The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

on juries.
Governor Hinkle has signed the
formal ratification of the Colorado
and La Plata river compacts, passed
without opposition by both Houses of
| the New Mexico Legislature.
The work of double tracking the
Santa Fe tracks through Gallup, which
was announced some time ago, is soon
to become reality, and large force
of men are now at work on the job.
A request that the international
border between CaleXico, Calf, and
MeXicali, Lower California, be closed
at 6 o'clock at night instead of being
kept open all day and night, has been
sent to Secretary of State Hughes by
the federated club women of the I'm
perial valley.
President Cloyd Heck Marvin will
be formally installed as president Of
the University of Arizona on April 23
and "a. The first day of the program
will start with registration of dele
gates. On the second day the dele
President Marvin inducted.
Governor Hunt, accompanied by
several members Of the lower House
of the Legislature, recently visited
Florence, where the party made an in
spectiOn Of the state penitentiary.
Anon the legislators who went were
DIR. B. E. BriscOe and O. S. French,
representatives from Cochise county.
Did a prehistoric race inhabit
Yavapai county, existing before the
Indian tribes that were supplanted by
the white man? This question was
brought up before several Prescott
authorities recently by the discovery
in Granite Dells of the remains of
what is apparently a prehistoric man.
With 106 bodies recovered and four
teen still missing buried under huge
piles of debris in mine No. 1 at Daw-
son, N. NJ, demolished by a terrific
explosion, workers began mucking out
the wreckage which litters the work
Officials declared the exact cause of
the accident has not yet been deter
mine. Only two of the 122 entombed
miners escaped.
Horace billiard, 14-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. billiard of Springer,
N. NJ is in a serious condition as the
result of an accident with the car he
was driving. One of the front wheels
struck an obstruction in the road and
the car SWerved and turned over twice.
The boys chest was partially crushed
by broken ribs, and he received inter-
nal injuries.
w. L. Rutherford, sheriff of Otero
county, was shot and almost instantly
killed at Alamogordo when he ac-
costed two escaped convicts, who
drove into town in stolen car. The
car in which the murderers were rid
ing was taken from Deputy Sheriff
Pete Lucinco, who attempted to ar
rest them at Corona earlier in the day.
They disarmed him and threw him out
of the car. They then took the car
and drove on to Alamogordo
Word has been received in Albn-
querque of the arrest of Juan Archu-
Ieta and Elias Archuleta at Casper,
Wyo in connection with the murder
of Antonio Vargas at Ojo Caliente, n.
NJ, July II, 1914 The killing is said
to have grown out of the prosecution
of Elias Archuleta upon the charge Of
carrying a deadly weapon and the at
tempt by the accused man to secure
a continuance of the hearing, which
was to be held before justice Of the
peace.
Officers collecting plants for study
in range management have discovered
uncommon grasses and weeds in ma
tional forests of New Mexico, accord
ing to advice from the Department of
Agriculture in Washington received by
District Forester f. G. w. PoOler in
charge of the southwestern district of
the forest service at Albuquerque.
The Yuma Chamber of Commerce is
planning to make 1923 a big year.
Good roads, particularly to the coast,
will be the first thing the chamber
goes after. Following a meeting of
the board of directors 0. I. McCOon
was delegated to go to Los Angeles to
meet with the good roads committee of
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, outlining plans for better high
ways between the two cities
Four Navajo Indians, arrested and
placed in the Mckinley county Jail at
Gallup, have been taken to Prescott,
charged with the murder of Frank Du-
gan, Indian trader, slain at his Cross
Canon store. Another Indian has been
held in the Prescott Jail for some time
on the same charge. A search is still
in progress for other Indians alleged
to be implicated The NavaiOs are
said to have killed about one trader a
year for many years past.
Representative Jones of Maricopa
county has introduced a measure pro-
viding for the submission to the peo-
pie of Arizona of the question Of is