The Coolidge examiner., 1931-09-25
Southwest News Items

copies or the premium list OF the
Arizona State Fair which will be
staged in Phoenix, Nov. 9 to Is, in
elusive, were recently mailed.
"Misfits' in the educational system
should be cared for by a special voca-
tional school, DR.. Homer Leroy
Shantz, president of the University of
Arizona, declared in an address in
Prescott, Ariz.
Many pioneers of the Southwest
who served with territorial troops,
scouts, guides, packers, teamsters, and
former members of the regular army,
War Veterans held at Prescott.
The 1882 convention of the Tri-
State organization of the brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
will meet in Clovis, N. NJ, it was de-
cided at the close of the three-day
convention in Amarillo, Texas.
The deer season for New Mexico
for several years has been from Nov
10 to Nov. 20, inclusive. This year the
season has been changed to Oct 20 to
Oct. 81, inclusive. This season this
year is twelve days long instead of
the usual eleven.
Clifford l. Welch, charged with first
degree murder for killing Deputy
Sheriff Dunnahoo of Chaves county,
N. NJ. was granted change of venue
to Eddy county by Judge Miguel o.
Otero, Jr., sitting for District Judge
G. A. Richardson.
Evan Mccain, parolled from the
Arizona state penitentiary two years
ago for a murder he committed in 1918,
was recently returned to the prison
to begin life sentence for another
Staying, that of William Green, 91-year-
old Civil War veteran.
The New Mexico tax levy for next
years collections on 1881 valuations
will be five and one-half mills, the
New Mexico tax commission an
nounced in Santa Fe after a confer
ence with Governor Arthur Seligman.
The rate is the same as that for last
year.
George T. Harrington, manager Of
the northern Arizona power plant at
Flagstaff, stated that approximately
thirty-five miles of power line to sup
ply ranchers between Winslow and
Holbrook will be erected within a
short time Construction cost will total
$4,000
The New Mexico State Teachers
College at Silver City has been Sc
lected as one of number of teachers
colleges throughout the country by the
bureau of education of the Depart
ment of Interior for special intensive
study with particular emphasis on the
curricula used by the school.
Ten thousand wild horses, many Of
them bearing the brands of Indians
living near Rice, Ariz., are to be de-
stroyed or moved from the San Carlos
Indian reservation near Coolidge dam
in an effort to eradicate duorine, a
highly infectious equie disease preva-
lent among the animals.
Life insurance companies operating
in New Mexico during 1880 paid out
claims totaling $1,171,829.O5, Mex Fer
nandez, state superintendent of insur-
ance announced in Santa Fe. Life in
surance in the state in force at the
close of the year amounted to $103,-
691 ,53846, which is more than has
ever been recorded in the state be-
fore.
The new Southern Pacific sana-
torium for tubercular sufferers was
opened in Tucson, Ariz., before large
group of railroad officials and repre-
sentatives of Tucson civic organiza-
tions. The hospital, representing an
expenditure of $650,000, occupies the
site of the old Ell Paso and Southwest
ern station, the greater part of which
has been utilized for the plant.
A charge of $25 to pay witness fees
in addition to the assessment of a
fine and court costs which was made
recently in game law violation case
at Albuquerque, has been ruled to be
constitutional by Quincy D. Adams, as
sistant attorney general of New
Mexico. An Albuquerque man was
fined $40 for shooting doves out of sea
son, $3.50 court costs, and $25 for
witness fees.
The quest for an understanding Of
mans origin and development in the
Americas henceforth will be centered
in a new scientific workshop which
was recently dedicated in Santa Fe.
1t is the laboratory of anthropology,
sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr..
from which expeditions in North,
South and Central America will be
directed. The laboratory is the only
institution of it's kind in the United
States.
With the arrest of Dewey Thurlo,
held in Albuquerque, N. M, on sus-