Taiban Valley news., 1921-01-21
Southwest News
From All Over
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service. }


1t costs the New Mexico mounted
police force more than 5000 for every
arrest that is made, according to fig
ures just made public for the recent
biennial period.
Intercesson of the Mexican govern
ment failed to cause the Arizona State
Board of Pardons and Paroles to COM
mute to life Imprisonment the SEN
tence of Pedro Dominguez.
The conviction of Jacob A. Lindsey
on the charge of bigamy in the Dis
trict Court in Mckinley county, New
Mexico, has been affirmed by the Su-
preme Court.
SD. Davis, Jr., of San Miguel coun-
ty, New Mexico, left for Washington
with the vote of the New Mexico pres
idential electors, cast for Harding and
Coolidge.
The oil situation in Union county,
New Mexico, which for some time has
been dormant, again looks brighter and
all of the wells will be drilling in the
next sixty days.
The New Mexico Automobile Show,
the second event of the kind to be held
in Santa Fe, will be held March 3,
and 5. All dealers have taken up the
proposition enthusiastically and many
outsiders will participate.
Albert H. Clancy, representative of
the district of Santa Fe, Guadalupe
and Torrance, is the speaker of the
New Mexico House. The Republican
caucus supported his candidacy, Is to
IA.
The Copper Belt Silver and Copper
Mining Company at Magdalena, n. NJ,
reports another rich silver ore strike
in the drift at the 145-foOt level, some
| of the ore carrying as much as 1900
ounces of silver to the ton.
Sixty splendid cavalry horses, ac-
companied by twenty-three officers, ar
| rived at the New Mexico Military In
| stitute, which means that the long eX-
pected cavalry unit is now reality
| Complete equipment came with the
| horses.
Proposed legislation in Arizona is
expected to include five measures for
uniform warehouse receipts, bills of
lading proof of statutes, foreign depo-
sition and vital statistics. An act to
curb trent profiteers" is advocated by
Governor Campbell
Sweeping changes are sought in New
Mexico's taxation and assessment sys-
TEN, centralizing it in commission of
three members. Abolition of State Cor
Eporation Commission, the mounted po-
lice force and the State Insurance
commission also advocated. Land of
flee may be recognized under COM
mission of three.
The development work on the new
irrigation project at the StOrrie dam
near Las Vegas, N. NJ, is progressing
rapidly and the extra ten feet on the
dam will soon be completed. Phe in
crease in the height Of the dam will
increase the storage capacity to $1,000
acre feet and the engineers in charge
expect to have all the work completed
in time to catch the spring rains.
Following filing of suit by J. r.
Coll, giving his residence as Ohio,
naming the Consolidated Arizona
Smelling Company of Humboldt, Ariz.,
as defendant, and asking appointment
of a receiver, it was announced that
upon application of f. S. Viele, re-
ceiver for the company had been
named by the United States District
Court at Tucson. G. NJ. Colvocoresses,
general manager Of the company, was
appointed receiver.
A large posse of peace officers and
armed citizens followed Mike Burns
an Apache Indian, noted in Arizona as
trailer, and pack of bloodhOunds
from the state penitentiary in pursuit
of two Mexican bandits who killed
Ernest Hintze and c. NJ. Spangler and
probably fatally wounded H. G. Baber
at Tempe, Ariz., after robbing Babers
store.
Arizona's three members OF the elec-
toral college met in the office of Gov
ernor Campbell and voted for Warren
G.. Harding for President and Calvin
| VIC ~
Stewart, Phoenix, was delegated to de.
liver a certificate Of the vote to the
presiding officer Of the United States
Senate on or before the fourth Monday
in January.
Almost complete destruction to the
blacksmith shop, the tool sharpening
room and adjoining buildings of Live
Oak group Of the Inspiration Mining
Company near Douglas, Ariz., occurred
when flames burst out in the tool
sharpening room and spread to the
other buildings. 1t is thought that the
fire started from oil tanks feeding
the machinery of the room which was
ignited from one Of the furnaces.
In a conference at Phoenix, Ariz,
with the State Corporation Commits
sion, representatives of the Southern
Pacific and Santa Fe railroads refused
to make a rate on cotton seed ship
ments equivalent to the one on grain,
but offered a temporary rate 25 per
| cont hi0her than thQ prain ratp