The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07
Southwest News Items

| as the climax to long-brOOding love
feud. Officers held F. Z. Presley
operator of a produce house, who sur
rendered and admitted he shot Evans
Seth Richardson, assistant attorney
general in charge of public lands, an
nounced in Washington no steps would
be taken until after next December
to eject nOn-Indian settlers from the
New Mexico lands lost by them under
decisions of the pueblo lands board.
In keeping with plans to make the
capitol grounds in Phoenix representa-
tive of all Arizona, two columns of
petrified wood, once the trunks of
trees In mighty prehistoric forest in
northern Arizona, are being erected
on the grounds.
Seventy-one per cent of the popula-
tion of Arizona is without public Ii
brary service, according to Edith A.
Lathrop, federal specialist in school
libraries. There is no library exten-
sion agency in the state" she said
following a survey.
Robert p Thurston, mayor of Will
liams, Ariz., was sentenced by Federal
District Judge Fred c. Jacobs in Pres
colt TO pay fine of $500 and serve
six months in the Yavapai county Jail,
for possession and sale of liquor.
Thurston pleaded guilty.
Officials of the First National Bank
of Tucumcari, N. M, have announced
! that a tear gas bomb system designed
to protect the bank from bank robbers
has been installed in the bank The
system, they said, is the same as used
in a number of larger banks through
out the country.
Arizona's automobile license plates
will be made of copper. A call for
bids on the plates will specify, it was
announced in Phoenix, that the plates
be made of Arizona copper" 1t will
require approximately 10000 pounds
of the metal to make the necessary
100000 plates.
Albert B. Fall was in good spirits
at the New Mexico penitentiary hos
pital in Santa Fe, and DR.. E. Fiske,
prison physician, believes his condition
will show a general improvement now
that the former secretary of interior
is relieved of the strain of anxiety and
uncertainty over his fate.
Charged with counterfeiting, Ray
Grove, arrested in Phoenix assertedly
in possession of mold for the manu-
facture Of spurious silver dollars, was
sentenced to serve Is months at Nc
Neil Island penitenitiary and fined
$500 in Judge Fred c. Jacobs federal
court in Prescott, Ariz.
Bids will be called for Aug. 10 for
continuation of drilling an artesian
test well near Wilcox, Ariz., the state
land office in Phoenix recently an
nounced. This well is being drilled
under terms of an appropriation made
by the 10th legislature to develop ar
tesian water on the Stewart tract near
Wilcox
The furnace-like heat of the Super
stition mountains brought an end to
active efforts for the present to solve
the disappearance of Adolph Ruth,
amateur prospector of Washington, d.
C.. The 66-year-old man entered the
desolate range June 13 to hunt for
the Lost Dutchman gold mine. He
has not been seen since.
No county in New Mexico can levy
a special tax outside the fiye-mill linn
it to pay for an audit, Attorney Gen
eral E. K Neumann advised State
Comptroller j. M. Lujan. The attorney
general suggested that the comptrol-
ler reduce the claims against the coun-
ties to pay for audits already made
to judgments, so he can get paid
for the work.
Roswell, n. NJ, property gained $685.
TAI in value this year, according to
tax roll figures released by Assessor
w. P. Sauners. The increase over 1880
was due to new Improvements. The
total net valuation of Chaves county
property, after deduction of exemp-
tions, is $16,249,4 ,453 for 1881 as COM
pared with total net for 1880 of $16.
987,735, or a loss of S73S,2S2 for the
county.
Plans for Farmers Week, to be held
at State College, n. NJ, August "a to
%, are progressing steadily, according
to w. L. Elser, director of the exten-
sion service of the New Mexico A. and
M. college, Programs of interest to
farm people in many lines of work
such as dairying, poultry production,
foods and nutrition, fruit and vegetable
growing, crop production and livestock
management will be offered, Mr.. Eser
said.
A. A. Johns of Prescott was re-elect-
ed president of the Arizona Wool
Growers Association and Flagstaff
was selected as the 1882 convention
city at the close of the two-day ses-