The St. Johns herald., 1922-05-25
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
(Wsstsrn Newspaper Union News .ser,los.l

principal of the school at Cienega, stated recently, stating that a suffi- cient number of teachers had been signed up.
 "The Colorado and Gila rivers must be damned by holding back in reser- voirs their destructive strength" he asserted. These floods and their force can be utilized for power and land reclamation"
 The Tucson High School baseball pionship at Tucson by defeating the Gila Academy nine, 2 to 1, in the third and deciding game of the University Week tournament staged at Tucson.
 The work of clearing the ground for the new First National Bank building in Albuquerque has been started and actual construction will be staNted soon. When completed the new build ing will cost over half a million dol lars.
 The summer conference of the Prot, estant Episcopal missionary district of New Mexico and West Texas will be held in Las Vegas July 5-15. Decision to hold the conference there was made at the convocatiOn, held in Las Vegas last February.
 Manganese shipments from the Bos- ton Hill district near Silver City have been heavy recently, most of the ore going to the plants of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at Pueblo, Colo. A large force of men is now employed at the mines.
 A prairie fire, which started in one of the canons of Roy, N. M., burned over several sections recently, and came near destroying the homes of sev- eral ranchers. The fact that there was little wind probably saved the homes of many of the ranchers.
 Thousands of little trout will be placed in the streams of Colfax coun- ty this spring by the sportsmen of Ra- ton, N M. A shipment of 10000 was placed in the streams in the Cimarron country. All were from the hatchery on the Pecos and arrived in good con- dition.
 At the request of the mothers Of the city, the Hot Springs, N. M., council has passed a curfew ordinance and in the future all the kiddies must be off the streets by 9 o'clock in the evening. Several of the mothers have offered to act as night marshal of the town to see that this is enforced.
 A new western empire with an as- Temblage of industries that will aston ish the world will result from harness ing of the Colorado river, Colonel Will liam A. Glassford declared at a dinner in Phoenix of the National Reclama- tion Association. He is chairman of the associations committee on organ ization.
 The progress of Arizona can be traced with accuracy by the develop ment of her road building, Governor Thos. E. Campbell told delegates to the United States Good Roads Association in an address of welcome which fea tured the opening program of the na tional convention recently held in Phoenix.
 Selection of Greenville, S. C., as the 1923 convention city of the United States Good Roads and the Bankhead National Highway Associations; re- election of all national officers of the Bankhead Association, and adoption of a report recommending extension of the Bankhead system to Mexico City were features of the closing session of the two good roads organizations an- nual joint meeting at Phoenix.
 Flats have been filed in Lordsburg, N M, for the new town or Virden, To- cated in some of the best farming coun- try of the upper Gila river country. There are already several houses on the new site and streets have been laid out running east, west, north and south. A tree planting campaign will be started soon.
 Nogales recently entertained one of the largest crowds of out-of-town vis- itOrS in it's history. Fully 2,000 people visited from Phoenix, Tucson and oth- CT points, attracted by bull fight, held in Plaza Reforma in Nogales, Sonora, in honor of delegates to tEe United | States Good Roads and Bankhead Ma tional Highway Associations conven- Hons, concluded at Phoenix
 Hugh Kennedy, IT, of Mayfield, Okla, died while en route to Pres. colt hospital from Ash Fork, as a re- suit of gunshOt wounds and injuries sustained in a fall from an east bound | Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe freight | train near Seligman, Ariz. Kennedy | ,r-bO ,,or+ioU1, rooOx,orod oOpco;ouc,,oe,y, |