The St. Johns herald., 1922-05-04
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
(wsstern Newspaper Union News ssr7ics.)

the recent election in Arizona.
 Both lumber mills at Flagstaff, Ariz., have been opened with orders suffi- cient to keep them in operation for a long period.
 Several Douglas, Ariz., men are plan ming to organize county fair associ- atiOn with a capitalization of several thousand dollars.
 The body of Vidal Lopez, taxi driver, was found on the highway six teen miles north of Albuquerque with two bullet wounds in the body.
 Lester Mcintyre, just recently dis charged from the army, was accident ally killed at Wilcox, Ariz., by his puddle in the army, Eddie Adcocks.
 Capt. S. S. France, commanding
 Company E, Arizona National Guard,
 las been appointed a member of the general staff of the state of Arizona.
 The residents of Roswell, N. M., are now making plans for the annual car nival of apple blossoms, which is al- ways attended with much enthusiasm.
 Mrs. H. A. Guild, chairman of the Arizona State Child Welfare Board, will withdraw from all official duties in connection with the state and gen eral federation of women's clubs.
 A measure directed against the Ku Klux Kan which is believed to have an Arizona organization, has been in troduced in the House by Representa- tive D. A. Matthews of Graham coun- ty, Arizona.
 The bond issue for $45,O0O voted on at the election held in Roswell, carried by vote of g to 1, there being practi- cally no opposition. This is the first issue for public improvements in Ros- well since 1908.
 The Salt River Valley Water Users Association will be self-suppOrting organization during the 1922-23 year for the first time since the construc- tion of the Roosevelt dam, according to tentative operations budget.
 Two Maricopa county motorcycle of ficers were injured, one fatally, when their machines collided recently while they were chasing an automobile speeder The accident occurred on the Tempe road one mile east of Phoenix.
 Five justice of the peace precincts in Pima county, Arizona, were abol- ished by the board of supervisors. The elimination of the precincts will be eff fective Jan. 1, 1923, and will, it Is ex- pected, result in the saving of $25,0O0 a year to the county.
 Secretary Weeks declined to send federal troops into New Mexico in re- spOnse to a telegram from Governor M. c. Mechem, who said he might need them to preserve order in the Gallup coal fields, where martial law has been declared, as a result of disorders incident to the coal strike.
 After a conference in Nogales be- tween the sheriff and members of the board of supervisors, wages of four deputy sheriffs of Santa Cruz county, Arizona, were ordered cut from $150 to $125 month. This action was talk en due to the fact that the salary ac- count of the sheriff is said to be over drawn.
 Arizona is morally obligated to its injured or killed while in the discharge of their duties, and can le- gally extend relief to such injured per sons or their beneficiaries. That, in effect, is the opinion of the State Su preme Court, contained in a decision in the case of Gordon Huntington one of the four state highway employees in- jured in delayed blast on the Tempe road about two years ago.
 Owing to the long dry spell in the Lincoln national forest, plans are now being made for the fire guard for the 1922 season, and it Is likely that the | force will be the largest ever put in the forest.
 c. c. Stetson, secretary to Herbert | Hoover, secretary of commerce, has | been in Santa Fe to arrange for the final meeting of the Colorado river ba sin commission which, he said, will be | held in Santa Fe in July or August. Gov. M c. Mechem of New Mexico said that in addition to the members of the commission representing the seven interested states, several of the governors of those states are expected to be in attendance.
 Evacuation of homes on company lands by striking miners and their families at Gallup, N. M., started fol- lowing the military order issued for the entire mining district now under martial law. Unmarried striking min CTS were given three hours to move off the lands. Married miners were allowed a reasonable time to move