The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Southwest News Items

ousy is believed to have been the mo-
tive, by the police.
The annual flower show for Ration,
N M, will be held on August %, ac-
cording to plans made at a meeting Of
the executive board of the City Fed
Grafton.
H NJ Bentley, railroad man of Santa
Rita, n. M, has invented a new hand
brake for railroad equipment to re-
place the present hand power brake
now in universal use.
Telephone and telegraph properties
in Arizona were valued at $9,465,502
by the State Tax Commission. This
is an increased valuation of $1,2S3,S57
over the figures for 1880.
Arizona railroads have applied to
the State Corporation Commission for
a blanket increase of Is per cent in
freight rates, the same as railroads
of the nation are asking of the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
New Mexico's labor commissioner,
Ralph E. Davy, has sent out a warn
ing nationally to unemployed persons
not to come to New Mexico unless
fortified with sufficient funds to tide
them over until they become sta
bilized.
Excitement over the discovery of
large amount of carbon dioxide in a
well northwest of Estancia, ~ M,
has led to the leasing of large sec
tions of land by interested parties in
the Estancia valley and Terrence
county.
Central Arizona peace officers are
seeking the slayers of two men, Mar
vim Kinney, negro farm hand, whose
body was found on a ranch north of
Gilbert, and Manuel Lancaster, Mexi-
can youth, wounded fatally in a knit
ing fray.
Arizona's 1882 automobile license
plates may be of copper. E. NJ. Whit
worth, motor vehicle division superin-
! tendent, has been instructed by the
Highway Commission to include speci-
fications for the red metal plates
when he issues call for bids.
More than 1880 head of cattle,
horses and mules were shipped from
Arizona to other states and Mexico
during May, the State Livestock Board
reported. The shipments totaled 49,
! 277 head of cattle alone, consigned to
! eight states and old Mexico.
Gov. George H. Dern of Utah has
advised Gov. George w. P. Hunt of
Arizona that he has appointed Will
liam Seegmiller of Salt Lake City to
represent that state in an Arizona
Utah investigation of government pub
lie land policies in northern Mojave
county, Arizona.
Edwin Hunt, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. X. Hunt Of Ration, N. NJ, is now
in Europe as a member of a group of
students who won national prizes last
spring for their essays on the Kellogg
| peace pact. Hunt, who was gradu
ated from the Ration High school this
| spring, will remain in Europe three
months.
Three tourists were drowned and
| two others narrowly escaped death
near Tucumcari, N. M, when an on
rush of water swept through the bot
tom of dry creek and overturned the
automobile in which they were riding.
The dead are Mrs. Iona Wicks, SO
years old; her daughter, Mrs. ]. A.
Todd, 20, and Mrs. Todd's 1-year-old
baby. J. A. Todd, 25 years old, and
Winifred Wicks, 49, were able to swim
to safety.
Frank Luke, chairman of the Ari-
zona Tax Commission, announced in
Phoenix recently tentative figures
showing Arizona producing mine valu-
atiOns for taxation purposes to have
dropped 29,527,034 under last years
final valuations. The announcement
placed the valuation of mines this
year for taxation at $245,279, ,727, as
compared to $274, 4,8O6,7 761 last year.
Seventeen mines are listed as operat-
ing in Arizona.
Paul Nesbitt, anthropologist and
archaeologist of the Logan Museum,
Beloit College, Beloit, Wis, has re-
turned to Silver City, N. M, to con-
tinue his Investigations of the ancient
Mimbrenos, a race which lived on the
upper Mimbres river some 1000 years
ago. While the ruins of this ancient
civilization are found along this river
to point south of Deming, N. NJ, the
highest development of culture is
found in a limited area in Grant coun-
ty, N. M.
Lowell observatory scientists at
Flagstaff said recently that meteor
showers, commonly called shooting
stars" will be studied thoroughly at
two points in northern Arizona during
survey by DR.. Harlow Shapley, di-
rector Of Harvard observatory, who