The St. Johns herald., 1922-09-28
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona

Reports reaching Carrizizo state that
 Miguel Montoya, a storekeeper at Ra-
 benton, was shot and killed on the
 streets of the town.
 Figures recently compiled by the
 city treasurer shows that Albuquerque
 has spent over half a million on Its
 paving since the year 1919.
 Due to the shortage of coal at the
 big furnaces at Pueblo, Colo, mangan-
 ese operations at the Boston Hill mines
 near Silver City have been stopped.
 The recovery of $149,OO0 worth of
 notes and bonds, issued by the defunct
 Bank of Phoenix to creditor banks In
 Los Angeles, by the payment of $21 900
 in cash, has been announced by An
 drew Baumert, IT,, receiver.
 F. J. Kasper of Swink, Colo, chief
 agriculturist for the Holly Sugar Cor
 poration, recommended at meeting of
 business men at Las Cruces that sugar
 beet demonstration planting be con
 tinued in the Mesilla Valley next sea-
 son.
 Plans are being made for the exca- vation of the Aztec ruins south of Pennington, part of the work to be done by the University of Denver. An auto road will be made to the ruins and sixteen men and two teams will be used in the work.
 F. c. Sganzini, IT,, who was given hearing in the court of Judge Schauer at Gallup, N. M, was assessed a fine of $100 and costs and sentenced to serve ninety days in the county Jail, but the jail sentence was suspended. The charge of carrying a deadly wea- pOn was filed by the district attorney.
 Police on both sides of the interna- tiOnal line at Nogales are searching for Juan N. Beltram, city treasurer of Nogales, Sonora, who is reported to have disappeared following the recent discovery of an alleged shortage of ST., 492.25 in his accounts. It was report ed in the Sonora town that the short age was believed to be as high as $20,- 900.
 The tax commission will follow Dis trict Judge Harry P. Owens decision In regard to teachers pay, J. B. Saint, tax commission chairman, stated when the commission took up the Torrance county school budget. Under the de cisiOn the highest pay that can be giv- en teacher in one, two or three-room rural school is $110 a month for nine months.
 The gold strike reported from the | United Verde Extension mine, near Jerome, Ariz, recently, continues to be | a topic of interest in the Verde district. | While no statement of the extent of | the find has been given out as yet, it | is practically certain, it is said, that | the deposit will prove of great value, with the ore growing richer as the drift is advanced.
 How two 15-year-oId girl chums tired of convent life and left the inSti- tuition through the window at night, joined a circus showing in Fl PasO, and were rescued in Juarez, was told at preliminary hearing given Secun- dino Esquida, part owner of the cir GUS, at Las Cruces. The circus man was held on a $5,0OO bond on a charge of Kidnapping, pending the outcome of the hearing, which is to be resumed shortly.
 The strike of the United Mine Work CTS of America which has been in eff feet at Gallup, N M., since April l, has been called off by the officials of the district headquarters at Pueblo, Colo. The men were instructed to Ire turn to work wherever they can ob- tain it." Many of the miners, it is said, have made arrangements to go to some of the eastern states where he operators have signed contracts with the union.
 Protection of the town of HolbroOk, Ariz, from flood waters of the Little Colorado river has made necessary an which will increase tax lnce with the state law, in such cases, the town authorities have asked the State Tax Commission for an emergen- cy appropriation of $20,000
 According to a report given out by the pOstoffice officials some thirty of fees in New Mexico will soon be dis continued. The list follows: Platero h BernalillO county; Trachedo in Ga tron county; Felix in Chaves county; Center Valley and West Fl Paso in DOna Ana county; Ruia and Swartz in Grant county; Halle in Guadalupe county; King and Beauty in Lea coun- ty; DescO in Lincoln county; Rincon- ada in Rio Arriba county; Benson,