The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-19
SOUTHWEST NEWS
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MARY HSdTl NlllldInS, attractive
daughter of Mrs. M. A. Williams, wi
dow of Alamogordo, committed sui
eide by drinking poison.
The books of the New Mexico Game
and Fish Department showed a bal
ance of $27,1O957 on June 80, 1880,
by the audit just completed by Linder,
Burke and Stevenson.
]. L. Taylor, head of the Taylor
Fruit Co. of Southern California, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
a ranch house near Nogales, Ariz.
Candido Chavez was killed in AIbu-
| querque, N. NJ, when he fell head first
into twenty-six-inch buzzsaw, the
saw ripping through his skull. He
was working in his own woodward.
That the Hobbs oil pool will con-
tinue to produce many large wells be-
fore it is drilled out is evidenced by
the size of the largest wells in the
field. After several months of inten-
sive drilling, big wells continue to
come in and the ten leaders have
potential production of 225,768 barrels
daily.
l.. E. Brewer, for the last three
years president of the Arizona State
Federation of Labor, announced in
Tucson that M. A. Gray of the Doug
las, Ariz., BARRIERS Union had been
elected president of the Arizona fed
Grafton. Clyde E. Timberlake of the
Phoenix Typographical Union was
elected first vice president. The
election was held by mail
Kenneth Wingfield, IA year old
Camp Verde, Ariz., boy, has been
awarded a nineteen-jewel gold watch
for being the best All meat animal
live stock project contestant in Ari-
zona. Thomas E. Wilson, Chicago
meat packer, chairman Of the national
committee on boys and girls club
work, and also a live stock breeder,
is the donor of the prize.
Discovery of remains of what was
believed to be a hitherto unknown
race of giants was disclosed in Tucson
by .. E. Coker of Sayopa, Sonora.
mining town, 300 miles south of the
Mexican border. Coker, a mining en-
sineer, said laborers clearing ranch
land near the Yaqui river in the vi
cin!ty of Sayopa dug into an old ceme-
terry where bodies of men averaging
eight feet in height were found buried
tier on tier.
TabulatiOn of the November 4 gen.
eral election vote, as officially can
vassed by Arizona's fourteen board of
supervisors, gives Democratic Cover
nor-elect George w. P. Hunt a major
ity Of 2,7S0 over Gov John c. Phillips.
his Republican opponent. The vote
is; Hunt, 1894; Phillips, 1914.
Twelve per cent of the work on the
Middle Rio Grande conservancy dis
trict, the ten-million-dollar flood con.
troll and reclamation project under
way in the Rio Grande river valley,
is estimated to have been completed
to date, and with 700 men employed,
the project is being pushed rapidly.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad recently served notice upon
Jew Mexico that it will refuse to pay
100000 taxes in a Federal Court ac-
ton which will take the entire tax
assessment system of New Mexico in
to court including the problems of de-
termining actual value and equaliza-
ton of taxes.
An attempt to restrain New Mexico
from collecting it's five-cent gasoline
tax on gasoline for airplanes was in
stituted recently in Federal Court at
Santa Fe. The complaining company
is the Transcontinental and Western
Air, Inc, which operates passenger air
service over New Mexico. and the
suit is against State Comptroller Ru-
pert Asplund
Reports reached Tucson recently of
gold discovery by Richard Ballas,
near Covered Wells, ninety miles west
of Tucson. The new find is in the
Red Rock claims in the Quijotoa min
ing district, near where gold was dis
covered last February by Newt Mea-
dows. The gold bearing ore, the re-
port said, is white quartz, tentatively
estimated to run $4,000 per ton.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars, to be
used for the purchase of new books.
will be given to the library of the Uni
versity of New Mexico by the Carne-
gle Corporation of New York. This
announcement was made in Albuuuer-
que by President J. F. Zimmerman,
who has just received letter notify
ing him of this decision from Robert
M. Lester, assistant to the president
of the corporation
Although the contracts have not
been awarded officially, the national
park service announced in San Fran
cisco, the low bidders on the sinking
of an elevator shaft and the installa-
t1on of an elevator at Carlsbad
Cavern, N. NJ. Charles NJ Dunning
of Phoenix, Ariz., with a bid Of $685.
225, was low for the sinking of the
shaft. The Pacific Elevator & Equip