The Snowflake herald., 1921-06-24
Southwest News
From Al Ouer
NelU Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service. J

NFSase8h AeNapaptr LnlQn news Service
Ground was broken at Lordsburg. N.
"a. for the new Methodist church south
which. when completed, win be one Of
the finest in that part Of the state and
will cost over $4,000.
Clad in leather chaps and buckskins
and riding their favorfte mounts. hun
dreds of veterans Of the plains viii
gather in East Las Vegas, N. NJ. July
4, 5 and for the seventh annual las
Vegas cowboys reunion.
In one of the dry-farming counties
In New Mexico the women have shown
their interest in improving the sur-
roundings Of their ranch homes by
making home Identification a project
In the county program Of work.
Governor Stephens Of California has
signed the bill appropriatfng $350OO0
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 a GER
tainty that the road will be under CON
structson this fall or sooner.
According to census figures an
nOunced in Washington, SO, ,131 persons
10 years Of age and over in Arizona in
1920 were unable to write. The per
-centage Of flliteracy is 15.S compared
with 200 in 1910. OF native whites 81
per cent are fllfterate. while 27.5 per
cent of foreign born whites are unable
to read.
Red Whiskers~ Burnet, escaped
convict, suspected Of the murder Of
MariOna league, Fanchman near Globe.
Ariz.. for whom a search was conduct
ed the last three weeks through the
Pfnal mountains by the sheriff and
posses and cowboys, was shot and in
stantIy killed BY a rifle in the hands Of
a member of posse.
Postmaster Long r. Bailey of Bis
bee, Ariz-, has confessed to postoffIce
inspectors that an alleged robbery of
the Bisbee pOstoffice April 3 was
blind to conceal a shortage in his ac-
count, according to Il report received
by Stephen H. Morse, chief poStofffce
inspector. A total of S17.S50 has been
recovered from Bailey. whose alleged
shortage is supposed to be $4,000, ae-
e0rdfng to this report.
Louis Quackanbush, taxfcab 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 rif1ed. police said John Ki-
ser, negro, who had engaged Quackan-
bush for a trip, is being held in con-
nection with the murder. Quackan-
bush's 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 q gun A. E. Nelson, cash
Ter Of the San Simon Valley Bank,
swept all the money in sight into his
pockets and then rode our 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 cIOudburst in Tijeris cafiOn about
fourteen miles east of Albuquerque,
caused considerable property loss to
ranchers- The state and forest service
highways through the canon were
washed out. The flood waters hit the
Santa F6 railway tracks near Barr sta
tion, south of the city, and tied up
traffic for several hours, water flow
ing over the tracks four feet. Ranch
ers along the Rio Grande where the
arroyo 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 p 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 1t was
estimated the reduction would slash
approximately S1O,O00.0O0 from the tax
roll, but it was contenued it was not
the commissions duty to foot the Leg
islature's bin, 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 oId-time
/ antagOnism between stockman and
/ farmer is being overcome gradually
There IS now a reaction from the prac-
tice of hOmesteaders Of breaking up
the pastures by settling on land where
they could not make living In some
/ Instances miles Of fences are being
4 removed and the ranges established
where dry farming has been found to
be Improbable.
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