The Snowflake herald., 1922-09-22
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

last years, according to State School
Auditor John JOerns.
Roy Calvin, 18, of Lavena, wounded
by a ricochet bullet when Policeman
George Harding shot at the tires of the
automobile he was driving, died at
Phoenix.
One of the most disastrous fires in
Des Moines for many years occurred
recently when the two large store
houses belonging to e. e. Cory were
destroyed.
The new oil we'll of the Midwest Re-
filming Company between Pennington
and Shiprock, is now down to the
depth of 500 feet The drilling is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Nestor Candelaria, a railway shop
striker, died at his home in Albu-
querque from injuries sustained in a
fight. Officers are searching for a
shop worker who is said to have struck
Candelaria.
At work in earnest on the proposed
railroad from Fort Worth to Tucum-
carl, Col G. III. Powell of Chicago is
now sending out questiOnnaires to
farmers and business men along the
right-of-way. No recent work has been
done on the road.
The first Home Rodeo" to be held
in Clayton took place recently when
one of the largest crowds ever seen in
Clayton was present. Some of the
best riders and rOpers in Union, Hard
ing and ColfaX counties participated
in the many events and special prizes
were awarded to the winners.
Harvey Burkett was found guilty of
second degree murder in his trial at
Fort Sumner, charged with the killing
of Ora Hall, near Ricardo, Feb. g. and
sentenced to forty to fifty years in the
penitentiary. His attorney gave notice
of appeal. The men were ranchers
and the killing followed dispute over
range land.
The tipple at the Weaver coal mine
at Gallup was burned recently. Indi-
cations are the fire was of incendiary
origin. Authorities are investigating
The 4oss of the tipple caused a COM
plete suspension of operations at the
mine, throwing 172 miners out of work
temporarily. The damage was esti-
mated at $4,000.
Committees are hard at work on the
plans for the big Indian fair which is
to be held in Gallup, Sept. 1929 and
80 in the City park. Ray Alrich and
Mike Kirk, Indian traders, have lined
up Indian dances as follows: The fire
dance of the Navajos, the Comanche
was. danoo of the Ielotae, the Eesle~tt1au
the Butterfly dance of the Hopis.
The nude body of Guy Dernier, we'll
known in Phoenix and throughout Ari-
zOnt, was found floating in the Ari-
iona canal, near Black Canon road,
about eight miles from Phoenix On
the throat was found a deep abrasion
and the chest was bruised in a num-
Der of places. About half a mile up
stream from where the body was dis
covered Dernier's automobile was
found standing on the banks of the ca
nal. On the seat his clothes had been
neatly arranged.
Two brides in a double elopement
who are being detained in Albuquerque
following the arrests of their husbands
on charge of having stolen the two
automobiles in which they came here
on their honeymoon, requested officers
to allow them to obtain work in Albu-
querque and not be returned to their
homes in Laramie, Wyo. Authorities
received advices to hold Leo E. Groat
and James A. HOLIDAY, the bride
groOms, for authorities at Cheyenne
WyO., where the automobiles are al
legged to have been stolen.
Effective Oct. l, the wages of all
employees of the Ray Consolidated Cop
per Company who are paid by the day
will be increased 10 per cent
Officials of the coal mines in the
vicinity of Ration report that the 1921
wage scale went into effect the first
of September. The step was made to
make the wage scale the same as that
of competitive fields.
preliminary statistics by the Depart
ment of Commerce reveal decrease
of 1873 per cent in the lumber cut of
Arizona and New Mexico mills during
1921 over the preceding year. These
figures are the result of a careful CEN
sus of the lumber industries in these
states conducted by the bureau of the
census, Department of Commerce. act
ing in cooperation with the forest
service, United States Department of
Agriculture. New Mexico's output fell
off IA per cent, while that of Arizona
has shrunk to almost one-third of it's
1920 production estimate. The falling
off in lumber production in the two
states during 1921 is attributed by the
forest service to the general slump in
business conditions. Some thirty-sev-
en- mills were idle in the two states
through the year.
George IanpfOrd oamo wardop of