The Coolidge examiner., 1931-01-23
Southwest News Items

Flagstaff and the Kaibab forest, infor-
nation obtained from the touring de-
partment of the Arizona Automobile
Association reveals.
Participation in a series of burg
laries at Phoenix, Ariz., and shooting
OF night watchman in Buckeye, Ariz.,
were admitted in Stockton, Calf, po-
lice said, by three men held for a
Stockton burglary. They are Billy
McWilliams, Sam Lawton and Harry
Williams.
Contracts for a cottage and storage
garage at Mormon lake bass pond and
for ponds at the Indian Gardens trout
hatchery in Tonto Basin were award
ed to A. Edmon of Phoenix for a to-
tai of $6,500, according to T. E. Nc
Cullough, chairman of the Arizona
Fish and Game Commission.
-Four grown people and two children
were badly burned when an explosion
wrecked the home of Vicente Mares
in Taos, N. NJ. Mares, his wife, his
father, of Wagon Mound, n NJ, a
maid and two children were in the
house at the time of the explosion.
The cause of the explosion was un-
known.
Following preliminary hearing
held before Justice Of the Peace w.
H. Clark in Holbrook, Ariz., Willis
Pennington, 19-year-old Holbrook
youth, charged with shooting Hiram
Farrow, was released from the Hol-
brook jail under $1,000 bond Pen
nington has been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon.
Arizona, with it's 3.S persons per
square mile of population in the 1880
census, as completed within the last
few months, has in course of con-
struction, and has projected for the
opening months Of 1881, a program of
major building projects totaling up
ward of twenty million dollars. In
most instances contracts have been
let on basis of employment for Ari-
zona resident labor.
Emilio Gonzales, escaped convict,
who has evaded arrest and terrorized
communities in Rio Arriba county, n.
NJ, finally got into a fight in Grand
Junction, Colo, got several teeth
knocked out and himself in Jail. New
Mexico sent an officer to bring him
back to Santa Fe, where he is wanted
| for setting $4,000 fire at the Sar-
gentMartin store in Ell Rito and for
shooting Rafael Canales in the leg.
Work entailing an expenditure of
| $4,000 on four government projects
| in the Coconino national forest has
started. E. G. Miller, forest super
visor in announcing the improvements
at Flagstaff, Ariz., said that approx
mately $4,000 will be expended on
| Schnebly hill, twenty nine miles south
of Flagstaff. The remaining $4,000
will be spent on improving forty-three
miles of road at Big Park, Chavez
pass and Cinder mountain.
viii T. Terry of Gaines county,
| Texas, won the first skirmish in his
million dollar test suit for oil rights
against the Midwest Refining Com
pany in Federal Court in Albuquerque,
when Judge Colin Neblett ruled that
| the Federal Court had Jurisdiction.
| Terry demands damages of S1,015,00
| for alleged trespass on his land. He
| pnnfnnhc haf oF
from the state land office does not al
| low the mineral rights being awarded
to other parties.
One man was shot to death and a
man and girl were wounded near
buckeye, AriZ., recently, when a quar-
rel over desert claims ended in a gun
battle between four neighbors. Will
liam Dyer, 81, was wounded fatally by
a charge of buckshot fired at close
range, but managed to seize a gun be-
| fore he died and wounded William
Mathewson, officers said. Lewis
Killebrew was the man who alleged
ly fired the fatal charge, deputy sher-
ifs said.
Federal Judge Colin Neblett, in
Santa Fe, decided in favor of Mrs.
-ah Hurd of Denver in the suit over
lie estate of her husband, by holding
that no partnership agreement ex-
listed between the late George f. Hurd
and his brother, Charley Hurd of
Catron county, N. NJ. Charley Hurd
sought to claim a portion of the
George Hurd estate, which consists of
vast ranch lands in New Mexico, Colo
RADIO, Montana and Nebraska, on a
! partnership basis.
Continued construction work On the
middle Rio Grande conservancy prof.
ect, the last link in the worlds larg-
est section of irrigated land, is ex-
! pected to put two and one-half mil
lion dollars into New Mexico's eco
nomic channels during 1881. This
fund is the largest single item in the
states building prO%ram for the COM
! ing wear and is an Indication of b,,ci