The Holbrook news., 1922-10-13
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu MexiCO
 and ArizOnQ

and Chandler, and were returned to the prison. The three men surren- dered without resistance.
 Steve F. KatOnka, convicted in San Juan county of murdering two taxi cab drivers south of Shiprock, was sentenced by the Supreme Court to be hanged Friday, Oct. 20, at Aztec when he failed to perfect his appeal from the lower court.
 Theodore West, maintaining to the last his sham of insanity, died on the gallows at the state penitentiary at Florence. He was executed for the murder of Lem Smith in MOhave county in July, 1921. West went to his death with never hint of q con fession.
 Paroles were granted by Governor Mechem to ]. w. Thomas of Curry county, sentenced to the penitentiary to serve from twelve to thirteen months, and Pedro Moriega, Sierra county, 10 years old, sentenced to the reformatory as n juvenile delinquent, to test their ability to abstain from crime.
 The McRae Flaming Mill at Alamo gordo, one of the best plants of it's kind in the state, was completely de- stroyed by fire recently, and will be a total loss. The plant was. doomed before the water was turned on and the most that could be done was to keep the fire from spreading to ad- jacent buildings.
 Zane Grey, famed writer of fiction dealing with Arizona and the great Southwest, arrived in Flagstaff re- gently with a party of seventeen hunters and immediately started for the TontO basin, where Mir. Grey has hunting lodge and where the party will spend the next six weeks hunt ing big game. Mir. Grey's home is at Altadena, Calf.
 Walter F. Seyfred, president of the New Mexico Federation of Labor, and Andrew Bruno, taxi driver, who were convicted of conspiracy to transport explosives on an A. T. X $. F. train, were sentenced in Federal Court at Santa Fe to serve two years in Leavenworth penitentiary and fined 5000 each. The maximum penalty was two years and s10,OOO fine.
 The eight proposed amendments to the Arizona state constitution, voted on at the special and primary cleo tion of September F, were officially declared defeated after the statewide vote had been canvassed in accord ance with the law, by Governor ThOm- as E. Campbell, Chief Justice Henry D. Ross of the State Supreme Court, and Secretary of State Ernest Hall.
 A. E. Van Zandt,. 22-year-old bank clerk of Patagonia. who was arrested in Magdalena, Sonora, recently on charge of having embedded S2,200 of the funds of the First State Bank of Patagonia, and who has been in jail in Nogales, Sonora, was released by Mexican officials. The Mexican au- thorities refused to hold the youth longer on the ground that he had com mitted no Offense in Mexico against the Mexican laws.
 Pablo Archibeque was instantly killed and William Wildenstein fatally injured when they were overtaken by Il Santa Fe train on bridge north of Las Vegas. The men were walking to the city on the tracks from a ranch where they had been employed and were unable to reach the end of the bridge when the train came suddenly around a curve. Archibeque was killed instantly and Wildenssein died without regaining consciousness.
 J. H. Ferguson and LeFayette Ben nett were found guilty by jury in Federal Court in Santa Fe on d charge of conspiracy to defraud A. Paul Siegel and Fred Simmons, in- cluded in the case, were acquitted.
 A party of hunters, who have been hunting in the White mountains of Arizona for some time under the guidance of Ray Grayson of Silver City, returned to Silver City, \. M., with five large black bears. One of the animals measured seven feet from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail and eight feet from toe to toe. Hunters report that bears are more plentiful in southern Arizona and New Mexico than in many years.
 According to reports of the Biologi- cal Survey over 10000 acres of land in New Mexico was treated for the eXtermination of prairie dogs during the month of August. The crop lands tOtoled 12 oDl and tha ropua Iopds 10S,96S acres. The work has been carried on in nearly every county of the state and at the present rate there will be no dogs in the state in the next two years. The extermination work took I,124 quarts of poisoned grain for the destruction of the rodents.
 Notable additions are being made by all the big mining companies of Arizona to the rare collections of the ores and minerals which form the per manent mineral exhibit at the State Fair grounds and which afford one of the most interesting of the education al exhibits of the 1922 fair. Always an exhibit of popular interest because of the gem-like beauty of many speci- mems, the mining exhibit this year will be magnet for hundreds of mining men from all parts Of the southwest during the coming fair week, October 3QNOvember 1.
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