Williams news., 1921-08-12
Southwest News
 From All OUsr Ne,U Mexico
 and ArizOnd
twss..ra Newsp.esr Union Nsws s.rvie.. )

Gallup, N. M.. which was started about
 two months ago, Is progressing rapid
 ly and indications are that 1t will be
 finished early in the rall-
 w. B. Squlres, a well known farm
 CT who owns a large ranch east ot
 Taylor Springs, N. M., was killed b.
 the accidental discharge of a pisto
 which he was cleaning, while visiting
 in Oklahoma.
 Burt Wingar of Phoenix, who wal
 appointed secretary of the Board o.
 Directors of State Institutions by Gov
 ernor Thomas E. Campbell, will con tinue to perform the duties of account ant for the board.
 The Business and Professional
 Women's Club of Albuquerque now haa a membership of over sixty, accord ing to reports at the last meeting A club motto, We Progress" waa adopted at the meeting.
 The state tax of 1 cent a gallon or gasoline, which became effective Juno g, netted the state of Arizona $S OOc from June to June 30, inclusive, ae cording to 8 report issued by the sec retary of states office.
 The appointment of Michael E. Gas sidy of BisbeS as prohibition enforce ment director for Arizona was an. ill q telegram received by MT. Cassidy from United States Senator Ralph Cameron of Arizona.
 According to recent estimates the crop of wheat just being harvested in Curry county, N. M., will run over l. 100000 bushels more than that of last year. It is said that over 10000 acres will run over twenty bushels to the acre
 In accordance with the recommenda- ton of 1T. L. Macleod, chief engineer of the State Land Department of Ari- zona, the state will withhold from easing three sections in the Patagonia district where oil was reported some weeks ago.
 The construction work on the hos )ital for poor children at Albuquerque las been started by the Children's Home and Hospital Association and he building will cost over $5O, O,OOO when completed The site for the new ;tructure will be on East Grand ave tue and the hospital will be used trictly for charitable surgical cases
 According to John Robertson, sheep Tipping throughout New Mexico Is low under way and will be completed | y the last of October. The dipping | s in compliance with the general or | Ter that all sheep in the state must | e dipped. Officials of the bureau of | nimal industry are overseeing the | york and will see that the order is | arried out on all the ranches of the | tate.
 Because of the prevailing industrial | OnditiOnS in Arizona, there will be no tate fair this fall and consequently 10000 will be saved to the tax pay IFS of the state, according to an an made at the office of Gov rnor Thomas E. Campbell. This will g the second year in the history of le fair that the event has been can elled. In 1918 no fair was held on ac- punt of the war.
 A big meeting was held at Clayton, :. M., when the ball was started roll lg for the opening of the annual fair nd roundup, and the dates set as Au- ust 31 and September 1 and 9. Dr. ldbeter, who will be in charge of the ,und-up, states that some Of the best ders in the southwest will participate
 the events and that the affair will ? one of the best ever seen in the lstern part of the state.
 John J. Hyatt, well known Luna 'unty, N. M., cattleman and a mem 1T of the pioneer Hyatt family, was He'd by lightning while riding horse tck over the Florida mountains. Commissioner Loren Vaughn and scretary Stanley Williamson, of the ate Corporation Commission of Ari- ma, have been appointed by that 'dy as delegates to the annual meet l g of the National Association of Se- rity Commissioners in Washington, | ,ptember 6, and 8. This associa- )n is made up of state officials who e charged with the administration of e ''blue sky laws in the various ates. The total valuation of taxable prop ty in Arizona amounts to $S29, ,412,- 9, according to returns made to the ate Tax Commission by the clerks
 the boards of supervisors of the rious counties. The valuation that IS been fixed for taxation purposes
 $5O, ,53S, ,447 less than the valuation
 property in the state a year ago. C ,chise county leads the list with a , luation of S156,375,711. Gila comes xt with a valuation of $141, ,42S, $40. [ tvapai comes third, having displaced [ aricopa during the past year. Struck by Q train as she was play-1 g along the tracks at Lamy Juno t m. N. M., the 2-year-old daughter
 Mir. and Mrs. W. w. Johnson was T efx,r l1ul e.