The Snowflake herald., 1922-10-13
Southwest News
From All OUe,
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

at Florence were re-captured at a
point between the towns of Gilbert
and Chandler, and were returned to
the prison. The three men surren-
dered without resistance.
Steve f. Katonka, convicted in San
Juan county of numbering two taxi
cab drivers south of Shiprock, was
sentenced by the Supreme Court to be
hanged Friday, Oct. 20. at Aztec when
he failed TO perfect his appeal from
the lower court.
Theodore West, maintaining to the
last his sham of insanity. died on the
gallows ut the state penitentiary at
Florence. lie was executed for the
murder of Lem Smith in Mohave
county in July, 1921. West went to
his death with never hint of a con-
feSSiOn.
Paroles were granted by Governor
Mechem to J. W. Thomas of Curry
county, sentenced 10 the penitentiary
to serve from twelve to thirteen
months, and Pedro Moriega, Sierra
county, 10 years old, sentenced to the
refOrmatory us juvenile delinquent,
to test their ability to abstain from
crime.
The McRae Planning Mill at Alamo
gOrdO, one of the best plants of it's
kind in the state, was completely de
stroyed by fire recently, and will be
a total loss. The plant was doomed
before the water was turned ON and
the most that could be done was to
keep the fire from spreading to ad-
jacent buildings.
Zane Grey, famed writer of fiction
Dealing with Arizona and the great
Southwest, arrived in Flagstaff re-
Gently with party of seventeen
hunters and Immediately started for
the TontO basin, where Mr.. Grey has
a hunting lodge and where the party
will spend the next six weeks hunt
ing big game. Mr.. Grey's home is at
Altadena, Calf.
Walter Z. Seyfred, president of the
New Mexico Federation of Labor, and
Andrew Bruno,1 taxi driver, who were
convicted of Il conspiracy to transport
explosives on an A. Il. & S. +. train.
were sentenced in Federal Court at
Santa Fe to serve two years in
Leavenworth penitentiary and fined
$1,000 each. The maximum penalty
was two years and Il $4,000 fine.
The eight proposed amendments to
the Arizona state constitution, voted
on at the special and primary elec-
tiOn of September Il, were officially
declared defeated after the statewide
ance with the law, by Governor Thorn
as Z. Campbell, Chief Justice Henry
ID. Ross of the State Supreme Court,
and Secretary of State Ernest Hall.
A. b. Van Zandt, 22-year-old bank
clerk of Patagonia. who was arrested
in Magdalena, Sonora, recently on
charge of having embezzIed 5000 of
the funds of the First State Bank of
Patagonia, and who has been in Jail
in NOgales, Sonora, was released by
Mexican officials The Mexican au-
thorities refused to hold the youth
longer on the ground that he had com
mtted no Offense in Mexico against
the Mexican laws.
Pablo Archibeque was instantly
killed and William Wildenstein fatally
injured when they were oyertaken by
Il Santa Fe train on IL bridge north of
Las Vegas. The men were walking to
the city ON the tracks from ii ranch
where they had been employed and
were unable to reach the end of the
bridge when the train came suddenly
around IL curve. Archibeque was
killed instantly and Wildens,ein died
without regaining consciousness.
j. Ii. Ferguson and LeFayette Ben
nett were found guilty by a jury in
Federal Court in Santa Fe on "a
charge of conspiracy TO defraud. A.
Paul SiegeI and Fred Simmons, in
Guided in the case, were acquitted.
A party of hunters. who have been
hunting in the White mountains of
Arizona for some time under the
guidance of Ray GraySon of Silver
City, returned to Silver City. n. NJ,
with five large black bears. one of
the animals measured seven feet from
the tip of his nose to the end OF his
tail and eight feet from toe TO toe.
Hunters report that bears are more
plentiful in southern Arizona and
New Mexico than in many years.
According to reports of the BiOlOgi-
cal Survey over 100000 acres of land
in New Mexico was treated for the
determination of prairie dogs during
the month of August. The crop lands
totaled 1928 and the range lands
1OS,06S acres. The work has been
carried. on in nearly every county of
the state and ut the present rate there
will be no dogs in the state in the
next two years. The determination
work took liza quarts of poisoned
grain for the destruction OF the