The Winslow mail., 1923-03-02
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeU Mexico
and Arizona

The appointment of G. E. Golding
of Parker, Arizona, as state game war
den was recently announced by Gov
ernor George w. P. Hunt.
Recent cold weather waves have
caused the demand for coal at Pres
colt to become greater than at any
time during the past ten years.
A near fatal accident occurred at
the Thurman ranch south of Calsbad,
N. NJ, recently, when Mrs. Thurman
was badly burned by the flames from
an open fireplace.
In the closing sessions of the an
nual meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Arizona Masonic bodies at Prescott,
Globe was unanimously chosen as the
meeting place for 1923.
Pretty early to plant watermelons
and cantaloupes, but that's what they
have been doing in Arizona already.
But they protect tender shoots at night
or on colder days by paper covers.
At a recent meeting of the City
Council of Deming, N. NJ, the secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce
asked for a permit to use the 60Oacre
tract east of the city for an athletic
field
Plans for a new direct railroad line
from the Pacific coast to Mexico City,
via Tucson, were discussed in San
Francisco recently by julius Krutt-
schnitt, chairman Of the board of the
Southern Pacific.
There are four women members Of
the House in the Sixth Arizona Leg
islature. Mrs. Rosa Mckay Of Gila,
Mrs. Vernettie o. Ivy Of Maricopa,
Mrs. Freda Marks of Maricopa, Mrs.
Nellie T. Bush of Yuma.
The Boras Leasing Company, one of
the most active Of the leased proper
ties in the Bisbee district, is now ship
ping 1000 tons monthly to the Copper
Queen smelter at Douglas. The ore Is
Advocates of ratification Of the
Colorado river compact without reser-
vations lost the first skirmish in the
Arizona Senate when the upper House
voted 10 to 8 to give the House rati-
fication resolution carrying reserva-
tions, precedence over the unamended
Senate resolution.
George Dent has returned to San
Siman from Tucson, where he had
been held for ten days by the federal
authorities on a charge Of robbing a
Southern Pacific freight car of an iE-
terstate shipment. He was released
on bond of $1,750 after being given
preliminary examination.
Sheriff Jerry Sullivan Of Maricopa
county, Arizona, has announced re-
ward of $1OO for information which
will lead to the arrest and conviction
of the person or persons who as
saulted w. H. Metz with an axe. Metz
is still confined in a. Phoenix hospital,
but is reported to be well on the way
to recovery.
According to reports reaching Clay
ton, the Sedan valley will be New
Mexico's next big cotton field and
large acreage is now being planned by
the farmers of that section. For some
time experiments have been made with
this crop, but most of the farmers
have believed that little could be done
with it in that part of the state.
That the Pecos valley is already
served with adequate highways and for
various other reasons there is no need
of highway between Las Vegas and
Santa Fe over the proposed scenic
route is cited as cause for denying the
petition of the civic bodies of the two
cities by District Forester Frank w.
c.. Pooler in a letter written to the
Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
Miners at the main shaft Of the Co.
operation mine near Lordsburg, N. NJ,
report the finding of another rich
vein of silver ore at the 15O-foot level.
While the new vein has not been fol-
lowed for any great distance, it is be-
lieved that it is the best so far found
in the mine.
Regents of the New Mexico College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
have ordered the expansion Of busi-
ness training to full fOur-year course
under the direction Of Prof. H. d.
Croner. Graduates in this department
will be prepared either for CONNER
cial positions or for teaching CONNER
cial work in high schools.
You can say this for the first wom-
an in the New Mexico Legislature
she tells all the women to come on in"
So declares Representative Bertha NJ
Paxton, first and only woman mem
Der of the New Mexico Legislature.
She says Mrs. Edith Williams, who
has q similar distinction in the Texas
Legislature, is a "quitter" because
Mrs. Williams complained that the lot
of the legislator is "long hours, hard
work, poor pay and carping criticism
and who wondered "if the business of
being a legislator is worth the price"
Santa Fe was selected as the meet
ing place for the district convention
of the Knights of Pythias in the or
hnl IN A lhIITtI