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WEEKLY South-West NEWS ITEMS The Ajo Cruiz Game Protective Association. with sixteen charter members. was recently organized By a vote of 257 to 47 the residents of Williams Ariz., decided to sell their municipal water and electric utilities. The town council is publishing a call for bids at this time. George F. Gray, for ten years city treasurer of Tucson. was arrested charged with the embezzlement of $55.000 from a Tucson bank of which he was assistant secretary. Livestock shipments from Otero and Lincoin. counties were small during September with only 404 cattle and 426 horses moved, cattle inspector Alfred Hunter has reported. The annual meeting of district deputies of the United States Supreme Court will be held in Santa Fe, Oct. 30. Jose D. Sena, clerk of the state Supreme Court has announced. Shot through the heart as the climax of an argument, C. F. Davis. a mining promoter, was killed in his of tice in Phoenix Gordon Wilder gave himself up to Sheriff Jeff Adams and said he did the shooting. The town of Hatch. N. M. will have a telephone system within the next six months. A recent meeting of the board of village trustees granted a franchise privilege to V. Sparks to install the telephone system. The new $78,889 viaduct across the Santa Fe railroad tracks connecting the east and west ends of the COM crete highway at Las Cruces is nearing completion. It will be 800 feet long and constructed of concrete. Fire. believed to have been started by hoboes sleeping in or under the building. completely destroyed the warehouse and stock of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association at Phoenix. The loss was set at $130,000. Miss Virginia Dillon. daughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard C. Dillon. was badly burned on her arms when gasoline with which she was cleaning a wool skirt exploded at the Crumes home at Lamy. Miss Dillon teaches school at Lamy. Plans of the Christian Reformed Church to evangelize the entire Na. vajo tribe in New Mexico were the object of an extensive investigation of the Navajo Indian field near Farming ton recently by a special committee from the church. A jury in Globe. Ariz.. deliberated only thirteen minutes before finding James Monroe Miles. blind piano tuner. not guilty of the murder of his step-father, A. G. Newton Globe miner. Newton was killed last summer when he was stabbed during a struggle with Miles. Assuming as their official motto "We'll scratch the backs of those who scratch ours," officers and directors of The Towncats, an organization sponsoring athletics at the University of Arizona in Tucson have voted to start a drive for $2,000 to be used in promoting university athletics The New Mexico State Game and Fish Department by the end of the year will have placed 4,059,000 fish in streams throughout the state, E. L. Perry. state game warden stated in Santa Fe a few days ago. the season's "Tish planting" he said will be the largest in the history of the department. That the fire loss within the city limits of Yuma. Ariz.. during the last year has been $314,000 and that, tak ing in the adjacent territory two blocks outside of the city limits, the loss would be considerably more than a half million dollars was the statement made in Yuma by Judge E. A. Freeman A bright future for the copper in dustry was predicted by Thomas Bardon of New York, a director of the Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation who recently visited the mines near Bisbee. Indications point to the present price of copper remaining over the 15-cent mark for some-time to come. he said. A 4 per cent dividend is to be paid soon to depositors of the defunct Alamogordo State Bank, receiver W. W. Hayward announced in Alamogordo, N. M. The total dividend will be about $20,000. The payment has been held up pending a decision from the Supreme Court regarding certain preferred claims. Declaring that the demands made upon the game department are steadily increasing, that some types of Ari zona animals need protection if they are to be preserved, and that the game and fish laws of the state need considerable changing. State Game Warden D. E. Pettis, in his report of the work of his department for the last two years, recommends the repeal of the present game laws dealing with bag limits and game seasons, and the enactment of a complete new schedule of license fees. John Baker and Halvin Downs, the latter a negro, were found guilty in Federal Court in Tucson of stealing $30,000 worth of drugs from the U. S. army hospital at Camp Stevens D. Little, Nogales, last April. "New Mexico at last has found the name of its "governor who was forgotten. He was "Gen. Don Juan Florez De Valdez de Sierra,' eleventh governor of New Mexico in the year 1642, and the New Mexico Historical society is now preparing to give him his rightful place among the 110 gov ernors of New Mexico.