The Coolidge examiner., 1931-10-16
Southwest News Items

creased 20 per cent. The enrolment
has reached $40.
Cattle shipments from New Mexico
during August totaled $3.50, according
to a report made in Albuquerque by
Walter Naylor, secretary of the New
Mexico cattle sanitary board. Ship
ments year ago totaled 5,22S head.
The deer season for New Mexico
for several years has been from Nov.
10 to 20, inclusive. This year the sea
son has been changed to Oct. 20 to
81, inclusive. This season is twelve
days long instead of the usual eleven.
V. V. Dickson of Mountain Park, N.
NJ, charged with stabbing J. H. Eng
man, Amarillo restaurant man, after
a quarrel which followed an auto ac-
cident, waived his preliminary hear
ing and was placed under $4,000 bond.
Ernest Blumenschein of Taos, N.
M, has been chosen one of the five
American artists to serve on the
American Committee of Selection for
national exhibition of modern paint
ings.
W. D. Stafford, principal of the high
school at Old Hobbs, N NJ, has been
appointed superintendent of schools
in Hobbs. to succeed H. L. Groner,
who resigned following his indictment
on charge of embezzling $100 of
school funds.
Mrs. Adelina Welborn of Fort Sum-
ner. charged with possession and sale
of liquor, maintaing a nuisance and
being a habitual offender against the
national prohibition law, was ac-
quilted in Roswell, ~ NJ, by fed
eral jury.
Two thousand book covers, serving
the two-fold purpose of preserving
text books and impressing safety
rules in the minds of the students,
have been presented to the pupils in
the Clovis grade schools by the Lions
Club.
The state bureau of mines and min
eral resources of the New Mexico
School of Mines has just completed a
new and complete oil and gas map of
New Mexico. The map is printed in
two colors, the base being in black
and oil and gas data in red.
The Arizona Game and Fish Depart
ment on Aug. l showed a deficit of
$3,669.75. Announcement of the de-
ficit was made in Phoenix when w.
w. Brookner. state examiner, re-
ported to Governor Hunt the depart
ment had resources of $2,327.55. Out
standing bills against this amounted
to $5,997.20.
A joint indictment, charging Teles-
for G. Padilla. former Socorro county.
n. NJ, treasurer; Constancio Miera.
his deputy, and s. A. Connell of AL
buquerque, former deputy in the New
Mexico state comptroller's office. of
embezzling $4,000 OF county funds,
was returned recently by special
grand jury in Socorro.
Charges of mishandling school
funds totaling $29,535.54. are made
against the board of education of New
Hobbs, n. NJ, in an audit released in
Santa Fe by Assistant State Comp
troller f. NJ Gould. The audit was
used as the basis of indictments re-
turned at Lovington, N. NJ, against
the members of the board.
Phoenix police believe two shabbily
dressed white men killed Mrs. r. l..
Wright. 65 years old, and her husband.
md then set fire to the couples home
Phoenix in an effort to destroy
-lews Mrs Wright was beaten to
leath. Her husband, also severely
)eaten, was saved from the burning
building, but died few hours later
in a hospital. The woman's body vir-
tually was cremated.
The prison where he was death
cell inmate for several months will
receive Richard Nash Burrows, 21-
year-old Chicago youth, as a convict
With only ten years to serve. Con-
yicted and sentenced to death a year
ago, Burrows won his fight to avoid
hanging when a Phoenix jury at a
second trial, on charge of killing
Jack Martin, Mesa, Ariz.. salesman.
returned verdict of second degree
murder
Erupting gas, with sufficient heat
to broil steaks or boil coffee. is to be
found at the mouth of Van Houten
canyon, 200 yards from the highway.
Van Houten canyon is near Ration, N.
M. This modern gas stove is known
to most of the old timers there, who
state that it has been in existence
since 1887. Lightning. they say,
struck coal-bearing veins in the
ground and caused a smouldering un-
derground fire which has never been
quenched
Mrs. Louise Foucar Marshall stands
cleared of numbering her husband. A
Santa Cruz county jury in Nogales,
Ariz., returned a verdict of not guilty
against the aged woman. Mrs. Mar-
shalPs acquittal was sought by her
aO1IncoI from +urO onn1oc