Williams news., 1922-07-21
Southwest News From All OUer NeLU MexiCO
 and Arizona

Mescalero will soon be completed and will be one of the finest in that part
 of New Mexico. A large force of men Is now rushing the road to compile ton.
 The cabbage crop in the Mesilla val ley, near Mexico, will amount to more than 100 cars. Prices range from S2O
 to $35, the average being around $27.5O
 a ton. The Copenhagen market vari-
 ety is the one favored in that district.
 The Springer, N. M, post of the American Legion is not making plans
 for a big two days fair to be held at Springer the first of September. The
 program will consist of a big exhibit
 of cattle and horses and all kinds of
 farm products, as well as a big list of
 sporting events.
 Miss Bethine Stephens, 16 years old,
 shot out both her eyes at her home in
 Deming when she attempted to commit
 suicide. Three shots are said to have
 been fired, two of them taking effect
 in the face, one of her eyes being
 blown out and the optic nerve of the
 other shot off.
 Friends in Nogales, Ariz., are appre
 hensive of the fate of H. Gordon Glore, Nogales contractor, and a party aboard HIS lISIllLS SClIOOhOT W111Cll, dCCOIu1ES
 to word received in Nogales from Ga
 borca, Sonora, sank in a storm on the night of July 4, near St. Georges bay, off the coast of Sonora.
 Thirty business houses were flooded, several Mexican dwellings floated away and three bridges washed out by a flood which swept through the bor- der cities of Nogales, Ariz., and No Sonora ron0nf1U The flood ters came down an arroyo which leads into the two cities from the northern part of Sonora.
 Floyd O. Fitch and his wife, Sarah, were sentenced to thirty days each in the county jail by Justice Henry J. Sullivan of Phoenix on charges of as sault after their adopted daughters, Ophelia and Nadine Fitch, 13 and respectively, had barred their backs and shown bruises and weltS which the children said were inflicted by the foster parents.
 Two sets of brothers battled on the open range near Steeplerock, N. M., forty miles east of Clifton, Ariz. One was killed and another wounded. A feud over cattle and horses is said to have precipitated the fight. Bat Brad berry, who, with his brother, Mart is said to have batded Johnny Fulcher, who was slain, and Sidney Fulcher, who was wounded, al though the extent of his injury is not known.
 The contract for the new road in the MimbreS valley from Santa Rita to San Lorenzo, has been let to Peterson, and Grunther of Omaha, the | cost to be over S115, ,OOO. The distance | Is about 91a miles and the building of | the new road will open up one of the | finest farming sections of the valley to | which the markets have been shut off | for several years. The work will be | started at once and the new road will De completed by early fall
 Approximately S3OO,OOO in outstand- ng state warrants, which the state of Arizona heretofore has been unable to pay, will now be paid upon presenta- ion at the treasurer's office, it was in Phoenix by State Treas 1rer Earhart. The payment of these warrants some of which are of long standing, he said is made possible un- Ter the provisions of the financial ode which went into effect on July l. Garhart urged holders of all state war ants to present them for payment at 'nce.
 The total assessed valuation of the of the twenty-eight railroad companies operating in Arizona for 922 taxation purposes, according to a tatement issued by the State Tax is $1OO, 1895, ,656.5O, or $766,- O3. 10 less than the total assessed val ation of the same property in 1921, which was $1O1, ,161, ,S59.6O.
 Adelbert Holladay, 80, of Miami, and Daisy, his 1O-year-old daughter, rowned in Roosevelt lake, near Globe. Daisy, while bathing, went beyond her or help, swam out in an attempt to escue her. Both perished in spite of ne efforts of Donald Brown, also of Iiamf, to save them. Both bodies were 
 At the recent special election held Cimarron, N. NI., the $75,OOO school onds carried by a vote of almost 3 to
 The bonds will be sold soon and le construction of the building will e started at once. It will be connect l with the remodeled present build lg will have nine class rooms, com ned gymnasium and auditorium, do- esfic science and manual training ,oms, library and superintendent's of ce.
 U. s. Senator Holm O. Bursum wired as Cruces, N. M., from Washington, . C., that his bill creating an aI-year hn Ind |