The Holbrook news., 1921-03-18
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
(Western Newspaper Union News Service,

just as the postmaster was preparing
 to close the office.
 w. A. Sherill, former clerk of the
 board of supervisors of COchise cOun-
 ty, Ariz., was shot and killed by w. G.
 Gilmore. prominent attorney of Tomb
 stone, in the latter's residence.
 Payment time of grazing fees on na-
 tional forests has been extended until
 Sept. 1 without interest, according to
 a message received in Albuquerque by
 the district forest office from the
 Washington headquarters.
 Governor Thomas E. Campbell signed
 a Senate bill providing for the ap-
 pOintment by the governor of repre-
 sentative from Arizona on a commits
 sion composed of representatives of
 California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
 Wyoming, Arizona and the federal gov
 ernment to consider the use and dis
 tributiOn of the waters of the Colorado river and it's tributaries. The bill also
 carries an appropriation for the work.
 The teachers salary bill, asked by the New Mexico Educational Associa- ton, was passed after the minimum limit for first grade teachers had been
 stricken out. As approved by the as- sociation the bill fixed $1,200 as the first-grade teachers. The maximum limits for second and third-grade teachers were cut down at $54O. The draft approved by the association made the first figure $1,OS0 and the second S750.
 The resignation of United States Senator Fall was officially announced in the New Mexico House and Senate in message from Governor Mechem. Representative R. L. Baca, Santa Fe, moved that a committee be appointed to draft a suitable resolution of con graduation to the new secretary of the interior, and Speaker Clancy named the Santa Fe county representative, Hartell, Democrat, and Representative Wade, Republican.
 Henry c. Keene, examiner, has rec commended to the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington that pas senger rates between points in Ari- zona, New Mexico and Nevada, be found not unreasonable, unjustly dis criminatory or unduly prejudicial. Complaint was made of the rates in effect by the Arizona Corporation Commission, the Public Service Com mission of Nevada, and the State Cor poration of New Mexico.
 Frank L. Ha1non, nephew of the late Jake L. Hamon of Ardmore, Okla, and former husband of Clara Smith Ha- mon, who is charged with having killed Jake Hamon, has been granted a divorce from his second wife, Gertie Walker Hamon, in Superior Court of Phoenix. Mrs. Gertie Hamon now is in Sacramento, Calf. The plaintiff charged the defendant with cruelty. The suit was uncontested The two were married in Tucson, Ariz., Aug. 14, 1918.
 Committees from the northern Arizona and Yavapai Bar associations asked the county board of supervisors to pc titiOn the governor to name a second superior judge for the county, as pro- vided for in a bill recently passed by the Legislature. The committees, con sisting of twenty-five attorneys, told the supervisors that the additional judge not only would expedite business in the courts of the county, but would save the taxpayers more than enough to pay his salary by reducing fees and payments to jurors and wit nesses. The supervisors took the mat ter under advisement.
 
 Angry because a legislative commit tee failed to recommend his parole aft CT visiting the penitentiary at Santa Fe, Charles Kennedy, convict, serving time for jail breaking and veteran of three wars, smallowed two pieces of baling wire, several inches long, a pin, a safety pin, and a steel drill three inches long.
 The Senate of the Arizona State Leg islature passed Governor Thomas E. civil administration bill which would reorganize the state gov along the lines of the plan adopted in Illinois The bill would do away with thirty-eight boards and com missions, creating in their stead eight | each under a director. | The vote on the measure was along | party lines.
 Oil prospectOrs in Pecos valley, Ari- | zona, are still fighting water and cav ng holes, but there is little trouble in | getting drilling material, this formerly | being the cause of many delays. Most | 'f the wells in the valley have plenty # casing to carry out their tests and Ill other material is being shipped so that there will be little rOuble this spring in the progress of he work.
 The negotiations for the reopening if the Glendale, Arizona, State Bank till continue, with all indications pointing to a favorable conclusion. Several matters which might cause an decision are being hreshed out by the committee and the possible purchasers.
 It has been learned that Pablo Con- ales, presidente of Agua Prieta, has tarted the work of constructing a ood wagon and automobile road from Agua Prieta to a connection with the road at a point ten niles south of NacO.
 Dr. c. L. Parsons, whose dead body Tas found in Roswell, New Iexico, beside a vial of poison, ollOWinP charpp of ahort;or