The Coolidge examiner., 1931-12-18
Southwest News Items

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made recently, with filing of an ap-
peal in the Arizona Supreme Court
in Phoenix.
Raymond Johnston of Galesburg,
ILL.,, and his companion, w. H. Schu-
maker of Bisbee, AriZ., were arrested
at Portales, N M, and returned to
Roswell, n M, after they confessed
to robbing the home Of Joe Massey of
Roswell.
The sheriff's office said in Bisbee,
Ariz., that deputies had arrested a
negro suspect at Bowie, Ariz., in con-
nection with the shooting of Charles
F. Pettitt, 10, Calhoun, Tenn, during
an argument near a Benson, Ariz.,
freight depot.
Governor G. w. P. Hunt of Arizona
has re-appointed William E. Hunter
as a member of the Arizona Industrial
Commission for a term of six years,
beginning Jan. /, 1882. Hunters name
will be sent to the Senate for Confir-
nation when the Eleventh Legisla-
ture convenes in 1888.
There were forty-three forest fires
on the Prescott national forest in
1881, Chief Clerk Lyman c.. Kiddoo
reveals in a report presented to re-
gional headquarters in Albuquerque,
! N. NJ. Thirty-seven of them were on
forest service lands and the other six
on other lands within the national
| forest.
Judge Howard c. Speakman, in Su-
perior Court in Phoenix, postponed
Winnie Ruth Judd's trial to Jan. 10.
1t originally had been set for Dec. Is.
Tom Fong, Prescott Chinese, was
sentenced in Federal Court in Phoe-
nix to two years and six months and
fined $500 on charges of violating the
narcotic laws.
Historic spots along state highways
will not be passed up by the speeding
tourist in the future, if the efforts of
the newly-organized Arizona Historic
Markers Association places markers
at all spots on improved highways
that lead through Arizona. Effie R.
Keen, state historian, has been elected
president
There has been an unusual prevail
ence of diphtheria in New Mexico, ac-
cording to DR.. ]. r. carp, director
New Mexico bureau of public health,
who says: lightweight cases were
reported in October and forty-one in
tbo P;rst hale oF Novo-,bor Tho f;o
ures for the corresponding periods
last year were thirty-seven and
eleven, respectively"
Governor G. w. p. Hunt, in letter
to all heads of state institutions,
Chambers of Commerce, civic organi-
cations and business enterprises of
Arizona, has urged the use of copper
paint as a means of stabilizing the
copper industry in Arizona. TT is
now possible to obtain this paint on
competitive basis with other
paints" the executive said.
Farmers near Anthony, N NJ, pre-
dict that farming activities at the
short term federal prison being
erected near Anthony may mean the
development of 100000 irrigation
system to reclaim thousands of acres
of bench land. This prediction, how
ever, is dependent upon the success
of the first efforts made in farming
on the land included in the prison
property
The city of Artesia, N. NJ, cooper
attn gwith the Malco Refineries, Inc,
may continue a street oiling expert
ment this winter, provided favorable
weather prevails. The Malco Refin-
cries, Inc, through Superintendent M.
| E. Baish, has offered to furnish free
| fuel oil for any street experimental
work the city wishes to do. Seven or
eight blocks oiled during the past
summer have proven very satisfac-
tory.
There will be SS0O,OOO Christmas
shopping in Arizona at least, as that
much money was distributed by Ari-
zona banking institutions to Arizona
Christmas Club members. The aver
age is slightly under $50 per person.
Nine persons, four of them children,
are known to be dead as a result of
the storm which engufled the Navajo
and Zuni tribes as they were on their
nut picking expedition to the mesas
of Malapais, near Gallup, N. M.
A colorful scene was presented by
gaudily costumed dancers at the lit
tie Indian village of Tortugas, just
east of Las Cruces, N. M, on Dec. II,
in celebration of the four hundredth
anniversary of the apparition Of the
Virgin of Guadalupe, their patron
saint. The spectacle is staged annual
ly on this date, which is considered
the most important day in the Mexi-
cans religious calendar, beginning at
dawn with the dance of the "mata,
chimes"
If all people who too enthusiastical-
ly boost land they are trying to sell
were convicted, the penitentiaries
would be too small to hold them, said
Federal Judge Colin Neblett of Santa
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