The St. Johns herald., 1922-10-12
Southwest News From All OUeT NeU MexiCO
 and Arizona

line from BernalillO to the Jemenz
 coal and timber region will be started
 about the first of October.
 From newsboy to university presi-
 dent at the age of B is the record of
 Floyd Heck Marvin, MA, Ph.D., for l more than three years dean and assist
 ant director of the University of Cali
 fornia, Southern Branch, at Los An
 geleS. Floyd Heck Marvin is the new
 president of the University of Arizona.
 With reports in from every one of
 ArizOna's fourteen counties the figures
 show that former Gov. George w. P.
 Hunt has piled up a majority of 3,946
 votes over Charles B. Ward of PhOe-
 nix, the defeated candidate, in the con
 test for the Democratic nomination for
 governor. The total vote is: Hunt,
 20,758; Ward, 16,812.
 The forest service has just opened new road from Magdalena through the Datil national forest to the Gila forest
 boundary, according to a report of c. A. Long, district engineer of the forest service. Three heavy grades which | heretofore made the road almost i'm passable, have been cut down and the entire route will be in good shape.
 The First National Bank of Hope, N. M., was stripped of Liberty Bonds and all its securities, according to $. S. Ward, president, in a statement re- garding the alleged shortage of approx imately $6S,00O found by a national bank examiner No trace has been found of Hugh NJ. Gage, missing cash fer MT. Ward said the peculatiOns from the bank had been going on for six years.
 The weather bureau office at Santa Fe, N. M., reports that the month of August averaged much above the nor nal in temperature and much below in precipitation. The heat was intense over much of the state. Barring Aug ust, 1901, it was the hottest August in the last thirty-twO years. The month began with rather high temperatures, which rose higher till the 4th and 9th, pdSSl1AS 1OO uCSICC0 dL OA lAAO lower altitude and valley stations,
 Edward F. Winkler, a member of a band of six men who attempted to hold up the Golden State Limited on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, at Jaynes station, six miles from Tucson, Ariz., on May 15, was arrested in AL buquerque. He admitted his identity and told officers a detailed story of the attempted hOldup, in which H. Stewart, an express messenger, killed Tom Dupat, one of the holdup men, and foiled the plans of the band.
 Because Walter Weflin, a convict, has a disease of the joints that is stiff fening them and in time is likely to affect his jaws so that he can't open them, he was given pardon by Gov ernOr Mechem of New Mexico The | mans condition was reported to the l governor by Dr. E. w. FiSke, peniten- | tiary physician, who, according to the | governor, advised he be released at | once because the penitentiary didn't | have facilities to take care of a case | of this kind.
 Policeman George w. Harding will | have to face trial on a charge of fa- tally shooting Wylie Raymond COlvin | the youth who was wounded by a bull let from the officers revolver, and who died the following day at St Jo- seph's hospital in Phoenix. The cor Oner's jury Investigating the affair handed in a verdict to the effect that | the Laveen youth met his death as the fired from a revolver in the hands of the policeman.
 Hinting that a prominent Phoenix citizen and his wife are under surveil- lance and that an arrest was probable, city police and deputies from Sheriff John MOntgOmery's office in Phoenix are working on the theory that Guy Dernier was strangled to death The theories that Dernier came to his death by drowning or that he died of heart failure while swimming in the Arizona canal were abandoned when the cor oner's jury returned a verdict that Dernier "came to his death by asphyx- iation, cause undetermined"
 J. O. Clay, president of the Duran go, Colo, Exchange, during a recent visit to Aztec, reported that $3;300,O00 in land subscriptions had been raised for the new southern outlet railroad from this part of the state to Gallup. The drive for the remaining $7OO,OOO Is now on and it is expected that the necessary $4,O0O,OOO will be raised by the end of the present month. If the