Williams news., 1922-10-27
Southwest News
 From All OUer NelD Mexico
 and Arizona

i ranges in New Mexico and cattle are
 being moved as fast as cars can be
 secured. Valley pasture is getting
 scarce in Arizona. Feeder cattle are
 coming into Yuma and Maricopa coun-
 ties, Ariozna.
 Friends of Robert Anderson, vet
 eran mining man and owner of the
 oldest mine in New Mexico, who died
 in Fl Paso hospital recently, are
 searching for his relatives, who are
 heirs to a fortune estimated at from | $15O,OOO to $2OO,OOO.
 E. B. Miller, of Hope, N M, has a l new steam canner at work which he | claims will turn out over 5000 cans | per day, and is now running on pears,
 apples and tomatoes. MT. Miller says
 he is going to put up a new building
 for the canning factory
 | Inheritance tax collections in Ari-
 zona for the fiscal year ending June
 30, 1922, amounted to $65, ,104.3S, ac- cording to a report made to Raymond
 R. Earhart, state treasurer, by Nori Osborn, Jr-, inheritance tax collector. | This amount was credited to the gen eral fund.
 George White, an employe of a paw | ing company in Bisbee, fell into a pot of boiling asphalt, and was seriously burned White screamed for aid as he fell from a plank into the asphalt,
 and was pulled out by l.. A. Sullivan, | a fellow employe. Physicians say he will recover.
 The Fort Apache, Arizona, military reservation containing approximately 7,5OO acres, has been declared useless for future military purposes and placed under control of Secretary Fall of the Interior Department. The res,
 oT-xr hoe ciy war department Jurisdiction.
 Neri Osborn, Jr., state tax inheri- tance clerk of Arizona. has been cho- sen state adjutant of the American Legion to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of D. A. Little, accord ing to an announcement made public in Phoenix by Celora M Stoddard, tax commander of the legion
 The Sisters of St. Mary, of Gallup, are busy with the plans for a new ad- ditiOn to the hospital which will be | used for contagious diseases, and | added over $500 to the building fund | during the Indian fair by giving a tag | day. The new structure will be so | built that at any time additions can | be added to take care of more pa tients. When completed the structure will cost $4,OOO.
  nearly destroyed by fire recently and the loss is estimated at over $2,OOO, which was covered by insurance. Five bales of cotton were also burned with | a loss to the owners of about $125 per bale. The fire started in the press room, and Chief Chas. Whiteman is of the opinion that the static conditions of the atmosphere, and friction from electrical machinery caused the blaze. By the time the department reached the gin it was a mass of flames
 In a further effort to help the live stock industry in the drought-stricken districts of the state, the Santa Fe railroad telegraphed the state corpo- ration committee that the freight on feed stuff would be reduced one-haIf. seed cake, meal and hulls, corn and articles taking corn rates hay and al- falfa. It will be applicable from Santa Fe points, in Texas, Oklahoma, Cobra do and Kansas; also from Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo-, to all Santa Fe points in New Mexico. The reduction has been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission and became eff fective. October 20.
 Playing through two matches in the and then facing a younger opponent in the finals for the mems singles championship in the tenth an- nual Border States Tennis Tourna- nent, concluded at Tucson, Ferguson of Fl Paso, defeated Hutchinson, of Phoenix, Ariz., in straight sets, 6-1, 5-2, 6-1.
 At recent meeting of the city council, the order to pave the main street of Artesia, N. M, was passed and it is planned to begin work as soon as the contract is let If the present plans are carried out the work will be finished after the first ,f the year and will do much toward the labor situation during he winter months.
 l.. C. Latham, owner of several claims in the Black Range in the vi- ,inity of Kingston, recently discov- ,red a fine vein Of silver, which it is 'aid will run over $1 ,OOO to the ton of ,re. This is one of the best strikes n that section of New Mexico for ome time and plans are being made O develop the property after the first if the year. In the prospecting work everal tons of ore have already been ,laced on the dump.
 Governor Mechem refusing to com mute the sentence, Steve Katonka wal langed at Aztec for murdering two aXicab drivers near Shiprock N. NJ