The Holbrook news., 1922-11-17
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona

eQ DulluluS dt tlt UONtTHIneut hOs
 pital at Fort Bayard, N. M., recently
 The Catholic church and school, ir
 Springer, N. M., was completely de
 stroyed by fire recently and the total loss is estimated at over S6,0O0.
 Homer Williams, 22 years old, Oi
 Collinsville, Texas, died at Phoenix
 hospital from burns received when h' rolled into bonfire near Gila Bend.
 John Connolly, at one time light
 weight boxing champion of New Mex
 ico, passed away at his home in Ros-
 well following an attack of typhoid fever
 At a special meeting of the students of the University of New Mexico over S1,0O0 was pledged for the football work of the college during the re mainder of the season.
 Johnson X Cook, cattle dealers at commission office in Los Angeles, ac- cording to statements made by George L. Nee, member of the firm.
 Owing to the long drouth and the lack of feed on the ranges in the vii cinity of Alamogordo, N. M., most of the stock is being shipped to the Salt River Valley, of Arizona, for the win ter.
 F. E. Perry, 32 years old, died at a hospital in Prescott as result of in juries received when he fell from q Santa Fe electric repair car twelve miles north of Preston and was run over by the car.
 The old mine shaft recently found on the Rainbolt ranch, near Silver City, N. M., by Graham and Downey, has been opened and a large quantity of mine equipment found at the bot tom of the shaft.
 Surveyors of Albuquerque returning from the western part of Valencia County, report that all the lakes in that section of the state are dry and that thousands of fish are being found dead on the dry. beds.
 An increase in the tonnage to be mined at the Morenci, AriZ., mines of the Phelps Dodge Corporation to 1.40O tons a day, or double the present ton mage, has been announced by Capt. J. r. Hodgson, manager.
 The Tidal Wave-Midnight mine, in the vicinity of Hillsboro, x. M., has developed a good supply of water to operate the mine and mill. The ship ping of ore will be started soon and busy season is looked for.
 Ora Harris, White City Negress, charged with the murder of Wolf Pat terson on the night of August 11th during a fight at the Negro resort near Fort Huachuca, was found not guilty by a jury after all-night delib- eratiOn.
 Oil drilling operations at the Ada mana property, near HOlbrook, Ariz., are reported to be progressing satis- factorily, depth of 2,61S feet being attained at present The drill is again in the hardest kind of gray lime with a trace of oil. This, according to the company's geologist, is the best indi- cation so far encountered in the well.
 Under the auspices of the Otero County Farm Bureau, the annual poul- try show will be held in Alamogordo the first week in December and the dates have been set for the 9th, 9th and 7th. Poultry growers from all parts of the county will have exhibits and it is believed that the coming show will be the best ever held in the county.
 Ore production by the Ray Consoli- dated Copper Company now amounts to about 5000 tons day, the ship ments going regularly to the con centrator at Hayden, Ariz. The con- pany is employing about 700 men in all departments.
 Auto tourists camped near the river bottoms at Phoenix found the body of a Chinese in small ravine near the edge of the river The head and both feet were severed from the body and the pockets of the clothing had been turned inside out.
 John $. Mcclure, chairman of the cabbage department of the Dona Ana County Farm Bureau Marketing Asso- citation, announces that all cabbage grown in the Mesilla Valley next sea- son will be shipped through Cronbie x Co. of Fl PasO, who handled the 1922 crop.
 Harry D. Midkiff and Lewis A. Par ham, both former United States pro- hibitiOn enforcement agents, were ar rested at Phoenix on warrants sworn out by Assistant U. $. Attorney Fran cis D. Crable, charging in effect the padding of expense ac- counts while the men were in the gov ernment service
 At meeting held in the Arizona Mountain View district it was tenta- lively agreed by the farmers in that district to plant about thirty acres of sweet potatoes next spring and to erect a community storage house for curing the potatoes and preparing them for shipment.
 Daniel T. Selvege who, the police say, deserted from the United States army at Fort Logan, Colo. several weeks ago, was arrested in Albu- luerqu charged with attempting to pass worthless check for S3j0 as part payment for an automobile.
 An order for the immediate addition of 100 beds to the present number now at the Pastime Park Veterans Hos pital at Tucson was made by Senator