The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-09-29
Southwest News
From All OUer
Npu Mexico
and Arizona

line from BernalillO to the Jemenz
coal and timber region will be started
about the first of October.
From newsboy to university presi-
dent at the age of 33 is the record OF
Floyd Heck Marvin, MA, Ph.D., for
more than three years dean and assist
ant director of the University of Cali
fornia, Southern Branch, at Los An
geles. Floyd Heck Marvin is the new
president Of the University of Arizona.
With reports in from every one of
Arizona's fourteen counties the figures
show that former Gov. George w. +.
Hunt has piled up a majority of 3,946
votes over Charles B. Ward of Phoe-
nix. the defeated candidate, in the con-
test for the Democratic nomination for
governor. The total vote is: Hunt,
2O,75S; Ward, 1882.
The forest service has just opened
new road from Magdalena through the
Datil national forest to the ella forest
boundary, according to report of Z.
A. Long, district engineer of the forest
service. Three heavy grades which
heretofore made the road almost i'm
passable, have been cut down and the
entire route will be in good shape.
The First National Bank of Hope,
n. NJ, was stripped of Liberty Bonds
and all it's securities, according to 5.
S. Ward, president, in statement re-
garding the alleged shortage of approx
imately $4,000 found by national
bank examiner. No trace has been
found of Hugh NJ. Gage, missing cash
ier Mr.. Ward said the peculationS
from the bank had been going on for
six years.
The weather bureau office at Santa
Fe, n. NJ, reports that the month OF
August averaged much above the nor
NAL in temperature and much below
in precipitation. The heat was intense
over much of the state. Barring Aug
ust, 1901, it was the hottest August In
the last thirty-twO years. The month
began with rather high temperatures,
which rose higher till the 4th and 9th,
passing 100 degrees at many of the
lower altitude and valley stations.
Edward f. Winkler, member OF a
band of six men who attempted to hold
up the Golden State Limited on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at
Jaynes station, six miles from Tucson,
Ariz., on May 10, was arrested in AL
buquerque. He admitted his identity
and told officers a detailed story of
the attempted holdup, in which III.
Stewart, an express messenger, killed
Tom Dupat, one of the holdup. men,
and foiled the plans of the band.
Because Walter Wefln, a convict
has disease of the joints that is stiff
fleming them and in time is likely to
affect his jaws so that he can't open
them, he was given a pardon by Gov
ernor Mechem of New Mexico The
mans condition was reported to the
governor by DR.. E. w. Fiske, peniten-
tiary physician, who, according to the
governor, advised he be released at
once because the penitentiary didn't
have facilities to take care or a case
of this kind.
Policeman George W. Harding will
have to face trial on a charge of ia
tally shooting Wylie Raymond Colvin
the youth who was wounded by bull
let from the officers revolver, and
who died the following day at ST. Jo-
Sephs hospital in Phoenix. The cor
oner's Jury investigating the affair
handed in a verdict to the effect that
the Laveen youth met his death as the
result of a wound caused by bullet
fired from revolver in the hands of
the policeman.
limiting that a prominent Phoenix
citizen and his wife are under surveil-
lance and that an arrest was probable.
city police and deputies from Sheriff
John Montgomery's office in Phoenix
Dernier was strangled to death. The
theories that Uernier came to his death
by drowning or that he died of heart
failure while swimming in the Arizona
canal were abandoned when the COR
Oner's jury returned a verdict that
Dernier "came to his death by asphyx-
iation, cause undetermined"
j. 0. Clay, president of the Duran
go, Colo, Exchange, during a recent
visit to Aztec, reported that $3,3OO,OOO
in land subscriptions had been raised
for the new southern outlet railroad
from this part of the state to Gallup.
The drive for the remaining 100000
is now on and it is expected that the
necessary $4,000,OO0 will be raised by
the end of the present month. If the
drive is successful, and it is expected
that it will be, it is thought that actu-
al construction work on the new rail-
road will be started by the first of the
year.
An effort will be made to hold next
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