The St. Johns herald., 1922-07-06
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu MexicO
 and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News seriOs.)

| NACAASO' AAO ullAcS Ol OdN SUI clA AON working full time and 120 ovens are making coke.
 At the recent meeting of the board of regents of the New Mexico State Normal School in Silver City James F. Chamberlain was reelected presi- dent for another year.
 Three sons of Mir. and Mrs Kirk Dudley, Louis, aged '; Willie. 5, and J.
 >, 4, died recently at Levy, N. M, from the effects of eating rat poison. The three little bodies were buried in the same coffin.
 The reconstruction of the auditor ium and gymnasium at the U. s. h. dian school in Albuquerque, which was burned some time ago, will be started at once. An appropriation of $45,OO0 has passed Congress and the money will be available at once, according to word received this week.
 z. z. DOdds, for a number of years secretary of the board of school trus- tees of Douglas, Ariz., has resigned his position and will leave soon for Welland, Ontario, Canada, where he will join his brother in the organiza- tiOn of a Dominion corporation for the manufacture of flour mill machinery.
 Wanting his wife killed so he could get her property and marry her daugh- ter by former husband, Teddy John son, Navajo Indian near Leupp, Ariz., hired his brother, Luke Johnson, to commit the crime, according to the lat ter's confession. He chOked the wom- an to death on the night of May 20.
 George Fralick, IS, doomed to die for the murder of Walter Layton, guard at the State Industrial School at Phoenix, will not be hanged June 16. Governor Campbell announced a stay of execution automatically has been obtained through the filing of an appeal to the State Supreme Court.
 Plans are being made to hold the next meeting of the Colorado River Commission on Aug. 1 at Bishops Lodge, a resort near Santa Fe, N. M, 1t was stated in a letter received in Phoenix by w. S. NOrviel, Arizona member of the commission, from s. B. Davis, Jr., New Mexico commissioner
 Lewis Hawes of Portales, charged with the murder of his son, Alvin Hawes, and his sons wife, Mrs. Alvin Hawes, entered a plea of guilty of first degree murder, and was sentenced to serve ninety years on each count in the state penitentiary. The case was one of the most sensational in POrtales in years.
 Two more forest fires were reported in the Lincoln forest near Albuquer- que, one in the Carr cafion and the Oth- CT on the Gilbert ranch Both were small and were brought under control by the rangers. Up to the present time some twenty fires have occurred on the forest this season, and owing to the dry weather every precautiOn is being taken to guard against further outbreaks by the forest service. The loss in grazing has been heavy in some localities.
 Approximately 1O3,OOO of Arizona cattle will be available for market this summer, according to a forecast in Washington by the Department of Ag- riculture, the first to be made by the department, it was said, since the or gaizatiOn of a nationwide live stock reporting service was placed under way to inform producers and buyers of prospective supplies. The Arizona forecast compares, it was said, with 94y000 head marketed last spring and 86,000 the preceding season.
 The New Mexico state convention of the American Legion will be held in Las Vegas Monday, Aug. 2S, to We'd nesday, Aug. 30, when the annual cleo ton of officers will be held.
 Edward Goldman, pupil in the Saf- ford School, Tucson, won first hOnOrs for Arizona in the national safety campaign conducted among the inter mediate or grammar schools of the na- ton last fall, according to announce ment by the Highway and Highway Transport Education Committee at Washington. He will receive a gold medal and $15, and his manuscript will represent the state before the national essay committee, it is said.
 Featured by the fact that greater number of inspections were made at less expense the past year than in any year in the history of the department, the tenth annual report of the Arizona Department Of Weights and Measures has just been received by Governor Campbell from State Inspector Ray mond Dyas, with the declaration that