The Holbrook news., 1921-01-14
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Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service )

CTS ASSOclaIlOH ndS Sel lne udle lOd the 1921 auto show for Feb. 17, IS and 19. C. NJ Barber will have charge of the show, which will be the most elab- crate ever held in that city.
 J. A. Matthews, a farmer living in the vicinity of Ranchvale, N. M., was was driving ran away, throwing him under the wagon, breaking one leg and injuring him internally.
 The contract for the new road be tween Silver City and Santa Rita, N. M., has been let to Dan LarOe of Pal istine, Tex, the cost to be $214,O9O, which is far below the estimate of the highway engineers.
 The Wagon Mound Farmers Ex- change has just shipped car of the new turkey red wheat which is now being grown in that vicinity. This is the first shipment made of that vari- ety.
 The New Mexico Highway COmmis- sion has let the contract for eighteen miles of road between Willard and Mountainair, the cost to be slightly over SLIGO per mile. Work will be started at once.
 Assessed valuation of property in Arizona has increased more than 900 per cent in nine years, reaching total for 1920 of $SS6,OOO,OOO, according to the biennial report of the State Tax Commission, submitted to the gov ernOr.
 The foresters of New Mexico and Arizona fought 426 fires during the season just passed, according to re- port by District Forester PoOler of AL buquerque. Out of this number only one caused damage of more than $1,- GOO, which is a splendid record.
 The next annual convention of the Y. NJ C. A of Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas will be held at Doug las, Ariz., Jan. 14, 15 and 16. The event will open with banquet when Carl c. McGee of the Morning Journal of Albu- querque will be the principal speaker.
 Constable W. A. O'Neill of Gila Bend, Ariz, was overpOwered, hand cuffed, abducted to Il deep arroyo in the desert and threatened with death by three men whom he sought to ar rest as suspects ill connection with the burglarizing of store at Yuma, AriZ.
 Albuquerque dairymen have sub scribed over S15,000 for the erection of a big milk plant in that city, and an effort will be made to increase this amount to $2O,OOO after the first of the h will no hold shortly to perfect the organization.
 Plans of the new hotel company which was organized at Albuquerque short time ago are nearly completed and the sale of stock will begin in the next two or three weeks. Louis Ilfeld has been appointed statutory agent for the company and the plans for the new building will be drawn as soon as the stock is disposed of. The company is capitalized at $5OO,000 and it is hoped that all the money may be raised so that actual work on the new hOstelry can be started early in the spring.
 The report that Miss Clara Olsen would be Governor Mechem'S private secretary was given confirmation on New Years day when the secretary to nine former governors. returned to her desk in the executive office. Governor ;Mechem is the tenth governor of New Mexico who has appointed her, adding further laurels to her record, which heretofore has been unequalled in any other state in the Union. Miss Olsen, in returning to the office, began her in, fIa ecutive office.
 The Railways Ice Company of CIO- wis, N. M., has made plans for big building campaign for the coming year and the work will be started as soon as the material can be secured and placed on the grounds The present storage capacity of the big plant will be in creased to 10000 tons or twice the ca pacity now.
 In the shortest inaugural address ever delivered by a governor of New Mexico, Merritt C. Mechem told the people that the most important work before the new state administration is the practice of rigid economy in all de- partments of government and that the essential step to this end is a drastic of taxes permitted by law to be levied.
 The Arizona State Board of PardOns and Paroles will meet Jan. 13, the day before the date set for the hanging of Pedro DOminguez, convicted on charge of murder and in whose behalf the Mexican embassy at Washington has appealed to Governor Campbell for a communication of sentence. Governor Campbell replied to the embassy that it was the boards prerogative to act on such matters, under provision of Ari- zOna law.
 It has been agreed tentatively that Frank R. Stewart of Phoenix shall take the certificate of Arizonas three cleo toral votes to Washington, according to James B. Boyle of Douglas, one of the three presidential electors. The electors, Stewart, Boyle and Joseph w. Smith, will meet at the state capital when they will cast their votes for Warren G. Harding
 The Sunshine Oil Company of ROS- well, N. M., has spudded in a well southeast of Roswell near the site of the Kansas-New Mexico well and drill ing has already been started.
 At the conclusion of his preliminary at Phoenix, Bert Heed was held for trial in the Superior