The Winslow mail., 1923-03-09
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

The Imperial Store, owned by Zlaket
Brothers, at Springer, n. NJ, was en-
tered by thieves, who made their es-
cape with merchandise valued at over
500.
CP. Cramer, one of the best known
mining men in Grant county, N. NJ,
was instantly killed when he plunged
to the bottom of an old forty-foot shaft
N the mining region of Central.
There is great activity in the lower
part of the Pecos Valley, New Mexico,
oil field and there is now every indi-
cation that during the coming summer
several new wells will go down.
Thirty five members were added to
the Last Cruces Chamber of Com
merce in the big drive which has been
staged in that city and surrounding
country during the past month.
With payroll of approximately
| $4,000 per month and about $50 men
at work, the town of Hayden, Ariz., is
wearing more prosperous appearance
| than it has borne for the past two and
half years.
Franklin LAGRANGE was found guilty
of murder in the first degree for the
killing of Walter Steinbrook, by jury
in Superior Court at Prescott The
jury fixed the punishment at life i'm
| priSOnment
Members of the lodge of Elks have
offered their Elks home to the Cham
Der of Commerce for the sessions of
the Cattle and Horse Growers Associ-
alton which will be held at Las Vegas
March 16, II and IS.
Oscar Karl was adjudged insane at
| Tombstone, Ariz., after a hearing be-
fore the lunacy commission. Karl was
taken off a main line train at Benson
He was on his way to California and
went insane on the train between Will
cox and Benson.
Title to twenty-one mining claims of
| the Black Diamond Mining and Devel-
opment Company, near Prescott, Ariz.
has passed into the hands of George
A. Weatherby of Decatur, ILL.,, follow
ing completion of court proceedings in
volving this property.
New Mexicos institutions of higher
education took a long step forward
'ecently-a step which places them
ahead of virtually all other universi-
ties in the nation-when they launched
plans for Immediately inaugurating
the study of public service
! With five clubs represented, the
Panhandle-Pecos Valley baseball
league was perfected at big meeting
held in Clovis. AT the close of the
meeting the salary of the players was
set at $1,000, exclusive of the manager
and the player limit placed at thirteen
men for each team.
The House of Representative of the
New Mexico Legislature made a spe
cial order of business of the bill of
Representatives Howard, Puryear and
Hughes, ordering an investigation at
| Dawson by joint legislative commit
tee of the explosion in mine No. 1 of
the Phelps-Dodge Corporation.
Fatalities from automobile accidents
cy during the past four years, accord
| ing to the records of the State Board
of Health. The total number of deaths
during the past year is more than four
times the number from automobile ac-
| cidents four years ago, the records
show.
| Belief that Col Francis Marshall
and Lieut.. Charles Webber, missing
since Dec. last, crashed in their air
plane in the desert several miles south
of the GrOWter mountains in Arizona,
and that their bodies and the plane
were buried by the shifting sands was
expressed by the searching party
headed by Major Theodore Auley.
Troop "C'' Cavalry, of Deming has
new rifle range. The range is one of
Mexico.
Two hundred students will be
trained in infantry and cavalry sub
| jects at the citizens military training
camp to be conducted this summer at
| Fort Huachuca. The camp will open
July 80 and close August %, according
to information received by Lieut.. Col.
A. ]. Dougherty The Fort Huachuca
camp will probably be made up large
| ly of Arizona men, it being the desire
of the War Department that all stu
dents attend the camp nearest their
| homes
The House of Representative of the
Arizona Legislature unanimously
| adopted a resolution petitioning the
President of the United States to en-
ter into negotiations with Mexico look
ing to the requirement by the United
States of the strip of land lying be-
tween the present boundary between
the two countries and a line running
due west from Nogales, Ariz., to the
Gulf of Mexico. Acquisition of the
strip of land would give the United
States g port at the head of the Gulf