The St. Johns herald., 1921-07-14
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
(wUstsrn Nsvupapsr Union Nsvs serviOs.) )

sion, include: Santa Fe, Raton and Eastern (New MexicO), $226,227. Cimarron and Northwestern Railway Company (New Mexico), $22,S10. New Mexico Midland, $140,265.
 Mrs. Hero Vanderwag of Sioux Falls, s. D., was seriously injured when the automobile in which she and her husband were touring to Cali fornia went over a ten-fOot embank- ment near Los Lunas, N. M. She was pinned beneath the car and her hus- band worked twenty minutes in re- leasing her.
 Forest fires, covering more than A. poo acres in the COcOninO National forest near Flagstaff, Ariz., have been put under control, according to word received by the district forest office at Albuquerque. Two men, suspected of being responsible for starting the fires, are under arrest and are being held at Flagstaff.
 Superintendent J. H. Odle of the Navajo Industrial School in Farming ton, N. M., has announced that the mission board has purchased the fifty acre ranch of the Schleuter estate and will soon start work on a new hos pital to cost over $12,OO0. The new hospital will be modern in every way and will have twelve beds.
 William Kirshenberg of Oakland, Calif., shot and killed his wife and then killed himself at the home of his mOther-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Parish, In Phoenix. According to roOmers in the Parish home, Mrs. KirShenberg, who was 26 years old, had left her husband, who was about 40, and had returned to her mothers home.
 Frank Jones and Jim Jones, who are alleged to have been the men who recently robbed the San Simon, Ariz., bank, were captured at a mountain cabin near Lordsburg, N. M., after two days chase. Sheriff Oscar Allen and assistants of Hidalgo county had been after the men for some time and with the aid of officials of Arizona, finally ran the two men down.
 Adjutant General Henry R. Brown has announced the War Department had officially recognized Troop F, Es- tancia, and Company B, engineer corps, MOuntainair. New Mexico now has five federally recognized troops at Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Carlsbad, Deming and Estancia-and one engi- m o& 1+oiy air. Recognition of several more units will be granted shortly, accord ing to the adjutant general.
 At the close of the annual conven- tion of the New Mexico Dental So- ciety in Albuquerque, that city won the next convention without a dissent ing vote. Dr. 0. Fl. Woolgar of Mag dalena, first vice president last year, was elected president for the coming year The other officers elected were: pr. c. W. Hoover, Dawson, first vice president; Dr. H. s. Murdoch of Springer, second vice president, and Dr. D. P. NOlting of Albuquerque, sec retary-treasurer.
 Property damage of more than $250,000 was done by a fire which swept through the business section of 0atman, Arizona, and into the resi- dence section recently. The fire broke out from an unknown cause and in a few minutes several buildings were blazing. Four persons were se- riOusly burned. They were MT. and Mrs. J. R. Marks, Albert Smith and Earl Parsons. Special deputy sheriffs were sworn in and the burned portion of the town put under guard.
 The body of man which was found wrapped in a sack in a shallow pros pect hole near the Palace station, twenty-five miles south of Prescott, been identified by Frank Wilson of Mayer as that of the body of his uncle, Walter Steinbrooke. Stainbrooke had been missing more than three months.
 Southern California Edison Go. has asked permission to develop hydro electric energy from Colorado river, involving expenditure of $S0O,OOO,OO0. Company seeks to acquire water rights in Arizona for development of 2,50O,OOO of hydro-electric energy, for distribution in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, portions of Colorado and Texas and Wyoming.
 The Arizona State Corporation Commission has dismissed the con- plaint brought by several operators of taxicabs in Phoenix against a com pany which operates its cars for a fare of 25 cents. The commission held that public interest justified con- tinuing the experiment with the low