Gallup Independent and Carbon City News, The (Newspaper) - July 31, 1923, Gallup, New Mexico AND CARBON CITY NEWS Volume XH Gallup New Mexico Tuesday July 31 1923 No 61 STATE TO MAKE MANY IMPROVEMENTS IN ROADS EAST AND WEST HERE Will be Steel and Will Eliminate Two Grade Crossings on Santa Fe HIGHWAYS TO BE SURFACED Available Money to be Put Into Construction Work as Fast as Possible Extensive work on main high ways into Gallup soon will be un der way by trie state Highway Han nett today said that several pro have been ordered by the commission Surfacing and bridge work will form much of theim provement program mapped out for the Gallup district One of the first things to be undertaken will be tbe construc tion of n steel bridge across the Rio Puerco of the East This span probably will cost according to the commissioner It will be built of steel and will replace n wooden span now across the Puerco In building the new bridge it will be taken to a point north pf the Santa Fe railroad tracks thus eliminating two grade crossings Work on the bridge is expected to be under way In a short time Commissioner Hannen said as the present bridge has been in a pre carious condition for some time Surfacing of the road from Rio Puerco to a point five miles west of Suwanee will be undertaken Im mediately Commissioner Hannett said This project Is on the Federal aid program but hid been rejected by the government because of faulty However the highway de will bring the road to the standard required by the Federal road bureau and it will be kept In the Federal projects When the Federal aid projects In this district were out a stretch of about seven miles in the road from Baca to Guam was omitted in the surfacing No provision was made In the contract to have this piece of surfaced However the commission has ordered par tion of the state highway surfaced at once Commissioner Hannett sad the highway commission has Instructed Will Put Quest ion Before Forest Land on Military Tract TO BE IN GALLUP AUG 10 The of a recreation park Fort will coins to the front here next week K C Karchner forest supervisor will be in the city August 10 at which time the Chamber of Com merce will put before him the ro posed plan for a park on the mili tary reservation Mr Karchner nil be here to go over an irrigation pro led proposed for the reservation The military reserve for Fort Win gate amounts to 80000 acres Of this the government uses only a small portion for the inactive post The milk ranch has a portion The proposed irrigation would te In connection with the milk ranch Mr Karchner arrives it Is the intention of ac cording to Secretary Cuff the park plans put before him tot his approval and aid In obtaining the concession for Gallup The location tentatively picked by those Interested in locating a park on the reserve would provide ample room for all park features The chamber will organize a delegation of local men and women to take the question before the forest super visor ENGINEER AT SHAFT 5 LOSES TOES IN MISHAP Fred hoisting engineer In Shaft No 5 Gamerco was hurl yes noon The toes on one foot were cut off and the foot crushed He is In St Marys Hospital Mrs Paul Henderson entertained at a one oclock luncheon Friday at the El In honor of her sister Miss Heidric of Albuquerque The guests were Mrs William BIckel Mrs Bryan Findly Mrs Manly Seymour Mrs B Maple Mrs Thomas Boyce Mrs Snyder of Silver City Mrs Horace Moses Mrs Alben Lyons Mrs H C Denny Mrs Ern est Davis Mrs W D Cornell Mrs Rose Gordon Mrs K K Brooks of Berkely Calif Mrs D L Hoi sack of Chicago Miss of Urbun 111 and Miss Heidric as the money is ready for mad work it Is best to get that work accom This means an extensive the engineer to prepare specifications road building program soon will be so hat the contract may be let at the under way n New Mexico as the next meeting of the commission for slate highway department has consid surfacing of the road from funds on hand and there is fiance station to the Arizona line The highway commission has ad extensive appropriation from the Federal government opted a policy of letting all When the projects now under contracts it once where the money 1 way re completed Gallup will hive according to a from the Arizona Mid tint the to the ttw H er St Johns Chamber Asks Gallup Traffic Agent be Prohibited NOTE WARNING PAL CAUSES DOWNFALL OF PRISONER TAKEN HERE Complaint Reveals Shift in At lack Following Failure to Jail Man in os Lunas APPROVE LIES ABOUT CITY No Protest Sounded by Arizona Body Over SI arid er of Business Men Here St Johns to declare the Gallup booster sta in to he n publio nuisance Public nuisances may be abated That is the course desired bythe Arizona interests Jn a communication sent to the Holbrook Tribune the St Johns puts the tion of repre sentative to be a public nuisance before the citizens This is the second direct attack at the traffic lives stationed by the Tourist traffic Association in Gallup One man is at Los Lunas the southern road leaves the main highway and begins its wander ings for more than a hundred miles out of the way away from railroad other is at Holbrook where the south ern road also departs from the main Recently an effort was mada to have the Gallup representative In Los Lunas arrested and taken before the Grand jury A warrant washout for him but the sheriff of Valencia county and a prominent merchant there were able to save the local agent from being arrested by Inter ceding with the district attorney Now St becomes the cats paw for the other Interests and asks tWat Holbrook join the conspiracy against this city and declare that Galups representative Is a public nuisance Having failed In Los Lunas the southern crowd has shifted ita attack to Holbrook the other ex The St John chamber expresses no opinion in its complaint against about the tactics employed by agents of the southern route The story being told that Gallup mate a of five cents to tourists for each drink of water apparently has the approval of the St clumber despite Its plea foe the declaring of a