The St. Johns herald., 1922-06-29
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(we,tsrn Newspaper Union News ssriosl

| cali and other parts Of the northern district of Lower California is well in hand" according to Dr. Fredereicio Gotta, health officer of Mexicali.
 Mrs. Juan COrdOva, widow of the man who was brutally murdered in | the hills near Taos, N. NJ, some time l ago, has been arrested, charged with the deed, and held for trial under bond of $1,OOO.
 The extensive building campaign that has been under way in Las Vegas for the past year came just in time to enable, Las Vegas to take care of the largest summer school in the history of the Normal University.
 The jury in the trial of S. B. Brown, charged with receiving deposits in the Central Bank of Wilcox as cashier after he knew the bank was insOlvent returned a verdict of guilty. It is re- ported that the jurors took but two ballots.
 Plans are now under way to hold big auto race July in Las Cruces in which only Ford cars will be allowed to participate. The track is being worked over and will be in the best condition at this time and some good speed is looked for.
 The 1923 convention of the Arizona division of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks will be held in No gales. Postmaster Charles Beatty an nounced that NOgales was chosen by a unanimous vote at the annual cOnven- tion held in Tucson
 When the new Santa Fe shops in Albuquerque are completed and run ming on full time over 5000 men will be employed according to reports of the officials in charge. The machin- cry in the new machine shop alone will cost over $1,OOO,OOO.
 Through negotiations that have been under way for the past month, the AL amogOrdO State Bank and the Peoples State Bank of AlamogordO and the First State Bank of ClOudcroft, have been merged and the business will be done in AlamOgOrdO under the name of the First State Bank.
 Charging that his good name and reputation were subjected to humilia tiOn by reason of his arrest and i'm prisOnment on a charge of having har- bored bandits who held up the Golden State Limited train west of Tucson on May 15, Richard Starr has filed suit in Tucson against Sheriff BeE F. Daniels for $10,250 and against the Maryland Casualty Company for $1O,OOO.
 Pablo Ybarra, sentenced to be hanged at the Grant county jail in 1917 for the murder of Sara Lemos, Hur- ley woman, and who recently escaped from the state asylum, is now in the county jail in Silver City, having been re-arrested in Fl PasO. The next step in the case will be to determine the sanity of the prisoner, and should he be found sane it is believed that the death penalty will be carried out. If found insane he will be re-committed to the asylum.
 Following a meeting of Arizona state allOcation board at Phoenix, 1t was an nounced that recommendations would be made by the board for the designa- tiOn and location of seven additional units of the organized reserves in Ari- zOna. The board will recommend that headquarters of the 205th infantry bri- gade and the brigade's headquarters be transferred from Tucson to Warren, Ariz., and that the headquarters com pany of the 4O9th infantry be moved from Bisbee to Tucson.
 Placido Silvas, one of eight alleged bandits who robbed the Ruby, Ariz, postoffice last August, and shot and killed Postmaster and Mrs. Frank J. Pearson, was found guilty of charge of murder by jury in Superior Court at Nogales The jury fixed punish ment at life imprisonment.
 Contracts for the construction of approximately thirty-twO miles of the Old Trails Highway between Winslaw and Holbrook have been awarded by State Engineer Thomas MRddock, and 1t is thought work will be started with in a few days Separate bidding was done on three different sections of the graded and surfaced road, and the low est bids totalled about $75,000.
 Sheriff George Baton of Eddy cOun- ty and a Mexican outlaw are dead, and Deputy Sheriff Stone NIilburn is seriously wounded as the result of gun battle at Hope, N. M, recently. Sheriff Baton and Deputies Stone | Milburn and Sam Baton went to Hope