The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-05-05
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service


bile left mountain grade mile from
Bisbee and plunged to the bottom of a
ravine 100 feet below.
The famous Vermijo Park ranch,
near Springer, N. NJ, one of the finest
in the entire West, has been sold to
parties from Colorado and st. Louis.
The ranch contains over 100000 acres.
Brandy Brock, county jailer at Gal
lup, shot and killed himself In his room
in the county jail following his indict-
ment by grand jury on a statutory
charge. He was "a years old and I'M
married.
The Grant county, n NJ, Chamber
of Commerce is now considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of circulating a petition
in the county for a special bond cleo
ton, for the erection of a new court
house and Jail in Silver City.
Stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
while delivering an address to the Scot
fish Rite Masons at their thirty-ninth
reunion in Santa Fe, the Rev. c.. NJ.
Collins, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, collapsed and died two hours
later.
Reports of a big gold strike, which
has sent a large number of prospec-
tors and mining men scurrying to the
district, were brought to Tombstone,
Ariz., by E. G. Bradshaw, mining man,
who has taken an option on the mine
where the strike was made.
Arizona is to have state fair this
year. AS a result of a general bust
ness revival throughout the state and
the coming of more prosperous times,
the State Legislature has appropriated
money for the financing of an exposi-
ton of state products and achieve
ments to be held at the fair grounds at
Phoenix next November.
The great diversion dam in the ella
river known officially as the Ashurst-
Hayden dam, will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies on the 10th
day of May. Several speakers of ma
tiOnal reputation are expected to be
on the program, and it is planned to
make the occasion one of the greatest
in the history of Arizona.
The Arizona & Swansea Railroad
Company, whose line is twenty-One
miles long and whose equipment con-
sists of rails, road bed and one loco
motive, has been denied permission by
the Arizona Corporation Commission
TO dismantle it's road. The road ex-
tends from Swansea to BOuse, where
it connects with the California branch
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
A requisitiOn for the extradition to
Arizona of J. M. Reynolds, Guy L. Rog-
ers and J. e. Cox, all of Albuquerque,
N. NJ, has been issued by Governor
Campbell of Arizona. Indictments are
pending against the three men in Hol
brook, Ariz. Reynolds and Rogers,
president and vice president, respec-
lively of the First National Bank Of
Albuquerque, are charged with per-
jury and conspiracy.
Announcement of the dates of the
rifle matches for the state of Arizona
has been made by Maj e. G. Linton,
Inspector instructor of the Arizona ca
Diet organization. The high school and
normal cadet matches will be held at
Phoenix, May Is, II, Is and 49, These
will be followed on May 20 and 81 by
the Arizona State Rifle Association
matches, in which civilian and military
teams from all parts of Arizona will
compete.
The New Mexico State Fair Associ-
alton, capitalized at $4,000, with Ma
than Salmon, president; John B. Nc
Manus, secretary, and Jake Levy,
treasurer, was organized at a recent
meeting of nearly 100 prominent San
ia Fe men.
A thief or thieves entered the test
pens at the State University at Albu-
querque and stole an experimental test
sheep which was completely inoculated
with all kinds of germs with the view
of using it's blood for scientific tests.
Dr. 0. G. West, city health officer, has
sent out warnings to report at his Of
flee in Albuquerque at once, any per-
sons who may have eaten any of the
flesh of the sheep.
Arizona state tax anticipation bonds
aggregating $1,500,00O, bearing interest
of Az per cent per annum, and expir-
ing in sixty days, were sold at par to
the Bankers Trust Company of New
York by the State Loan Commission.
The sale followed meeting of the
commission in Governor Campbelrs of
flee Commission members asserted
the terms were exceptionally good in
view of the short length of time speci-
fled.
After celebrating for twelve hours,
the jury trying William S. Estaver of
Detroit, Mich, on a charge of murder