The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-25
Southwest News Items

A chieftain of the Tammany wig
wan, Mayor James J. Walker of New
| York City, was made chief of the
Navajo tribe by 200 Indians in AL
buquerQue, in a colorful ceremony
witnessed by 4,SOO persons.
Sureties for the late B. S. Jaffa,
bank cashier who committed suicide
in Roswell, N. NJ, have made good
shortages found in Jaffa's accounts
as Roswell city treasurer, State Comp
troller ]. NJ. Lujan said in Santa Fe
William Heger, Miami business
man and president of the ella county
| Fish and Game Protective Associa-
ton, was elected president of the
Arizona Game Protective Association
during the annual convention held
in Globe, AriZ.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in Washington dismissed a COM
plant of the Corporation Commits
sions of Arizona and New Mexico
against class freight rates between
points in the two states and Atlantic
seaboard destinations.
Sixty per cent of the $50 students
at the Arizona State Teachers College
at Flagstaff are working their way
through college in whole or in part,
| according to a survey completed by
Prof. A. E. Luceford, chairman of the
committee on employment.
Motorists with foreign licenses who
wish to obtain Arizona plates for
1892. are warned by the motor We
hicle department to send for their
titles at once as having the title on
hand will avoid delay and trouble in
securing an Arizona license.
w. c. Joyner, purchasing agent of
the Arizona highway department, re-
ported merchandise amounting to
| SS12,204.32 was bought from firms OF
the state of Arizona during the eleven
month period ending Nov. 30. Out
of-state purchases totaled $8,107.98.
Bert La Driere, founder of the
Hillsboro, N M, lighting system and
ice plant, announced recently he is
contemplating the construction of a
Cotton concentrator mining mill. The
mill, he said, has sbeen purchased
from the Old Virginia mine near
Kingston.
Bernalillo county, New Mexico,
teachers voted to donate several
days free services or whatever time
I to 11ata n
full nine-months term in preference
to signing new contracts calling for
a reduction in salary from one and
half to two per cent.
Mrs. Winifred Stewart was awarded
$4,000 and Mrs. Bernice Epperson
was awarded $17,500 by Federal
Court in Santa Fe as damages for the
deaths of their husbands, Jack Stew
art of Las Vegas and Charles Epper-
son of Grants. The judgment was
awarded against the DeSoto Motor
Corporation.
The medical and surgical associa-
ton of the Southwest will meet in
Albuquerque, N. NJ, in 1882 when DR..
F. d. Vickers of Deming, n NJ, will
| take office as president. DR.. Vickers
was elected president of the organ
ization at it's closing session of the
seventeenth annual convention held
in Phoenix. He succeeds DR.. w. R.
Jameson, FL Paso.
The state of New Mexico will ex-
act the supreme penalty from Thorn
as Johnson, Negro ex-convict, for the
| fiendish murder OF 18-year-old Ange-
| lima Jaramillo, daughter of the late
Col. Venceslao Jaramillo. Johnson
was found guilty of first degree muir
der by a jury at Santa E'e and SEN
fenced by Judge NJ A. Otero, Jr., to
die in the electric chair Friday,
! Feb. IL.
The Nogales National Bank at No
gales, AriZ., voluntarily closed its
doors following a meeting of the
board of directors which ordered the
closing of the institution to safeguard
the interests of the depositors. The
| closing of the institution marks the
| second bank closing in Nogales in
the past month The Sonora Bank
and Trust Company recently closed
| it's doors.
James 3. Armstrong, convicted of
using the mails to defraud in connec-
tion with operation of the New Mex
! leo Service Bureau, Inc, of Albu-
querque, was sentenced to IS months
in the federal penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth and was fined 1000 by
Federal Judge Colin Neblett in Santa
Fe. The service bureau peddled New
! Mexico lands throughout the country
from a railroad car. Armstrong will
appeal the conviction.
Woo Dal San, Chinese tongman,
| formerly of Los Angeles, must be
electrocuted, the New Mexico State
Supreme Court has decreed. Woo
gained international prominence last
year when noted eye specialists pro-
posed that he be pardoned if he
would consent to become subject