The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-31
Southwest News Items

Mcdonald in Carlsbad.
Ninety-two per cent of the 1880
taxes in Luna county, n M, had beer
collected at the close of the fiscal
year, June 80, County Treasurer D. l..
Naples announced in Deming recently.
Deputy Sheriff Jose NJ. Romero of
Rio Arriba county, N. NJ, made a con-
fession that he killed Nazario Aragon,
Jr., at Chama, N. IL, on the night
of June 21. He maintained that the
shooting was accidental.
Birthstone" a report has flown
about Tombstone, Ariz., may be the
name of a sister town to be estab-
lished for the purpose of reviving for
the increasingly blase world the at
mosphere of the -gun-toting West
The Randolph irrigation district,
surrounding the town of Randolph,
Ariz., in the Casa Grande valley, has
been sanctioned by the federal gov
ernment, Henry A. Morgan, registrar
of the federal land office in Phoenix,
stated recently.
A federal grand jury indictment,
charging Fred McAlpine, Kingman,
Ariz., druggist, and j. J. Carroll, his
clerk, with sale of alcohol to an In
dian, was dismissed by Federal Judge
Fred c. Jacobs in Prescott, on an in
ter-pleading demurrer.
A survey of all the prehistoric ruin
sites in northern Arizona is the pur-
pose of DIR. Harold S. Cotton, director,
and Katherine Bartlett, curator of
anthropology, of the Museum Of
Northern Arizona, in Flagstaff, Ariz.,
under the permit granted by the act
ing secretary of agriculture.
Alice Lee Sawyers, 7-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Sawyers of
Las Cruces, n NJ, is believed to be
the youngest short story writer in the
United States. She recently received
a prize from a children's magazine,
which will be published shortly. Alice
Lee is in the third grade.
Permission for voluntary liquidation
of the bank at Dawson, N. M, was
granted recently by State Bank Ex-
aminer John Bingham. G. M. Hanson
of Dawson was appointed liquidating
agent. The bank is in excellent con-
dition financially, Mr.. Bingham said,
and all creditors will be paid in full.
Jim Bryant, escaped Texas convict;
L. E. Rachley and Ralph H. Taylor
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
by District Judge Luis Arimjo OF
Santa Rosa, N. M, for the $4,000 rob-
berry Of the First National bank Of
Santa Rosa on May II, after all three
had been found guilty by jury.
Orders have gone out from the New
Mexico Highway Commission to all
district engineers to have all sign
boards along highway removed and
which are in conflict with the state
law, and likewise those in the re-
stricted zones. The New Mexico
Highway Commission has decided to
inaugurate a program requiring strict
enforcement of the signboard law.
Real alcohol, these days, in the
opinion of United States District
Judge Fred C. Jacobs, sis too rare to
be destroyed" Judge Jacobs has or
dered 100 gallons of grain alcohol,
certified as "real," confiscated by
agents at Flagstaff, Ariz., be turned
over to hospital authorities in that
city. 1T is seldom" remarked the
court, that real alcohol is confis-
Gated by federal agents"
James ]. Hall of Estancia was
elected president of the New Mexico
Title Association at the close of their
state convention in Santa Fe. Other
officers elected were A. E. Petit, Las
Vegas, vice president; Nora Black,
Fort Sumner, secretary-treasurer; di-
rectors, Milton A. SPOTS, Taos, re-
gion l; Phillip Sanchez, Mora, region
2; Lyman A. Sanders, Roswell, re-
gion 3, and Russell Cooper, Deming,
region A. The 1882 convention will
be held at Albuquerque.
Cheap highway paving for the south
west and middle west will result from
development Of huge deposits Of rock
asphalt discovered near Santa Rosa,
east of Albuquerque, it was announced
in Albuquerque. The asphalt, formed
by oil oozing from the earth millions
of years ago, is said to be the highest
grade Of native asphalt found in the
country The New Mexico Construc-
ton Company announced that hun
dreds of thousands of dollars would
be spent in developing the deposits
for commercial use.
County boards Of education through
out New Mexico were recently ad-
vised of the qualifications set up by
the State Board of Education for coun-
ty rural school supervisors, Mrs.
Georgia Lusk, state superintendent of
public instruction, stated in Santa Fe.
President Carr SchwarZ of the
Fla pctaf Country CIuh aDDOuncad in