The Holbrook news., 1921-07-29
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NeU Mexico
 and ArizOnd
(western Newspaper Union N.v. Service. )


 The state board of health at Phoenix reported that S,045 babies were born in Arizona during the past year. Of this number, 4,265 were boys and 3,S4O girls. There were 117 pairs of twins porn.
 Stamping Yuma as the premier al- falfa seed district of the world, Null ford Winsor in Phoenix declared that Yuma county, Arizona, will produce the biggest seed crop in it's history this year.
 Suffering from the effects of a wound received when a revolver he was cleaning was accidentally dis charged, Rosalio Martinez, a young man of Bernal, near East Las Vegas, N. Mex, is dead.
 Fees collected by the state motor ve- hicle department of Arizona during the first six months of the present year amounted to S187, ,434.75, according to an announcement made by Ernest R. Hall, secretary of state.
 The Clayton, N Mex, postoffice has been officially notified that, beginning September 20, the city will have free mail delivery. Plans are now being made for the new service, and an exam ination will soon be held for carriers.
 Producing mines in the state of Ari- zona were valued at $413, ,0S2, ,735, or g per cent. less than year ago, in a re- port made public by the state tax com mission. The valuation placed on pro- ducing mines in 1920 was $453, ,O94, S46.26.
 According to word received by her parents, residing in Las Vegas, Mrs. Perfilia Teneria committed suicide by pouring kerosene over her clothing and igniting it. She died at Schomberg. eighty-five miles from Las Vegas, N. Mex. A quarrel with her husband is alleged to have been the reason for her act.
 If the present plans are carried out, the mining district of the Tres Her mans mountains will soon have one of the largest concentrators In the south west. The big plant will be built to take care of the low-grade silver-lead ores from the mines, and will be erect ed under the supervision of eastern capitalists.
 Walter Hudson, one of the two men arrested at Solomonville, Ariz., when they surrendered Orval McKinstry, H. year-old Lakin, Kan, boy to officers, r (N Lakin that he Kidnapped young McKin- stry, according to that officer. Orval was spirited from Lakin, Kan, after the fatal shooting of his father, a prominent rancher.
 A thief who must have been steeple jack and who undoubtedly must have possessed information concerning the nature of his prospective haul, recently got away with $4OO worth of platinum from the highest point on the new brick smokestack at the International shelter at Globe, Ariz. The platinum the topmOst points of the four lightning arresters used to safeguard the stack from stray atmospheric cleo trical bolts.
 What will probably be the largest herd of high-grade dairy cattle in the United States will soon be placed on a tract of land, 64.000 acres in extent, the southern boundaries of which lie a few miles north of Deming. N Mex. The United States public health bu- -oo,, Hr-I,icb ..-ilI Oparota tho hio fo rY11 plans to place on the tract about 5000 head of the finest dairy cattle in the together with all the equip ment which goes to make up an indus try of this kind.
 The workmen's compensation act passed by the last Legislature of Ari- zona, creating the state industrial com is invalid, according to de- cision handed down by the State Su- preme Court. The decision upheld the finding of Superior Judge R. c. Stan ford, who issued a permanent injunc- ton restraining the commissioners from exercising any of the powers given to them by the act and directing the state treasurer and auditor to pre- vent the commission from spending ony of the states money.
 Efforts of the Santa Fe and of the Southern Pacific railroads to force the corporation commission to put in force in intrastate business rates by the interstate commerce have failed. Sitting in bank with Judge William H. Sawtelle and Oscar Trippet, Circuit Judge Err skine Ross in Los Angeles denied the motion of the railroads for an injunc- ion to restrain the Arizona commits sion from interfering with the applica- ion of the intrastate rates to intra- St;rte traffic, indicating that before granting such an injunction it would 1e necessary to go into the merits of he matter.
 According to the report of the over seer of the camp ground in Portales, Y. Mex, June was a record month and )ne of the best in the history of the ,ity. The report shows that during he month 81 automobiles, 271 tourists, "A soldiers. 37 trucks, 3 officers cars md S0 Row ScortS viSitad tha oroundS