The Holbrook news., 1921-02-04
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu Mexico
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service.)
 COMING EVENTS. State Automobile Show at Santa F6, N. M.. March 3. 4. 5, 1921.

belonging to l.. E. Freeland of Vana-
 dium, N. M., was completely destroyed i by fire, the loss being estimated at
 over $5,OOO.
 A bill to prohibit dancing in the pub [ lie streets of Arizona has been intro duced in the lower House of the State Legislature. It provisions would in
 clude the state university. The Sen ate in committee of the whole dis
 cussed a bill to make the "blue sky
 law more stringent.
 Following angry OutburStS of ranch
 CTS in the foothills, near Douglas,
 Ariz., four alleged cattle thieves, all of them Mexicans, were arrested by | officers in the Swisshelm mountains.
 Stolen beef, found in their possession,
 was confiscated. Ranchers have been
 missing cattle for some time.
 The farm of Cipriano Solano, one
 mile west of Springer, N, NJ, was yis-
 ited by bad fire which destroyed five
 stacks of alfalfa and several small
 outbuildings. A call for help wds an-
 swered by the Springer fire depart
 ment, but upon its arrival there was
 little that could be done except to
 save the house. The origin of the fire
 is unknown.
 Gov Thomas D. Campbell gave
 signed approval to Senate memorial
 No. of the Arizona Legislature, urg-
 ing recognition by the United States
 of the government of Mexico. AL
 though his signature was not neces-
 sary, the governor said he was so
 heartily in favor of recognition that he
 took opportunity to manifest approval of the memorial by his signature.
 Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, the iron ore producing states in the West, are estimated to have mined and shipped 734,000 gross tons of iron ore in 1920 an increase of s per cent as compared with the quantity mined and shipped in 1919. No large stocks of iron ore are maintained at Western mines.
 Sudan grass has proven to be one of the most reliable hay crops for the dry farming sections of Arizona. Dur ing the season of 1920, one of the dry est on the Prescott dry farm, Sudan grass produced two cuttings of hay. The first cutting in the test plat yield ed 1,560 pounds of cured hay to the acre. The second cutting yielded 2,960 pounds to the acre.
 F. c. W. PoOler, district forester for New Mexico and Arizona, has an- nOunced that a rigid prosecution of persons who start fires on the nation al forests will be carried out during the coming year. Reports of rangers from the different forests show that over half of the fires are caused by human agency. The district, of which California Is part, last year secured 250 convictions of persons who started destructive fires.
 The new hospital which has been under construction at Lordsburg, N. M., during the past summer and win ter is nearly completed and will be one | of the finest institutions of its kind | in the Southwest. Visitors from the | Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore | visited the new building recently and | stated that the new hospital was in | Keeping with the best institutions of | it's kind in the East. The building will be absolutely fireproOf and will have the best possible equipment. It | will be ready for occupancy in about one month.
 The Southern Pacific railroad will l handle 10000 Mexicans going back to Mexico from the Salt River Valley of Arizona, according to an official of -he road, who says the men are cot ton pickers. The men are without work and short of food. I
 The S-year-old son of Mr. Hobson )f Roy, N. M., was fatally crushed ill he elevator shaft of the Cooperative Company and died shortly afterwards rom his injuries. The lad with sev- ,ral companions had been playing near he elevator and attempted to grab loId of the shaft, which was covered with frost. His wet mittens froze to he shaft and he was pulled under 1t md crushed between the shaft and he ground
 The University of Arizona will this ear offer summer courses at both Flagstaff and Bisbee. At the former ,lace it will cooperate with the Northern Arizona Normal School, and t the latter with the Tempe Normal school At both places the university viII undertake to meet somewhat gen ral needs of persons desiring to pur- ue summer courses of university rank, ut will give special attention to the eeds of those preparing to teach,
 The plans for the new highway be- ween Clovis and Tucumcari, N. M.. 7ere approved the first of the year, nd if the government will cooperate n the fifty-fifty basis the road will e built during the present season. The called for consists of rading, surfacing with caliche the en- ire distance, and the building of two O-fOOt bridges across Running Water !. raw and Eric draw. The estimated Ost of the project, including 10 per ent for engineering work, is $92, 1903, mich is an average of about $7,733 CT mile. According to reports from the Al c forest office, over 10000 V igns have been placed on trails, pads and boundary lines of the na- g onaI forests of the state since 1918. t