The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-28
Southwest News Items


of Arizona for stocking purposes.
]. NJ. Lujan, state comptroller of
New Mexico, has arranged for the
manufacture in Denver, Colo, of 1882
auto license plates for New Mexico.
The 1882 automobile license plates
for Arizona will be five by ten inches
and will be made of 12-ounce FURNISHED
copper, heavily lacquered to prevent
taInish.
Hay fever victims in Las Cruces,
N. NJ, have banded together to see If
they can't Go something about th9 cot
tonwood tree-Whose cotton is charged
with being the chief irritant.
Saving New Mexicos wild flowers
is to become a statewide effort If
present plans of 446 members of P. e.
O., one of the wOmen's organizations
of New Mexico, are carried into effect.
Mckinley county, N. NJ, sporcmen
are advocating deer drive from the
Black range to the Zuni mountains, to
relieve overstocked conditions in the
| former area and replenish stock in the
| latter area
! Everett NJ. Grantham of Clovis was
elected department commander of the
New Mexico American Legion, and re-
t1ring State Commander Roy |. Cook
was elected national committeeman at
! the Artesia meeting
The deer season in New Mexico has
been advanced to October 20 to 81. in
elusive, by the New Mexico game COM
mission. The old season was from
Nov. 10 to 20. Bag limits will be one
DUCK with horns and one bear.
During the fiscal year ending June
30, 1881, the United States land office
IN Santa Fe received 2,57S applications
FOR land. This was an increase over
hgures for the same period d-,ring
1928, 1929 and 1880, Alfred M. Ber-
gere, registrar, said
Approximately 1900 Aria ma
tlonal guardsmen from fourteen towns
and cities encamped at Fort Alexander
M. Tuthill near Flagstaff from Aug. Is
TO 80 to participate in tn annual sum-
mer training. twenty-five companies
viii attend the encam- ment.
Maintenance of way employees on
the Santa Fe railway, New Mex > di-
vision from La Junta, Colo, to Ell
Paso, Texas, inclusive, were placed -,
5-day week basis beginning Aug. 10,
II. X. Mckee, superintendent. of Las
Vegas, announced in Albuquerque.
Emerson Watts, former New Mexi-
co state treasurer, who is at liberty
under bond on four charges of e. beg
Element M connection with operation
OF the Watts Harrison brokerage
house, was seriously injured in an auto
mobile wreck twenty miles from Ros-
we'll
Forty-four coal mines in New Mexi-
co mined 2,622,769 tons of coal valued
at $S,314,000 during 1880, according TO
report recently released by t De-
partment of Commerce, bureau of
mines During 1929, forty-two mines
produced 1,969,433 tons valued at S.
017000
Those who thought it was hot in
southern Arizona during July were cor
rect. 1t was the hottest r nth ever
recorded, figures compiled by the u. s.
weather bureau in Phoenix show. The
average for the month was 95.2 de-
grees, passing previous average records
by 2,5 degrees.
Last year 1O8 persons were killed in
automobile accidents in Arizona. while
Sc have been fatally Injured already
this year. Arizona's new highway pa-
troll has started guarding the higt ways
and part of their job will be to pre-
vent accidents so far as possible and
to render first aid.
A barbecue and fish fr- .tere used
by the Indians of Mariana Lake near
Gallup, N. NJ, recently as a means of
dedlcatlng modern chapter l~.-ce-
the Indians lodge hall. More than 500
Indians and white people were fed at
the fete, Superintendent S. f. Stacker,
of Grown Point. said.
Professor F. c. Osborn, returning
here to Flagstaff, Ariz., after a state
wide survey, expressed opinion the
|
rollment in Arizona colleges this fall
WinslOW, Ariz., will entertain the
members of the State Game Protc otive
Association, northern district, at their
next quarterly meeting which will be
held Sept. 2S.
The ,ovator shaft at Carlsbad Cav
ern is now open full size from top to
bottom. The concreting and placing
of steel beams has been completed 1t
is expected that the elevator will be
ready for operation about the middle
of September and a temporary struc-
ture on the surface will be built tc
serve until the stone elevator house
has been completed.
national Catholic sanitarium to
cost million dollars will be built at
Dofn Nj for