The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-23
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Serioe.l

ltllS year. 1u0 IOIS OWuSu Dy InC OA- ganization west of the club house will be used and made into public park for Albuquerque.
 Following the inquest held in Ben son, Ariz., over the body of 'Red'' Os- borne, who was killed following an altercati0n with Deputy Sheriff Billy Bennett, the jury returned a verdict exonerating the deputy sheriff
 Production of copper will be re- sumed in Bisbee, Ariz., about March l by the mines of the Copper Queen branch of the Phelps-Dodge Corpora tion,. according to c. H. DOwell, gen. eral manager of the Copper Queen. E. Reports from the White Mountain country reaching Gallup, N. NJ, state that Navajo Indian killed one of his wives, shot another one through the ankle and then turned the gun on him. self, firing a shot through his body.
 Bids are now being received for the construction of the flood dyke south of Albuquerque and it is hoped that work will be started soon. The new dyke will be 2,800 feet long and it is thought will afford ample protection from the floods of the Rio Grande.
 The mining of manganese and iron ore is likely to be resumed in the Bos- ton Hill country. near Silver City, N. M., in the next sixty days, according to reports of the officials in charge of that district. A large tonnage was shipped from this section during the world war.
 A movement has been started in Deming, N. M., for the paving of all the principal streets of the city, and it is likely that the circulation of pc titions will be started soon. This is one of the few cities in the state that has no paving program for the con- ing summer.
 In the belief that prices have reached a point of stability, and with easier money at their command, cat tlemen of around Las Vegas, N. M, have begun buying calves and year, lings, creating markedly optimis- tic feeling among cattlemen, bankers and business men.
 William McCord, an electrician em- plOyed by the Yuma Electric Ice and Manufacturing Company, is still alive in a hospital at Yuma, Ariz, after having come in contact with a wire said to carry 33,OOO volts of cleo tricity. Although he is severely burned on the head and limbs physicians be- lieve he will recover.
 After unanimously endorsing the na- tiOnal prohibition amendment and the VOlstead enforcement measure, the Phoenix City Commission went a step farther and adopted a resolution de- claring itself opposed to any move looking to modification of prohibition so as to permit the sale of beer and light wines.
 Glen Cunningham, a cattleman of Henrietta, Texas, has purchased the w. K. Mckinley ranch of 14,0O0 acres, twenty-five miles east of Las Vegas, N. NJ, on the mesa. MT. Cunningham expects to erect at once a good house and other buildings on the ranch. He has stated that he will raise sheep ex- tensively.
 Floyd Pelton, one of the prominent business men of Douglas, Ariz., and a well known automobile race enthusiast, died at his home as the result of in- jUries received December 26, in an automobile race at the fair grounds, when his car turned over. PeltOn was crushed and one lung torn and other internal injuries received.
 Frank Dugan, brother of Assistant Superintendent Patrick Dugan of the state penitentiary and an Indian trader on the Navajo reservation, was murdered by Indians and his trading post burned, according to advices from Gallup, N. NJ.
 Elauterio Corral and. Romaldo Lo- zanO were hanged at Silver City, N. M., as the penalty for the murder of Ventura Bentcoma, jailer of Silver City. The two men, according to of ficers, admitted killing the jailer with an ax on April 2, 1921, when they es- caped from the Grant county jail. They were caught several days after the jail break at Santa Rita, N. M., almost famished.
 Boys in the agricultural classes of the vocational circuit of Dona Ana county, N. M., have just completed a gopher eradication campaign carried on in cooperation with the biological