The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-31
Southwest News From All OUOr NeU Mexico
 and Arizona

ing, carried by a large majority.
 The $5O,OOO sewerage bond issue
 voted at a special election at Artesia
 N. M., some time ago, has been sold tC
 the International Trust Company o1
 Denver, Colo.
 Mrs. Maud Lenfesty has been in
 stalled as acting postmistress of the
 office at Pennington, taking the place
 of Mrs. Ella B. Taylor, who has held
 the position for the past eight years.
 Thomas Fulcher and Sid Fulcher his son, were both placed under arrest recently by federal officers, charged with the robbery of the Fl Paso & Southwestern train near Clifton, Ariz., last May.
 According to the report of the bio logical survey, nearly a quarter of a million dollars has been saved for the stock growers of New Mexico during the past year by the killing of the pre- datOry animals.
 The Vaughn News has recently in- stalled a new electric lighting plant and is now operating all its machinery by electricity. The new camp ground Is also being lighted by this plant, which is big improvement.
 Guadalupe Ortiz, son-in-law of Jas per Ortiz, well-known merchant of Tres Piedras, N. M., killed his wife and then shot himself dead with a .32- caliber revolver. The motive for the double tragedy has not been ascer- tained.
 Another chapter was added to Texas feud of long standing when J. W. Anderson and w. w. Chraein met in the court house at Phoenix. Chrae- in, unarmed, was wounded twice when Anderson opened fireon him with a shotgun.
 Mrs. George J. White, widow of the sheriff of Santa Cruz county, Arizona, who recently was killed in an automo- bile accident while taking Manuel Mar tinez and Placido Silvas, convicted murderers, to the state penitentiary, has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for county su- perintendent of schools.
 Opposition to the extension of the five-year period for fixing the valua- tion of mining property in Arizona was voiced at the tax conference held in Bisbee recently, when J. $. Dull, sta tistician, charged that the commission was arbitrarily extending the five-year period in order to continue to use the 1916 production fixing values.
 Production of copper at the Interna- tional shelter will reach a total of about 17,500,OO0 pounds for the month of July, according to Supt. L. O. How ard. This is the average monthly out put of the shelter since resumption of operations five months ago. The last of the huge pile of surplus copper at the plant was shipped two months ago.
 Federal aid in developing the Black Mesa coal field north of HOlbrook is being urged by the Holbrook Chamber of Commerce, which states that ab- proximately 15,OOOOOO,OOO tons of coal will be available through development of the field. The coal is said to be a good quality sub-bituminous. Hopi and Navajo Indians are available as labor.
 Praise for the proposed Glenn Cafion damsite was voiced by Governor Camp bell on his return from a trip of in- spection as a guest of the Coconino county board of supervisors. Con- gressman Carl Hayden and State Wa ter Commissioner W. S. Norviel also were members of the party of eighteen who made the journey to Glenn Cafon on the Colorado river.
 AlvarO Obregon, president of Mex leo, has hOnored the Social Club de Agua Prieta by the gift of an auto graphed photograph bearing hearty good wishes for the success of the club. The directors are greatly pleased with his gift, which was placed in the hands of Secretary D. 0. O'Neil by Roberto Pesquiera, who brought it from Mexico City.
 Road excavation work by the Verde Jerome Copper Company recently un- covered a hitherto unsuspected ledge which came to the surface, with the of dirt overburden, close by the shaft. The ledge, ten feet wide were exposed, carries black mangan- ese, copper in the form of malachite, and gold Massive black manganese Is unknown elsewhere in the district.
 Herman Dietrich, bridge toll collec- 1 tor for the street railway company at | El Paso, is reported missing. Dietrich had been stationed on the bridge over which Mexican immigrants pass and was collecting the head tax of S8 on |