The St. Johns herald., 1922-04-27
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(Wsstern Newspaper Union News Service. )


 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. M., the Southern Pacific rail road will spend over $3,500,O00 during the present year in improving the road in that part of the country.
 The Chester L. Thompson post, No. g, of the American Legion of Fort Bayard, is now said to be the largest post in the entire United States, the membership being over TOO.
 Under a 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. M., 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. M., acting as agent for the Farmers and Stockmen's Bank of Estancia, whereby the busi- ness of the Estancia Savings Bank is sold to the Farmers and StOckmen's Bank.
 PrOpped against d fence in a 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, evi- dently was killed when his body came in contact with wire carrying about B, 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 $40,000, 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 H. L. HutchisOn, in Tombstone, Ariz
 According to reports of w. c. 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 MT. Law renee electrified his audience at the meeting by declaring that Roswell was willing to put up a bonus of from $150,OOO to $20O,OOO 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 1t, is the estimate of D. W. Rockey, state super visor of industrial rehabilitation. The estimate of 5000 civilians in need of this aid in which the state is now pre- pared to cooperate, was given by Mr Rockey in course of 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 a like occasion and overlapping the best endeavorS of the same nature ever made in the South west, Fl Zaribah temple, Ancient and Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, has started arrangements for its spring ceremonial, which will be held in Phoenix on May 12 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 dets 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 55,OOO 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 nnrith Gnrnonnu ,uiu hnun tho nrnfor.