The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-24
Southwest News Items


Elliott Barker has taken up his
duties as the new state game and
fish warden for New Mexico, succeed
ing Edgar l.. Perry
Mrs. George w. Frenger Of Las
Cruces, N. NJ, has been appointed
New Mexico State Chairman for the
Fifth National Radio Addition.
Charles D. Barnes and Earl Nelson.
long-term convicts, who escaped from
the Arizona state prison at Florence.
were captured in house in Phoenix.
More than 900 persons have been
killed in automobile accidents in Ari-
zona during the past eleven years. ac-
cording to a statement issued in
Phoenix by an insurance company.
Workmen are engaged on three fed.
ederal aid projects in Quay county,
N M, for which a portion of the
$470,000 state and federal appropria.
ton has been set aside by the high
way commission.
A group of Ration business men are
supporting a company under the lead
ership of w. D. Watson in an effort
to tap supply of carbon dioxide
which is said to be within the vicinity
Of Wagon Mound, New Mexico.
A bill passed by the 10th New Mex
leo Legislature, and signed by Gov
ernor George w. P. Hunt, officially
named the Sahuara flower as state
flower Of New Mexico and also named
the cactus wren as the state bird.
w. A. Lee, publisher of the Yuma
Sentinel, an afternoon daily news.
paper, took his own life He shot
himself through the head. Despond-
ency, due to financial worries, is
thought to have prompted the act.
Preparations are virtually complete
for the opening of the spring travel
season at Carlsbad cavern with the
progress being made in smoothing out
kinks in the trails and completing
buildings on the surface for greater
convenience of visitors.
George w. Shute, former Superior
Court judge of Gila county, Arizona,
was found guilty in Phoenix with re-
concentrations for leniency by a Fed
eral Court jury, on one of five counts
of an indictment for concealment Of
assets in bankruptcy schedules.
Jose Martinez, Solomon Martinez
and Fulgencio Gonzales were recently
sentenced by Judge Armijo, in Dis
trict Court in Las Vegas, N. NJ, to
serve from one year to fifteen months
in the New Mexico state penitentiary,
at hard labor for stealing and killing
cattle.
Scholarships for training in arch
aeology, ethnology and physical an
thropology will be offered during 1881
by the Laboratory of Anthropology at
Santa Fe, N. M. The Laboratory re-
ceives for this purpose grants from
the Rockefeller foundation totalling
$4,000.
Gasoline tax collections in New
Mexico for March decreased $1,000
under the collections for March, 1880.
Gasoline Tax Collector Adolph Hill re-
ported that the tax collected for
March, 1880, was $1S6,796.13 as op-
posed to $175, ,430.77 or a reduction of
$11,306 this year.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, blind sing
er and pianist of Alamogordo, n NJ,
has accepted appointment on the
board of the New Mexico School for
the Blind. She is the daughter of the
late Sheriff Pat Garrett and is au-
thor of New Mexico's state song 20
Fair New Mexico"
R. G. Gibson, regional manager of
the Veterans Bureau in Albuquerque,
N. M, has received word from Col.
L. H. Tripp of Washington that bids
for the construction of the Veterans
hospital at Albuquerque will probab-
ly not be advertised for before the
latter part of April.
The office of the Civilian Aide to
the Secretary of War for Citizens
Military Training camp enrolment
for the camp at Stephen D. Little,
NogaIes, Arizona, July "a to August
%, 1881, is being deluged with appli-
cations for the camp for Arizona
young men who can not find better
way or place to spend month in
healthful, outdoor life.
A gold vein in the old Vulture mine
near Wickenburg, Ariz., which has
produced fifteen million dollars, was
found recently. United Verde Exten,
sion Mining Company officials an
nounced in Wickenbprg. The Vulture
mine, once a sensational producer,
"pinched out" fifteen years ago.
Biologists maintained, however, that
it was possible to relocate the vein.
There will be no month-early fish
ing in New Mexico as many folks had
hoped this year and the season will
open as usual on May 80. The re-
vised fish and game code which was
passed by the legislature gives the
commission power to change the
dates of the fishing season. How