The Snowflake herald., 1922-06-16
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News se,ios.)

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| The epidemic of smallpox in Mexi-
| cali and other parts of the northern
district of Lower California is well
in hand" according to DIR. FredereiciO
| Gotta, health officer of Mexicali.
| Mrs. Juan COrdova, widow of the
man who was brutally murdered in
| the hills near Taos, n NJ. some time
| ago, has been arrested, charged with
| the deed, and held for trial under bond
of $1,000
| The extensive building campaign
| that has been under way in Las Vegas
| for the past year came just in time to
enable Las Vegas to take care of the
largest summer school in the history
| of the Normal University.
| The jury in the trial of S. B. Brown,
charged with receiving deposits in the
| Central Bank of Wilcox as cashier
| after he knew the bank was insOlvent
returned a verdict of guilty. 1t is re-
| ported that the jurors took but two
ballots.
Plans are now under way to hold a
big auto race July in Las Cruces in
which only Ford cars will be allowed
| to participate. The track is being
worked over and will be in the best
| condition at this time and some good
| speed is looked for.
| The 1923 convention of the Arizona
| division of the National Federation of
| Postoffice Clerks will be held id No
| gales. Postmaster Charles Beatty an
nounced that Nogales was chosen by
unanimous vote at the annual conven-
! ton held in Tucson.
When the new Santa Fe shops in
| Albuquerque are completed and run
| ming ON full time over 5000 men will
| be employed according to reports of
| the officials in charge. The macn1n-
| cry in the new machine shop alone will
cost over $1,000,000.
Through negotiations that have been
under way for the past month, the Al!
amOgordO State Bank and the Peoples
State Bank of AlamogOrdo and the
First State Bank of ClOudcroft, have
been merged and the business will be
done in Alamogordo under the name
of the First State Bank.
Charging that his good name and
reputation were subjected to humilia-
ton by reason of his arrest and i'm
prisonment on charge of having har-
bored bandits who held up the Golden
State Limited train west of Tucson ON
May 10, Richard Starr has filed suit in
Tucson against Sheriff Ben F. Daniels
for S10,250 and against the Maryland
Casualty Company for $4,000.
Pablo Ybarra, sentenced to be
hanged at the Grant county Jail in 1917
for the murder of Sara Lemos, Hur-
ley woman, and who recently escaped
from the state asylum, is now in the
county Jail in Silver City, having been
re-arrested in Ell Paso. The next step
in the case will be to determine the
sanity of the prisoner, and should he
be found sane it is believed that the
death penalty will be carried out If
found insane he will be re-committed
to the asylum.
Following a meeting of Arizona state
ALLEGATION board at Phoenix, it was an
nOunced that recommendations would
be made by the board for the designa-
ton and location of seven additional
units of the organized reserves in Ari-
IONA. The board will recommend that
headquarters of the 205th infantry bril-
gade and the brigade's headquarters be
transferred from Tucson to Warren.
AriZ., and that the headquarters COM
pany of the 409th infantry be moved
from Bisbee to Tucson
Placido Silvas, one of eight alleged
bandits who robbed the Ruby AriZ,
postoffice last August, and shot and
killed Postmaster and Mrs Frank j.
Pearson, was found guilty of charge
Of murder by jury in Superior Court
at Nogales. The jury fixed punish
ment at life imprisonment
Contracts for the construction of
approximately thirty-two miles of the
Old Trails Highway between Winslaw
and Holbrook have been awarded by
State Engineer Thomas Maddox, and
it is thought work will be started with
in few days. Separate bidding was
done on three different sections of the
graded and surfaced road, and the low
est bids tOtalled about $4,000
Sheriff George Baton of Eddy coun-
ty and a Mexican outlaw are dead,
and Deputy Sheriff Stone Milburn is
seriously wounded as the result of
gun battle at Hope, n NJ, recently.
Sheriff Baton and Deputies Stone
Milburn and Sam Baton went to Hope
to get the Mexican, who, according to
information they had received was
wanted in Texas for escaping from Jail
while serving a life sentence
Cash and jewelry valued approx