The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-04-21
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
twestern Newspaper Union News Service


O. d. Belts was elected mayor of
Glendale by a substantial majority in
the recent election in Arizona.
Both lumber mills at Flagstaff, Ariz.,
cient to keep them in operation for a
long period.
Several Douglas, AriZ., men are plan
ming to organize a county fair associ-
alton with a capitalization of several
thousand dollars.
The body of Vidal Lopez, taxi
driver, was found on the highway six
teen miles north of Albuquerque with
two bullet wounds in the body.
Lester Mcintyre, just recently dis
charged from the army, was accident
ally killed at Wilcox, Ariz., by his
buddie in the army, Eddie Adcocks.
Capt. S. S. France, commanding
Company E, Arizona National Guard,
las been appointed a member of the
general staff of the state of Arizona.
The residents of Roswell, N. NJ, are
now making plans for the annual car
nival of apple blossoms, which is al
ways attended with much enthusiasm.
Mrs. HI. A Guild, chairman Of the
Arizona State Child Welfare Board,
will withdraw from all official duties
I'm connection with the state and gen
eral federation of wOmen's clubs.
A measure directed against the Ku
Klux Khan which is believed to have
an Arizona organization, has been in
troduced in the House by RepreseWa-
tive D. A. Matthews of Graham coun-
ty, Arizona.
The bond issue for $4,000 voted on
at the election held in Roswell, carried
by vote of to 1, there being practl-
cally no opposition. This is the first
issue for public improvements in ROs-
we'll since 1908.
The Salt River Valley Water Users
Association will be a self-supporting
organization during the 1929 year
for the first time since the construc-
ton of the Roosevelt dam, according
to tentative operations budget.
Two MaricOpa county motorcycle of
ficers were injured, one fatally, when
their machines collided recently while
they were chasing an automobile
speeder. The accident occurred on the
Tempe road one mile east of Phoenix.
Five justice Of the peace precincts
in Pima county, Arizona, were abOl-
ished by the board of supervisors. The
elimination of the precincts will be eff
fective Jan. 1, 1923, and will, it is eX-
pected, result in the saving of $4,000
year to the county.
Secretary Weeks declined to send
Spouse to a telegram from Governor
NJ. c. Mechem, who said he might need
them to preserve order in the Gallup
coal fields, where martial law has
been declared, as result of disorders
incident to the coal strike.
After a conference in NOgales be-
tween the sheriff and members of the
board of supervisors, wages of four
Arizona, were ordered cut from $3.50
to $125 a month. This action was TAX
en- due to the fact that the salary &C
count of the sheriff is said to be over
drawn.
Arizona is. morally obligated to its
employees injured or killed while in the
discharge of their duties, and can le-
gally extend relief to such injured per-
sons or their beneficiaries. That, in
effect, is the opinion of the State SUI
preme Court, contained in a decision
in the case of Gordon Huntington, one
of the four state highway employees in
jured in a delayed blast on the Tempe
road about two years ago.
Owing to the long dry spell in the
Lincoln national forest, plans are now
being made for the fire guard for the
1922 season, and it is likely that the
force will be the largest ever put in
the forest
G. G. StetsOn, secretary to Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce, has
been in Santa Fe to arrange for the
final meeting of the Colorado river ba-
sin commission which, he said, will be
held in Santa Fe in July or August
Gov. M. G.. Mechem of New Mexico
said that in addition to the members
of the commission representing the
seven interested states, several of the
governors of those states are expected
to be in attendance
Evacua lion of homes on company
lands by striking miners and their
families at Gallup, n. NJ, started fol
lowing the military order issued for
the entire mining district now under
martial law. Unmarried striking min
ers were given three hours to move
off the lands. Married miners were
allowed a reasonable time to move
their families The evacuation was
carried Ou@ in peaceful manner, none
of the men offering resistance to the
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