The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-04
Southwest News Items

AIlZOud uuIIuS ASAI uIuS uOuIuS.
The Arizona Highway department
spent $2,757, POI in road construction,
improvement and maintenance during
July, August and September, accord
ing to c. E. Addams, chairman of
State Highway commission.
Winslow, Ariz., has been made a
division point for transfer of passen-
gers and express between airplanes
of Transcontinental & Western Air,
Inc, and Greyhound buses in recently
inaugurated air-bus service.
University of Arizona goods must
not frolic about the campus in their
bathing suits, Evelyn Jones, dean of
women has ruled. The women stu
dents, according to the edict, must re-
main inside the cacti-inclosed swim
ming pool unless fully clad.
E. w. Lighton of Albuquerque was
elected president of the New Mexico
Association for Science at the recent
meeting in Santa Fe. Mr.. Lighton,
who was vice president this year, sue
ceeds DR.. E. H. Wells, president of
the New Mexico School of Mines.
The Rev. and Mrs. H. ]. McKinnell
of Darlington, Ind, visited their
daughter, Winnie Ruth Judd, in Jail
in Phoenix. Mrs. Judd has admitted
Staying Mrs. Agnes Anne LeRoi, and
Miss Hedvig Samuelson, and shipping
their bodies to Los Angeles in trunks.
Arizona spent $7,674,767, or $17.72
| per capita, in operating and maintain
ing general departments of the state
government for the fiscal year ending
| June 80, 1880, it was disclosed in
Phoenix recently by the federal bu-
reau of census.
License plates for Arizona automo-
biles for 1882 will not be made avail
able for distribution to owners until
after the meeting to be held by the
state tax commission, assessors
| throughout the state and officials of
the Arizona highway department, in
| Yuma, Dec. l.
The city of Tombstone has gained
control of the old Cochise county
courthouse through an agreement with
| the board of supervisors under which
| Tombstone will rent it for 81 year
for Is years. 1t is planned to make
a museum of the place, housing relics
of the early pioneer days.
Circumstantial evidence, a coroner's
/ jury in Santa Fe held points strong
| ly to conclusion" that Thomas John
son, Negro, criminally assaulted and
stabbed to death Angelina Jaramillo,
is years old, in her home in Santa
| Fe. Johnson, an ex-convict, is being
held at the New Mexico penitentiary
J. W. Clarsonn, Jr., of Tucson was
elected president of the Arizona Edu-
cation association at the Tucson meet
ing. ]. L. Johnson, Greenlee county
! school superintendent, was elected
| vice president; d. n. Pulliam, Phoenix,
reelected secretary, and Miss Minnie
Lintz, Flagstaff, reelected treasurer.
The New Mexico potash deposits ex-
| ceed in richness those of Germany,
on which the world has heretofore
been dependent, Sterling B. Talmadge
Of the New Mexico School of Mines
| stated in Santa Fe. He displayed
specimens of the southeastern New
! Mexico potash salts to the New Mexi-
| co Association for Science.
Almost eight years after he aided
| in staging one of the most sensational
| Jail deliveries that ever occurred in
San Miguel county N. NJ, Earl Y.
Miller was arrested at Columbus, N.
NJ, by Luna county authorities and
taken to Deming where he was held
| in jail as suspect in the delivery of
Walter Craig, alleged cattle thief
from the county jail in Las Vegas,
| N. M. on October 20, 1923.
An unofficial compilation of the
checking station records show that
! 2,335 deer were checked out of the
Black Canyon "two-deer" area on the
ella National Forest during the 1881
! hunting season, according to D. A.
| Shoemaker, range examiner of the
Albuquerque regional office of the for
! est service. OF the total deer killed
| 1854 were does Ga few spike bucks
were checked as does), COL bucks and
so fawns.
| Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mex
leo drove the golden spike which
marked the completion of the Felt,
Okla.-Farley, N. M, sector of the San
ia Fe railroads Colmor cutoff. Five
thousand persons crowded about the
new Santa Fe railway station in Clay
ton, N. NJ, to welcome the arrival of
the first passenger train from Dodge
| City, Kan, to Farley over the new
line. The Felt-Farley line was con-
structed at an estimated cost of $2,-
225, 900.
A drainage bulletin for New Mex
leo, recently issued by the bureau of
the census, containing state and coun-
ty statistics, shows the organized
drainage enterprises in the state as
covering 1922 acres. Of this