The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-28
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

name as ALBERT CLARK, Santa re. pO-
lice think they may have clue of i'm
portance in solving the Vidal Lopez
murder mystery.
At the recent election held in Tula-
rosa, N. NJ, majority of the residents
Of the city went on record as in favor
of the $4,000 bond issue for the build
ing of new waterworks.
The First National Bank of Deming
has closed deal with the bank at Co
lumbus by which the business of the
latter will be transferred to Deming
and will be handled by the First Ma
tional fere.
Reports of the hunters of the Bio
logical Survey show that 1875 predatory
animals have been killed in New Mex
leo since the first Of the year. In the
Black range and the ella country
many mountain lions have been killed.
Children, either in spirit of play
or unmindful of the consequences OF
their act, almost caused the derailment
and possible wrecking of Southern Pa
cific passenger train at Yuma, AriZ.,
when they placed several spikes on
tracks just south of Yuma.
An international Run" from PhOe-
nix to Nogales, Mexico, is being
planned by the Automobile Club of Ari-
IONA and the good roads entertainment
committee, J. J. Montgomery, chair
man, as the browning feature of the
big national good roads convention to
be held in Phoenix during the week of
April "a
Jewell A Bostick, charged with inn
portatiOn, possession and Transports
ton of 1852 quarts of tequila, has been
bound over to the federal grand jury
under bond of $1,000 and committed to
the Pima county JAIL according to COM
missiOner'S records filed in the office
of the United States District Court at
Tucson.
Members of the Maricopa county
board of supervisors, at recent meet
ing, voted to join with the supervisors
and commercial bodies of Cochise, Santa
Cruz, Pima, Pinal and Yuma counties
in requesting the governor of Arizona
and the State Highway Department to
designate the Southern Arizona Inter-
state highway primary interstate
route.
W. S. Eason, resident of Deming,
N. NJ, has been held to the grand jury
under bond of $500, charged with lille
gal voting at the recent election. While
it is said that Eason had lived in the
state and county the required length
of time, he had been in the precinct
only two weeks. His ballot was chal
lenged at the polls but he insisted on
casting his ballot.
The New Mexico Cowboys Reunion
Association voted TO hold the eighth
annual roundup at Las Vegas July 8,
and 5. Business men have raised the
required purse, and the reunion will
offer, as usual, $1,000 in prizes for rop-
ing, bronze riding, steer bulldogging,
cowboy and cowgirl races, fancy rop-
ing and riding, and all the events that
go to make up first-class rodeo.
When the war finance bill, an emerg-
ency measure introduced in the Sen
ate by Senator James Scott of Navajo
county, became effective with the sign
ing of the bill by Gov. Thomas E.
Campbell, loans to Arizona cattle and
sheep men by the War Finance Corpor-
alton amounting to approximately ST.
100000, which have been held UP
awaiting the passage of the measure,
were released
Apple Blossom day, 1one of the big
gest events in New Mexico, was held
in Roswell April 49, All the business
houses in the city were closed.
On account of the fact that there has
been little snow during the winter in
the ella country near Silver City, N.
NJ, all visitors and tourists have been
asked by the officials of the forest
service to guard against fires during
the summer. May and June will be the
worst months and special guards will
be stationed in then ational forest dur
ing these months. The forests have
been well posted and everything DOS
sible done to save the country from
fires.
The state of Arizona stands to lose
$4,000 as the result of the action of
former State Treasurer Harry S. Ross
In accepting the bond of the Central
Finance Corporation as surety for state
funds deposited with the Bank of Will
cox. This is the significance of a deci-
sion handed down by the Supreme
Court at Phoenix in the matter of the
receivership of the bank, in which 1t is
held that the state is not a preferred
creditor as claimed by the attorney
general.
Governor Campbell has approved the
claim of Frank S. Faurot of Weiser
Idaho, former deputy sheriff of Wash
lngton county, Idaho, for the $1,000 re-
ward offered by Arizona for the arrest
and conviction Of To Yrx- MI 40