The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-29
Southwest News
From An Over
NoU Mexico
and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News serios.)

Arizona during the past year. VI ILLS
number, 1926 were boys and 3,S4O
girls. There were lit pairs Of twins
born.
Stamping Yuma as the premier al
falfa seed district of the world, Null
ford Winsor in Phoenix declared that
Yuma county, Arizona, will produce
the biggest seed crop in It's history this
year.
Suffering from the effects of
wound received when revolver he
was cleaning was accidentally dis
charged, Rosaio Martinez, a young
man of Bernal, near East Las Vegas,
| N. Mex, is dead.
Fees collected by the state motor We
hicle department Of Arizona during the
first six months of the present year
amounted to $187, ,434.75, according to
an announcement made by Ernest X.
Hall, secretary Of state.
The Clayton, N Mex, postOffice has
been officially notified. that, beginning
September 20, the city will have free
mail delivery. Plans are now being
made for the new service, and an exam
lnation will soon be held for carriers.
Producing mines in the state Of Ari-
zona were valued at $413,O82, ,735, or 8
per cent. less than a year ago, in re-
port made public by the state tax COM
mission The valuation placed on pro-
ducing mines in 1920 was $453, ,094,-
S46.26.
According to word received by her
parents, residing in Las Vegas, Mrs.
Perfilia Teneria committed suicide by
pouring kerosene over her clothing and
igniting it. She died at Schomberg,
eighty-five miles from Las Vegas, n.
Mex A quarrel with her husband is
alleged to have been the reason for
her act.
If the present plans are carried out,
the mining district of the Tres Her
mans mountains will soon have one of
the largest concentrators in the south
west The big plant will be built to
take care of the low-grade silver-lead
ores from the mines, and will be erect
ed under the supervision of eastern
capitalists.
Walter Hudson, one of the two men
arrested at SOlomOnville, Ariz., when
they surrendered OrvaI McKinstry, IL
year-old Lakin, Kan, boy TO officers,
confessed TO Sheriff J. c. Hillyard Of
Lakin that he kidnapped young McKin-
stry, according to that officer. Orval
McKinstry was spirited from Lakin,
Kan, after the fatal shooting of his
father, a prominent rancher.
A thief who must have been steeple
jack and who undoubtedly must have
possessed information concerning the
nature of his prospective haul, recently
got away with $400 worth of platinum
from the highest point on the new
brick smokestack at the International
smelter at Globe AriZ. The platinum
adorned the topmost points of the four
lightning arresters used to safeguard
the stack from stray atmospheric elec-
trical bolts.
What will probably be the largest
herd of high-grade dairy cattle in the
United States will soon be placed on
tract of land, $4,000 acres in extent,
the southern boundaries of which lie
few miles north of Deming, N. Mex
The United States public health bu-
reau, which will operate the big farm,
plans to place on the tract about 1900
head of the finest dairy cattle in the
country, together with all the equip
ment which goes to make up an indus
try of this kind.
The workmen's compensation act
passed by the last Legislature of Ari-
zOna, creating the state industrial COM
mission, is invalid, according to a de-
cisiOn handed down by the State SUI
preme Court. The decision upheld the
finding of Superior Judge T. c. Stan
ford, who issued a permanent injunc-
ton restraining the commissioners
from exercising any of the powers
given to them by the act and directing
the state treasurer and auditor to pre-
vent the commission from spending
ony of the states money.
Efforts of the Santa Fe and of the
Southern Pacific railroads to force the
Arizona corporation commission to put
in force in intrastate business rates
authorized by the interstate commerce
commission have failed Sitting in
bank with Judge William H. Sawtelle
and Oscar Trippet, Circuit Judge Err
skine Ross in Los Angeles denied the
motion of the railroads for an injunc-
tion to restrain the Arizona commits
sion from interfering with the applica-
tion Of the intrastate rates to intra-
state traffic, indicating that before
granting such an injunction it would
be necessary to go into the merits of
the matter.
According to the report of the over
seer of the camp ground in Portales,
N Mex, June was a record month and
one of the best in the history of the