The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-07-28
Southwest News
From All Ovcr
Nou Mexico
and Arizona

| Douglas, Ariz., Sept. IS, 10 and 20.
J.. Z. Beck, a ranchman living at
| Five Mile, thirty miles up the Pecos
valley from Roswell, n. NJ, was killed
| when he became entangled in a rope
and was dragged to death by mule.
William Acker confessed accomplice
| in the assault on liver Enge, who died
| in a hospital in Prescott as a result of
| beating and stabbng suffered June
| IL, pleaded not guilty when he was ar
raigned before Justice of the Peace
| McIane on formal charge of murder.
| Acker was held for trial without bail.
| Mrs Clara Phillips was arrested at
| Tucson, AriZ., charged with the STAY
| ing in Los Angeles of Mrs. Alberta
| Meadows, who was beaten to death
with hammer and boulder. The
arrest was based upon admissions said
to have been made to the sheriff by
her husband, A. l.. Phillips, a Los An
geles oil promoter.
J. ID. Written was taken into Gus
tody in Miami Ariz., on warrant
charging him with murder in connec-
ton with the killing in Angleton, Tex,
| in February, of an alleged member of
| the ku Klux Khan and the wounding
of another man in what was said to
have been khan raid on a rooming
house where Written and his wife
were living.
Preliminary plans are being made by
officers of the Chamber of Commerce,
the Farm Bureau and the New Mexico
| College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts for the entertainment of officers
| and delegates of the Horse and Cattle
| Growers Association of New Mexico,
| which will have its fall meeting in Las
| Cruces and at State College next Sep
TENDER or October
| Commercial truck crops most prom
| Using for production in car lot quaint
| ties in the irrigated valleys of the Rio
Grande are cabbage, Spanish onions,
| lettuce, spinach and cantalOupe says
| 0. ID. Miller, assistant in marketing,
Bureau of Markets and Crop Esti-
mates, Z. s. Department of Agricul-
ture, in his report of survey made
recently in the Mesilla and Ell Paso
valleys.
| For gallant service, Harry ID. Stew
art, agent for the American Railway
Express Company, has been presented
in Los Angeles with check for 81 1000,
an engraved gold watch and letter
of appreciation from George G. Taylor,
president of the company. Stewart,
who resides in Los Angeles, killed one
bandit and drove off eight more dur
ing an attempted holdup of a train
near Tucson, Ariz., several weeks ago.
Cattle men in the southern part of
New Mexico are cutting down trees TO
provide forage for cattle that are dying
by the scores, according to a letter re-
ceived by the New Mexico Cattle and
Horse Growers Association at Albu-
querque from Hugh l.. Hodge of Silver
! City, leading cattle man of that sec
| ton. The drought and hot winds have
dried up and completely parched the
grass, the letter states, and water is
scarce. Conditions are called the most
deplorable in years.
Superior Judge S. L. Pattee of No
gales has set August % as the date for
the opening of the fourth trial of Pla-
edo Silvas, accused of having partici-
pated in the bandit raid on Ruby, AriZ,
last August, in which Postmaster and
Mrs. ]. Frank Pearson were shot to
death. In his second trial Silvas was
convicted of the, murder of Pearson
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. His third trial, for the murder
of Mrs. Pearson, ended in disagree
ment, the jury standing II to 1 for con-
viction
| II. Gordon GlOre, NOgales contractor,
whose fishing schooner sank In a gale
in the Gulf of California recently. was
found by searching party wandering
aimlessly along the barren Sonora
coast about seventysfive miles west of
| Nogales. Glore was clad only n pa
| jamaS and had not tasted food in sew
en- days. The rescue was effected by
marching party from Ajo, Ariz.
Manuel Martinez and Placido Silyas,
convicted murdererS who ESCAPED re-
| Gently, were recaptured by Dosse
headed by Sheriff Harry Saxon about
two and one-half miles southwest of
Amado, which is thirty miles north of
Nogales. The slayers, exhausted and
hardly able to move, were discovered
lying among rocks. Martinez is under
sentence of death and Silvas is facing
a term of life Imprisonment for the
killing Of Postmaster and Mrs. J. Frank
! Pearson of Ruby, Ariz.., last August.
The two escaped when Sheriff George
White Of Santa Cruz county, who was
taking them TO the state penitentiary.
was killed in an automobile accident
near Tucson. Deputy Sheriff Leonard
Smith also was fatally hurt, diving
from the injuries he suffered in the
accident.
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