The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-02
Southwest News Items


turned by a jury at Los Lunas, N. M.
The first baby beef show to be held
for New Mexico and West Texas All
Clubs will be held in Ell Paso, Oct. l
to 8, officials of the Southwestern
Baby Beef Association announced in
Clovis, N. M
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, evange.
list of the Four-Square" Gospel. and
David Hutton, voice instructor OF her
Angelus Temple in Los Angeles.
Calf, were married in a drizzling
rain at the Yuma, Ariz., airport.
Orville Cosby, charged with steal
ing merchandise from a Santa Fe box
car at Holbrook, Ariz., last spring,
was acquitted by a Superior Court
jury in Holbrook in an instructed yer
dict given by Judge P A Sawyer.
Professors E. L. Scott and W. G.
McGinnies of the department of ami
NAL husbandry at the University of
Arizona are investigating a mystery
poison. responsible for the death of
number of southern Arizona cattle.
Motion for a new trial, asked by de
fense attorneys in the case of Tran.
quilino Marez. found guilty by a jury
in Holbrook for the murder of Ricardo
Trujillo, was denied by Judge P. A.
Sawyer In Superior Court in Holbrook,
recently.
A total of 1925 persons visited the
Carlsbad Caverns National park dur.
ing the month of August, Superintend-
ent Thomas Boles said in Carlsbad.
This number is considerably under the
figure for August, 1880, which was
25,O02
Ralph Handy of Plainview, Texas,
undercover operative for federal pro-
hibition officers, was shot and killed
in Las Vegas, N. M, by j. w. (Jim)
Poe. Poe was seriously wounded by
the Las Vegas chief of police before
he gave himself up.
Because Of errors committed at his
first trial, Richard Nash Burrows, 10,
adopted son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Burrows. wealthy Chicago packers,
will be retired in Phoenix for the
murder of Jack Martin, Phoenix, Ariz.,
auto salesman. on Sept. "a.
Efforts to preserve to Arizona all
possible evidences of the former cul.
ture of the early inhabitants of this
territory are to be made. according
to Dr. Bryon Cummings, archaeology
head of the University of Arizona, and
director of the Arizona State Mu-
scum.
c. e. Adams, chairman of the Ari-
zona State Highway Commission, re-
ported in Phoenix that $1,89S,6 40
was expended by the Highway Depart
ment during the first two months of
the fiscal year, beginning July 1. Of
this, $1,542, ,S92.06 was spent on road
construction. exclusive of mainten.
ance and betterment work.
On June 30, Arizona state banks had
$2,369,746.75 in their vaults, $82,220.32
of which was gold. On the same date
last year cash totaled $2.245,511.92, of
which $109,83654 was gold. Deposits
this year amounted to $17,61263 and
bank loans were 23.3OS,964.12. Post
office Department deposits in state
banks totaled $1,419,O32.36.
Mrs. Carrie Adair Armijo and Luis
Martinez were granted new trial by
the New Mexico Supreme Court in an
opinion in Santa Fe by Justices Wat
son, Buckley and Sadler The pair
were convicted of conspiracy to rob
the treasurer's office of the Bernalillo
county court house of a strong box
containing motor vehicle license fees,
on December Is. 1929
Frank E. VanDorn. rancher of Cap
ulin, N. M, was shot to death with
rifle while seated in his car in front
of the ranch home of Everitt Shorty
Favor. An old cattle feud, regarding
the grazing of cattle, is said to have
caused the fatal shooting. 1t was
stated in Ration, N M. that Favor is
being held in connection with the
shooting and that he has been released
on bond
Heroic deeds of bygone day. when
Arizona was land of rowing, raiding
band sof Indian. were relived in
reminiscent form in Prescott at the
annual convention of the United In
dian War Veterans. THE advance
guard of the white mans civilization
in Arizona" was the manner in which
Governor George W. P. Hunt wei.
coined the former fighters at the
opening of their session.
Mrs. Fora Neal Ross, knife slayer,
and Mrs. Dale Talley, burglar, who
escaped over the eighteen-foot wall of
the Arizona state penitentiary at Flor
ence, Ariz, were captured in Phoenix.
They wore dark glasses and wigs, but
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