The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Southwest News
 From .4H OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
.(western Newspaper Union News serVieel
 COMING EVENTS. State Automobile Show at Santa Fe, N. M.. March 8. 4, ,. 1921.

was destroyed by fire with loss esti- mated at $75,OOO.
 The land commission resolution, placing a bipartisan board of three members in charge of the states lands has been passed by the New Mexico Senate without opposition.
 Fire which broke out in the pump shaft of the Old Dominion mine at Globe, Ariz., was extinguished after fifteen hours work by the mine rescue crew and other company employees.
 The New Mexico House passed the Frisco county bill, after accepting an amendment by R. l.. Baca of Santa Fe to call the new county created in western Socorro "Tom Catron county"
 The Hecla Divide Mining Company, which has been operating the Pinos AL tOs mines, near Silver City, has or dered suspension of all work until the title of the property can be cleared.
 In the three months it has been open the Baptist hospital in Clovis, N. NJ, has taken care of ninety-four children from all over the eastern part of the state.
 Miss c. Louise Boehringer of Yuma was elected first president of the Ari- zona State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, organized in Phoenix. Mrs. Rosemary Campbell of Prescott was elected auditor.
 Governor Campbell signed the House Bill No. 13, appropriating $5,- 900 to the secretary of state to be ap- piled. in meeting expenses of the mo- tor vehicle department until the end of the fiscal year. The bill carried the emergency clause.
 The gravest problems that have ev- CT confronted the livestock industry in New Mexico are coming up for consid- eration at the seventh annual conven- tion of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association, which meets ill Albuquerque March 29, 30 and 31
 At a recent meeting of the Gallup, N M., school board the plans for the new high school building which were submitted by T. c. Gaastra of Santa Fe were accepted as those by which the new building will be constructed. IHC nCM VIII COSl ONSI spIOO,- 900, the money having been voted in bonds over year ago.
 The cotton season for the Carlsbad, N. M-, project is now over and estimates show that in spite of the low price during the year the crop will be worth a million dollars. The grand total for the valley is 6,772 bales, which ii. the h0d ;v,r r1riao would have brought the farmers over one and a half million dollars.
 At a short session in the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and mines di- rectors, the directors decided to post pone indefinitely the proposed meet ing of representatives from the six teen important towns along the Bank head highway from Fl Paso to San Diego in Douglas, Feb. 26, called to formulate plans to promote all-year tourist travel via this route.
 The adoption of the Arizona meth cd for the valuation of the metal mines is provided for in a bill by Speaker Clancy and Representative Otero, San ta F@ county, New Mexico, introduced in the House. The bill, briefly speak ing, provides for the capitalization of the net proceeds and fixes the multi pliers for the process. These range from 15 per cent for copper mines to 30 per cent for metal mines whose out put is Irregular.
 Over sixty delegates were present at the seventh annual convention of the New Mexico Electrical Association in Albuquerque.
 William Owens is in a critical con- dition in the hospital at Carlsbad as the result of a stabbing affray at a road camp. The real cause of the fight is not known, but during an argument with his uncle, Ray Rawls, Owens was stabbed several times and was brought to the Eddy hospital where it is doubt ful if he will recover. Rawls was placed under arrest.
 Governor Thomas B. Campbell of Arizona has signed the bill repeating the law which. prohibited members of the Legislature from holding state of flee during the two-year period of their service as lawmakers. The bill was introduced by Representative J. F. McGrath, Greenlee. The governor also signed House Bill No. 15, Repre- sentative J. c. Phillips, Maricopa, pro viding for distribution of community property to the surviving husband or wife and their children The law heretofore has given other relatives outside the immediate family claim to share in such community prop erty.
 The time for the holding of the spe- cial election at which the cOnstitu- tional amendments passed by the New Mexico Legislature will be submitted to the electors of the state is fixed as the Third Tuesday in September next, by a bill introduced by Wright.
 Delegates to the Arizona Good Roads associations annual meeting numbered over hundred and repre- sented ten counties when the conven- tion was opened in Albuquerque. No gales was chosen as the scene of the next annual meeting of the associa- tion.
 Lieut.. Alexander Pearson, Jr., army aviator, who has been missing, rode on horseback into Sanderson, Texas. He had been without food for three days and had ridden burros, walked, swum and floated down the Rio