The Coolidge examiner., 1931-05-08
Southwest News Items

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uounced in Phoenix that construction
Of the final section of the Swift Trail
to the top of Mount Graham will be
completed by summer.
Januay l, this year, there were l.
O45,O 900 head Of cattle in New Mexico,
according to the report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The total value
Of all cattle Jan. l, 1881, was $751;
$4,000.
By vote of 237 to 20, the taxpay-
ers of WinslOw, Ariz., voted to grant
25-year franchise to H. G. Laub, re-
resentative of the Chas. F. Stern Com
pany, for the operation of a fuel gas
service in Winslow.
Kelly Nemeck of Douglas has been
elected president Of the student body
Of the University of Arizona at Tue
son. Frank Losee of Miami has been
chosen vice president and Barbara
Willis, Phoenix, secretary.
Extension of the twenty-five-year
government trust period, better edu-
cational facilities and free water for
irrigation were the demands made
upon a United States Senate subcom-
mttee by the Yuma Indians.
Range prospects in most sections in
New Mexico were considered to be the
best in several years, according to the
New Mexico Livestock and Range re-
port just issued by the New Mexico
a. and M. College at Las Cruces.
More than $497,76S of school funds
has been apportioned to the fourteen
counties of Arizona by C. o. Case,
superintendent of public instruction.
Two bandits held up and robbed
the First State Bank of Tularosa,
N. NJ, of $11,344.
approximately 25O delegates and
visitors, representing Odd Fellow
lodges in all parts of Arizona were
present in Douglas, Ariz., when the
annual meeting of the grand lodge and
the grand assembly of the Rebekah
degree conducted joint ceremonies.
c. w. Eskildson, prohibition agent,
formerly of Pueblo, Colo, was SEN
fenced in Albuquerque to six to ten
years in the penitentiary on his con-
viction ten days ago of second degree
murder in the killing of Uvaldo Mar
tinez, state highway employee
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of Benny Chavez, Albuquerque
boxer, reported that it resulted from
gunshot wounds inflicted by Don Can
delaria, and the district attorneys of
flee announced second degree murder
charges would be filed against Candle
laria
The sixth annual golden Jubilee
tournament for the championships of
the Arizona State Tennis Association
will open at the Tucson Golf and Couu-
try Club at Tucson, Ariz.. May 8 to
continue three days. Competition is
under the auspices of the Southwest
ern Tennis Association.
James Kennard, New Mexico con-
vict, escaped a life sentence under
the habitual criminal law when Judge
Milton j. Helmick sustained a motion
TO arrest judgment on the ground that
one of the three previous convictions
against him in California had not been
shown to be a felony in New Mexico.
Rowing herds of wild horses, one of
the last traces of the old West, exist
ing in Arizona today are making their
last stand on forest reserve ranges in
northern Arizona. A government or
der, upheld by Federal Court rulings,
demands the extinction of the pic
turesque herds in the Coconino ma
tional forest.
New Mexico had 1O1, ,937 children en-
rolled in its public schools at the close
of the last fiscal year, according to a
report just completed by former State
Superintendent of Public instruction
Atanasio Montoya. This was an in
crease over the enrolment for the
preceding fiscal year which was
placed at 94,742.
The Arizona Business Review, issued
by the Industrial Congress, said sea-
sonal increases In many forms of ac-
tivity were reported during March,
strengthening an upward tendency in
number of business lines. General
levels, the publication said, remain be-
low those of the corresponding periods
of the past few years.
New Mexico's families were num-
bered at 98,S20 by the census bureau.
Eleven and one-half per cent of them,
or 11,4O4, reported having radio sets.
Albuquerque had 6,821 families, zoos
radio sets; Roswell 1850 families, COL
radio sets, Santa Fe 1928 families.