The Coolidge examiner., 1931-05-15
Southwest News Items


of Women's Clubs council meeting in
Phoenix.
Fifty acres of valuable timber was
burned in a forest fire which ragged
over half mile front in the vicinity
of Gentry Canyon, 100 miles south
east of Flagstaff, Ariz.
L. S. Mcleod of Cambray, N M,
who was convicted in court at Santa
Fe of rum running. was sentenced to
eighteen months in the federal peni-
tentiary by Federal Judge Colin Neb-
lett.
Breezy" Cox, cowboy and rodeo
performer, widely known in the south
west, was arrested at Duncan, Ariz.,
in connection with the investigation
of the $1,000 robbery of the First
State Bank of Tularosa, N. NJ.
Mesilla valley and Elephant Butte
project farmers need not worry over
a possible shortage of water in the
Elephant Butte reservoir, according to
l.. r. Flock, superintendent of the
project, who said in Las Cruces re-
Gently that there was plenty of water
stored in the reservoir.
The Hobbs pool in Lea county pro-
duced 900,321 barrels of oil during the
month of March, according to a COM
pilation of pipe line runs recently
completed by c. G. Staley, proration
umpire. The actual recovery during
March was 1,116 barrels less than the
allowable of 901,347 barrels for the
month.
Superintendent Thomas Boles of the
Carlsbad Caverns National Park in a
new circular just completed by the
government for distribution at the
Broadway of America convention in
Hot Springs, Ark, points out that 82,-
S54 automobiles entered the national
park during the period from 1926 to
1880, inclusive.
New Mexico had 101,93 children
enrolled in its public schools at the
close of the last fiscal year, accord.
ing to a report just completed by for
mer state superintendent of public in
struction, Atanasio Montoya. This was
an increase over the enrolment for
the preceding fiscal year which was
placed at 9S.742.
In the National Scholastic Press AS.
sociation awards announced in Mime.
apolis, The Tigers Claw, high school
paper of Ration, N. NJ, was listed
among the fourteen winners. The
school paper has been published by
members of the journalism class OF
the Ration High School, under the di.
rection of Miss Gillespie.
Approximately 100000 was paid out
to farmers in the drouth area in New
Mexico during March, according to a
report made to the New Mexico n.
and M College Extension News al
Las Cruces by the st. Louis office of
the federal seed loan board. 1t was
indicated, the News said, that this
amount would probably be boosted to
the $250,O0O mark by the end of April
Governor Arthur Seligman of New
Mexico announced in Santa Fe that
there will be no complete pardons
issued during his administration, ex'
cept in cases where a convict is en-
tirely exonerated by confession of an
other or development of new evidence
81 may issue a few conditional par,
dons," Governor Seligman said, ''or
commute some sentences"
Alfred Newlander of Albuquerque
was elected new state master coun-
cillor of the New Mexico Order OF
DeMolay. He succeeded Lowell Green
of Clovis in the election which closed
the sixth annual conclave held in Clo-
Wis, N. M. Lewis Huff, of Silver City
was elected senior councillor and
Grant Bowen, also of Silver City, be-
came junior councillor.
Charles E. Blaine of Phoenix, traf'
fic counsellor for the Arizona corpora
ton commission, announced in Phoe-
nix that interstate commerce commits
sion hearings on protests involving
freight rates on feeder and other cat
tie between Texas and New Mexico
points to Arizona will be opened in
Phoenix, May 25. H. w. Johnson, 1.
C. C. examiner, will conduct the hear
ings
A preliminary hearing for Breezy
Cox, cowboy held in connection with
the Tularosa bank robbery, may be
held here Wednesday, according to
word received from District Attorney
J. Benson Newell of Las Cruces. Cox,
who was brought here Monday from
Lordsburg by Deputy Sheriff Alfred
Hunter, denied any connection with
the robbery. He also denied that he
knew anything about the robbery.
A mandate of the Arizona Supreme
Court directing a new trial for Richard