The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-09
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona
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1HIOuSH llIe 6IlOTIS OI llAO LOOSWChs N. M., Kiwanis club a big program has been provided for this year for the To- cal Boy Scouts, part of which is the erection of large cabin in the Capitan mountains.
 The Mesilla Valley National Farm Loan Association was formally organ ized at a meeting in the temple of ag- riculture at Las Cruces, N. M., Jan. 10, when these officers and directors were elected for the year.
 Banks in the southern part of Ari- zona are in satisfactory condition, according to Charles W. Fairfield, state auditor and superintendent of banks, who has made an inspection of the state banking institutions.
 A movement has been started in Carlsbad, N. M., to form new paving district and have all the work done this year while the main street paving is in progress. If the plans are carried out all the principal streets of the city will be paved.
 AS far as its financial resources are concerned, Silver City, N. M., stands in the front rank with the other cities of the state, according to the recent re- ports given out by the banks of the city. The combined resources of the three banks of the city are now over $3,OOO,0OO and the combined deposits total up towards $2,OOO,OOO.
 Contempt proceedings against the Arizona Eastern Railroad Company were instituted by the Corporation Commission at Phoenix on the ground that the railroad refused to permit a representative of the commission to inspect its books. Officials of the company were directed to appear be- fore the commission Feb 15.
 Attorney General W. J. Galbraith of Arizona, in an opinion, outlined the procedure to be followed by members of the Legislature who may contem- plate resigning. Any one who may wish to resign should do so in writing to the presiding officer of the House of which he is a member, and the pre- siding officer should in turn transmit it to the governor, Galbraith said
 Work preparatory to resumption of mining and smelting operations will be commenced at once on the Old DOmin- ion COmpany's properties at Globe, Ariz., it was announced by W. G. Me Bride, general manager of the con- pany. In normal times, the company has employed as high as 1,5O0 workers and has produced about S,OO0,0OO pounds of copper bullion a month.
 Judge Sam G. Bratton of Clovis, N M., has six murder cases in his district to be tried in the next few months in Curry, Roosevelt, De Baca and Quay counties. The peculiar features of most of the cases is the factt hat near ly all of them have grown out of quar- rels between kinspeOple and three of them are where the brOtherS-in-law have been killed.
 Robert A. Rogers, former district reserve, is now at the head of the fed eraI horticultural board which Is To- cated at Nogales, Ariz. The duties of the board will be the inspection and regulation of importation of hortcul- tural products from Mexico with a view to preventing the influx of dis eased plants into the United States.
 Organization of the first reserve army of Mexico has been completed, and, according to a Mexican War De o& Nnno1nc Ariz, it includes 133 generals and 725 regimental field officers, all retired from active service, but subject to call in time of need. Provision also has been made for the retirement of other veteran officers and their addition to the reserve force.
 At a recent fire drill at the schools of CarrizOzo N. M., all the pupils were out of the buildings in AT seconds. The drills are held every week and in case of fire 1t is thought that this would be plenty of time for the children to get out of the buildings.
 Without any further examination, Ernest Ruth, Jr., of RatOn, N. M., will enter the United States Naval Acade- my at Annapolis, Md, on the credits he received at the Colfax County High School. All the credits he made in the local schools have been accepted and Ruth will enter the school some time in June MT. Ruth brings honor not only to himself, but to the county and to the school from which he graduated.
 The Strumquist Engineering Com pany of Albuquerque has been award ed the contract for the heating and plumbing in the new hotel which is now being built by Charles Clay at Jemez Springs. The new hotel is to be Pueblo type, will be called the La An1.