The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-10
Southwest News Items

man. He will succeed B. F. Kelly.
who resigned.
A gain of 100000 acres in irrigated
land was made in Arizona during the
last ten years, according to figures
just released by the bureau of census.
The largest gains were made in Mari
copa, Pinal and Yuma counties.
Federal buildings for New Mexico
are planned at Las Vegas, Santa Fe,
Albuquerque, Clovis and Gallup. The
structures will involve an expenditure
of over $1,2O0,OO0, and will be put up
this year.
w. T. Haldeman, a farmer near Ar
tesla, N. NJ, gathered seventeen bales
of lint cotton of 500 pounds each from
a five-acre tract. From one acre, the
best in the tract, Haldeman gathered
2,200 pounds.
Thirty-nine hunters during 1920
working days, killed 227 predatory
animals in New Mexico, according to
the regular monthly report just re-
leased in Santa Fe by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
Stockholders of the independence
Lead Mines Company, with headquar-
ters in Idaho, met in Phoenix, Ariz.,
elected directors and ratified an agree
ment for purchase of controlling in
terest in the Clayton Mining Com
pany of Idaho.
The Arizona State Teachers Col
lege at Tempe has been fully ac-
credited by the North Central Asso-
citation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools. The announcement was made
at the annual convention of the North
Central Association in Chicago.
Several hundred hers, repre-
senting the siXty-eight clubs of the
Arizona Federation of Women's Clubs,
attended the annual state convention,
held in Mesa, March 25, 26 and 27.
The Mesa Womans Club was the hos
tess organization for the meeting.
Frank Pinkley, custodian of the ma
tional monument. announced in Cool
idge, Ariz., the white mans rehabili-
tation of the ancient Casa Grande
ruins will be continued during next
year through an appropriation of $685.
900 received from the government.
Three men, charged with murder in
Hassayampa river valley fanchers'
feud, were acquitted in Phoenix by a
Superior Court jury. The defendants,
Nelson Killebrew; his son, Louis, and
Willard Matthewson, were charged
with Staying William Dyer, their
neighbor. They pleaded self-defense.
Charles J. Sears of Fort Washing
ton, Wash, and David Lee Houston
of Columbus, Ga, were held in Phoe-
nix in connection with the death of
John P. Easterday, Detroit, Mich, war
veteran, who died of injuries a day
after he and Herbert Race of Sioux
City, Iowa, were thrown from a speed
ing train by hoboes.
DR.. N. l.. Linebaugh Of the Metho.
dist church, south, in New Mexico has
announced the purchase of 229 acres
in the Sacramento mountains, to be
used for the purpose of building a
summer encampment. The tract of
land was purchased by the Chambers
Of Commerce of Roswell, Artesia,
Carlsbad and Lovington.
Total recovery from the Hobbs pool
was increased to 7,5O3,644 barrel
from July 10, 1880, to February 28,
1881, according to report just COM
piled by C. G. Staley, field umpire.
There are 142 wells in the field cap
able of producing 1,122,935 barrels
daily. Production during February
dropped below 100000 barrels and
was set at S75,255 barrels.
Leo NJ Meeker, president of the
Arizona bank, operating company of
a chain of banks throughout central
and northern Arizona, has just an
nounced the merger of the Bank of
Chandler with the Arizona bank. The
Bank of Chandler has resources of
100000. The merger, Meeker said,
will give the Bank of Arizona and
it's branches total resources of $4,-
100000.
Members of the New Mexico meet
ing of the Order Of Eastern Star
elected new officers in Carlsbad.
They are: Matron, Mrs. Edythe Neel
of Santa Fe; patron, William Adair,
Belen; secretary, Mrs. Jessie M. Nor
gan, Artesia; treasurer, Mrs. Bertha
D. Ralph, Rincon; associate matron,
Mrs. Fay Parrish, Las Vegas; associ-
ate patron, Gordon Allison, Berino;
conductress, Mrs. Iona Jones, Clovis;
associate conductress, Mrs. Edith
Turner, Silver City.
No arrests will be made in connec-
tion with the death Of seven or eight
men who used twenty-gallon supply
of poisonous alcohol as a beverage at
a stag party at Ration, N. M. Fred
Stringfellow, district attorney. said
the alcohol had not been obtained at