Taiban Valley news., 1921-06-24
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News Service

will cost over $4,000.
Clad in leather chaps and buckskins
and riding their favorte mounts, hun
dreds of veterans of the plains will
gather in East Las Vegas, N. NJ, July
4, 5 and 6 for the seventh annual Las
Vegas cowboys reunion.
In one of the dry-farming counties
in New Mexico the women have shown
their interest in improving the sur
roundings of their ranch homes by
making home Identification a project
in the county program of work.
Governor Stephens of California has
signed the bill appropriating $350,OO0
for the construction of the paved high
way from San Bernardino, via Holt
ville to Yuma. This money will be-
come at once available and it Is GER
tatnty that the road will be under con-
struction this fall or sooner.
According to census figures an
nounced in Washington, 80, 131 persons
10 years of age and over in Arizona in
1920 were unable to write. The per-
centage of illiteracy is 1913 compared
with 209 in 1910. OF native whites 81
per cent are illiterate, while 27.5 per
cent of foreign born whites are unable
to read.
RED Whiskers" Burnet, escaped
convict, suspected of the murder of
Mariona league, ranchman near Globe,
Ariz for whom a search was conduct
ed the last three weeks through the
Pinal mountains by the sheriff and
posses and cowboys, was shot and in
stantly killed by rifle in the hands of
member of posse.
Postmaster Long r. Bailey of Bis
bee, AriZ., has confessed to poStoffice
inspectors that an alleged robbery of
the Bisbee postoffice April 3 was
blind to conceal a shortage in his ac-
count, according to a report received
by Stephen H. Morse, chief postoffice
inspector. A total of 1880 has been
recovered from Bailey, whose alleged
shortage is supposed to be $4,000, ac-
cording to this report.
Louis Quackanbush, taxicab driver,
was found murdered in a clump of
bushes near the main highway, four
miles northeast of Douglas. He was
shot through the head. His pockets
had been rifled, police said. John XII
ser, negro, who had engaged Quackan7
bush for a trip, is being held in con-
nection with the murder. Quackan-
bushs automobile was found on the
highway not far from the body.
Riding into San Simon, a small town
eighty miles northeast of Bisbee, AriZ.,
on horseback, lone bandit held up at
the point of a gun A. e. Nelson, cash
ier of the San Simon Valley Bank,
swept all the money in sight into his
pockets and then rode out of town.
Several citizens pursued and engaged
the bandit about two miles east of the
town. After four shots had been fired
at him the bandit fled into the brush.
A cloudburst in Tijeris canon about
| fourteen miles east of Albuquerque,
| caused considerable property loss to
ranchers. The state and forest service
highways through the canon were
| washed out. The flood waters hit the
| Santa Fe railway tracks near Barr sta
ton, south of the city, and tied up
| traffic for several hours, water flow
ing over the tracks four feet. Ranch
ers along the Rio Grande where the
| arroyo flows into the river, were
| flooded for distance of several miles.
Farmers who were driven from their
homes took refuge in a school house.
The tax commission reduced the
valuation of grazing lands in New
Mexico 25 per cent after hearing pro-
tests that the valuation was heavier
than the livestock industry could car
ry and further disaster would result
unless the relief was granted. 1t was
estimated the reduction would slash
approximately $10,000,0O0 from the tax
roll, but it was contended 1t was not
the commissions duty to foot the Leg
isature's bill, but to assess the prop
erty value.
| The range stock business in Arizona
is looked upon as an industry entirely
separate from farming, and farming
with stock raising. Reports received
by the United States Department of
| Agriculture show that the old type Of
range is not continuing as profitably
as it was a decade ago. The old-time
nntagonism between stockman and
farmer Is being overcome gradually.
There is now q reaction from the prac-
tice of homesteaders of breaking up
the pastures by settling on land where
they could not make a living. In some
instances miles of fences are being
removed and the ranges established
where dry farming has been found to
be improbable.
Construction work has begun on the
Charleston dam, twenty-five miles be-
low Benson, Ariz., and IT'S completion
will mean the irrigation of 1900 acres
of land in the San Pedro valley about
Benson, according to information given
out by C. ]. Mulvane and J. A. Gumm,
residents of Benson.