The Holbrook news., 1922-10-27
Southwest News
 From, All OUer NeU Mexico
 and ArizOnd

being moved as fast as cars can be secured. Valley pasture is getting scarce in Arizona. Feeder cattle are coming into Yuma and Maricopa coun- ties, ArioZna.
 Friends of Robert Anderson, vet eran mining man and owner of the oldest mine in New Mexico, who died in Fl Paso hospital recently, are searching for his relatives, who are heirs to a fortune estimated at from S150,OOO to S20O,0O0.
 E. E. Miller, of Hope, \. M.. has a new steam canner at work which he claims will turn out over 5000 cans per day, and is now running on pears, apples and tomatoes. Mir. Miller says he is going to put up new building for the canning factory.
 Inheritance tax collections in Ari- zona for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, amounted to S65, 104.3S, ac- cOrtling to n report made to Raymond R. Earhart, state treasurer, by NOrl Osborn, Jr., inheritance tax collector. This amount was credited to the gen eral fund.
 George White, an employe of pay ing company in Bisbee, fell into pot of boiling asphalt, and was seriously burned. White screamed for aid as he fell from plank into the asphalt, and was pulled out by l.. A. Sullivan, fellow employe. Physicians say he will recover.
 The Fort Apache, Arizona. military reservation containing approximately 7,500 acres, has been declared useless for future military purposes and placed under control of Secretary Fall of the Interior Department. The res ervation has been since 1877 under war department jurisdiction.
 Neri Osborn. IT,, state tax inheri- tance clerk of Arizona, has been chO- sen state adjutant of the American Legion to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of D. A. Little, accord ing to an announcement made public ;n Phoenix by Celora NJ. Stoddard, tax commander of the legion.
 The Sisters of St. Mary, of Gallup, are busy with the plans for new ad- dition to the hospital which will be used for contagious diseases, and added over $500 to the building fund during the Indian fair by giving q tag day The new structure will be so built that at any time additions can be added to take care of more pa tients. When completed the structure will cost S4,000.
 The cotton gin at Roswell was nearly destroyed by fire recently and the loss is estimated at over 5000. which was covered by insurance. Five bales of cotton were also burned with a loss to the owners of about $125 per bale. The fire started in the press room, and Chief Chas. Whiteman is of the opinion that the static conditions electrical machinery caused the blaze. By the time the department reached the gin it was mass of flames.
 In q further effort to help the live
 
 districts of the state, the Santa Fe railroad telegraphed the state cOrpo- ration committee that the freight on feed stuff would be reduced one-half. The reduction will apply on cotton seed cake, meal and hulls, corn and articles taking corn rates; hay and al- falfa. It will be applicable from Santa Fe points, in Texas, Oklahoma, Cobra do and Kansas; also from Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. to all Santa Fe points in New Mexico. The reduction has been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission and became ef- fective October 20.
 Playing through two matches in the morning and then facing younger opponent in the finals for the mems singles championship in the tenth an- nual Border States Tennis Tourna- ment, concluded at Tucson, Ferguson of Fl Paso. defeated Hutchinson. of Phoenix, Ariz., in straight sets. 6-1, 62. 6-1.
 At Il recent meeting of the city council, the order to pave the main street of Artesia, x. M. was passed and it is planned to begin work as soon as the contract is let. If the present plans are carried out the work will be finished after the first of the year and will do much toward relieving the labor situation during the winter months
 l.. C. Latham, owner of several claims in the Black Range in the vi- cinity of Kingston, recently discov- cred fine vein of silver, which it is said will run over S1,0O0 to the ton of ore. This is one of the best strikes in that section of New Mexico for some time and plans are being made to develop the property after the first of the year. In the prospecting work several tons of ore have already been placed on the dump.
 Governor Mechem refusing to com mute the sentence, Steve Katonka was hanged at Aztec for murdering two taXiC;ib drivers near Shiprock. \. M. Governor Mechem's statement was in reply tO petition accompanied by fourteen pages of signatures from San Juan county and q telegram signed by ten jurors who sat at his trial. The petition contained a strange request that the governor hold Mrs. Katonka In prison ,lie full length Jt time in his power" She was given term in the