The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-06
Southwest News Items

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equipment at the Charles H. Burke In.
dian school at Gallup, N. NJ, have
been completed.
Charles Mann, Dewey, Ariz., horse
wrangler, was convicted of second de-
gree murder in Prescott, for the slay-
ing of Walter Dewitt, stabbed seven
teen times during a quarrel.
Santa Fe's recent fiesta cost $5,343
to produce. and the committee in
charge announced recently that all
bills have been paid and a balance of
$3.50 remains in the fiesta fund
The New Mexico Game and Fish
Department closed the quarter ending
Sept. 30, 1881, with $4,546.O3 more
money on hand than had been esti-
mated in the departments budget
The right of State Comptroller ]. NJ.
Lujan to compel officials of Old Las
Vegas, N. NJ, to surrender the town
records to state auditors for examina-
tion, will be made the basis of test
suit
Freight rates on interstate ship
ments of feeder cattle from Arizona
and New Mexico to Denver and Ell
Paso were upheld as reasonable in
decision by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in Washington
Jack West, 19-year-old apprentice
pharmacist, stabbed Pearl Mills, Is,
his fiancee, to death in Phoenix, and
then plunged the blade of a large
hunting knife into his own chest. His
condition is regarded as serious.
The State of Arizona has appealed
to the Supreme Court to reverse the
judgment of the Yavapai County Su-
perior Court in reducing the assessed
valuation of the United Verde Exten-
sion Mining Company.
The first car of pinon nuts to leave
New Mexico this year was shipped
from Gallup. The crop, however, is
expected to be small this year, and the
Indians report the nuts are scattered
The quality, however, is fine.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in Washington, d. c., dismissed
complaint by the Las Vegas Lumber
Co., which assailed as unreasonable
the rates on coal from Canon City,
Trinidad and Walsenburg, Colo, to
Las Vegas, N. M.
With the 1881. .Helldorado pageant,
held in Tombstone, Ariz., now history,
members of the committee are al
ready busily engaged in planning for
next years presentation of the rip
roaring days when men wuz men
and the undertakers did the work"
Dance halls, night clubs and road
houses inside the city of Carlsbad are
taboo. At recent meeting of the
Carlsbad City Council an ordinance
was passed which prohibits the erec-
ton or operation of a dance hall, or
''so-called club inside the city limits
Hobbs, N. NJ, which has had no
town election for three years, wants
a special election now, a change to
commission form of government, and
expansion of the town limits to get
the municipal schools into town. A
petition asking for a special election
has been drawn.
Judge David Ling, in Superior Court
in Yuma. Ariz., dismissed charges
against James b. Button, Arizona
state superintendent of banks, that he
permitted the Farmers Commercial
State bank of Yuma and Somerton to
continue business with the knowledge
they were insolvent.
Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd is suspected
of having murdered her two closest
women friends and of having shipped
their bodies to Los Angeles from Phoe-
nix in trunks Police say that she
killed Mrs. Agnes LIE Roi. 27-year-old |
nurse, and Miss Hedvig Samuelson,
25-year-old tubercular patient.
Dona Ana county, New Mexico, |
farm women, under the supervision of
Miss Ezra Grimes, county home
demonstration agent, have launched |
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tries products under. a state seal. This
seal has been registered for use any
where in New Mexico.
Consumers of electricity and power
in Globe, Ariz., will save annually be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 through the |
reductions which will go into effect |
Nov. 1, it was estimated by officials |
of the company, with the filing of the |
proposed reductions with the Arizona |
Corporation Commission.
A large refinery, fourteen miles
east of the Pecos river, is under con-
struction by the United States Potash |
Company, whose plant is in Eddy |
county, southeast of Carlsbad. At
present about 200 tons of crude ore
are hauled every day to the railroad
by trucks and are shipped to Atlanta,
Ga.
For consideration of about S14O.-
900 cash, Jerome o. Eddy and his
I've d..