The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and ArizOnQ

uDOul Ol ONtOUCI
 From newsbOy to university presi' dent at the age of B is the record of Floyd Heck Marvin, MA, Ph.D.. for more than three years dean and assist ant director of the University of Cali fornia, Southern Branch, at Los An geles. Floyd Heck Marvin is the new president of the University of Arizona
 With reports in from every one ot ArizOna's fourteen counties the figures show that former Gov. George W. r. Hunt has piled up a majority of 3.946 votes over Charles B. Ward of Phoe- nix, the defeated candidate. in the con- test for the Democratic nomination for governor. The total vote is: Hunt, 20,75S; Ward, 16,S12.
 The forest service has just opened new road from Magdalena through the boundary, according to report of C. A. Long, district engineer of the forest service. Three heavy grades which heretofore made the road almost i'm paSsable, have been cut down and the entire route will be in good shape.
 The First National Bank of Hope, N M.. was stripped of Liberty Bonds and all its securities, according to $. s. Ward, president, in a statement re- garding the alleged shortage of approx imately S6S,O00 found by a national bank examiner. No trace has been found of Hugh M. Gage. missing cash fer. Mir. Ward said the peculations from the bank had been going on for six years.
 The weather bureau office at Santa Fe, N. M., reports that the month of August averaged much above the nor rial in temperature and much below in precipitation. The heat was intense over much of the state. Barring. Aug Ust, 1901, it was the hottest August in the last thirty-two years. The month began with rather high temperatures, which rose higher till the 4th and 9th, passing 100 degrees at many of the lower altitude and valley stations.
 Edward F. Winkler, a member of band of six men who attempted to hold up the Golden State Limited on the Chicago, Rock Island X Pacific, at Jaynes station. six miles from Tucson, Ariz., on May h, was arrested in AL buquerque. He admitted his identity and told officers detailed story of the attempted holdup, in which H. Stewart, an express messenger. killed Tom Dupat, one of the holdup men, and foiled the plans of the band.
 Because Walter Weflin, convict, has disease of the joints that is stiff fening them and in time is likely to affect his jaws SO that he can't .Open them, he was given Il pardon by Gov ernor Mechem of New Mexico. The mans condition was reported to the governor by Dr. F.. w. Fiske, peniten- tiary physician. who, according to the governor, advised he be released at once because the penitentiary didn't have facilities to take care or case of this kind.
 Policeman George W. Harding will have to face trial on a charge of fa- tally shooting Wylie Raymond Colvin the youth who was wounded by bull let from the officers revolver, and who died the following day at St. JO- seph's hospital in Phoenix. The cor oner's jury Investigating the affair handed in verdict to the effect that the Laveen youth met his death as the result of a wound caused by a bullet fired from revolver in the hands of the policeman.
 Hinting that a prominent Phoenix citizen and his wife are under surveil- lance and that an arrest was probable, city police and deputies from Sheriff John Montgomery's office in Phoenix are working on the theory that Guy Dernier was strangled to death. The theories that Dernier came to his death by drowning or that he died of heart failure while swimming in the Arizona canal were abandoned when the cor oner's jury returned a verdict that Dernier "came to his death by asphyx- lation, cause undetermined"
 J. O. Clay, president of the Duran go, Colo, Exchange, during recent visit to Aztec, reported that S3,3oO,OOO in land subscriptions had been raised for the new southern outlet railroad from this part of the state to Gallup. The drive for the remaining STOO,OOO  is now on and it is expected that the necessary S4,O0OOoO will be raised by the end of the present month. If the drive is successful, and it is expected that it will be. it is thought that actu- al construction work on the new rail- road will be started by the first of the year.
 An effort will be made to hold next years annual civilian military train ing camp at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., in- stead of at Fort Bliss, Tex, according to statement made in Nogales by Col. A. ]. MacNab, Jr, commanding officer of the Twenty-fifth United States in- fantry stationed there
 A big meeting of the farmers in the vicinity of Artesia, N. M., was held at the. rooms of the Chamber of Com merce, when the matter of the annual Alfalfa Festival was taken up. It is likely that the big festival will be held during the month of October.
 The Arizona Supreme Court at Phoe- nix sustained the judgment of the Su. perior Court of Mohave county in the noted Apex case of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company against the United