Williams news., 1922-06-30
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU MexicO
 and Arizona
(western Newspaper Union News se7ice.)

| (western Newspaper Union News service.) Insurance agents of New Mexico are | to become organized to raise the stand ard of insurance practice in that state. Over 15O car loads of cattle have been shipped to the markets at Kan sas City during the past month from Glenrio, N. Nj.
 The first head lettuce of the season from the Mesilla valley was shipped from Las Cruces few days ago. From now on the shipments will be heavy.
 All state highways in southern Ari- zona are in excellent condition, l. P. Fraizer, maintenance engineer for the
 State Highway Department, declared recently.
 Nearly POO students reported at the first assembly of the summer school at the State University at Albuquerque. This will be the first summer course held since 1918.
 A boom is said to have struck Vaughn, N. NJ, since the oil operations have started in that section of the state. Many new buildings are now un- der construction.
 Drilling was resumed this week at the oil well of W. D. Owens near Ros-
 
 well was found at the depth of 45O feet and the outlook is good.
 At a recent meeting of the city coun- cil of Tucumcari, \. NJ, an occupation tax was passed. The tax will be one dollar on each thousand dollars worth of business done in the past year.
 Mrs. M. McKitterick, mother of four children, the eldest 9 years old, has announced her candidacy for sheriff of Maricopa county on the Democratic ticket. She is a Salvation Army work CT in Phoenix. Mrs. McKitterick is said to be the first woman candidate for sheriff in Arizona.
 A conference of public utility com miSsionerS from far western states to discuss the Southern Paeific-Central Pacific separation question closed re- gently with telegraphic appeal by the commissions of California, Arizona and New Mexico to the Interstate Commerce Commission to expedite it's proposed consolidation scheme for the two railroads under authority of the transportation act of 1920.
 Two indictments returned by a spe- cia1 county grand jury which is inves- tigating activities at Phoenix of the Ku Klux Klan, jointly charge Tom Ak CTS, lOTmST cUllOI O1 luc Gazette, and Harold Taffe, a ign painter, with Kidnapping and ag- gravated assault, it became known re- in connection with a flogging admins tered to Ira Haywood, a negro, by a band of men in March.
 Mining excitement has been stirred | up by find by a Spanish-American of | the vicinity of Gascon, N. M. It is re- | ported that several parties have of | fered considerable sums for the prop | erty, but all offers have been turned | down. It has been a well recognized | fact that precious metals exist in the | foothills of the Sapello, and in the i'm l mediate locality around Beulah, but | sufficient capital has not been availa- | ole to open up the various leads.
 The B. B. Shots Product Company is the name of a new company formed in N. M., to market the pinon crop of that section of the state in an attractive manner. The. nuts will be cleaned, roasted and polished, and put ID in attractive packages under the name of B. B. Shots. The packages will be put up in display cartons con aiming twenty-four packages which will be in turn packed twenty-four to he case for shipment.
 Arizona's share of S195, 1000, 900 ap- recently by Congress for a hree-year road schedule, will be ap- $2,66S, ,O69, according to word received by State Engineer Thomas Maddock.
 Five bandits were killed and three Ire known to have been wounded in a lOldup of a combination freight and train of the Southern Pa Iazatlan, Sonora, and Topic, Sinoloa, IeXico, a few days ago, according to
 conductor.
 B. R. Raumaker left Douglas recent y to give testimony before the Inter- tate Commerce Commission in case fled by the Arizona Corporation Com mission in complaint of railroad fares oth into and out of Arizona. The low 4 st fare per mile is AS cents. A de 1and will be made for the same cut l own as in other states. The Arizona commission recites in it's complaint nat there are no winter tourists tick . ts sold at special rates to Arizona oints, though such fares are sold in T Paso and coast points. The Arizo- a commission again attacks the rail pads in demanding 10 per cent re- uction in grain rates.
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