The Snowflake herald., 1922-06-30
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona

| to become organized to raise the stand
| ard of insurance practice in that state.
Over $50 car loads of cattle have
been shipped to the markets at Kan
sas City during the past month from
Glenrio, N. M.
| The first head lettuce of the season
| from the Mesilla valley was shipped
| from Las Cruces a few days ago.
From now on the shipments will be
heavy.
| All state highways in southern Ari-
! IONA are in excellent condition, l. p.
| Frazier, maintenance engineer for the
State Highway Department, declared
recently.
Nearly 200 students reported at the
first assembly of the summer school at
| the State University at Albuquerque.
| This will be the first summer course
held since 1918.
| A boom is said to have struck
have started in that section of the
state. Many new buildings are now un-
der construction.
| Drilling was resumed this week at
| the Oil well of w. ID. Owens near Ros-
| well. The first showing of oil in this
well was found at the depth of $50 feet
and the outlook is good.
At recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil of Tucumcari, N. NJ, an occupation
tax was passed. The tax will be one
dollar on each thousand dollars worth
of business done in the past year.
Mrs NJ McKitterick, mother of four
| children, the eldest % years old, has
announced her candidacy for sheriff
| of MaricOpa county on the Democratic
| ticket. She is Salvation Army work
! er in Phoenix. Mrs. McKitterick is
| said to be the first woman candidate
| for sheriff in Arizona.
A conference of public utility COM
| miSsiOners from far western states to
! discuss the Southern PaeificCentral
Pacific separation question closed re-
Gently with telegraphic appeal by the
| commissions of California, Arizona
and New Mexico to the Interstate
| Commerce Commission to expedite it's
| proposed consolidation scheme for tie
two railroads under authority of the
transportation act of 1920.
Two indictments returned by a spe-
cial county grand jury which is inves-
| tigating activities at Phoenix of the
Ku Klux Khan, Jointly charge Tom Ak
ers, former managing editor of the
Phoenix Gazette, and Harold Taffe,
sign painter, with kidnapping and ag-
gravated assault it became known re-
Gently. The true bills were returned
in connection with flogging admins
tered to Ira Haywood, negro, by a
| band of men in March.
Mining excitement has been stirred
up by a find by a Spanish-American of
| the vicinity of Gascon, N. NJ. 1t is re-
ported that several parties have Of
| fered considerable sums for the prop
erty, but all offers have been turned
| down. 1t has been a well recognized
fact that precious metals exist in the
foothills of the Sapello, and in the inn
mediate locality around Beulah, but
sufficient capital has not been availa-
BILE to open up the various leads.
The B. B. Shots Product Company is
the name of a new company formed in
Roswell, n. NJ, to market the piiion
crop of that section of the state in an
attractive manner. The nuts will be
cleaned, roasted and polished, and put
up in attractive packages under the
name of B. B. Shots. The packages
will be put up in display cartons con-
tanning twentyfour packages which
will be in turn packed twenty-four to
iae case for shipment
| Arizonas share of $195,0OOOOO ap-
preparation recently by Congress for
| three-year road schedule, will be APP
proximately $2,66S,O69, according to
word received by State Engineer
| Thomas Maddox.
Five bandits were killed and three
are known to have been wounded in
hOldup of a combination freight and
| passenger train of the Southern Pa
cific de Mexico near Rosares, between
Mazatlan, Sonora, and Topic, Sinoloa,
Mexico, a few days ago, according to
| conductor.
e. r. Raumaker left Douglas recent
ly to give testimony before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission in case
| filed by the Arizona Corporation Com
mission in complaint of railroad fares
both into and out of Arizona The low
est fare per mile is 4.8 cents. A de-
mand will be made for the same cut
down as in other states. The Arizona
commission recites in it's complaint
| that there are no winter tourists tick
cts sold at special rates to Arizona
points, though such fares are sold in
Ell PasO and coast points. The Arizo-
ma commission again attacks the rail-
roads in demanding 10 per cent re-
| ductiOn in grain rates.
Eighteen Chinese, most of them