The Holbrook news., 1921-06-24
Southwest News From All Ouer NeU Mexico
 and AizOna
(western Newspaper Union News service.)

| >TTOunu was DfOken at LOruSDuTS, V.
 NJ. for the new Methodist church South
 which, when completed, will he one of
 the finest in that part of the state and
 will cost over $15,000.
 Clad in leather chaps and buckskins
 and riding their favorite mounts. hun
 dreds of veterans of the plains will
 gather in East Las Vegas, N. M.. July
 4, and for the seventh annual Iaa
 Vegas cowboys reunion.
 In one of the dry-farming countirs | in New Mexico the women have shown l their interest in improving the sur roundings of their ranch homes 5y
 making home Identification a project
 in the county program of work.
 Governor Stephens of California has
 signed the bill appropriating $350. 0.O00 for the construction of the paved high
 way from San BernardinO, via Holt | vile, to Yuma This money will be
 come at once available and it is cer-
 tainty that the road will be under con struction this fall or sooner.
 According to census figures an-
 nounced in Washington, 39, 131 persons 10 years of age and over in Arizona in
 1920 were unable to write. The per
 centage of illiteracy is 15-3 compared with 20.9 in 1910. Of native whites 21
 per cent are illiterate, while 27.5 per cent of foreign born whites are unable to read.
 Red Whiskers" Burnet, escaped convict, suspected of the murder of MariOna Teague, ranchman near Globe, Ariz., for whom a search was conduct ed the last three weeks through the Pinal mountains by the sheriff and posses and cowboys, was shot and in- stantly killed by rifle in the hands of a member of a posse.
 Postmaster Long R. Bailey of Bis bee, Ariz., has confessed to postoffice inspectors that an alleged robbery of the Bisbee postoffice April 8 was a blind to conceal a shortage in his ac- count, according to a report received by Stephen H. Morse, chief postoffice inspector. A total of 1850 has been recovered from Bailey, whose alleged shortage is supposed to be $43,O00, ac- cording to this report.
 Louis Quackanbush, taxicab driver was found murdered in a clump of bushes near the main highway, four miles northeast of Douglas. He was shot through the head. His pockets had been rifled, police said. John Xii ser, negro, who had engaged Quackan- bush for a trip, is being held in con- nection with the murder. Quackan- bushs automobile was found on the highway not far from the body
 Riding into San Simon, a small town eighty miles northeast of Bisbee, Ariz., on horseback, a lone bandit held up at the point of a gun A. E. Nelson, cash fer of the San Simon Valley Bank, swept all the money in sight into his pockets and then rode out of town. Several citizens pursued and engaged the bandit about two miles east of the town. After four shots had been fired at him the bandit fled into the brush.
 A cloudburst in Tijeris canon about fourteen miles east of Albuquerque, caused considerable property loss to ranchers. The state and forest service highways through the caflOn were washed out. The flood waters hit the Santa Fe railway tracks near Barr sta tion, south of the city, and tied up ing over the tracks four feet. Ranch CTS along the Rio Grande where the arroya flows into the river, were flooded for a distance of several miles, Farmers who were driven from their homes took refuge in a school house.
 The tax commission reduced the valuation of grazing lands in New Mexico 25 per cent after hearing pro tests that the valuation was heavier than the livestock industry could car ry and further disaster would result unless the relief was granted. It was estimated the reduction would slash approximately $1O,OO0,0O0 from the tax roll, but it was contended it was not the commissions duty to foot the Leg islature's bill, but to assess the prop erty value
 The range stock business in Arizona is looked upon as an industry entirely separate from farming, and farming with stock raising. Reports received by the United States Department of Agriculture show that the old type of | range is not continuing as prOfitably | as it was a decade ago. The old-time | antagOniSm between stockman and | farmer is being overcome gradually. | There is now reaction from the prac- | tice of homesteaders of breaking up | the pastures by settling on land where | they could not make a living In some | instances miles of fences are being | removed and the ranges established | where dry farming has been found to | be unprofitable.
 Construction work has begun on the | Charleston dam, twenty-two miles be- | low Benson, Ariz, and its completion | will mean the irrigation of 47,OOO acres of land in the San Pedro valley about | Benson, according to information given out by c. J. Mulvane and J. A. Gumm, residents of Benson.
 The dedication of the county seat of the new county of Harding, New Mex leo, took place June 14 and 15, when MOsquerO was officially proclaimed the official seat of the county. Elaborate programs were provided for the two days.