Williams news., 1922-09-29
Southwest News
 From All OUer Neu Mexico
 and Arizona

| According to an announcement made by Sidney M- Well, actual work on the Santa Fe & Northwestern Railway
 line from Bernalillo to the Jemenz | coal and timber region will be started
 about the first of October.
 From newsboy to university presi- | dent at the age of 33 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 of l Arizona's fourteen counties the figures | show that former Gov. George w F.
 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, | 2O,75S; Ward, 16,S12.
 The forest service has just opened a new road from Magda1ena through the Datil national forest to the Gila forest boundary, according to report of c. A. Long, district engineer of the forest service Three heavy grades which heretofore made the road almost inn paSSable, have been cut down and the entire route will be in good shape The First National Bank of Hope, N. NJ, was stripped of Liberty Bonds and all it's securities, according to $.
 S. Ward, president, in a statement re
 garding the alleged shortage of approx
 imately $6S,OOO found by nationa!
 bank examiner No trace has been
 found of Hugh M. Gage missing cash
 fer. MT. 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
 nal 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 5th, passing 100 degrees at many of the lower altitude and valley stations.
 Edward F. Winkler, a member Of a band of six men who attempted to hold up the Golden State Limited on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Jaynes station, six miles from Tucson, Ariz., on May 15, was arrested in Al buquerque. He admitted his identity and told officers a 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, a convict, has a 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 pardon by Gov | ernor Mechem of New Mexico. The | mans condition was reported to the | governor by Dr. E. 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 a case of this kind.
 Policeman George W. Harding will have to face trial on a charge of ia tally shooting Wylie Raymond Colvin the youth who was wounded by a bull ct from the officers revolver, and who died the following day at St. Jo- seph'S hospital in Phoenix. The cor )ners jury Investigating the affair handed in a verdict to the effect that he Laveen youth met his death as the 'eSult of a wound caused by a bullet | fred from a revolver in the hands of he policeman.
 Hinting that a prominent Phoenix
 tizen and his wife are under Surveii- ance and that an arrest was probable, ity police and deputies from Sheriff ohm Montgomery's office in Phoenix re working on the theory that Guy 1 , lernier was strangled to death. The heories that Dernier came to his death v drowning that he died of heart allure while swimming in the Arizona anal were abandoned when the cor I ner'S jury returned a verdict that ,ernier "came to his death by asphyx- ltion, cause undetermined" {,
 J. O. Clay, president of the Duran 0, Colo, Exchange, during a recent r isit to Aztec, reported that S3,3OO GOO n l land subscriptions had been raised c ,r the new southern outlet railroad g 'Om this part of the state to Gallup. ' he drive for the remaining $70O,OOO i,
 now on and it is expected that the | II acessary $4,000,000 will be raised by h le end of the present month. If the i've is successful, and it is expected i ~ lat it will be, it is thought that actu- :,
 construction work on the new rail- | ad will be started by the first of the .ar.
 An effort will be made to hold next gi ar's annual civilian military train W 2 camp at Fort Huachuca. Ariz in- cad of at Fort Bliss, Tex, according