The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-03-10
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona
twestern Newspaper Union News Service

and Acme has been finished and is
now open to traffic. This will shorten
the route between the two cities and
will be another link in the line in the
new Bankhead highway.
Donald r. Burnham, formerly con-
nected with the agricultural expert
ment station at Lawton, Okla, has
been appointed superintendent of the
U. S. dry-land experiment station at
Tucumcari, N. NJ, according to word
received recently.
A Mexican coming from Los An
geles and going to Miami attempted to
get off a moving train near Bowie and
was thrown violently to the ground
and received several injuries. He was
taken to Wilcox and placed under
medical care.
Louis Fernands, who arrived in New
York from South America recently, an
nOunced he would ask government of
ficials at Washington to investigate
the death Of William Young of Phoe-
nix, who, he asserts, was thrown into
Venezuelan prison and tortured and
beaten to death by the police of that
country.
Mistaking bottle Of carbolic acid
for medicine left by the attending ply
sician Mrs. Vasquez of Pirtleville, who
believed that if a teaspoonful was
beneficial two would be twice as good,
gave a double dose to her 7-year-old
son, with the inevitable result of bad
ly burned intestines, with possibility
that the mistake may be fatal.
Acting favorably on the application
of Arizona mining companies the rail-
roads have made a reduction of % per
cent per ton on coal, slack coal, coke
and coke breeze, according to an an
nOuncement made by l.. G. Ref, rate
clerk with the Corporation Commits
sion. The rate will become effective
on March %, and will expire Octo-
Der 25.
Livestock growers of New Mexico
are in greater need of thorough organ
ization and organized effort than ever
problems of the day." said T. e. Nit
chell, president of the New Mexico
Cattle and Horse Growers Associa-
ton, in statement given out at the
headquarters Of the association recent
" at Albuquerque.
III. B. Hening, editor of the Albu-
querque Evening Herald, says there
was no foundation whatever for the
rumOrS recently that Hearst had
bought or was about to buy the Her
aid. mot word of truth in it," he
said. 1t is understood Hearst repre-
sentatives have been in Albuquerque
for some time past, investigating the
newspaper situation.
Plans for orphans and indigent's
home for its members were perfected
at the annual meeting of the execu-
tive committee Of the supreme lodge
of the Alianza Hispano-Americana
Work will begin on the structure next
year. The site for the home already
has been donated by Carlos C.
AJacOme of Tucson. This site is To-
Gated south of Tucson and consists of
forty acres.
New Mexico's deposit in the Lords
burg State bank, which closed last
year, was wiped off State Treasurer
Strong's book when he received a
check for $5,596 from the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Maryland. This
was the size of the states deposit in
the bank. The check was the first re-
ceived by the state treasurer to reim-
burse the state for deposit in any
of the banks holding state moneys
that closed last year.
Joe Stratton of Santa Rosa, one Of
the prominent cattlemen of that Sec
ton, reports that cattle have wintered
well and that the prospects for spring
grazing is the best in many years.
Electing it's president, Henry G.
Boice of San Carlos, to the presidency
and choosing Phoenix as the next
meeting place and Prescott for the
semi-annual meeting, the fifteenth an
nual convention of the Arizona Cattle
Growers Association adjourned at
Globe several days ago. Other Off
GERS chosen are: G. A Webb, Globe
William Coburn, Prescott, and J. M.
Ronstadt, Tucson, as vice presidents,
and Fl. J. McClung of Phoenix as
treasurer.
ApolOnio A. Sena, former captain of
the mounted police at Las Vegas and
later editor of La Gaceta Neo Next
cano, has been bound to the grand
jury of Mora county under $500 bond
under charge of criminal libel. The
charge against Sena is that he made
false statements regarding the tax re-
turns of Tito Melendez, prominent
citizen of Mora county. One Of the
statements is said to have been that
Melendez returned a new Essex car in
1920 for $50.
w. III. Jones, who for the past three
years had been in the job department
Of the Dispatch at Douglas, died re-