The Holbrook news., 1921-07-01
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service. )

lulE ana mucH OI tIle BraulIlS laS dl-
 ready been finished
 The New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association will hold its an-
 nual meeting at Pennington August 25
 and 26 The farm bureau picnic will
 be held on the same dates.
 Jesus Medina has been acquitted at
 Taos, N. M., on the charge of assault
 ing Dr. HOratio Taylor, Presbyterian
 mission doctor, near Dixon last fall, as the physician was driving along the
 road.
 The annual convention of the Ari-
 zona Lumber Mems Club was held at
 Flagstaff with wholesale and retail
 lumber men from all sections of Ari-
 zona, Texas. New Mexico and Cali
 fornia in attendance.
 With the largest enrolment in the
 history of the Normal University at Las Vegas, N M., Prof. Jonathan Wag- ner and the board of regents are hav- ing a hard time finding quarters for the 1,200 students which have been en- rolled.
 The first quarterly meeting of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow ers' Associations executive board was held at the Aragon hotel in Magdalena June 20. Many problems connected with the stock raising in ,ustry were taken up.
 Bisbee and Tombstone claim the dis tinction of having the most typically western titles for streets. Tombstone points with pride to Tough Nut street, on which the county courthouse and jail are located and Sweet Nut street. One of the principal thoroughfares of Bisbee is Tombstone Canon. Another bears the title of Brewery Gulch.
 Three complaints, containing charges of forgery, embezzlement and attempt ing to utter a fictitious note, have been filed in Phoenix Justice Courts against Fred J. Wright, proprietor of the Phoenix detective agency of his name. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Wright, who, when last heard from, was in Hermosillo, Mexico.
 Water was flowing through more than half of the town of San Marcial, N. M., as a result of two breaks in the dikes on the Rio Grande. Peo- pie were moved out of the flooded dis trict, while large crews were working on the dikes north of the city to pre- vent them going out and flooding the entire town The flood water did not reach the business district.
 Justice of the Peace Nat T. Mckee of Phoenix has dismissed the case against Ben R. Clark, former deputy state land commissioner of Arizona. Although five complaints were filed against Clark, alleging that he had committed illegal acts while he held the state office, his preliminary hear ing was held on one charge only, that of withholding records belonging to the office from his successor.
 The problem of the eight-mile draw which has been bothering the road builders of Chaves county, N. M, for many years will soon be solved by the construction of a big cement spillway at Roswell. For many years every time there was a big rain and the flood waters came down this was washed out and for a time the road would be impossible but with the aid of the highway commission the entire draw will be cemented.
 Andrew B. Stroup of Albuuueruue received his commission as supervising federal prohibition agent for the bor- der district.
 According to reports received in sil- yer City from the Gila country, the wheat crop this season will be up to the standard but the straw will be much shorter than that of last year. The wheat Is now heading and If the weather continues warm the cutting will start about the first of July. Ow- ing to the increased acreage many of the farmers have been purchasing new binders and other machinery to take care of the crop.
 In the Superior Court of Graham county, at Stafford, Ariz., W. F. Lath- rop, former manager of the Stafford | branch of the Gila Valley Bank and | Trust Company, who had plead guilty | to the embezzlement of some $20,OO0 | of the banks funds, was given an in- | determinent sentence by Judge Cham bers, the minimum period of imprison- | ment in the state penitentiary at Flor | ence being one year. The bank was protected by a bond and has been paid | the full amount of the dedication by | the bonding company.
 Whether the Central Bank of Phoe- nix will reopen for business will be determined shortly, according to Charles W. Fairfield, state superin- tendent of banks, who has returned | from New York from a series of con- terences with the surety companies vitally interested.
 According to Crop Statistician R. F. Hare, the wheat production for New Mexico this season will be over 6,O0O,- poo bushels, this amount being divided about equal between the spring and winter crops. The total acreage of the state is over 60,O0O.
 The House of Representatives has passed Representative Mondell's bill to permit equitable apportionment of the water supply of the Colorado river lmong Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyo- ming. The measure now goes to the Senate.