The Snowflake herald., 1922-02-10
Southwest News
From All Ouer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
western Newspaper Union News Service J

| be used and made into public park
| for Albuquerque.
Following the inquest held in Ben
son, Ariz., over the body of "Red" Os-
borne, who was killed following an
alteration with Deputy Sheriff Billy
Bennett, the jury returned a verdict
generating the deputy sheriff.
Production of copper will be re-
| sumed in Bisbee, Ariz., about March
| ] by the mines of the Copper Queen
branch of the Phelps-Dodge Corpora
tion, according to G. H. Dowell, gen.
eral manager of the Copper Queen.
Reports from the White Mountain
country reaching Gallup. N. NJ, state
that a Navajo Indian killed one of his
wives, shot another one through the
ankle and then turned the gun on him
self, firing a shot through his body.
Bids are now being received for the
construction of the flood dyke south of
Albuquerque and it is hoped that work
will be started soon. The new dyke
will be $500 feet long and it is thought
will afford ample protection from the
floods of the Rio Grande.
The mining of manganese and iron
ore is likely to be resumed in the Bos-
ton Hill country near Silver City, N.
NJ, in the next sixty days, according
to reports of the officials in charge
of that district A large tonnage was
shipped from this section during the
world war.
A movement has been started in
Deming, Y. NJ, for the paving of all
the principal streets of the city, and
it is likely that the circulation of pc
titions will be started soon This is
one Of the few cities in the state that
has no paving program for the COM
ing summer.
In the belief that prices have
reached a point of stability, and with
easier money at their command, cat
tlemen of around Las Vegas, n. NJ,
have begun buying calves and year
lings, creating a markedly optimis-
tic feeling among cattlemen, bankers
and business men.
ployed by the Yuma Electric Ice and
Manufacturing Company, is still
alive in a hospital at Yuma, Ariz.,
after having come in contact with a
wire said to carry $4,000 volts of cleo
tricity. Although he is severely burned
ON the head and limbs physicians be-
lieve he will recover.
After unanimously endorsing the ma
tional prohibition amendment and the
VOlstead enforcement measure, the
Phoenix City Commission went a step
farther and adopted resolution de-
claring itself opposed to any move
looking to modification of prohibition
SO as to permit the sale of beer and
light wines.
Glen Cunningham, a cattleman of
Henrietta, Texas, has purchased the
w. X. Mckinley ranch of 1900 acres,
twenty-five miles east of Las Vegas.
n. NJ, on the mesa. Mr.. Cunningham
expects to erect at once a good house
and other buildings on the ranch. He
has stated that he will raise sheep ex-
tensively.
Floyd PeltOn, one of the prominent
business men of Douglas, Ariz., and a
well known automobile race enthusiast,
died at his home as the result of in
juries received December 26, in an
automobile race at the fair grounds,
when his car turned over. PeltOn was
crushed and one lung torn and other
internal injuries received.
Frank Dugan, brother of Assistant
Superintendent Patrick Dugan of the
state penitentiary and an Indian
trader on the Navajo reservation, was
murdered by Indians and his trading
post burned, according to advices
from Gallup, n. M.
ElauteriO Corral and Romaldo Lo-
zano were hanged at Silver City, N.
NJ, as the penalty for the murder of
Ventura BentcOma, jailer of Silver
City. The two men, according to of
ficers, admitted killing the jailer with
an AK on April 2, 1921, when they es-
capped from the Grant county Jail.
Ihey were caught several days after
the Jail break at Santa Rita, n. NJ,
almost famished.
Boys in the agricultural classes of
he vocational circuit of Dona Ana
county, n NJ, have just completed
gopher eradication campaign carried
on in cooperation with the biological
survey and the farm bureau of Dona
Ana county. The fffty-seven boys en-
rolled on the circuit trapped 1,046
gophers. The biological survey put up
prizes for the schools which won first
and second hOnOrs and for first, sec
ond and third individual hOnors.
That a month from now would see
the copper mines of the state starting
operations on a cautious scale, was
the statement made by Col J. c.
Greenway, general manager of the
Columot an6 Arizona ATininU Companv