The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News serice.)

ty, n. NJ, is reported to have confessed
to entering the home of the postmaster
at that place and stealing q trunk.
j. Fl. Royal, cashier Of the American
Railway Express office at Bisbee, who
disappeared after threatening to end
his life recently has returned to his
home in Bisbee.
According to reports received at De-
ming, n. NJ, the Southern Pacific rail-
road will spend over $3,50OOOO during
the present year in improving the road
in that part of the country.
The Chester L. Thompson post, No.
%, of the American Legion of Fort
Bayard, is now said to be the largest
post in the entire United States, the
membership being over 700.
Under ruling of the United States
land commissioner, the land offices at
Tucumcari and Fort Sumner will be
discontinued and the records will be
brought to the office in Roswell, n. NJ.
Plans are now under way for the dis
trict track and field meet which is to
open in Springer, n. NJ, May 6, when
it is expected that delegates from all
the schools in the southern and central
part of New Mexico will participate
A contract has been signed by the
Estancia Savings Bank and Walter l..
kegel president of the First National
Bank of MOuntainair, n NJ, acting as
agent for the Farmers and Stockmen's S
Bank of EStancia, whereby the busi-
ness of the Estancia Savings Bank is
sold to the Farmers and Stockmen's
Bank.
Propped against a fence in stand
ing position, the body of Patrick E.
Clark was found at the plant of the
Yuma Ice, Electric and Manufacturing
Company at Yuma, Ariz. Clark, who
had been dead for many hours, evil
IDENTIFY was killed when his body came
in contact with a wire carrying about
1000 volts.
After spending nearly a month in
Arizona in search of the pink boil
worm or the boil weevil in the cotton
fields of the Salt River valley and in
the vicinity Of Yuma and Tucson, eight
inspectors from the federal board of
horticulture reported to Don c. Mote,
entomoligist of the State Horticultural
Commission, that they had found no
trace of either pest.
What is probably another chapter in
the suit of the Miners and Merchants
Bank of Bisbee, against E. B. Perrin
and his wife, and others, for foreclo-
sure on property under mortgage for
$4,000 and interest, was written when
deed conveying all land owned by
Perrin and his wife to the Los Angeles
Trust and Savings Bank, was filed In
the office Of County Recorder III. l..
Hutchison, in Tombstone, Ariz.
According to reports of w. G. Law
renee, vice president of the Roswell
Chamber of Commerce, who recently
returned from the big railroad meeting
in Fort Worth, Texas, the prospects
for the new rail line from that city to
the Pecos valley are bright. Mr.. Law
renee electrified his audience at the
meeting by declaring that Roswell was
willing to put up a bonus of from
$15O,OOO to 100000 for the road.
That there are more than 5000 citi-
zens of New Mexico who need rehabi-
litation and who may be restored to
whole or partial usefulness by it, is the
visor of industrial rehabilitation. The
estimate of 1900 civilians in need Of
this aid in which the state is now pre-
pared to cooperate, was given by Mr..
Rockey in course of a letter to an east
ern New Mexico man who inquired as
to the scope of the work
Exceeding all former efforts of the
organization on q like occasion and
OvertOpping the best endeavOrs of the
same nature ever made in the South
Arabic Order, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, has started arrangements for
it's spring ceremonial, which will be
held in Phoenix on May II and 13.
The awarding of the medals won by
the cadets of the Military Institute for
gallery and open range work, took
place on the parade grounds at Ros-
well. The entire squadron formed In
line and the medals were presented to
the men by Captain Saunders. Some
of the highest scores ever made at the
institution have been made by the ca
diets during the past year.
Officials of the United States land
office at Las Cruces expect that from
75O to 1000 applications will be filed
in Las Cruces between April 10 and
July for the $4,000 acres of land near
Deming, n. NJ, to be open to entry at
that time. The land will be open to
entry under the homestead and desert
land laws. Ex-service men of the war
with Germany will have the prefer
ence.
Reports from the new cotton seed oil
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