The St. Johns herald., 1922-01-12
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(wsstsru Newspaper Urios Nev. serio'.)

l AtS hOISSS anu uTIllS VIII uON Dc HCld weekly. Most of the equipment for the boys has been received.
 Residents of Taos, N. NJ, are offer ing reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the parties who attempt ed to burn the building of the La Re vista de Taos on the morning of Sept. 2.
 Dick Walton, engineer for the A. T. & s. F. at Clovis, N. M., is in the hos pltal suffering from the loss of hand. Mir. Walton fell from a moving engine and one of the wheels passed over his wrist.
 The work of paving the six-mile | stretch of road west of the Barelas bridge at Albuquerque will be started about the middle of March, according to an announcement. The cost is to be | $11, ,253.04.
 The Otto-JOhnsOn Company of Clay ton, N. M., recently purchased over s. 900 bushels of wheat from the farm CTS of Union county at the price of % cents per buShel The wheat was shipped to the eastern markets. Men who failed to fight in the World War if their services were sought by the United States cannot now fight in Arizona, according to rules and regu- lations issued by the recently created boxing commission of Phoenix ..-
 Three basketball teams have been organized at Deming, N. M., and the season promises to be a lively one. Troop c cavalry has one of the fast est teams ever organized in the city and has made up good schedule for the season.
 You can't keep a miner out of the hills If you close up mine, he'll hunt up a prospect and start working it. This is true around Globe, Ariz, during the Hull in copper mining. A number of old silver prospects have been at tackled by industrious miners in the RambO and Richmond basin section and worked with profit, according to reports.
 Graham county, Arizona, will vote early in February on a bond issue to provide funds for a road building pro- gram, according to James Parker, an engineer employed by the State High way Department. Parker said that the paving program included a highway from SolomOnsville. west through Gila Valley for a distance of at least twen- ty-foUr miles.
 Cities of Arizona of more than 5000 population are entitled under the state law to One-half of all taxes collected in them from fire insurance compan- ieS, according td an opinion issued by the office of the state attorney gen. eral. The opinion was requested by c. H. Wheelerek, secretary-treasurer of the Stafford fire department, vOlun- teer organization.
 Fire, believed to have been started by robbers, who blew open the safe in the Santa Fe railroad station at Ute Park, N. M., destroyed the depot, wa ter tank and a carload of freight on the side track. It is believed the rob l bers got large amount of cash be- longing to the railroad company, post office and express company. Proper ty loss is estimated at $25,O00.
 Following a meeting with property owners along the route and the board of viewers, the board of supervisors approved the viewers report and the right of way for the Fairbank-Santa Cruz county line link of the State higABay. This will complete the link between NOgales and Tombstone. Ariz., and work will be started immediately by EngineeraJenkinso of the State High way Department
 George w Brown, pioneer St. Louis shoe manufacturer, who died in Tue son, Ariz., Dec 13, left half of his es- tate, estimated at about 100000, to charity, and the other half to his wid Ow, according to his will, filed for pro- bate in St. Louis.
 United States Senator H. O. Bur sum said in a telegram to H. H. Brook, president of the Elephant Butte Irri- gatiOn district at Las Cruces, N. M., that the farm loan board at Washing ton, D. C., has decided to begin ex- tending loans to irrigation farmers in DOna Ana county as fast as conditions will permit. The basis is 30 per cent of the current selling price. The earn ing power of the land is to be the prin- cipal test.
 The Boy Scout band of Tucumcari, N. NJ, which has made itself famous all over New Mexico and the panhan dle of Texas, under the leadership of Mir. Belden, has been reorganized and in the future will be known as the Tu- cuD,cari RooSterS hand. The new band