The Snowflake herald., 1922-11-17
Southwest News
From All OUer
Neu Mexico
and Arizona


have been packed at the big cannery
at Hondale, N. M, this season.
Fire practically destroyed the Wom-
ems building at the Government hos
pital at Fort Bayard, n. NJ, recently.
The Catholic church and school, in.
Springer, n. NJ, was completely de-
stroyed by fire recently and the total
loss is estimated at over $4,000.
Homer Williams, % years old, of
Collinsville, Texas, died at Phoenix
| hospital from burns received when he
rolled into bonfire near Gila Bend.
John Connolly, at one time light
weight boxing champion of New Mex
| icO, passed away at his home in Ros-
we'll following an attack of typhoid
| fever.
At special meeting of the students
| of the University of New Mexico over
S., 900 was pledged for the football
work of the college during the re-
mainder of the season.
Johnson & Cook, cattle dealers at
| Wilcox ,Ariz., soon will open new
| commission office in Los Angeles, ac-
| cording to statements made by George
L. Nee, member of the firm.
Owing to the long drouth and the
| lack of feed on the ranges in the Vi
| cinity of Alamogordo, N. NJ, most OF
the stock is being shipped to the Salt
| River Valley, of Arizona, for the win
| ter.
f. Z. Perry, 80 years old, died at a
hospital in Prescott as result of in
juries received when he fell from
| Santa Fe electric repair car twelve
| miles north of Preston and was run
| over by the car.
The old mine shaft recently found
on the Rainbolt ranch, near Silver
City. n. NJ, by Graham and Downey,
has been opened and a large quantity
of mine equipment found at the bot
tom of the shaft.
Surveyors of Albuquerque returning
from the western part of Valencia
County, report that all the lakes in
that section of the state are dry and
that thousands of fish are being found
dead on the dry beds.
An increase in the tonnage to be
mined at the MOrenci, AriZ., mines of
the Phelps Dodge Corporation to 1,4OO
tons a day, or double the present ton
mage, has been announced by Capt. j.
P. HOdgson, manager.
The Tidal Wave Midnight mine, in
the vicinity of HillsbOro, n NJ, has
developed good supply of water to
operate the mine and mill The ship
ping of ore will be started soon and
a busy season is looked for.
Ora Harris, White City Negress,
charged with the murder of Wolf Pat
terson on the night of August 18th
during a fight at the Negro resort
| near Fort Huachuca, was found not
guilty by jury after all-night delib-
GRAFTON.
Oil drilling operations at the Ada
mana property, near HOlbrOOk, Ariz.,
are reported to be progressing salts
factOrily, a depth of 2,61S feet being
attained at present. The drill is again
in the hardest kind of gray lime with
a trace of OIL This, according to the
company's geologist, is the best indi-
cation so far encountered in the well.
Under the auspices of the Otero
County Farm Bureau, the annual poul-
try show will be held in Alamogordo
the first week in December and the
dates have been set for the 9Th, 9th
and 7th. Poultry growers from ali
parts of the county will have exhibits
and it is believed that the coming
show will be the best ever held in the
county.
Ore production by the Ray Consoli-
dated Copper Company now amounts
to about 5000 tons day, the ship
ments going regularly to the con-
centrator at Hayden, Ariz. The COM
pany is employing about 700 men in
all departments.
Auto tourists camped near the river
bottoms at Phoenix found the body of
a Chinese in a small ravine near the
edge of the river The head and both
feet were severed from the body and
the pockets of the clothing had been
turned inside out
John S. Mcclure, chairman of the
cabbage department of the DOna Ana
County Farm Bureau Marketing AssO-
citation, announces that all cabbage
grown in the Mesilla Valley next sea-
son will be shipped through Cronbie &
Co. of Eel Paso, who handled the 1922
crop.
Harry ID. Midkiff and Lewis A. Par
ham, both former United States pro-
hibition enforcement agents, were ar
rested at Phoenix on warrants sworn
out by Assistant U. S. Attorney Fran
els ID. Cradle, charging in effect the
fraudulent padding of expense ac-
l.