The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-09
Southwest News Items

The New Mexico State Game and
Fish commission has adopted plans
for the planting of 3,140,000 trout an
nually, State Game Warden Elliott
Barker said in Santa Fe recently.
The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington has authorized the
following abandonment: Thirteen
miles Rio Grande Eastern railway,
Sandoval county. New Mexico, Hagan
Junction to Hagan.
Harry Tinsley, Fort Thomas service
station operator, was found guilty in
court at Clayton, N. NJ, of second de-
gree murder for the Staying of Belva
West, highway laborer, at Fort
Thomas last July.
The number of stranded motorists
and hitch-hikers arriving in Santa Fe
is steadily increasing, police of that
city report. Most of the travellers are
bound for destinations east or west of
Santa Fe.
Figures just compiled by the Ari-
zona state board of health shows there
were 221 more births than deaths in
Arizona during July. There were IT'S
births and 557 deaths. Of the babies
400 were males and 37S females.
Stockholders of the Phelps-Dodge
corporation, one of the largest units
in the copper industry, with large
holdings in Arizona, at a special meet
ing in New York, approved the mer-
ger with the Calumet & Arizona COM
pany.
The New Mexico Military Institute
cadets at Roswell, N. NJ, are going to
help the cotton growers as much as
possible. The cadets this year will
sleep on mattresses renovated and
filled with cotton. 1t is estimated that
forty bales will be necessary to fill
all of the mattresses.
There will be no gin" or midnight
marriages in the future at Carlsbad,
N. NJ The county board of commits
sioners at a recent meeting went on
record with an order providing that
all county offices shall be closed from
p. m. until a. m, and this, of
course, affects the marriage license
clerk.
Eighteen hunters working a total
of 4741a days, killed ia predatory
animals in New Mexico during the
month of August, according to the
monthly predatory animal and rodent
control report recently released in
Santa Fe. One hundred state bats
were exposed for rodents and AZ were
destroyed.
Plans for this years Helldorado
pageant at Tombstone, AriZ., sched-
uled for October 8 to II, inclusive,
are rapidly taking form and every
member of the general committee has
expressed the opinion that the 1881
pageant will be so far superior to
previous presentations there will be
no comparison.
There will be no reduction in the
bag limit on doves this year, the New
Mexico state game and fish commits
sion recently decided. A request had
been made that the limit be reduced,
but the commission said they felt no
limit was needed this year. The quail
season was extended 20 days for
Grant, Luna and Hidalgo counties.
The closing date is now December 81.
In order to carry out plans for in
creased fish hatchery facilities in New
Mexico, the state game and fish COM
mission has ordered the closing of
two small hatcheries within the next
two months. State Game Warden FL
liott Barker said in Santa Fe that the
commission will close the Eagle Creek
hatchery in the White Mountains on
October 1. On November Is the hatch
cry at Chama will be closed.
At least one major Arizona industry
has shown no loss in employment dur
ing the present period of low com
modify prices and lessened activity.
The Arizona Industrial Congress was
advised recently by H. B. Embach,
secretary of the Arizona Wool Grow
ers' Association, that the sheep in
dustry is employing as many men as
in the past, and will maintain this
same employment this winter.
Dean Amyx of AIamosa, Colo, was
convicted of bank robbery in District
Court in TERRA Amarillo, n. M. and
sentenced afterward to serve ninety
nine years in the New Mexico state
penitentiary at Santa Fe. Amyx was
one of four men who robbed the
Chama, N NJ, bank of 5000 several
months ago. The Other three men
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
life terms A posse of ranchers ar
rested the men near Pagosa Springs,
Colo, few hours after the robbery.
The Magma Copper Company re-
Gently filed notice with the Arizona
state tax commission in Phoenix it
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