The St. Johns herald., 1922-11-02
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexicO
 and Arizona

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 The old Hardness hotel at Cerrillosr N. M., frame building, erected in 1879, was destroyed by fire recently.
 Plans are now under way for the establishing of golf club at Fort Bay ard, N. M, and the building of a course.
 Stock shipping in the vicinity of Carrizozo, N. M., has been heavy, over 5000 sheep and 800 steers going to the Kansas City markets.
 Through the efforts of some of the good road enthusiasts of Gallup, N. M.' the main highway from Gallup to Zuni has been signbOarded.
 One hundred and nineteen thousand acres of government land in Arizona, all in MOhave and Yuma counties, will be thrown open to soldier settlement.
 The contractors on the Tombstone Bisbee paving have laid about 600 feet of new paving since they started work again.
 Firing at what he believed was a wild turkey moving in the twilight, Andy Erickson of Flagstaff, Ariz., shot and instantly killed Brick Erland, his chum.
 Si Lyons, 60-year-old teamster at a Globe, Ariz, mine, was instantly killed when an automobile in which he was sitting, was backed over fifteen foot oTohanIzmnnt
 Pleasant Hill, merchant of Espano- la, N. M., and Republican candidate for state corporation commissioner, was shot and seriously wounded a few days ago at Espanola.
 The RamahO Mining Company in the Tres Hermanas district, near Deming, N. M., is doing considerable develop ment work on its claims and large force of men is already at work.
 Unconfirmed reports are prevalent in Phoenix that, on Nov. 1, the South ern Pacific will take over and operate the Arizona Eastern railroad as a part of the Southern Pacific system.
 Tony Hill, who recently obtained lease on the Copper World and Antler mines, situated about fourteen miles east of Yucca, Ariz., has shipped 40- ton carload of good grade copper to the shelter.
 Word received from the Shea mine near Jerome, Ariz., is to the effect that the shaft now some seventy-five feet below the 800 level, Is bottomed in the best ore that has yet been opened on the property.
 Charged with the murder of Walter Steinbrook at Turkey Creek, Yavapai county, Ariz., in December, 1920, Frank La Grange and his wife, arrested at Globe, were taken to Prescott by Sher- if Joe Dillon.
 The Houston Thomas mine in the Pinos Altos district, near Silver City, N. M., is rushing the development work at the mines as rapidly as possi- ble and at the present time is ship ping about 125 tons daily.
 According to reports received by the cattle sanitary board, hundreds of cat tie in different parts of New Mexico are dying from the lack of feed and water Arizona has been asked to lift the quarantine on cattle and it is like ly that many will be shipped to the ranges of that state.
 While Juarez was calming down from its six-hour revolution the Fl Paso Chamber of Commerce was counting it's votes on whether the international bridges should be closed at D. m. in- stead of 12 80 a. m. as at present. The vote was 495 for the 12 80 closing hour to 1O9 for 6 p. m.
 The three convicts who escaped from the Arizona penitentiary recent ly were recaptured at point between the towns of Gilbert and Chandler.
 The SpOrtsmen's Association of Southwestern New Mexico elected of ficers for the ensuing year as follows: Col. G. s. Nurner, president; B. M Sawyer, Tyrone vice president; Mai. Charles A. Copeland, Fort Bayard, vice president; Dr. w. H. Chapin, Su- yer City, secretary and treasurer.
 The state of New Mexico has ap- proximately 5OOOO acres of land leased for drilling in San Juan county in the region between the gassers in the Az tee neighbOrhood and the gusher re gently reported brought in by the Mid west Oil Co., near Shiprock, according to Charles B. Barker, land office at tOrney.
 According to plans of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company about twen- ty-five miles of ninety-steel rails will be laid in the Bowie district during the next few months to replace the 75-