The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-23
Southwest News Items


engineers office, has been arrested in
st. Louis on a charge of embezzling
$500 of state funds.
An appropriation Of $4,000 is
available for the proposed new post
office building at Yuma Ariz. Roy
Place has been selected as architect
for the new building.
Richard Nash Burrows, convicted a
second time for the murder in 1929
of Jack Martin, Mesa, Ariz., salesman,
has been sentenced to forty years in
prison. Burrows was convicted for
second degree murder at his second
trial in Phoenix.
International Smelling Co., a sub
sidiary of Anaconda Copper Mining
Co., at Miami, Ariz., will reopen it's
smelter in November, according to J..
o. Elton, manager. The smelter has
been closed during the summer and
employs approximately $50 men.
Governor Hunt of Arizona recently
issued an emergency proclamation ap-
propriating S44,S75 for the Depart
ment of Agriculture and Horticulture,
"for the purpose of providing adequate
inspection to protect the state of Ari-
zona against infestation by pests"
Richard c. Johnson, 16, of Las
Vegas, N. M, was awarded first prize
in the New Mexico state essay con-
test for All Club boys and girls. There
were twenty-six contestants. The es-
says were judged by Prof. o. C. Gun,
ningham, Mrs. G. L. Guthrie and Mrs
Albert Curry of State College.
The state conference of the New
Mexico chapter of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution was recent
ly held in Roswell, N. M. Thirty-five
delegates from the seven New Mexico
chapters at Santa Fe, albuquerque,
Silver City, Ration, Carlsbad, Clovis
and Roswell, were present for the
two day meeting.
The various periods in southern
New Mexico history and the old town
of Mesilla are represented in a col
lection of relics and paintings on dis
play at the Gadsden museum at Me-
silla, N. M. The museum was recent
ly opened by Henry Fountain, a grand
son of the famous pioneer Colonel A.
j. Fountain.
Ten thousand wild horses are to be
destroyed or moved from the San
Carlos Indian reservation in New Mex
leo in a war on duorine a highly in
fictitious equine disease, DIR. H. E.
Kemper, Albuquerque, stated in Gal
lup, N. M. DR.. Kemper, until recent
ly, had charge of similar campaign
on the Navajo reservation.
Keeping abreast of the times in the
development of rapid transportation
a1rports have been constructed in the
San Juan basin at Durango, Aztec,
Pennington and CorteZ to accommo-
date people who travel by air, and
these landing fields are rapidly be-
coming valuable assets to the COM
munities in which they are located.
Warden Ed Swope of the New Mex
leo penitentiary was sued for $4,000
breach of promise in District Court in
Albuquerque by Mrs. Lora Mckenzie
of Oklahoma City She alleges she
became engaged to Mr.. Swope in
Oklahoma City in August and did not
know he was married until she came
to Santa Fe in September to marry
him.
Radio and football fans may now
hear the broadcast of all football
games played on the State Teachers
College in Flagstaff, Ariz., as the re-
suit of the installation of a remote
control broadcasting mike" at the
college football grounds. Expense of
the installation was equally divided
between the owners of the KFXY sta
ton and the college.
L. c. Lusk, vice president of the
Dona Ana, N. M, county farm bu-
reau, assisted by County Agent R. C.
Stockdale, is making a complete sur
vey of the Mesilla valley from Ell
Paso, north to Hatch, N. NJ, for the
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the amount of alfalfa now in the val
ley as well as the acreage that will
be planted or plowed up in 1892.
Mrs. Jennie Rutledge, 55 years old,
who beat her mother to death because
she refused to eat bread and milk,
was convicted of manslaughter by a
Superior Court jury in Phoenix. The
evidence against Mrs. Rutledge was
based on testimony of neighbors who
said they saw, through a window, Mrs.
Rutledge beating her mother, Mrs.
Alice Pyle, SO years old, last April II.
A coroner's jury decided Mrs. Pyle
died as the result of the beating.
One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-eight students were registered
at the University of Arizona in Tue
son at the end of the second week of
college. C. Zaner Lesher, registrar,
announced in Tucson. Women stu