The Holbrook news., 1921-01-07
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and ArizOnd
(wesiern Newspaper Union News Service )

| 1St, according to State Treasurer H.
 $. Ross. Day and night shifts are working and 75 per cent of the rock
 Is in place, the state treasurer said.
 Thirty-five thousand automobiles in
 Arizona in 1921. This is the estimate
 of R. F.. McGilIen, assistant secretary
 of state, who has ordered that number
 of license plates from the East and
 which is only 300 more than the num- Der now in use in Arizona. A father and son were wounded, the latter perhaps mOrtally, in q shooting
 affray in the heart of Phoenix business
 district Those who were shot are James Nelson of Buckeye, Ariz. ,and his father, Albert Gray of Miami,
 AriZ., was arrested as their assailant.
 More than 2,OOO chickens, valued at
 approximately $4,000, were killed by
 coyotes i'll Pima county, Arizona, dur ing the last year, according to an es-
 innate made by the county bureau.
 Two farmers reported that their lOss-
 es had been about 100 each. Those
 were the largest losses so far as is
 known.
 Miami, AriZ., is installing a new or
 namental street lighting system. The
 villa style of posts are to be used and
 a cluster will be used at the intersec-
 tiOn and the blocks will have eight
 lights each. Lights for the Franklyn
 Street bridge have not arrived, but
 are expected any time and work on them will begin on arrival.
 Although the town of Roy, N. NJ,
 was only started in the late autumn of 1902, it is now the metropolis of the great Tequesuite mesa, one of the best farming sections in New Mexico. The actual growth of the town started in 1906 with the advent of the home steaders and the population has shown steady increase ever since.
 One of eleven Christmas pardons lssuer by Governor Larrazolo of New Mexico was to Mitchell Jefferson, a negro, formerly employed at the home of Senator A. B. Fall at Three Rivers, N. NJ. Jefferson was convicted in April, 1916, for killing his wife in the presence of Mrs. Fall. He was serv- ing a sentence of ninety to one hun dred years.
 Reports from w. D. NewcOmb, sec retary of the Old Trails Highway As sOciatiOn, state that the actual con- structiOn on the SocorrO-C Carrizozo link in New Mexico has been started, and that a big camp has been formed on the SOcOrrO side of the mountains. Much of the grading has been done and it is expected that Lincoln county will soon begin work on its end of the line
 Applications to graze cattle in the national forests must be filed before January 30th, it was announced at the forest service office at Tucson. All annual permits expire at the end of the grazing year, March 31st, and all applications or renewals and permits must be in the office before the last day in January. These permits are for the grazing year of 1921 and do not affect the five years permits, which have several years to run.
 The mounted police expenses from January 1st to November Both, the end of the fiscal year, amounted to $42,- 722.79, according to Capt A. A. Sena's report, filed at the governors office at Santa Fe. The sum included $36- 5S0 for salaries. The expenses for 1919 also are given. For the first five months they amounted to $3,S9191. and for the last seven months of the year to 23,933.57. The salaries for the last seven months amounted to S21, ,67O.
 According to trainmen, the mail car on Santa Fe eastbOund train No. 2 was robbed between Needles, Calif, and Ash Fork, Ariz. The theft was discov- cred when postal workers entered the car at Ash Fork No one was in charge between that point and Needles and those who discovered the robbery were unable to estimate the loss.
 The state banks of New Mexico gained $3,793,4 ,436 in resources in the last year, Bank Examiner James B. Read stated after comparison of the of their condition for No vember 17, 1919, and November 15, 1920, the latest statement available. On the first named date the state banks resources totaled S23, ,5O1, ,959, and at the time of the last call, S27,- 295, ,395.
 That the beautiful mission of San Xavier, near Tucson, is the twin of the mission at CabOrca, Sonora, is the as- sertiOn, made as the result of strict | measurements made on a | recent trip through the entire chain of | Jesuit and Franciscan missions in Ari- zona and on the west coast by W. | Prent Duell, antiquarian MT. Pinkley, | government archaeOiogist, and Archi- 1 tect Jaastad of Tucson
 The State Supreme Court set Janu- ary 10th as. the date for the hanging | of J. O. Starr, convicted of murder | for the killing of Sheriff Dwight Ste | phens of Luna county, New Mexico, | the failure of Starrs appeal | to the United States Supreme Court. | Executive clemency is Starr's only re hope. Starr, member of prominent Texas family whose true name has never been made public, re- ceived the news with equanimity, and | shows no concern over his approach Ing fate. The execution will take place at Las Cruces.
 Five hundred gallons of liquor seized in raids in New Mexico will be poured into one of the city's street sprinklers at Albuquerque and used