The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-11
Southwest News Items

tors are J. o. Seth, Lillian Morey and
Kaye Montgomery.
H. E. Spencer of Phoenix was GER
titled as president of the Arizona
State Federation of Labor by official
count of a referendum election, COM
pleted in Phoenix.
The Sonora Bank & Trust Company
of Nogales, an Arizona institution
Owned by the Bank of Mexico, was
closed by S. w. Ellery, state superin-
tendent of banks, because of depleted
reserve and frozen assets.
A report filed in Phoenix shows the
Arizona Highway Department re-
ceived 1903, ,436.71 in gross collections
of the five cent gasoline tax during
October. OF this, $79,3O2.S3 was ap-
! portioned to the various counties.
Adjutant General Oscar f. Temple
said in Phoenix that a deficiency in
the national military bureau budget
has caused cancellation of five drills
/ by the Arizona National Guard.
| Similar action is being taken in all
| states.
| Sale of the much disputed LaJoya
land grant in Socorro county at pub
lie auction has been ordered by Judge
Harry P. Owen of Santa Fe, N. NJ, on
petition of the New Mexico Tax Com
mission to satisfy so far as possible
100000 delinquent taxes against the
! grant.
The Scharbauer Cattle Company
filed a foreigners application to do
business in New Mexico with the New
Mexico Corporation Commission re-
Gently. 1t will have offices at Loving
ton, with Millard Edison as legal
agent. The capital stock is $3.50 900,
all issued
New Mexico henceforth will not pay
the expenses of returning prisoners
| from outside New Mexico to the state
unless requisition papers are OBJ
tained, Attorney General E. X. Neu-
man said in letter to district attor-
neys. He asked the district attorneys
to notify the sheriffs.
The Panhandle and Santa Fe rail.
road has been granted permission by
the New Mexico Corporation Commits
sion to decrease it's rate on crude oil
between Carlsbad and Roswell from
fifteen to eight cents a hundred
pounds. The new rate was made by
agreement between the railroad and
shippers.
! Believing his neck had been broken
when the wheels of a fodder wagon
passed over it, Polk Turner, Artesia,
N. M, farmer, staggered to his home,
told his wife of his plight, and then
shot himself through the heart with a
12-gauge shotgun. 1t was revealed he
had been seriously injured, but that
his neck had not been broken.
Cotton ginnings under the Elephant
Butte project up to November 1,
showed a decrease of 1854 bales as
compared with last year, according
TO a report just released by the De.
partment of Commerce, bureau of cen
sus. Up to the first of the month.
41,21S bales had been ginned on the
project as compared with 46,8O2 bales
year ago.
The narrow guage railroad being
constructed from the United States
! Potash mine to the company's refin-
cry site near Carlsbad, a distance of
five miles, is virtually completed. Of
| flclals of the company said it would
be about a month, however, before
the line would be put in operation.
hauling the mineral salts to the juno
ton point with the Santa Fe railroad.
Thirteen men who were charged by
the government with operation of a
counterfeit lottery scheme, were SEN
fenced in Santa Fe, following their
conviction of using the mails to de-
fraud. They were accused of oper-
alton OF sweepstakes lotteries with
counterfeited tickets, under the name
OF the international Sweepstakes AS
sociation.
! A large attendance of cattlemen
from all over New Mexico is expected
for the combination two-day session
next month of the annual cattlemen's
meeting on the ranch of the New Mex
leo College of Agriculture at Las
Cruces, N. M, and the third quarter
ly meeting of the executive board of
the New Mexico Cattle Growers AS
sociation. The meeting will be held
on Dec. and 5.
Judge H. T. Phelps in Superior
Court in Phoenix, fixed bond at S1O,-
600 for Jack West, 10, accused of kill
ing his sweetheart, Pearl Mills, 18.
Judge Phelps reversed action of the
Justice Court, which ordered West
held without bond. West stabbed
Miss Mills to death and then tried to
end his own life. He told investiga-
tors he committed the crime in a fit
of jealousy.
Martin Ramos of Vaughn, N. NJ.
may go through life with bullet i'm
bedded in his brain, physicians said in
Albuquerque. Ramos, who attempted
to commit suicide by shooting himself
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