The Holbrook news., 1921-08-05
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and ArizOnQ
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Service )

roundup this year September 5, and '.
 The school of vocational education at Las Vegas. N. M., has grown so fast during the past two months that it has been necessary to add two extra teach CTS to the staff The school now has over thirty pupils.
 Range conditions in Arizona and New Mexico are more encouraging than they have been for months past according to a report issued by the local office of the United States wealth CT bureau at Phoenix.
 Bids for the fish hatchery at Lisboa spring, N. M., the first built by the state, and the superintendent's cottage will be called for as soon as T. C. Gaastra, the architect, finishes the ,lans, already practically ready for final approval.
 The Postoffice Depat .ment is adver- tising for bids for new postoffice loca- ton at Wilcox, Ariz. The room must contain 1,S00 square feet of floor space and be conveniently located. The de-
 
 present postOffice contains.
 Total shipments of cantaloupes from the Salt River Valley this year have been approximately 400 carloads greater than last year and 400 car loads less than in 1919, according to the bulletin issued by Homer A. Har- ris, representative of the United States bureau of markets and crop estimates at Phoenix.
 Abstract of assessment rolls of Pima, Yuma and Mohave counties, Ariz., have been filed with the State Tax Commission. The commission now has received copies of the assess ment rolls from ten of the fourteen counties in the state. The valuation placed on assessable property in Pima county was given as $61, ,619,249 The MOhave county roll totaled $23, ,505,- 7S3. Yuma county's assessable prop erty was valued at S21, ,351 1915.
 The State Board of Vocational Edu- cation has fixed the budget for voca- tiOnal education work in Arizona dur ing the coming year at $200,000, ac- cOrding to M. L. Doner, assistant state director of vocational education. Doner said that the $200,OO0 budget, budget, was recommended by him. The smaller budget, he said, did not indi- cate any lessening in the efficiency of the work
 Antonio Carpio must hang at Silver City, N. M, on Aug 19 for the murder of Efren Rios at Central on Aug. 14, 1919, according to the decree of the State Supreme Court, which affirmed Carpio's conviction and set the date for his execution. Carpio, the evidence jealous of attentions paid by a rival to girl at a ''baile,' shot to kill Casimiro Lucero, and the bullet struck Rios, second shot wOunding Lucero The court held that shooting tl.e wrong man did not exempt the shooter from crime
 Copies of the Arizona 1921-22 Blue Book, compiled by Ernest R. Hall, secretary of state, have been distrib- uted The little volume is replete with
  bit of history, it's population and the population of it's incorporated cities and towns, the value of its crops, it's commercial and miscel- laneOus organizations, are a few of the things cOntained in addition to the usual list of federal, state and county state boards and national guard of the state.
 The state will benefit approximate ly S1 POO from the eSTate of Elmer Pirtle, who established the town of Ariz. Pirtle died August ,, 1920, leaving an estate, according to the appraisers, of $339, 744.61. Since the property was held jointly by Pirtle and his wife, the state can collect in- heritance tax on only one-half the amount
 Camping and fishing will not be de- nied visitors to the Apache reserva- ton in the White mountains northeast of Globe, Ariz. An order curtailing these privileges was issued this year for the first time, by Superintendent Davis. Information from the state game warden said an order from the indian commissioner had restored hcse privileges.
 The contract for the new high school building at Estancia, N. M., and much of the material is already on the site. The new building will be made If adobe blocks and will be S2 by 120 'eet, with six class rooms about 24 by B. All of the walls will be laid in ime mortar, which it is thought will make as good wall as brick or tile md will hold the exterior finish much better.
 The Roswell, N. M., pOstoffice ad- 'anced to first class the first of July md is now one of the three first class 'fficeS in the state The total receipts If the office have shown decided in- ,rease during the past year in spite if the falling off in other lines of business and the office is far above he $40,O00 mark.
 Maximum wages for sheepherders nave been fixed at $25 a month by the 'acos Valley Wool Growers Associa icn of New Mexico. Members pledged | themselves not to advance the herders nore than $25 at any time.
 A Navajo Indian, known around | iallup as Big John," who is alleged |