The St. Johns herald., 1921-08-04
Southwest News
 From All Ouer NeW MexiCO
 and ArizOnQ
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The state board of health at Phoenix reported that S.045 babies were born in Arizona during the past year. Of this number, 4,265 were boys and 3,84O girls. There were IF pairs of twins born.
 Stamping Yuma as the premier al- falfa seed district of the world, Null ford WinsOr in Phoenix declared that Yuma county, Arizona, will produce the biggest seed crop in its history this year.
 Suffering from the effects of wound received when a revolver he was cleaning was accidentally dis charged, Rosalio Martinez, a young man of Bernal, near East Las Vegas, N. Mex, is dead.
 Fees collected by the state motor ve- hicle department of Arizona during the first six months of the present year amounted to $1S7, ,4S4.75, according to an announcement made by Ernest R. Hall, secretary of state.
 The Clayton, N Mex, pOstoffice has been officially notified that, beginning September 20, the city will have free mall delivery. Plans are now being made for the new service, and an exam inatiOn will soon be held for carriers.
 Producing mines in the state of Ari- zOna were valued at $413, ,0S2, ,735, or g per cent. less than a year ago, in re- port made public by the state tax com missiOn.y The valuation placed on pro- ducing mines in 1920 was $453, ,O94,- S46.26.
 According to word received by her parents, residing in Las Vegas, Mrs. Perfilia Teneria committed suicide by pouring kerosene over her clothing and igniting it. She died at Schomberg, eighty-five miles from Las Vegas, N. Mex. A quarrel with her husband is alleged to have been the reason for her act.
 If the present plans are carried out, the mining district of the Tres Her mans mountains will soon have one of the largest concentrators in the south west. The big plant will be built to take care of the low-grade silver-lead ores from the mines, and will be erect ed under the supervision of eastern capitalists.
 Walter Hudson, one of the two men arrested at SolomonviIle, Ariz., when they surrendered Orval McKinstry, H. year-old Lalxin, Kan, boy to officers, confessed to Sheriff J. c. Hillyard of Lakin that he Kidnapped young McKin- stry, according to that officer. Orval McKinstry was spirited from Lakin, Kan, after the fatal shooting of his father, a prominent rancher.
 A thief who must have been a steeple jack and who undoubtedly must have possessed information concerning the nature of his prospective haul, recently got away with $40O worth of platinum from the highest point on the new brick SmOkestack at the International shelter at Globe, Ariz. The platinum adorned the tOpmost points of the four lightning arresters used to safeguard the stack from stray atmospheric cleo trical bolts.
 What will probably be the largest herd of high-grade dairy cattle in the United States will soon be placed on tract of land, 64,OOO acres in extent, the southern boundaries of which lie few miles north of Deming, N. Mex. The United States public health bu- reau, which will operate the big farm, plans to place on the tract about 5000 head of the finest dairy cattle in the country, together with all the equip ment which goes to make up an indus try of this kind.
 The wOrkmen'S compensation act passed by the last Legislature of Ari- zona, creating the state industrial com mission, is invalid, according to a de- cision handed down by the State Su- preme Court. The decision upheld the finding of Superior Judge R. c. Stan ford, who issued a permanent injunc- tiOn restraining the commissioners from exercising any of the powers given to them by the act and directing the state treasurer and auditor to pre- vent the commission from spending ony of the states money.
 Efforts of the Santa Fe and of the Southern Pacific railroads to force the Arizona corporation commission to put in force in intrastate business rates authorized by the interstate commerce commission have failed. Sitting in bank with Judge William H. Sawtelle and Oscar Trippet. Circuit Judge Err skine Ross in Los Angeles denied the