The Holbrook news., 1922-12-01
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona

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 of 10 to o, the University of Arizon, football team practically cinched tn,
 conference championship for the thir,
 consecutive year.
 About 2,0O0 Arizona school teacher were in attendance at the thirty-firs
 annual convention of the AriZon,
 State Teachers Association, held il Phoenix recently. The meetings O
 torium of the Phoenix Union Higl school.
 The New Mexico State Highwa! Department has started the surve. work on the Virden highway and it i: believed that actual construction vii be started soon. This project, wher completed, will place Lordsburg in di rect line with the chief agriculture section of the county.
 B. Frank Weisenhorn, chairman o1 the publicity committee of Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce, stated recent ly that the chambers advertising cam paign in cooperation with the Ele phant Butte Irrigation District and the Dona Ana County Farm Bureau is bringing highly satisfactory results.
 A complaint charging perjury. filed by Homer R. Wood of Prescott in the West Phoenix Justice Court against Robert McNlurchie, county attorney elect of Yavapai county, was dis missed by Justice Nat T. Mckee after two justices of the Arizona Supreme Court had appeared before him and testified in McMurchie's behalf.
 According to information received at Pennington, the officials of the Denver and Rio Grande Western rail road will soon start the laying of d third rail on the line from Carbon Junction to Pennington. This will be done to avoid the delay in all trans fers of freight from the narrow gauge to the standard gauge cars at Du- rango.
 Manuel Hernandez, arrested in mountain cabin at Putenny, near Pres colt, Ariz., is held in jail at Prescott in connection with the killing of Fe- lipe Ruiz, Mexican mine worker, who fell dead with two bullets in his throat in road near Jerome. On Ruiz body was found note which authorities declare indicated he had challenged Hernandez to d duel
 The machinery for the new flour mill which is to be opened in Farming ton, has arrived and actual work will be started soon. Milling wheat and corn is now being received and the product will be on the local market before the first of the year. The ma chinery is all of the latest model and the latest methods in milling grain products will be used
 George W. Harding, Phoenix police officer, was found guilty of involun- tary manslaughter by jury for the killing of Wiley k. COlyin of Laveen on the night of Sept. 10. Harding ad- mitted firing the shot that killed Col win, but declared on the witness stand that he fired at the tires of Colvin's automobile after the latter had disre- garded signals to stop.
 At the annual meeting held in Gal lup, the Mckinley County Chamber of Commerce was made a permanent or ganization, and within one hour the business men of the city, some of them members of the organization, had raised over s15,OOO to carry on the work during the coming year. Sev- eral prominent men from different parts of New Mexico attended the meeting.
 The question of the location of the new high school in Harding county, N. M, was settled at the recent cleo ton when the voters of the county de cided that Roy was the logical place, by a large majority of the votes.
 The jury in the case of the state of Arizona vs. Charles W. Hull at Bisbee, in Judge Craig's court, brought in u verdict of guilty. Hull was charged with a violation of the "No fence law" district in Warren. Hull was charged in the complaint with, on or about the 21st day of October of this year, al- lowing two head of his cattle to roam about the town of Warren inside of the no fence district.
 The city of Douglas is in a quan- dray and is looking about for some one to sue to recover 5000, accord ing to statements made at a recent meeting of the City Council. The amount is involved in Il check that was sent to the city by County Treas urer Guy Welch for taxes due to the city. The check was sent about the time of the failure of the bank at Will COX and the Central bank at Phoenix.
 Recently accepted as major sport | at the University of Arizona, polo | rapidly has become a favorite with | the student body and the progress of | the mounted Wildcats has been | watched with interest. Polo was started year ago and a strong team | has represented the university since | the game was taken under the control | of Col. R. NJ. Parker, in command of | the university k. O. T. C. A splendid stable of polo ponies was purchased | last year and this was increased re- gently by appropriation from the ath- letic fund.