The Coolidge examiner., 1931-05-01
Southwest News Items

states, attended the sessions of the
Arizona Utilities Association conven-
tion in Phoenix.
More than 200 ex-service men from
points in the Texas Panhandle recent
ly inspected government land in Ca
tron county, New Mexico with a view
of forming colony.
Mrs. T. J. Mabry of Albuquerque,
was elected president Of the new
board of the girls welfare home,
which held its organization meeting
at the home in Albuquerque.
Reed Holloman, former district
judge of Santa Fe, N. M, was among
the seven Gallup, N. NJ, citizens in
dicted by federal grand jury on
liquor conspiracy. He has denied the
charges.
International Flying Service has
applied to the corporation commission
for a permit to transport passengers
and express between Nogales and
Tucson and Nogales and Douglas !;
serving Bisbee.
Forty building permits totaling
$192020 have been issued in Clovis,
New Mexico, during the first three
months according to a report just re-
leased in Clovis by Mrs. Hortense
Westerfield, city clerk.
Joe Harvey, 7O-year-old Indian
scout, was killed by Robert Tiller,
Apache Indian, in a fight that cli-
NAKED a drinking party. The fight
occurred on the San Carlos reserva-
tion near Globe, Ariz.
The expenses of New Mexico Leg
islature totaled $52,S97O7, Rupert AS
plund, director of the New Mexico
Taxpayers association, said in Santa
Fe. The cost in 1925 was $51,11S54,
in 1927, $5O,22274, and In 1929, $780,
1882.
The Central Arizona Highway AS
sociation swung into its fourth year
today with a new president-Power
Conway of Phoenix. Mr.. Conway is
the organizations second president.
He succeeds ]. w. Strobe who has
filled the office since formation of the
association three years ago.
G. r. Cunningham of Artesia. who
was dismissed as foreman of the fed
eral grand jury in Santa Fe apollo
gized to the court for reporting for
duty under the influence of liquor,
and his case was dismissed Federal
Judge Neblett accepted Cunningham 8
apology.
A body believed to be that of D. j.
Bird, Winslow railroad brakeman, lost
last Nov. in the Leonard canon coun-
try south of Winslow, Ariz., was found
near Victorina tool box by Govern
ment Trapper Gene Hotter. Bird be-
came separated from hunting compan-
ions during a snowstorm.
Selection of a site for the govern
ment's $4,000 fish hatchery for New
Mexico will not be made until pro-
posals on water rights at the proposed
sites have been submitted, Fred J.
Foster of Salt Lake City, district SUI
pervisor of the bureau of fisheries
stated in Albuquerque.
Three Arizona pioneers, blind for
years, gazed with wonder on the state
they helped to create, their sight hav-
ing been rsetored by operation for re-
moval of cataracts. 1t was a mira
Gle Of surgery that lifted the veil of
darkness, according to attendants at
Good Samaritan hospital in Phoenix,
where the operations were performed.
Two widows mourned the death in
Yuma, Ariz., of a newspaper publisher
known to one as Hutton Bellah, for
merly of the Altus, Okla, Times-Dem-
ocrat, and to the other as William
Lee, of the Yuma Sentinel. They and
other relatives and friends gathered
in Yuma to patch together the partly
obscured pattern of his life. He shot
himself
Three hundred-an fifty-eight home
steads in Lea County, New Mexico,
were affected by the decision of the
Circuit Court in the case of Ivan L.
Skeen against Beulah V. Lynch. The
court ruled that the government res
ervation of coal and other minerals
under the grazing and homestead act
of December 1916, includes oil, gas
and water rights.
A man who made meticulous ar
rangements to kill himself was iden-
titled as Benjamin F. Tatum, missing