The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-17
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
twestsrn Newspaper Union News Service,

of the New Mexico National Guard Of
Mountainair, N. M.
The Bisbee High School Girls bas-
ketball team, by defeating Mesa at
Tucson by score of 33 to 20, won the
state championship for this year.
AS result of the opening of the
copper mines in the southern part Of
New Mexico there are now nearly 400
men employed In the big smelter at Ell
PaSo.
Lon c. Harmon, heading what was
known as the Taxpayers ticket, was
elected mayor of Phoenix at primary
ballot that drew the heaviest vote in
the city's history.
A large number of Texas cattlemen
are going to Las Vegas to attend. the
annual convention of the New Mexico
Cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
ton, March 20 and 81.
Mohave county in Arizona is taking
steps to build good road from ChlOr-
ide to the Boulder canon damsite, in
the Grand Canon. This road will run
by way of White Hills.
A number of mining men recently
visited CarriZOZO to make plans for the
operation of the iron mines near Cap
itan in the Captain mountains. Consid-
cradle development work is planned
For the first time in months a night
shift, composed of foreman, three
shift bosses and about fifty men, is
again working at the Junction shaft of
the Calumet and Arizona Mining Com
pany's Bisbce property.
G. w. p. Hunt, former governor of
Arizona, and Marcus A. Smith, former
United States senator from Arizona,
ture in joint session. Governor Camp
bell and other state officials were pres
ent. The House gallery was filled to
capacity.
Reorganization of the school system
&C the state penitentiary at Florence,
Ariz., is being worked out under the
direction of Governor Thomas E.
Campbell with the view of giving those
behind the bars a better opportunity
to become good citizens on their re-
lease from prison.
The Bank of Phoenix has closed. The
institution formerly was the Central
Bank, which suspended business on
March q, 1921, and was reorganized
three months later as the Bank of
Phoenix. A recent statement listed
the capitalization at 100000 and de-
posits aggregating $1,537 ,485.
j. p. Parker, ranchman living east
OF Farwell, Texas, died from bullet
wound in the stomach said to have
been inflicted by H. e. Guy, president
of the Farwell State Bank, and of the
Farmers State Bank, Texico, N. NJ,
and mayor of the latter city. The
shooting is said to have taken place
outside the bank as a result of a fl
nancial difference. Guy was arrested
and released on bond. He claims self
defense.
What is considered the largest
amount figuring in the liability column
of any individual voluntary petition in
bankruptcy filed in years was record
ed in the United States district clerks
office at Santa Fe, when William
Wiley Jernigan, stockman of Lulu,
OterO county, N. NJ, sent in his
petition to be adjudged a bankrupt.
Mr.. Jernigan states that he owes the
sum of $744, 329 and his assets are
5000, $50. His main creditor is the Ell
Paso Cattle Loan Company, for $685.
600.
Senator Charles e. Burton of Yava-
pal county, Arizona, has introduced in
the Senate two bills proposing to in
crease the governors salary from &c.
500 a year to $4,000, and to raise the
pay of legislators from 81 day to S12
Representatives of the Chamber of
Commerce who have been making an
inspection of the wheatcrop of the val
ley and the East Grand Plains district,
report that the crop is in splendid con-
clifton and there is every indication
that the next years crop will be
bumper The acreage is about the
same as that of last year but the yield
will be much better.
Interest in the Vaughn, N. NJ, oil
field is growing in leaps and bounds,
inquiries are coming in from all parts
of the United States, and some from
Canada. That this field will now be
thoroughly prospected and developed
is no longer guess, nor is the field to
be rated as wildcat" as the showing
of oil in several wells drilled for wa
ter have proven that oil is there and
is guide in spotting wells to be
drilled for oil which almost assures
production in commercial quantities.
A trail of bad checks all the way
across. the continent was left by
Charles c. Champ, arrested recently at
Winslow, Ariz., according to Pinkerton
detectives. They declared Champ is
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