The Winslow mail., 1923-02-09
Southwest News
From All Over
Neu Mexico
and Arizona

imously ratified by the New Mexico
House of Representatives
The big building of the Roswell
Planning Mill at Roswell, N M, was to-
tally destroyed by fire recently.
Jessie Lee Earring, said to have been
former resident of both Clarkdale
and Mesa, is suspected of being the
slayer of J. J. Wheeler shot near his
still in dugout at Ash Fork, Ariz.
The body Of Margaret Marston, II
years old, waitress, was found at the
base of an eighty-foot cliff from which
she had fallen TO her death a short dis
tance from Castle Hot Springs, near
Phoenix
T. G. Norris of Prescott was elected
president of the Arizona Good Roads
Association at it's fourth annual con-
vention which was held at Douglas
Prescott was chosen for the 1924 con-
vention
Tom Vardy, for many years a resi-
dent of the Yuma valley, committed
suicide at Yuma by taking potassium
cyanide. Mr.. Vardy for the past year
has been carrying the mail between
Yuma and Somerton.
William Hugh, a Bisbee miner, lay
for eight hours pinned eighty feet from
the top Of an ore chute into which he
had been plunged, while companions
worked to release him. A bruised leg
was the extent of his injuries.
Mrs. Blazama of Gallup was con-
victed of contributing to the delinquen-
cy of her four children in the court of
Judge Holloman at Gallup. The chill
dren were taken away from the par
ents by the order Of the court.
The Senate of the Arizona Legisla-
ture, in committee of the whole, has
recommended for passage Senate Bill
No. 13, which would establish a week
ly pay day for all individuals and cor
porations employing workers in the
state.
Robert Hurt, wealthy New Mexico
ranchman, well known Republican Of
flee holder, was shot from ambush and
killed while en- route from the town of
Captain, Lincoln county, to his ranch
seven miles north. Nine bullets
pierced his body, which was found
shortly afterward by neighbors.
Manual Cata, full-blooded 1S-year-
old chieftain Of the Pueblo Indians of
Espanola, N. NJ, was sentenced in the
Federal Court at Denver to one year
and half in the Bonneville, Mo-, pen
itentiary, when he pleaded guilty to
charges of using the mails to defraud.
Cata obtained money from banks by
writing letters under false signatures.
Reiterating previous assertions that
he was beaten over the head with an
ak by three blackhOoded assailants
south of Phoenix, w. H. Metz, ranch
er, made lengthy statement to Coun-
ty Attorney Gene Cunningham. Metz,
notwithstanding two skull fractures,
will recover, attending physicians said.
Announcement of the appointment
Of Samuel Parker Of Winslow and
James Kennedy as members of the
board of education of the northern
Arizona Normal School was made re
Gently by Governor George w. P. Hunt
The third member Of the board is c.
o. Case, state superintendent of
schools.
Advocates of delay in the ratifica-
tion of the Colorado river compact in
troduced in the Senate of the Arizona
Legislature concurrent resolution
which would provide that the question
of ratification be put over to a special
session ito be called when deemed ap-
propriate." The resolution also would
provide for the appointment of a Spe-
cial investigating committee.
Alamo mine near Alamogordo, N. NJ,
is being put in shape for production
by Oliver M. Lee and George Warnock,
owners Of the property. The group
consists Of eight claims on the apex of
ridge between Dry Canon and Cabal-
lero Cahon.
w. B. Cacton, convicted Of an as
sault with deadly weapon upon the
ago, has been granted a new trial ac-
cording to information recently in Yu-
ma by Cacton's attorney, Glenn Cop
pie.
For many days after George w. Ste
venson passed into an unconscious
state, members of his family continued
their watch by his body and held to
the belief that Stevenson was in
state of suspended animation and that
life would return to him.
William o. Clark, cotton grower and
ginner, formerly Of Fort Smith, Ark,
announced at the Chamber of Com
merce office at Las Cruces that he and
Victor G. Collier, formerly of Yuma,
Calf, will build and operate four 70
saw gin, costing $4,000 to $20,OOO at
Hatch, N. NJ, to take care of this
seasons cotton crop in the district
north of here.
Thirteen hundred acres of land in