The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
Southwest News
 From All OUer NetU MexicO
 and Arizona

ing.
 The Golden Link mine in the Mo
 gOllOn mountains, near Silver City
 has been taken over by L. H. Foster
 and plans are being made to put it 1T
 operation at an early date.
 The plant of the Four States Seed
 Company, which burned to the ground
 some time ago, is to be rebuilt, accord ing to statement of one of the off,
 cials of the reorganized company at
 Clayton, N M.
 The New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association will hold the fall session at the State College in Las Cruces, some time in October or Sep tember. Plans are being made to han de large crowd at this time.
 The big box factory which for some time has been under construction at the mills of the McGaffey Lumber Company in the Zuni hills, near Gal lup, N. M, will soon start operations and begin filling the large number of orders now on file.
 Thomas Hopper, employed as a teamster in the construction of a new swimming pool near the city pumping station of Douglas, was struck by a bolt of lightning and almost instantly killed. A Mexican working with him was knocked down, but was not in- jured. The two horses were killed.
 Robert B. Mills was sentenced to a year in Leavenworth penitentiary by federal Judge Sawtelle of Prescott, Ariz., on charge of passing counter felt dollars. He pleaded guilty to passing one tin and lead nodded dol- lar, but federal agents explained he had forty more in his possession when he was arrested.
 J. J. Huber, Mesa rancher, who re- gently was indicted on a charge of bigamy, surrendered at the sheriffs office in Phoenix and furnished bond of $1,5O0. It is charged that Huber married two women before the law against polygamy was enacted in Ari- Eona and has since continued to main tain two homes.
 On the Datil national forest it is estimated that the costs of the fires for the season up to June 30 has been over $5,000, the Cafon creek blaze alone costing over $3,OOO. Of the nfty-seven blazes which occurred in the reserve, 23 were caused by care lessness of campers or herders and S4 were started by lightning. In the 23 blazes started by men, nine convictions were secured in court, fines being i'm posed which ranged from $10 to $25.
 Forrest Fielder has opened an in Quiry at Silver City into the feud trag- edy on the open range in which one on each side, Bate Bradbury and John Butcher were killed in a gun fight. Attorney J. S. Vaughn has been re- tained to defend Mart Bradbury, ar- rested for compncity in the shooting. Sidney Butcher, who suffered shat tered right arm in the fight, is in a Lordsburg hospital He will be defend ed by Attorney W. B. Watson of Sil- yer City.
 Twenty-one parcels of state land in | Santa Cruz county were sold at pub. 1 hc auction in Nogales by Rudolph | Kuchler state land commissioner as- | sisted by T. L. Mcleod, chief engineer of the department, and c. B. Ashley. department sales manager. The land, which is mostly grazing lands, went to nine purchasers, the total amount received by the state being approxI. mately $16,OOO The money goes into the public school fund and the fund for the operation of state institutions.
 Plans are being made for the re- modelling of the Old Dominion mill at Globe, Ariz., and the increasing of its capacity from 75O to 1000 tons daily The remOdeling will cost about s5O- GOO and will permit of lower costs and a higher extraction being obtained The mill will not be shut down while changes are being made.
 A verdict of suicide was returned at the inquest into the death of Lee Honaker, a truck driver, who died at St. Joseph's sanatorium in AIbuouer. que as the result of a bullet wound in his head. Honaker shot himself after he had attempted to kill his two brothers-in-law, William L. and Harry U. DoBell, at their home in Albuouer. que.
 At a recent meeting of the direc- tors of the New Mexico chapter of the American Mining Congress, J. F. Wood bury, Silver City attorney, was named Rs the secretary of the chapter, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation