Williams news., 1922-06-02
Southwest News From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service,

(western Newspaper Union service) Arizona Democrats at their state conference at Tucson endorsed Charles B. Ward, Phoenix attorney, as their candidate for governor.
 The town council of Mountainair. N. M., at recent meeting decided to grant franchise for the installing of a 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. M., was found by searching party recently in the noun | tains near Canyon l The New Mexico Hereford Breed CTS Association, which has been en- couraging the breeding Of better beef cattle, held it's second annual exhibit and sale in Las Vegas. May 23 and 24. Oscar, Schultz, an escaped convict from the Arizona state penitentiary at l Florence, was shot and killed by mem- bers of a sheriff's posse. Schultz had 1 held up a bank in Cooley, Ariz., and | escaped with $277.
 The United Verde mine and shelter | 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 dits 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 Superior Court jury in Nogales.
 With four persons dead, three unac- counted for and several others serf- ously burned, the fire in Fl Pajo sill yer mine at Rosario, Sonora, has been extinguished, according to advices reaching Tucson. The conflagration was the result of gasoline explosion and shaft timbering was badly dam aged.
 Permanent organization of the Mid dle Rio Grande Reclamation Associa- ton was completed at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at Albu- querque, with a large number of it's POO members present. The organiza- ton includes members from the entire middle valley from Rock canon to San Miguel.
 Mrs. Alice Katonka pleaded guilty 70 second degree murder in the Dis trict Court at Aztec, N. M., for the
 
 Gray, taxi drivers, on the highway near Shiprock, last fall. Her reputed husband, Steve Katonka, was found guilty of first degree murder and sen tenced to be hanged at Aztec, Friday, June 16.
 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 $20,00O and United States government bonds to the amount of over $21, ,OOO constitute a 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 Ar1- zona as follows: Apache ST, ,564 65 Cochise, SLY, 7,OO9. 60; Coconino, $15,- 4SS.SO; Gfla, 63,O192O; Graham, S35,- 175.6O; Greenlee, $4O.325.6O Maricopa, $231. .2S3. 20; Mohave, S1O,OO1 60; Maya jo. S26,1s9.6O; Pima, 72,12e.2O; Pina1. S34.336SO; Santa Cruz, $22,04O; Yavapai, S46.644; Yuma, $30,536S0; {; total, $761, ,75665.
 
 o6Iist church, will, during the summer months, conduct a school for Sunday | school teachers at Clovis. It is ex- pected that teachers from all over the | eastern part of New Mexico will at tend.
 It took the jury in the case of Ari- zona vs. J. H. Reid, Jr., charged with 1 falsifying the accounts of the Central l Bank of Wilcox, just fifteen minutes | after they went out, to return a yer dict of guilty in the Superior Court at 
 Fire losses in New Mexico for the five-year period ended with 1920. reached the staggering sum of S2.224,- 399, says H. R. MacGibbon, deputy for insurance in the state bank examiners office, in a 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, $1S1, ,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 a fire.
 The saddest tragedy flagstaff, Ariz., has had in years occurred recently when Mrs. Hulda Van Zee and her