The Holbrook news., 1921-08-12
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News service.)

ly and indications are that it will be
 finished early in the Tall.
 w. F. Squires, well known farm
 CT who owns q large ranch east of
 Taylor Springs, \. M., was killed by
 the accidental discharge of a pistol
 which he was cleaning, while visiting in Oklahoma
 Burt Wingar of Phoenix, who was appointed secretary of the Board of Directors of State Institutions by Gov ernOr Thomas E. Campbell, will con- tinue to perform the duties of account ant for the board.
 The Business and Professional Women's Club of Albuquerque now has q membership of over sixty, accord ing to reports at the last meeting. A club motto, We Progress" was hdopted at the meeting.
 The state tax of l cent a gallon on gasoline, which became effective June 9, netted the state of Arizona SS,0OO from June 9 to June 30, inclusive, ac- cording to report issued by the sec retary of states office.
 The appointment of Michael E. Cas- sidy of Bisbee as prohibition enforce ment director for Arizona was an- nounced in a telegram received by MT. Cassidy from United States Senator Ralph Cameron of Arizona.
 According to recent estimates the crop of wheat just being harvested in Curry county, N. M, will run over l. 000 000 ho tI,of 0f Io year. It is said that over 10000 acres will run over twenty bushels to the acre
 In accordance with the recommends tion of T. L. Macleod, chief engineer of the State Land Department of Ari- zona, the state will withhold from leasing three sections in the Patagonia district where oil was reported some weeks ago.
 The construction work on the hos pital for poor children at Albuquerque has been started by the Children's Home and Hospital Association and the building will cost over S50,0OO when completed. The site for the new structure will be on East Grand ave nue and the hospital will be used strictly for charitable surgical cases.
 According to John Robertson, sheep dipping throughout New Mexico is now under way and will be completed by the last of October The dipping is in compliance with the general or der that all sheep in the state must be dipped. Officials of the bureau of animal industry are overseeing the work and will see that the order is carried out on all the ranches of the state.
 Because of the prevailing industrial conditions in Arizona, there will be no state fair this fall and consequently $90,000 will be saved to the tax pay CTS of the state, according to an an nouncement made at the office of Gov ernor Thomas E. Campbell This will be the second year in the history of the fair that the event has been can celled. In 1918 no fair was held on ac- count of the war.
 A big meeting was held at Clayton, N M., when the ball was started roll ing for the opening of the annual fair and roundup, and the dates set as Au- gust 31 and September l and ?. Dr. Oldbeter, who will be in charge of the roundup, states that some of the best riders in the southwest will participate in the events and that the affair will be one of the best ever seen in the eastern part of the state.
 John J. Hyatt, well known Luna county, N. M, cattleman and mem Der of the pioneer Hyatt family, was killed by lightning while riding horse back over the Florida mountains.
 Commissioner Loren Vaughn and Secretary. Stanley Williamson, of the State Corporation Commission of Ari- zona, have been appointed by that body as delegates to the annual meet ing of the National Association of Se- curity Commissioners in Washington, September 6, and s. This associa- tion is made up of state officials who are charged with the administration of the blue sky laws in the various states.
 The total valuation of taxable prop erty in Arizona amounts to $S29, ,412,- 259, according to returns made to the State Tax Commission by the clerks of the boards of supervisors of the various counties. The valuation that has been fixed for taxation purposes is $50, ,53S, ,447 less than the valuation of property in the state year ago. COchise county leads the list with a valuation of $156,375,711. GiIa comes next with a valuation of $141, ,42S, $40. comes third, having displaced AIaricopa during the past year.
 Struck by train as she was play ing along the tracks at Lamy June tim, N. M., the 2-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. w. w. Johnson was instantly killed. When the father came home from work in roundhouse at noon he missed the child and after a search her body was found close to the rails on the main line
 The Sweet Potato Growers Associa- | ton of Roosevelt county, N. M., Is making plans for the erection of | large canning factory this season. h. dications are that the sweet potato crop will be the largest in history.
 The business section of Pennington, N. M., was swept by fire recently. The lee plant, flour mill and light plant,