The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-03
Southwest News
From All Ouer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
twsstern Newspaper Union News Service,


taken over the office of United States
marshal for the district of Arizona.
Ration is to have an auxiliary hos
| pital in connection with the big Rocky
Mountain hospital, which is now being
built at Denver, Colo, and 1t is ex-
pected that the work will be started
| SoOn
The building which housed the
| gymnasium and auditorium at the u
| S. Indian school, north of Albuquerque,
was burned to the ground by fire Of
unknown origin. The loss was esti-
mated at $4,000, and was not COW
cred by insurance.
| Following one of the largest hauls
of narcotics made in Tucson in recent
months, Roy w. Skidmore, a passen-
ger brakeman of Tucson, pleaded
guilty to violation of the Harrison
narcotic act before United States Com
missioner Edwin f. Jones.
! County Treasurer Ed Swope ac-
cepted the Santa Re railways check
| for $4,000 in payment of the first
half of the company's taxes in Ber-
nalillO county, minus the two mill
highway levy. Previously Swope re-
fused to take the check as the rail
way declined to pay the highway levy,
but changed his mind
| Drilling for the giant meteor believed
| to lie buried in the earth at Coon
mountain, eighteen miles southwest Of
| Winslow, AriZ., is being prosecuted
steadily by the United States Mining
and Smelling Company. A hole has
already been drilled over 1000 feet,
and it is declared that meteoric frag
ments have been encountered.
The difficulty experienced of late in
| sinking the Gold Chain shaft in the
katherine district near Kingman, Ariz.,
due to a flow of water, has been over
come by the installation of No. 6
Cameron pump. The water came in
at depth of 165 feet in the shaft,
and with its further deepening the
flow increased very materially.
Maricopa county has filed suit ask
ing the State Supreme Court to de.
termine the true boundary line be-
tween Maricopa and Yavapai counties
The property in question is about 331a
miles long and approximately 1.5 miles
wide, and is estimated to be worth
100000. The suit is the outgrowth Of
longstanding dispute between the
counties.
May 10 is the date by which w. G.
Rapp, contractor of Trinidad, Colo,
has agreed to have completed the re-
storation of the main Normal Univer-
sity building at Las Vegas. damaged
by fire recently. The regents gave
him the contract. The work can be
done within the loss paid by the in
surance companies, which amounts to
$34, 969.O5.
After being out less than forty min
utes, the jury in the case of Alma
Smith, charged with the murder of Fl.
l.. Christensen, automobile dealer, in
Globe on December Is, 1921, returned
verdict of not guilty. Miss Smith
shot Christensen in her room in
Globe hotel on the morning of Deem
Der 16, firing three bullets into his
body from a revolver.
A saving to the taxpayers of from
100000 to 100000 per year will be
made by the adoption of bill calling
for the abolition of all county highway
commissions. This bill is being pre-
pared by a committee of the Phoenix
chapter of the American Association
of Engineers in compliance with reso-
lutions adopted by the chapter and will
be laid before the legislators during
the early days of the session.
Many prominent cattlemen of the
West will attend the annual meeting
of the State Cattle Association, which
is to be held in Las Vegas March 90
and 81. Fred Ell. Bixby of California,
president of the National Livestock
Association, will be present and will
discuss the livestock conditions in the
state. Several we'll known cattlemen
from Colorado will also attend the
| meeting and outline the cattle indus
try in the Rocky Mountain states.
Recommendations of Governor L. E.
| Campbell, to be considered by the
Arizona Legislature, are: Centraliza-
ton of administrative authority. Leg
| islation for better maintenance of
| state educational system. Adoption
| of a new banking code and new
| fiscal code. Revision of the state in
heritance tax law. A more equitable
method of taxing and licensing auto
mobiles and more adequate regula-
| tons governing the use of public
| highways by motor vehicles. RestOra-
| ton of the competitive bid in paving.
Legislative enactments covering irri-
| cation, drainage and electrical dis
| tricts.
| One of the most exciting elections
/ ever held in Clovis N M occlrrod