The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-16
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News se,ice.)


 marshal for the district of Arizona.
 RatOn is to have an auxiliary hos pital in connection with the big Rocky Mountain hospital, which is now being built at Denver, Colo, and it is ex- pected that the work will be started soon.
 The building which housed the gymnasium and auditorium at the U. S. Indian school, north of Albuquerque was burned to the ground by fire of unknown origin. The loss was esti- mated at $4O,OOO, and was not cOv- cred by insurance.
 Following one of the largest hauls of narcotics made in Tucson in recent months, Roy w. Skidmore, a passen- ger brakeman of Tucson, pleaded guilty to violation of the Harrison narcotic act before United States Con- missioner Edwin F. Jones.
 County Treasurer Ed SwOpe ac- cepted the Santa Fe railways check for $50,000 in payment of the first half of the cOmpany's taxes in Der nalillO county, minus the two mill highway levy. Previously Swope re- fused to take the check as the rail- way declined to pay the highway levy, but changed his mind.
 Drilling for the giant metOr believed to lie buried in the earth at Coon mountain, eighteen miles southwest of WinslOw, Ariz, is being prosecuted steadily by the United States Mining and Smelling Company. A hole has already been drilled over 1000 feet, and 1t is declared that meteoric frag- ments have been encountered.
 The difficulty experienced of late in sinking the Gold Chain shaft in the katherine district near Kingman, Ariz., due to flow of water, has been over come by the installation of a No. 6 Cameron pump. The water came in at a depth of 165 feet in the shaft, and with it's further deepening the flow increased very materially.
 Maricopa county has filed suit ask ing the State Supreme Court to de- termine the true boundary line be- tween Maricopa and Yavapai counties. The property in question is about 931a miles long and approximately 1.5 miles wide, and is estimated to be worth $300000. The suit is the outgrowth of a lOngstanding dispute between the counties.
 May 15 is the date by which W. c. Rapp, contractor of Trinidad, Colo, has agreed to have completed the re- StOratiOn of the main Normal Univer- sity building at Las Vegas, damaged by fire recently. The regents gave him the contract. The work can be done within the loss paid by the in- surance companies, which amounts to 4,96905.
 After being out less than forty min- utes, the jury in the case of Alma Smith, charged with the murder of Fl. l.. Christensen, automobile dealer, in Globe on December 16, 1921, returned a verdict of not guilty. Miss Smith shot Christensen in her room in Globe hotel on the morning of Decem- Der 16, firing three bullets into his body from a revolver.
 A saving to the taxpayers of from $2OO,OOO to $5OO,OOO per year will be made by the adoption of bill calling for the abolition of all county highway commissions. This bill is being pre- pared by a committee of the Phoenix chapter of the American Association of Engineers in compliance with reso- lutiOns adopted by the chapter and will be laid before the legislators during the early days of the session.
 Many prominent cattlemen of the West will attend the annual meeting of the State Cattle Association, which is to be held in Las Vegas March 20 and 21. Fred H. BixBy of California, president of the National Livestock Association, will be present and will discuss the livestock conditions in the state. Several well known cattlemen from Colorado will also attend the meeting and outline the cattle indus try in the Rocky Mountain states.
 Recommendations of Governor l.. B. Campbell, to be considered by the Arizona Legislature, are: Centraliza- tion of administrative authority. Leg iSlation for better maintenance of state educational system. Adoption of a new banking code and a new fiscal code. Revision of the state in- heritance tax law. A more equitable method of taxing and licensing auto mobiles and more adequate regula- tions governing the use of public