The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-04-07
Southwest News
From Al OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona

NJ, during the past month.
The Las Vegas City Council has au-
thorized the paving of the entire
flats" district, including twenty-thr
city blocks.
A club, to be known as the Farwell-
Texico Cotton Club, was organized at
Texico at big meeting of the farm
ers of that vicinity.
Albuquerque police are hunting
man who tore up an American flag in
the lobby of the postoffice building in
that city recently.
Reports from the Volcano Mine
COmpany's properties at Stems, n. M,
west of Las Cruces, show that work is
progressing at the mine.
Carl NJ. Einhart has outlined plan
whereby the wireless plant of the Pub
lie Service at Ration will be made one
OF the largest stations in the West.
Export duty on cattle from Mexico
has been cancelled, according to tel
egram received by the Nogales, Son.
ora, Chamber of Commerce, from Mex
leo City.
Hugh l. Hodge of Silver City was
elected president of the New Mexico
Cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
ton at the annual convention held in
Las Vegas
Patricio Maestos is in the hospital at
Mosquero, N NJ, in serious cOndi-
tion as the result Of becoming lost in
storm and having his hands and feet
badly frozen.
The extracting plant of the Black
Oil Company is nearly installed on the
holdings of the company south of
Pennington and will be in operation
in thefnext sixty days.
According to reports of the farmers
near Clovis, N. NJ, the recent rains
have done much to put the wheat crop
of that district Ina good condition for
the entire year.
Major J.. C.. Tillson, Jr-, instructor
in charge of mounted drill at the Uni
versity of Arizona, r. o. T. c. military
unit, has been transferred TO the First
cavalry at Douglas, it was announced
at the university.
Grading ON the new stretch of road
out of Silver City will be started
soon. This road meets a portion of
the Dam-to-Dam highway and will
complete one of the most important
reads in the state.
Glen A. Patton, a grocer and his IA
months old son were burned to death
when fire destroyed their home at
Phoenix. Patton was attempting to
rescue the child when the roof col
lapsed, burying both of them
The quarantine elapped on the dog
population of Santa Fe, San Miguel,
Torrance and Guadalupe counties, fol-
lowing the appearance OF rabies in
three of these counties cannot be lift
ed for a month and a half longer, &C
cording to DR.. George S. Luckett, pub
lie health director.
A large faculty has been retained
for the summer course at the New
Mexico State University and over fiji
ty courses will be offered to the stu
dents. This will be the first summer
school at the institution and it is said
that it will compare fayOrably with
any in the entire Southwest.
The migratory live stock law intro
duced by Senator Curtin of Mohave
county, passed the Senate by sub
stantial majority. The bill provides
for the collection of head fee on
sheep and cattle brought into Arizona
for grazing purposes and is intended
as a protection to stockmen located in
northern Arizona.
The $4,000 school bond issue of
District No. of Pennington, N. NJ,
have been sold to the state treasurer,
and it is said that the cash will be
available at once for the work Of
erecting the new school building.
George Fralick, IT. an inmate of the
Camp Grant Industrial School of Ari-
IONA, was found guilty at Stafford of
murder in the first degree for the kill
ing of Walter Layton, an employee of
the school. The penalty is death.
Three more high schools of Arizona
have been added to the list of high
schools, which meet with the require
ments of the North Central Associa-
ton of Colleges and Secondary
Schools. The three high schools which
were added to the list fully accredited
schools in Glass A are Williams, Yuma
and Jerome
Declaring that members of the Ku
Klux Khan were the persons who
whipped and otherwise chastised Rol-
lin Jones, principal of the Lehi school
at Phoenix, communication received
by the Republican signed Comeback
Clan No. 6, Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan," and bearing the official seal of
that organization, takes entire respOn-
sibility for that affair."
What is believed to be the first or
ganization of its kind in the United
States has been launched at Mosquero
with tho Of 81;