The Holbrook news., 1921-01-21
Southwest News
 From 4AH OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
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 It costs the New Mexico mounted police force more than $200 for every arrest that is made, according to fig ures just made public for the recent biennial period.
 Intercession 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. -.e.
 S. D.. Davis, Jr, of San Miguel ,eoun- ty, New Mexico, left for Washington with the vote of the New Mexico pres idential electors, cast for Harding and Coolidge. -' 7;
 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, 4 and ,. 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 14. @ 'S,z '-s
 The Copper Belt Silver and Copper Mining Company at Magdalena, N. M., reports another rich silver ore strike in the drift at the 145-fOOt level, some of the ore carrying as much as 1,5OO ounces of silver to ti1e ton. @iid*7
 Sixty splendid cavalry horses, ac- companied by twenty-three officers, ar rived at the New Mexico AIilftaTy, h. stitute, which means that the. long ex- pected cavalry unit is now a reality. Complete equipment came with the horses. Ei .. -.s.-s:
 Proposed Iegfslatioil Tn Arizona sis 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- tenn, centralizing it in a commission of three members. Abolition of State Cor pOratiOn Commission, the mounted pO- lice force and the State Insurance commission also advocated. Land of flee may be reorganized under com mission of three. ai.,i.,
 The development work on the new irrigation project at the Storrfe dam near Las Vegas, N. NJ, is progressing rapidly and the extra ten feet on the dam will soon be completed. The in crease in the height of the dam will increase the storage capacity to 37 900 acre feet and the engineers in charge expect to have all the work completed in time to catch the spring rains.
 Following filing of a 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. yiele, a re- ceiver for the company had been named by the United States District Court at Tucson. G. M 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 a 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.'C. Baber d at Tempe, Ariz., after robbihg Baber's store. st-s f'<
 Arizona's three members of the cleo toral college met in the office of Gov ernOr Campbell and voted for Warren \ G. Harding for President and Calvin l Coolidge for vice president Frank R. Stewart, Phoenix, was delegated to de- liver a certificate of the vote to the presiding officer of the United States Senate4on or before the fourth Monday in January. +.et. .,s
 Almost complete destruction to the shop, the tool sharpening, room and adjoining buildings of Live Oak group of the IRspiration- Mining Company near Douglas, Ariz., occurred l when flames burst out in the tool room and spread to the other buildings. It 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 Commis- 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 D per cent higher than the grain rate
 The Prescott post. of the American Legion at a meeting resolved to ques- ton the post at Fl PasO, Texas, it was true, as stated in a article, that 250 members had been made members of the police of Fl Paso.
 Closing of the Central Bank of Will cox. Ariz., has been announced by State Auditor Charles Fairfield. He said the bank was closed by order of