The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-30
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News Service. )

| Ol the New MeXlc0 National Guard or MOuntainair, N. NJ.
 The Bisbee High School Girls bas- ketball team, by defeating Mesa at Tucson by a score of 33 to 20, won the state championship for this year.
 AS a result of the opening of the copper mines in the southern part of New Mexico there are now nearly 400 men employed in the big smelter at Fl PasO.
 Lon C. Harmon, heading what was known as the Taxpayers ticket, was elected mayor of Phoenix at primary ballot that drew the heaviest vote in the city's history.
 A large number of Texas cattlemen are going to Las Vegas to attend the annual convention of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers ASsOcia- ti 1n, March 20 and 21.
 Mohave county in Arizona is taking steps to build a good road from ChlOr Idle to the Boulder canon damsite, in the Grand Canon. This road will run by way of White Hills.
 A number of mining men recently visited CarrizOzO to make plans for the operation of the iron mines near Cap ltan in the Capitan mountains. COnsid- erable development work is planned. ,, For the first time in months a night shift, composed of a foreman, three shift bosses and about fifty men, is again working at the Junction shaft of the Calumet and Arizona Mining Com pany's Bisbce property.
 G. w. P. Hunt, former governor of Arizona, and Marcus A. Smith, former United States senator from Arizona, recently addressed the State Legisla- ture in joint session. Governor Camp bell and other state officials were pres ent. The House gallery was filled to capacity.
 Reorganization of the school system ar the state penitentiary at Florence, Ariz., is being worked out under the direction of Governor Thomas E. Campbell with the view of giving those behind the bars a better opportunity to become good citizens on their re- lease from prison.
 The Bank of Phoenix has closed. The institution formerly was the Central Bank, which suspended business on March 21, 1921, and was reOrganized three months later as the Bank of Phoenix A recent statement listed the capitalization at S1O0,OO0 and de- posits aggregating $1 1,537, ,4S5.
 J. P. Parker, ranchman living east of Farwell, Texas, died from a bullet wound in the stomach said to have been inflicted by H E. Guy, president of the Farwell State Bank, and of the Farmers State Bank, TexicO, N. NJ, and mayor of the latter city. The shooting is said to have taken place outside the bank as a result of a fi- nancial difference. Guy was arrested and released on bond. He claims self defense.
 What Is considered the largest amount figuring in the liability column of any Individual voluntary petition in bankruptcy filed in years was record ed in the United States district clerks office at Santa Fe, when William Wiley Jernigan, stockman of Lulu, OterO county, N. M, sent in his petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. Mir. Jernigan states that he owes the sum of $744,329 and his assets are $306,4 ,460. His main creditor is the Fl PasO Cattle Loan Company, for $345,- GOO.
 Senator Charles E. Burton of Yava- pal county, Arizona, has introduced in the Senate. two bills proposing to in- crease the governors salary from S6,- 800 a year to $12,OOO, and to raise the pay of legislators from $7 day to SIP.
 Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce who have been making an inspection of the wheatcrop of the val ley and the East Grand Plains district. report that the crop is in splendid con- GitiOn and there is every indication that the next years crop will be a bumper. The acreage is about the same as that of last year but the yield will be much better.
 Interest in the Vaughn, N. M., oil field is growing in leaps and bounds, inquiries are coming in from all parts of the United States, and some from Canada. That this field will now be thoroughly prOspected and developed Is no longer a guess, nor is the field to be rated as wildcat as the showing of oil in several wells drilled for wa ter have proven that oil is there and Is a guide in spOtting wells to be drilled for oil which almost assures