The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
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wound was slight.
Casa Grande Rotarians represent
Is different states and three different
countries, according to survey of
the places of nativity of club members
at recent luncheon.
Making a real start toward placing
Casa Grande Valley among the fore
most dairy centers in the west was
made last week when a prominent
valley farmer left for the dairy
district of Wisconsin with carte
blanche order to purchase two car
loads of high grade Holstein cows
and heifers.
Thirty states of the union contrib
ute to the drainage area of the Mis-
sissippi river, according to the Nation
al Geographic society. The total
drainage area is over million and a
quarter square miles.
Nathan Albert Morford, 80, pioneer
of Arizona and territorial secretary
of state, died at his home in Phoenix
last Friday morning following an Ill
ness of several weeks.
King Alfonso of Spain has been
rendered an invitation to attend the
annual Arizona picnic to honor the
memory of Coronado, the famous
Spaniard explorer, to be held in Cliff
ton, June % and 26, by Peter Riley,
mayor of Clifton.
Sixty thousand dollars will be spent
for Indian hospitals in Arizona and
New Mexico this year, according to
word from Washington. The Western
Navajo agency at Tuba, Arizona, Is
to have a hospital with a capacity of
80 beds, to cost $4,000. Appropria-
tons Of $4,000 each are to be spent
for 15-bed hospitals at Chin Lee and
Tohatchi, on the Navajo reservation
in New Mexico, and at the Pueblo of
Taos.
A large tubercular hospital for
Indians is planned for Fort Defiance,
which is to have a capacity of 100
beds. The u. S. Indian service
expects to spend $4,000 for this
plant.
Clifton citizens last week were
thrown into turmoil when the town
was visited by fire fiend and seven
uninsured houses were destroyed and
an entire residential section threaten
ed with destruction.
A project to build a highway to
Cloyerdale, N. NJ, is being considered
by the road committee of the Douglas
chamber of commerce and citizens of
the New Mexico town. The road will
be As miles in length and will draw
travel from southwestern New Mexico
to Douglas.
Two Morenci high school boys were
killed last Thursday and six other
thigh school youths and the driver
were injured when the automobile in
which they were riding crashed broad
side into a mountain on sharp turn
on the Morenci-Newton road, seven
miles from Clifton.
Faculty appointments for the COM
ing year at the University Of Arizona
were made Monday by the board of
regents.
The California legislature has
passed a bill which virtually abolishes
capital punishment in the state. The
death penalty cannot be given unless
the jury definitely recommends that
such be given to the person on trial.
The bill as yet has not been signed
by the governor.
Work is nearing completion on the
Lone Pine dam at Snowflake.
May l is set as the date of spud-
ding of the first oil well ever drilled
in the Gila valley. 1t will be at Q
point near Pima, where geologists
declare oil conditions are very good.
Ell Paso, Texas, is asking considera-
| ton as summer resort. Statistics
furnished by the United States
weather bureau indicate that not only
does the sun comfortably winter IN
El Paso but that cooling breezes visit
| it during the summer with tolerable
frequency. Once only last summer
did the thermometer mount to 100.
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By an act of the last Wyoming
| legislature the death warrant was
signed for upwards of 100000 wild
and unowned bronchos' which now
Craze the open ranges of the state.
Some time during the summer round
ups will begin to drive the animals to
slaughter as provided by law
For stealing 85 cents and a pork
roast, California man was sent to
prison for life. 1t was his fourth of
Tense and under the law the judge
had no alternative but to impose life
sentence.
Big strawberries placed on top Of
containers which cleverly concealed
smaller berries beneath, caused the
treasury of Los Angeles to be en-
riched by several hundred dollars fol-
lowing conviction of twelve Japanese
fruit merchants for the practice.
Al theater merger on the west coast
involving S250,O0O,O0O and 800 play
houses is being eliminated by the
West Coasts Theaters, Inc.
Horticulturists from all parts of