The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-13
Southwest News
 From All Oper NetU MexiCO
 and Arizona
CWzssrn Ns.pap., B.ssa Nevs Ssriol

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 Thieves broke a rear window of the Joseph Macarom store in Springer, N. M., and made their getaway with a large quantity eff flour, groceries and tobacco.
 Two hundred and fifty members of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association attended the an- nual convention of the organization at Las Vegas.
 Bernabe Padilla, aged 19, was shot in the jaw at Las Vegas by Lilia Ro- nero, a girl of 1h The bullet nar- rOvly missed the jugular vein. The man's condition is not serious.
 The widely known BrazitO tract. south of Las Cruces, N. M, the larg- est privately owned irrigable tract un- der the Elephant Butte dam, will be opened to settlement and development at once.
 Charges of murder have been filed in E Paso against Fred M. Mcclure. formerly of Cleveland, Ohio and Tue son, Arix., In connection with the death of Miss Louise Frentzel, g, Of E PaSO.
 Thomas A. Flynn, former assistant United States attorney for the district of Arizona. has been appointed by Judge William Fl. Sawtelle to act as special master of chancery in the hear ing. to be held April 3, of the Arizona, Eastern and Southern Pacific railroads versus the State of Arizona.
 Word has been received that Beene- ham Cameron of Stagville, N. C., pres dent of the Bankhead National High way Association, has accepted an in vitation of the Nogales, Ariz-, Cham Der of Commerce to attend the inter national conference of Mexican and American business men at NogaleS April 4 He also will accompany a large excursion party down the west coast of Mexico following the confer ence.
 On account of the revolutions in Mexico, a colony of Mormons are in the Gila country negotiating for over 2,000 acres of land from the Gila Farms Company. Most of the MOr- mons in Mexico are now preparing to leave that country and, it is said, will locate some place in New Mexico. All of them are experienced farmers and if the pending deal is closed, it will bring a splendid class of farmers into Grant county.
 Cattlemen are being taxed out of business. This is the message T. E. Mitchell, president of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers As SOciation, delivered to the opening ses- sion of the eighth annual convention of the association at Las Vegas. MT. Mitchell declared land taxes have un- justly been put on high plane which cattle interests find it impossible to reach. More than a hundred livestock men from all parts of the state were present at the opening session.
 According to a preliminary report that has just been issued by the De
 
 bureau of the census, the total mort gage debt on owned homes and farms in the state of Arizona in 1920 was and the total value of these mOrtgaged homes and farms was $72, 2,404,15O, the mortgage debt thus representing S4.2 per cent of the total value. Rented homes, tenant farms and farms that are partly owned and partly rented, it should be noted, are not included in this report. The to- tai number of homes in the state oth- CT than farm homes was 6O,43O, of which 21, 1923 or 36.1 per cent were owned by the occupants, and of these owned homes 5,1O8, or 23.4 per cent, Eere mortgaged.
 Before the greatest crowd that ever packed the House chamber in the capi- tOl, Secretary of Commerce Hoover delivered a forty minute address to the Arizona Legislature, convened in Joint session at Phoenix.
 Governor Campbell of Arizona, fol lowing receipt of a report that an cpl demic of scabieS had affected New Mexico cattle, has issued a/proclama- tiOn prohibiting the importation from New Mexico to Arizona of cattle that have not been dipped and declared to be free from the disease. A large number of cattle in Arizona are in- fected with Scabies and a quarantine has been placed over one district near Ho1brook.
 Secretary of Commerce Hoover, speaking at a dinner iR Phoenix, de cfared he was prepared to recommend the Boulder canon dam project.