, on the Dona Ana
Luna counties line. This road would
| shorten the distance about five miles
between El PasO and Deming via Las
Contracts for new hospital buildings
! for the Public Health Service at Fort
Bayard, N. NJ, and the installation of
all equipment in such buildings, have
been awarded, according to news re-
ceived from Washington. A Philadel-
phia engineering firm gets the con-
tracts for the new buildings and r. Fl
Mckee, general contractor of Eel Paso,
will install all equipment In the new
structures. The expenditures will az.
gregate approximately $1,OOOOO0.
Cruces.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Arizona will hold a meeting in
Tucson on Dec. % to consider ap-
pointment of a successor TO DR.. r. Il.
Won kleinSmid as president Of the uni
versity, according TO an announce
ment made at Phoenix.
The work on the Cloyis-Portales
highway in New Mexico is being rap
idly completed now and will be fin
ished by about the middle of Decem-
ber. The foundation has been com.
pleted and is being surfaced with ca.
liche, which consists of a mixture of
underground clay and ground rock.
This surfaclng is put on in a thick
ness of about foot and makes a fine
road after being properly rolled and
packed.
The Mesa Cooperative Company, o
corporation, office at Roy, Harding
county, n. NJ, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the United States dis
trict clerks office. Its business is that
Of grain dealer; its assets are given
as $27 ,641.3S and its debts as $47,-
95S.32. Most Of the creditors with un-
secured claims are residents of Roy
and the amounts vary from So to ST.
400. There are capital stock certlfi-
Gates In the sum of $4,000.
Patients at Whipple Barracks at
Prescott, Ariz., sent an invitation to
Marshal Foch asking him to visit the
hospital while in Arizona in order to
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