Williams news., 1922-06-23
Southwest News From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News ser,ice.)

reflected in the coal mines of New
 Mexico. The mines of Dawson are now
 working full time and 12O 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 MT. 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, 1000 | 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 WelIand, Ontario, Canada, where he | will join his brother in the organiza- ton of Dominion corporation for the
 
 Wanting his wife killed so he could get her property and marry her daugh- ter by a 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 cheked the wom- an to death on the night of May 20.
 George Fralick, IS, doomed to die hQ Ir6n of "o1 fnr1 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. l at Bishops Lodge, resort near Santa Fe, N. M.. It was stated in a letter received in Phoenix by w. S. Norviel, Arizona member of the commission, from $. 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 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 Porta1es in years.
 Two more forest fires were reported in the Lincoln forest near Albuquer- que, one in the Carr canon 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 Az | riculture, the first to be made by the | it was said, since the or gaization of a nationwide live stock service was placed under way to inform producers and buyers of supplies. The Arizona forecast compares. it was said, with 34.0OO head marketed last spring and 5000 the preceding season.
 The New Mexico state convention of the American Legion will be held in Las Vegas Monday, Aug. 2S, to Wed nesday, Aug. 30, when the annual cleo lion of officers will be held.
 Edward Goldman, a pupil in the Saf- ford School, Tucson, won first honors fer Arizona in the national safety conducted among the inter- mediate or grammar schools of the na- ton last fall, according to announce-J ment by the Highway and Highway Education Committee at He will receive gold medal and S15, 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 Of Weights and Measures has just been received by Governor Campbell from State Inspector Ray nond Dyas with the declaration that the purchasing public is today receiv weights and measurements than at any previous time in the history of Arizona.
 After playing every part in life's east, from lumber jack and prize fight ,r to the graduate school of a great college, Fred (Kid) Wedge, who at -racted nationwide attention when he loboed his way to Harvard, left Tue
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