The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-20
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News serviee.)

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 A club, to be known as the Farwell- Texico Cotton Club, was organized at Texico at big meeting of the farm CTS 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 Steins, N. M., west of Las Cruces, show that work is progressing at the mine.
 Carl NJ. Einhart has outlined a plan whereby the wireless plant of the Pub lie Service at Raton will be made one of the largest stations in the West.
 Export duty on cattle from Mexico has been cancelled, according to a tel egram received by the Nogales, Son. ora, Chamber of Commerce, from Mex ico City.
 Hugh L. Hodge of Silver City was elected president of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Associa- tion at the annual convention held in Las Vegas.
 Patricio Maestos is in the hospital at Mosquero, N. M., in a serious condi- tion as the result of becoming lost in a 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 Harrington and will be in operation in the next sixty days.
 According to reports of the farmers near Clovis, N. M, the recent rains have done much to put the wheat crop of that district in 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 roads in the state.
 Glen A. Patton, grocer and hls 14- 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 clapped 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 half longer, ac- 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 if 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 favorably with any in the entire Southwest.
 The migratory live stock law intro duced by Senator Curtin of Mohave county, passed the Senate by a 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 $55,000 school bond issue of District No 5 of Pennington, N. M., have been sold to the state treasurer, and 1t 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- zOna, was found, guilty at Stafford of murder in the first degree for the kill ing of Walter Layton, an employ9 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 Class A are Williams, Yuma and Jerome.
 Declaring that members of the Ku Klux Klan 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-