The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-10
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW Mexico
 and Arizona

The Fourth Annual American Le- zion State Convention to be held in Douglas, Ariz., Sept. IS, 19 and 20.
 L. P. Beck, a ranchman living at Five Mile, thirty miles up the Pecos valley from Roswell, N. M, was killed when he became entangled in rope and was dragged to death by mule.
 William Acker, confessed accomplice in the assault on Iver Enge, who died in a hospital in Prescott as a result of a beating and stabbing suffered June II, pleaded not guilty when he was ar raigned before Justice of the Peace McLane on a formal charge of murder. Acker was held for trial without bail.
 Mrs Clara Phillips was arrested at Tucson, Ariz., charged with the slay- ing in Los Angeles of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, who was beaten to death with a hammer and boulder The arrest was based upon admissions said to have been made to the sheriff by her husband, A. L. Phillips, Los An geles oil promoter.
 J. D. Whitten was taken into GUS tody in Miami, Ariz., on a warrant charging him with murder in connec- tion with the killing in Angleton, Tex, in February, of an alleged member of the Ku Klux Kan and the wounding of another man in what was said to have been a klan raid on a rooming house where Whitten 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 tember or October.
 Commercial truck crops most prom ising for production in car lot Quanti- ties in the irrigated valleys of the Rio Grande are cabbage, Spanish onions, lettuce, spinach and cantaloupe, says O. D. Miller, assistant in marketing, Bureau of Markets and Crop Esti- mates, U. s. Department of Agricul- ture, in his report of survey made recently in the Mesilla and Ell PasO valleys.
 For gallant service, Harry D. Stew art, agent for the American Railway Express Company, has been presented in Los Angeles with check for $1, ,0OO an engraved gold watch and a letter of appreciation from George c. 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 train near Tucson, Ariz., several weeks ago.
 Cattle men in the southern part of New Mexico are cutting down trees to by the scores, according to letter re- ceived by the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers Association at Albu- duerque from Hugh L. Hodge of Silver City, leading cattle man of that sec tion. 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 l deplorable in years.
 Superior Judge S. L. Pattee of No gales has set August 28 as the date for the opening of the fourth trial of Pla- cido -Silvas, accused of having partici- | pated in the bandit raid on Ruby, Ariz., | last August, in which Postmaster and | Mrs. J. Frank Pearson were shot to | death. Tn 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.
 H. Gordon Glore, Nogales contractor, whose fishing schooner sank in a gale in the Gulf of California recently was found by a searching party wandering aimlessly along the barren Sonora coast about seventy-five miles west of Nogales. Glore was clad only in pa jamas and had not tasted food in sev- en days. The rescue was effected by marching party from Ajo, Ariz.
 Manuel Martinez and Placido SiIvas, convicted murderers who escaped re- gently, were recaptured by a posse 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. rr.L. l