The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-03
Southwest News ''' From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona


 of New Mexico. A large force of men is now rushing the road to compile tion.
 The cabbage crop in the Mesilla val ley, near Mexico, will amount to more than 100 cars. Prices range from $20 to $35, the average being around $27.50 a ton. The Copenhagen market vari- ety is the one favored in that district.
 The Springer, N. M., post of the American Legion is not making plans for big two days fair to be held at Springer the first of September. The program will consist of big exhibit of cattle and horses and all kinds of farm products, as well as big list of sporting events.
 Miss Bethine Stephens, 16 years old, shot out both her eyes at her home in Deming when she attempted to commit suicide. Three shots are said to have been fired, two of them taking effect in the face, one of her eyes being blown out and the optic nerve of the other shot off.
 Friends in NOgales, Ariz., are appre- hensive of the fate of H. Gordon GlOre, NOgales contractor, and party aboard his fishing schooner which, according to word received In NOgales from Ca bOrca, Sonora, sank in storm on the night of July 4, near St. Georges bay, off the coast of Sonora.
 Thirty business houses were flooded, several Mexican dwellings floated away and three bridges washed out by a flood which swept through the bOr- der cities of Nogales, AriZ., and No gales, Sonora, recently. The flood wa ters came down an arroyo which leads into the two cities from the northern part of Sonora.
 Floyd o. Fitch and his wife, Sarah, were sentenced to thirty days each in the county jail by Justice Henry J. Sullivan of Phoenix on charges of as- sault after their adopted daughters, Ophelia and Nadine Fitch, 13 and 8 respectively, had barred their backs and shown bruises and welts which
 
 the children said were inflicted by the foster parents.
 Two sets of brothers battled on the open range near SteeplerOck, N. M., forty miles east of Clifton, Ariz. One was killed and another wounded. A feud over cattle and horses is said to have precipitated the fight. Bat Brad berry, who, with his brother, Mart Bradberry, is said to have battled Johnny Fulcher, who was slain, and Sidney Fulcher, who was wounded, al- though the extent of his injury is not known.
 The contract for the new road in the Mimbres valley from Santa Rita to San Lorenzo, has been let to Peterson, Shirley and Grunther of Omaha, the cost to be over $115,OOO. The distance is about 91S miles and the building of the new road will open up one of the finest farming sections of the valley to which the markets have been shut off for several years. The work will be started at once and the new road will be completed by early fall.
 Approximately $3OOOOO in outstand- ing state warrants, which the state of Arizona heretofore has been unable to pay, will now be paid upon presenta- tion at the treaSurer'S office, it was announced in Phoenix by State Treas urer Earhart. The payment of these warrants, some of which are of long standing, he said, is made possible un- der the provisions of the financial code which went into effect on July l. Earhart urged holders of all state war rants to present them for payment at once.
 The total assessed valuation of the property of the twenty-eight railroad companies operating in Arizona for 1922 taxation purposes, according to a statement issued by the State Tax Commission is $1OO, 5,656.50, or $766,- 2O3.1O less than the total assessed val uatiOn of the same property in 1921, which was $1O1, ,161,S ,S59.60.
 Adelbert Holladay, 30, of Miami, and Daisy, his 1O-year-old daughter, drowned in Roosevelt lake, near Globe. Daisy, while bathing, went beyond her depth and her father, hearing her cries for help, swan out in an attempt to rescue her. Both perished in spite of the efforts of Donald Brown, also of Miami, to save them. Both bodies were recovered.
 At the recent special election held in Cimarron, N. M., the $75,0O0 school bonds carried by vote of almost 8 to 1. The bonds will be sold soon and the construction of the building will be started at once. It will be connect