The Holbrook news., 1922-12-29
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and ArizOnQ

mitted suicide by drowning herself in the lake of the Country Club at Ros- well.
 The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. will build toll line to Gallup next year. The line will cost S10O.OO0. The right of way has been Obtai.-ed and the material already or dered.
 Tee Fong and Hu Hoe were held to the Federal Court by United States Commissioner John F. Hechtman of Globe on charge of possession of three packages of yen shee (burnt opium).
 Burglars entered the home of John Hennessey of Phoenix and carried away furs and silverware valued at 5000 Members of the family were asleep in the house when the robbery took place.
 Federal warrants must be secured by federal officers who wish to con duct a search of private homes for liquor, according to rulins by Judge William H. Sawtelle in the United States District Court at Phoenix.
 Robert Smith of Miami, Ariz. was instantly killed when the automobile he was driving crashed through the railing of a bridge and overturned into creek near Globe. Smith, who was unmarried, was foreman of Miami shelter.
 The new water and sewer systems which have been under construction in Lordsburg, N. M., for some time have been completed about fifty days in ad- vance of the allotted time and will he placed in operation as rapidly as the connections can be made.
 R. w. White, manager of the Cum berland group of mines near Hi.lsboro, \. M., reports the finding of some of the finest silver ore which has been taken from these claims Twelve sacks of this ore has been tested out and will run from $500 to S1,000 to the ton
 Building programs calling for the Ol lNO dollars were submitted to the Selig- man commission to investigate the building requirements of New Mexico's state educational institutions when the commission met recently at the call of Arthur Seligman, chairman.
 A body. believed to be that of Will liam H. Brophy, millionaire banker of Los Angeles and Arizona, who went overheard and was drowned during a storm in the Gulf of California d month ago, was washed ashore on the west Mexican coast and discovered by fishermen, according to telegraphic re- ports from Guaymas received in No gales.
 MarcelinO A. Ortiz, for years a lead ing Republican in Santa Fe county. county assessor and member of the Santa Fe City Council, was recently arrested in Santa Fe, charged in q criminal information signed by Assist ant District Attorney A. M. Edwards with violation of the anti-gambling laws. Ortiz was arrested with three other in d recent raid.
 At a recent meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Las Cruces, the new system for the light ing of the city streets was discussed. If the present plans are carried out ornamental steel posts will be set along the streets on which will be liUhfS Tho total cost of the new system will be over 5000.
 Warden Placido Jaramillo of the penitentiary applied to Governor Mechem for a requisition for J. w.. Williams, alias L. R. Higgins. who es- capped from a road camp in SOcOrrO county July IS, 1918, while acting as trusty and who now has been reported in Oklahoma City, Okla. The applica- tion was approved by the governor.
 There will be fifty-eight Democrats and seven Republicans in the sixth Arizona Legislature when it convenes early in January. according to the of- ficial roster of the membership of that body, made public by Ernst R. Hall. secretary of state. The upper House will be composed of eighteen Demo- crats and one Republican and the low CT House will number forty Democrats and six Republicans.
 Governor-elect George w. P. Hunt has announced the selection of Robert B. Sims of Florence for appointment as warden of the Arizona state peni- tentiary at Florence after January 1. The gOvernor-elect also announced the selection of J. J. Sanders of Prescott as superintendent of the Fort Grant Industrial school and R. H. Thielmann of Somerton, Yuma county, as state sealer of weights and measures.
 The country was urged to turn its attention to development of it's re- sources by Governor Thomas E. Camp bell of Arizona in an address before nearly score of state chief executives attending the fourteenth annual con- vention of governors at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
 If the plan of the farmers Of that part of New Mexico are carried out, cotton will be one of the big crops of De Baca county during the coming year. It is said that there are hun dreds of acres of land in the county which is well fitted for the crop.
 Fire believed to have been due to d defective flue completely destroyed the administration building of St.