Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-18
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to close the office.
w. A. Sheriff., former clerk of the
board of supervisors of Cochise coun-
ty, Ariz., was shot and killed by w. G.
Gilmore, prominent attorney of Tomb
stone, in the latter's residence.
Payment time of grazing fees on ma
tional forests has been extended until
Sept. l without interest, according to
a message received in Albuquerque by
the district forest office from the
Washington headquarters.
Governor Thomas e. Campbell signed
a Senate bill providing for the ap-
pointment by the governor of repre-
sentative from Arizona on commits
sion composed Of representatives of
California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
Wyoming, Arizona and the federal gov
ernment to consider the use and dis
tribution of the waters of the Colorado
river and its tributaries. The bill also
carries an appropriation for the work.
The teachers salary bill, asked by
the New Mexico Educational Associa-
ton, was passed after the minimum
limit for first grade teachers had been
stricken out. AS approved by the as
sociation the bill fixed $1,000 as the
first-grade teachers. The maximum
limits for second and third-grade
teachers were cut down at $540. The
draft approved by the association
made the first figure $l,0S0 and the
second $3.50.
The resignation of United States
Senator Fall was officially announced
in the New Mexico House and Senate
in message from Governor Mechem.
Representative r. L. Baca, Santa Fe,
moved that a committee be appointed
to draft a suitable resolution of con-
graduation to the new secretary of the
interior, and Speaker Clancy named
the Santa Fe county representative,
Hartell, Democrat, and Representative
Wade, Republican.
Henry G. Keene, examiner, has rec
commended to the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Washington that pas
senger rates between points in Ari-
zona, New Mexico and Nevada, be
found not unreasonable, mjustly dis
criminatory or unduly prejudicial.
Complaint was made Of the rates In
effect by the Arizona Corporation
Commission, the Public Service Com
mission of Nevada, and the State Cor
poration of New Mexico.
Frank L. Hamon, nephew of the late
Jake L. Hamon of Ardmore, Okla, and
former husband of Clara Smith Ha-
mon, who is charged with having
killed Jake Hamon, has been granted
a divorce from his SECOND wife, Gerti1
Walker Hamon, in Superior Court of
Phoenix. Mrs. Gertie Hamon now is in
Sacramento, Calf. The plaintiff
charged the defendant with cruelty.
The suit was uncontested. The two
were married In Tucson, Ariz., Aug IA,
1918.
Committeesfrom the northern Arizona
and Yavapai Bar associations asked
the county board of supervisors to pc
titiOn the governor to name a second
superior Judge for the county, as pro-
vided for in a bill recently passed by
the Legislature. The committees, con-
sisting of twenty-five attorneys, told
| the supervisors that the additional
Judge not only would expedite business
in the courts of the county, but would
save the taxpayers more than enough
to pay his SALARY by reducing fees and
mileage payments to Jurors and wit
nesses. The supervisors took the mat
ter under advise1iient.
| Angry because Legislative commit
tee failed to recommend his parole aft
er visiting the penitentiary at Santa
Fe, Charles Kennedy, convict, serving
time for Jail breaking and veteran of
three wars, swallowed two pieces of
baling wire, several inches long, pin,
a safety pin, and a steel drill three
inches long.
The Senate Of the Arizona State Leg
islature passed, Governor Thomas Il.
Campbell's civil administration bill
which would reorganize the state gov
ernment along the lines Of the plan
adopted I'm Illinois. The bill would do
away with thirty-eight boards and COM
missions, creating in their stead eight
departments, each under a director.
The vote on the measure was along
party lines.
Oil prospectors in Pecos valley, Ari-
zOna, are still fighting water and cav
ing holes, but there is little trouble in
getting drilling material, this formerly
being the cause of many delays. Most
of the wells in the valley have plenty
Of casing to carry out their tests and
all other material is being shipped
promptly so that there will be little
trouble this spring in the progress of
the work.
The negotiations for the reopening
of the Glendale, Arizona, State Bank
still continue, with all indications
pointing to a favorable conclusion.
Several matters which might cause an
unfavorable decision are being
threshed out by the committee and the
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