The Holbrook news., 1922-09-15
Southwest News
 From All Ouer Neu Mexico
 and Arizona

c1Iy treasurer SHOWS tudl AlDuQueTQut has spent over half a million on its paving since the year 1919.
 Due to the shortage of coal at the big furnaces at Pueblo, Colo, mangan csc operations at the Boston Hill mines near Silver City have been stopped.
 The recovery of S149,OO0 worth oi notes and bonds, issued by the defuncl Bank of Phoenix to creditor banks 1T Los Angeles, by the payment of S21OOt in cash, has been announced by An drew Baumert, Jr., receiver.
 F. J. Kasper of Swink, Colo, chief agriculturist for the Holly Sugar Cor poyation, recommended at a meeting oi business men at Las Cruces that sugar beet demonstration planting be con tinued in the Mesilla Valley next sea son.
 Plans are being made for the exca- vation of the Aztec ruins south Of Pennington, part of the work to be done by the University of Denver. An auto road will be made to the ruins and sixteen men and two teams will be used in the work.
 F. c. Sganzini, Jr., who was given a hearing in the court of Judge Schauer at Gallup, N. M., was assessed a fine of S1OO and costs and sentenced to serve ninety days in the county Jail, but the jail sentence was suspended. The charge of carrying a deadly wea- pon was filed by the district attorney.
 Police on both sides of the interna- tional line at Nogales are searching for Juan N. Beltram, city treasurer of Nogales, Sonora, who is reported to have disappeared following the recent discovery of an alleged shortage of S1,- 49225 in his accounts. It was report ed in the Sonora town that the short age was believed to be as high as S2O,- 900.
 The tax commission will follow Dis trict Judge Harry P. Owens decision in regard to teachers pay, J. E. Saint, tax commission chairman, stated when the commission took up the Torrance county school budget. Under the de cision the highest pay that can be giv- en a teacher in one. two or three-room rural school is S11O month for nine months.
 The gold strike reported from the United Verde Extension mine, near Jerome, Ariz., recently, continues to be a topic of interest in the Verde district. While no statement of the extent of the find has been given out as yet, it is practically certain, it is said, that the deposit will prove of great value, with the ore growing richer as the drift is advanced.
 How two 15-year-old girl chums tired of convent life and left the insti- tuition through the window at night, joined circus showing in Fl Paso, and were rescued in Juarez, was told at preliminary hearing given Secun- dino Esquida, part owner of the cir was held on S5,000 bond on charge of Kidnapping, pending the outcome of the hearing, which Is to be resumed shortly.
 The strike of the United Mine Work CTS of America which has been in ef feet at Gallup. N. M., since April l, has been called off by the officials of the district headquarters at Pueblo, Colo. The men were instructed to Ire turn to work wherever they can ob- tain it." Many of the miners, it Is said, have made arrangements to go to some of the eastern states where the operators have signed contracts with the union.
 Protection of the town of Holbrook. AriZ., from flood waters of the Little Colorado river has made necessary an appropriation which will increase tax es more than 10 per cent. In accord ance with the state law. in such cases, the town authorities have asked the State Tax Commission for an emergen- cy appropriation of S20.000.
 According to a report given out by the postoffice officials some thirty of fees in New Mexico will soon be dis continued. The list follows: Platero in Bernalillo county; Trachedo in Ca tron county; Felix in Chaves county :; Center Valley and West Fl Paso in Dona Ana county; Ruia and Swartz in Grant county; Halle in Guadalupe county: King and Beauty in Lea coun- ty; Desco in Lincoln county; Rincon- ada in Rio Arriba county; Benson, Garrison, Kermit and Valley View in Roosevelt county; Casa SaIazar m Sandoval county; Cherry Vale, Park Springs. Tecolete, Trujillo in San Mi guel county; Pojuaque in Socorro county; East View, Quari, Manzano, Pinoswells and Varney in Torrance county; Patterson in Union county, Ballejos and Seama in Valencia county.
 Dr. w. G. Randall, 46, was shot and killed at Florence, Ariz.. by Miss Kath- erine Encinas, 26, nurse at the Flor ence hospital. Miss Encinas. after the shooting. walked across the street to the court house and surrendered her self to the sheriff. She is being held in Jail pending hearing
 Jack Fenwick, a mechanic employed in the Oliver garage in Lovington, N. M., was shot and seriously wounded in front of the home Of T. R. Rogers. who it is alleged did the shooting. Two of the five bullets fired from a pistol entered the body of the youth.
 The New Mexico state Democratic convention at Albuquerque nominated A. A. Jones for the Senate, John Mor- row for Congress and James F. Hin