The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-06-02
Southwest News
From All OUeT
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News serrice.)

/ SOIIOACI dt CiAUOiSCu olltlAi>'0
B. Ward, Phoenix attorney, as their
candidate for governor.
The town council of Mountainair, n.
NJ, at a recent meeting decided to
| grant a franchise for the installing of
new water and light plant for the
city.
A bullet wound in the neck and the
/ skull crushed, the body of Juan A. Cor
dova of Canyon, N NJ, was found by
searching party recently in the noun
tains near Canyon.
The New Mexico Hereford Breed
ers' Association, which has been en-
couraging the breeding of better beef
cattle. held it's second annual exhibit
and safe in Las Vegas, May % and "a.
Oscar Schultz, an escaped convict
from the Arizona state penitentiary at
Florence, was shot and killed by mem
bers of a sheriff's posse. Schultz had
held up bank in Cooley, Ariz, and
escaped with $277.
The United Verde mine and smelter
at Jerome, Ariz., are to be reOpened as
soon as the necessary preliminaries
can be attended to, crews assembled
and other details of resumption got
out of the way
Manuel Martinez, one of seven ban
dts who crossed the Mexican border
last August, raided the Ruby, Ariz,
postoffice and killed Postmaster and
Mrs. Frank Pearson, was found guilty
of murder In the first degree and his
punishment was fixed at death by a
Superior Court jury in Nogales.
With four persons dead, three unac-
counted for and several others seri-
ously burned, the fire in. Eel Pajo sill
yer mine at Rosario, Sonora, has been
extinguiShcd, according to adviceS
| reaching Tucson. The conflagration
was the result of a gasoline explosion
and shaft timbering was badly dam
aged.
Permanent organization of the Mid
die Rio Grande Reclamation Associa-
ton was completed at a meeting at
the Chamber of Commerce at Albu-
| Querque, with a large number of its
/ 200 members present. The OrganiZa-
ton includes members from the entire
San Miguel
Mrs. Alice KatOnka pleaded guilty
| to second degree murder in the Dis
| trict Court at Aztec, n. NJ, for the
Staying of William Kelley and Sam
Gray, taxi drivers, on the highway
near Shiprock, last fall Her reputed
husband, Steve Katonka, wasfomd
| guilty of first degree murder and SEN
fenced to be hanged at Aztec, Friday,
June 10.
The stockholders of the Bank of
| Bowie are justly proud of the bank
statement recently published with
call of the state superintendent Of
banks. This statement shows no re-
| discounts and no bills payable, while
the cash reserve of over $4,000 and
| United States government bonds to the
amount of over $4,000 constitute
reserve of over 40 per cent of the
amount of the deposits.
Miss Elsie Toles, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, announced
| the appOrtiOnment of the state school
| fund to the several counties of Art
iona as follows: Apache SIT, 564.65;
Cochise, $117,00960; CoconinO, $15,-
4SS.SO; ella, $63,O19.20; Graham, $35,.
1850; Greenlee, $4O,325.6O; Maricopa,
| 1921 ,2S3.20; Mohave, $10,OO16O; Nava.
jo. $26.1S9.6O; Pima, $40, 1920; Pinal,
! $34,336.S0; Santa Cruz, $22,04O;
] Yavapai, $46,644; Yuma, $50, 536.SO
total. 1871, 1885.
The Roswell district of the Meth
Odist church, will, during the summer
months, conduct school for Sunday
| school teachers at Clovis 1t is ex-
pected that teachers from all over the
eastern part of New Mexico will at
f.! tend
| 1t took the jury in the case of Ari-
IONA VS.. ]. H. Reid, Jr., charged with
classifying the accounts of the Central
Bank of Wilcox, just fifteen minutes
after they went out, to return a YER
dict of guilty in the Superior Court at
Tombstone.
| FIRE losses in New Mexico for the
| five-year period ended with 1920
reached the staggering sum Of 1924.
800, says H. r. MacGibbon, deputy for
insurance in the state bank examiners
office, in fire prevention pamphlet
| gotten out as part of his bureaus cam
| paign to cut down the toll in destroyed
| property taken by the ''red monster
| in the state. OF these losses he says
| 1871, 529 were caused by downright
carelessness- tossing of lighted
| cigar and cigarette butts and matches
| in waste paper baskets or other
| places where they were likely to start
fire.
| The saddest tragedy Flagstaff, Ariz,
has had in years occurred recently