Williams news., 1922-05-12
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexiCO
 and ArizOnQ
Cwestsrn Newspaper Union New. Service )

| principal or the school at C1enega
 stated recently, stating that a suffi
 cient number Of teachers had beer | signed up.
 "The Colorado and Gila rivers must
 be damned by holding back in reser
 voirs their destructive strength" he
 asserted. These floods and their force
 can be utilized for power and land | reclamation"
 The Tucson High School baseball l team captured the high school cham pionship at Tucson by defeating the
 Gila Academy nine, 2 to l, in the third
 and deciding game of the University
 Week tournament staged at Tucson.
 The work of clearing the ground for
 the new First National Bank building
 in Albuquerque has been started and
 actual construction will be started
 soon- When completed the new build
 ing will cost over half a million dol
 lars.
 The summer conference of the Prot
 estant Episcopal missionary district of
 New Mexico and West Texas will be held in Las Vegas July 5-15. Decision to hold the conference there was made last February.
 HUH lhc oOS- ton Hill district near Silver City have been heavy recently, most of the ore going to the plants of the Colorado f'uel x Iron Company at Pueblo, Colo. A large force of men is now employed at the mines.
 A prairie fire, which started in one of the cafons of Roy, N- M, burned over several sections recently, and came near destroying the homes of sev- eral ranchers. The fact that there was little wind probably saved the homes of many of the ranchers.
 Thousands of little trout will be placed in the streams of Colfax coun- ty this spring by the sportsmen of Ra ton, N. Nj. A shipment of 10000 was placed in the streams in the Cimarron All were from the hatchery on the Pecos and arrived in good con- dition.
 At the request of the mothers Of the city, the Hot Springs, N. M., council | has passed a curfew ordinance and in the future all the kfddies must be off | the streets by o'clock in the evening. | Several of the mothers have offered to | act as night marshal of the town to | see that this is enforced.
 A new western empire with an as semblage of industries that will aston sh the world will result from harness ng of the Colorado river, Colonel Will jam A. Glassford declared at dinner n Phoenix of the National Reclama ion Association. He is chairman of he association's committee on organ zation.
 The progress of Arizona can be raced with accuracy by the develop nent of her road building, Governor 'hos. E. Campbell told delegates to the United States Good Roads Association n an address of welcome which fea- ured the opening program of the na- ional convention recently held in 'hoenix.
 Selection of Greenville, S. C., as the 923 convention city of the United tates Good Roads and the 'Bankhead Iational Highway Associations; re lection of all national officers of the 'ankhead Association, and adoption of
 report recommending extension of le Bankhead system to Mexico City ere features of the closing session of le two good roads organizations an ual joint meeting at Phoenix.
 Flats have been filed in Lordsburg, [. M, for the new town or Virden, To- lted in some of the best farming coun- y of the upper Gila river country. here are already several houses on le new site and streets have been laid ut running east, west, north and ,uth. A tree planting campaign will ? started soon. Nogales recently entertained one of le largest crowds of out-of-town wis ors in it's history. Fully 2,OOO people sited from Phoenix, Tucson and oth- points, attracted by a bull fight, held
 Plaza RefOrma in Nogales, Sonora,
 honor of delegates to the United -ates Good Roads and Bankhead Ma onal Highway Associations conven- OnS, concluded at Phoenix Hugh Kennedy, r, of Mayfield, 1la., died while en route to Pres tt hospital from Ash Fork, as a re- 1t of gunshot wounds and injuries in a fall from an east bound Topeka & Santa Fe freight | ain near Seligman, Ariz. Kennedy, ho partially recovered consciousness fore his death, told officers that he d been thrown from the train after wing been shot twice by an unknown lveling companion. From $S.5O to $3.5O a ton on cotton = ed from Las Cruces to Fl Paso is the l duction announced by w R. Brown, neral freight agent of the Santa F'e lilway Company at Fl Paso in a let r to Robert P. Porter, head of the rter Lumber Company at Las