The Snowflake herald., 1921-07-08
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
lWsstefn Nswgpapsr Union News Service. }


Mexico Midland, $140,265.
Mrs. Hero Vanderwag of Sioux
Falls, S. D., was seriously injured
when the automobile in which she and
her husband were touring to Cali
fornia went over a ten-foOt embank-
ment near Los Lunas, N. M. She was
pinned beneath the car and her hus-
band worked twenty minutes in re-
leasing her.
Forest fires, covering more than a.
600 acres in the Coconino National
forest near Flagstaff, Ariz., have been
put under control, according to word
received by the district forest office
at Albuquerque Two men, suspected
of being responsible for starting the
fires, are under arrest and are being
held at Flagstaff.
Superintendent J. Fl. Odle of the
Navajo Industrial School in Farming
ton, N. NJ, has announced that the
mission board has purchased the fifty
acre ranch of the Schleuter estate and
will soon start work on a new hos
pital to cost over $4,000. The new
hospital will be modern in every way
and will have twelve beds.
William Kirshenberg of Oakland,
Calf, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself at the home of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Parish,
in Phoenix. According to roomers in
the Parish home, Mrs. Kirshenberg,
who was 26 years old, had left her
husband, who was about 40, and had
returned to her mothers home.
Frank Jones and jim Jones, who
are alleged to have been the men who
recently robbed the San Simon, Ariz,
bank, were captured at a mountain
cabin near Lordsburg, N. NJ, after
two days chase. Sheriff Oscar Allen
md assistants of Hidalgo county had
been after the men for some time and
with the aid of officials of Arizona,
finally ran the two men down.
Adjutant General Henry r. Brown
has announced the War Department
had officially recognized Troop f, Es-
tancia, and Company B, engineer
corps, Mountainair New Mexico now
has five federally recognized troops
at Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Carlsbad,
Deming and Estancia-and one engi-
neer company-the one at Mountain
air. Recognition of several more
units will be granted shortly, accord
ing to the adjutant general.
At the close of the annual conven-
ton of the New Mexico Dental So
ciety in Albuquerque, that city won
the next convention without dissent
ing vote. Dr. C. III. Woolgar of Mag
dalena, first vice president last year,
was elected president for the coming
year. The other officers elected were
DR.. G. w. Hoover, Dawson, first vice
president; DR.. HI. s. Murdoch Of
Springer, second vice president, and
DR.. d. 2. Noting of Albuquerque, sec
retary-treasurer.
Property damage of more than
S250,000 was done by a fire which
swept through the business section of
Oatman, Arizona, and into the resi-
dence section recently. The fire
broke out from an unknown cause and
in a few minutes several buildings
we're blazing. Four persons were Sc
riously burned They were Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. r. Marks, Albert Smith and
Earl Parsons. Special deputy sheriffs
were sworn in and the burned portion
of the town put under guard.
The body of a man which was found
wrapped in a sack in a shallow pros
pect hole near the Palace station,
twenty-five miles south of Prescott.
AriZ., in the Bradshaw mountains, has
been identified by Frank Wilson of
Mayer as that of the body of his uncle,
Walter Steinbrooke. Stainbrooke had
been missing more than three months.
Southern California Edison Co. has
asked permission to develop hydro
electric energy from Colorado river,
involving expenditure of SSOO,OOO,OO0.
Company seeks to acquire water
rights in Arizona for development of
2,50O000 of hydro-electric energy, for
distribution in Arizona, New Mexico,
Utah, Nevada, California, portions of
Colorado and Texas and Wyoming
The Arizona State Corporation
Commission has dismissed the COM
plant brought by several operators of
taxicabs in Phoenix against com
pany which operates it's cars for
fare of 20 cents. The commission
held that public interest justified con-
tinuing the experiment with the low
priced taxis. The other companies de.
clared that if they were forced to
meet the % cents rate they would be
unable to make profit.
OF the 135 persons VINO took the ex-
animation for teachers certificates in
Arizona recently, sixty-eight passed,
according to an announcement made
by the State Board of Examiners The