public nuisance A copy of the complaint was re by the Gallup Chamber of and action will be taken on it through the chamber and the Tourist Traffic Association Game in Arizona Town Begins in Tragic Style for Home Boys now his three heroes They are the members of the Hol brook baseball team and scored against Gamerco Sunday Of course Gamerco did some scoring too but the three heroic did what none of their fellow players could do while everyone on 4he Gamerco team made at least one run The game played n Holbrook was a slaughter from the start Tht first Inning closed with Gamerco holding o 13 to 0 score Then fol lowed other innings of tragedy for the Arizona but none of the became BS bad as the opening sesion The ninth ended with Gamerco 23 Holbrook 3 I The Miners mashed out seven hits In this respect Hoi did a little better than In scoring It made seven hits Gam erco chased the first Hol brook from the mound In a third of the first inning With only one cut the Miners hid seven hits and were going good Then Katus assumed the responsi bility for trying to down ths camp aggregation He stayed for the remainder of the game being found for twenty more hits McKenna was not easy for the Holbrook bunch They had extreme difficulty finding his curves game was principally run Holbrook made four errors and Gamerco had two The score AB R H PO A E T Clark 12300 If 3 31000 2b 7 N 3 3 1 0 Alexander 3b 7 34011 Angell Ib 0 4 3 8 0 0 Wilson c 0 4 5 10 3 1 Wilfley rf 17 24000 Henzell 1 3 2 B 0 McKenna p 5 12120 Total 54 23 27 27 Holbrook 9 2 AB R H PO A E H Collins has received word hat he ranked fifth among the Equit able Life agents of the Rocky Moun tain district in the company campaign by writing worth of policies during May The Rocky Mexico Ari ud Allen sa 4 01400 E Clark c 3 00730 Curtis 2b3 01420 B Capps 11700 Leo cf 3 0 0 2 0 0 Gardner 12002 Kitus p 4 01110 R Capps 0 0 o 0 0 Rueter 3b 3 11211 Patterson p rf 3 0 0 0 1 I 3 7 27 8 1 By 030220JM 23 3 Angell Wilson Curtis Three base Wilson Wilfley Rueler Sacrifice son E Clark Lee Stolen T Clark Hit by 3 Angell Gardner Struck Katus 4 by McKenni 8 Bases on 1 off 1 off McKenna 1 Patterson 7 In 13 Inning off 20 In 6 23 inning Left on U Holbrook 4 0umnlti Railroad Ashed to Grant Reduced Fares From September 10 to 20 to Allow Stopover NEW TRACK BEING BUILT Special rates for Fe railroad passengers coming to Gallup for the Indian ceremonial have been naked The Chamber of Commerce at the request of the directors of the cere monial association has asked the rail road to grant reduced rates It Is believed here that the request will be granted of the fact that the has been giving this con cession to other cities where events of considerable importance The request of the chamber is that If or ten days from September 10 to 20 This is done to make It possible for any coming here to have some time to visit some of the his toric ana scenic places in the Gallup district The state tennis association will hold its tournament here just before the opening of the ceremonial and in case the special rules are granted It will permit the players from clubs all over the slate to be in Gallup for both events Work of putting Lyons Park ln con dition for the ceremonial which Is only six weeks away has been start ed Plows yesterday began tearing up the ground for the building of the new race track The track to be a quarter mile oval will be ao con that without any miner changes ii become 3 mile course is through retain ing mile track and build Ing the new one so that the old dovetails Into It Mans Missive to Gertie Handed to Sheriff by Another In Is CONFESSES TO ROBBERY A note warning a confederate to be silent caused the downfall of a prisoner in the county jail Arrested as a suspect in con with the theft of a dia mond pin Robert Love was released because of a lack of evidence on which to hold him Then another prisoner in the jail gave a note to Sheriff Myers This was the undoing of Love He had addressed it to a Gertie and in the missive he urged her to tell a partner to maintain ignorance of the stolen pinHe declared he dropped it out of a window of the West Hotel No trace of the pin could be found inthe hotel yard The note told Gertie that a dope outfit had been thrown by Love from a window in the hotel The outfit would be found in the yard too he wrote Love did his fatal writing while ho still expected to bo detained In the lall He passed the note to prisoner to get some one to deliver It Love la a stranger In Gallup However the prisoner selected the sheriff to receive the missive After reading the note Sheriff My ers had Love again and put him through some vigorous ques Love maintained hit Inno cence until O W Bottorff special officer for the Santa Fe railroad called Bottorff began taking prints of Love While ths was go Ins on Love declared I suppose I might as well you all about It now He then confessed to sealing the diamond pin but Insisted he had thrown It from a window ln the ho tel Trip Marred at End When One Breaks Rib as Auto Strikes Ditch Kalil Machine Hits Diagonal Cut In Throwing Him Against Side Six returning from the me a cll then there were five Thus reads the marred homecom ing of a band of Gallup followers of life w k Isaacs pet diversion It all came about through a mil placed ditch or maybe It was misplaced confidence in the broad highways Anyway Filtering through the rain and mud from St Johns to Gallup the mobile of H A Kihl suddenly with out warning or did it couple leaps and bounds Mr Kahl piled the lido of hli or H V not gently on Mr A T neit finished the picture by selecting Mr at a place on to rest It was at this stage Mr Kahl suffered broken rib Investigation thit an irrigation ditch cut across the road In a man ner All of which provided ampla opportunity for a willing automobile to bounce Its passengers Into any kind In Gallup Mr re first aid and now Is be out The fishermen besides three wore A A Schaefer S P and W M BIckel and Mr two sons They spent ten dayi fish ing In In the ue Moun returning to Gallup Sunday vti t ill built of
