The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
Southwest News
From All OUcr
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

will be one of the finest in that part
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 500
to $50, the average being around $3.50
a ton. The Copenhagen market vari-
ETY. is the one favored in that district.
The Springer, N. NJ, 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 we'll 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
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 HI. 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
tiers 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. NJ,
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
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 $115,000 The distance
is about 91a 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 100000 in outstand-
ing state warrants, which the state of
Arizona heretofore has been unable to
pay, will now be paid upon presenta-
ton 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 I'M
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
of the twenty-eight railroad
operating in Arizona for
1922 taxation purposes, according to a
statement issued by the State Tax
Commission is $1OO,395, $3.50, or $780,
203.10 less than the total assessed val
uation of the same property in 1921,
which was SOL, 161, $500.
Adelbert Holiday, 80, of Miami, and
Daisy, his 1O-year-old daughter,
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 persisted 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. NJ, the $4,000 school
bonds carried by vote of almost to
|. The bonds will be sold soon and
the construction of the building will
be started at once. 1t will be connect
ed with the remodeled present build
ing, will have nine class rooms, a COM
bined gymnasium and auditorium, do
nestle science and manual training
rooms, library and superintendent Of
flee.
u. S. Senator Holm o. Bursum wired