The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-05
Southwest News Items

Preparations for construction of a
highway to Hoover dam from Yuma,
via Kingman, have been started.
A perfectly safe swimming pool,
with water of 70 degrees temperature,
has been discovered 1880 feet under
ground in the Carlsbad caverns, near
Carlsbad, N. NJ.
Valuation of the Santa Fe railroad
in New Mexico for 1881 was fixed by
the New Mexico State Tax Commits
sion at $54 4,567,O the same figure
as for 1880.
Representatives from eleven west
ern states will gather in Flagstaff,
Ariz., August 3-5, for the annual con-
vention of the Western Association of
Game and Fish Commissioners.
Louis Slonaker, graduate manager
of athletics at the University of Ari-
zOna, announced in Tucson that the
Wildcat stadium will be equipped for
night football games next fall.
Fora Neal, charged with the slay-
ing of Earl M. Hyde, Flagstaff serv-
ice station operator, waived prelimi-
nary hearing in Prescott and was
bound over to Superior Court for
trial.
John c. Light of Miami was elected
president of the Arizona Lumbermen's
Association which held it's fourteenth
annual convention in Phoenix, with
delegates from Arizona and California
in attendance.
Cletis Culpepper, 16-year-old high
school student, was killed instantly
and between twenty and thirty other
students were injured when a school
bus crashed into a ditch near Gray,
n. NJ
Mrs. Minnie Alice HolIoman of
Santa Fe was elected president of the
New Mexico P. Z. o. at the close of
their three-day convention in Gallup.
Tucumcari was selected as the 1882
convention city.
Domestic lighting customers in the
state of New Mexico number 25,115,
according to the Bonbright survey of
electric light and power companies of
the United States, published by the
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
Breezy Cox, cowboy and rodeo per-
former held in connection with the
robbery of the First State bank of
Tularosa, N. NJ, was bound over to
the June term of the District Court
in Alamogordo under $1,750 bond.
H. C. Denny of Gallup, under fed
eral indictment in the Gallup alleged
liquor conspiracy cases, has been re-
moved as city attorney by the Gallup
town trustees. Edmund R. French, U.
S. commissioner, has been appointed
to succeed him.
One of the largest bankruptcy
cases among cattlemen since the 10
year drought was filed in Federal
Court in Albuquerque by Edward L.
Thompson of Albuquerque, rancher,
listing debts of $191, ,92016 and no
assets.
Governors of eleven states have
been asked by Gov. George w. P.
Hunt of Arizona to join Arizona in
its fight to strengthen the copper
mining industry in the United States
by placing a tariff on foreign-pro-
duced metal.
John Bingham of Las Cruces has
been appointed state bank examiner
for New Mexico by Governor Arthur
Seligman. Mr.. Bingham, who has
been chief clerk in the State High
way Department for the last few
months, will succe Lawrence
Tamme
Mrs. Minnie Rutledge was ordered
held for trial in Superior Court in
Phoenix, on charges of murder in con-
nection with the death of her 93-year-
old mother, Mrs. Alice Pyle. Mrs.
Pyle allegedy was beaten to death by
her daughter when the mother re-
fused to eat.
The board of regents of the New
Mexico military institute at Roswell
recently authorized the awarding of
contracts for 100000 Improvements on
the institute grounds. Work on a
new barracks has already been started
and it is expected that they will be
completed and ready for use by No
vember l.
One thousand eight hundred and
forty-siX seed loans, totaling $269,329,
have been issued by the Department
of Agriculture to New Mexico farm
ers from funds made available
through the recent drouth relief meas
ures passed by Congress. This
amount had been issued up to April
%, G. r. Quesenberry, Las Cruces
said.
A statement given out in Santa Fe
by State Comptroller j. M. Lujan,
shows that while motor vehicle fees
have been running ahead of last
years collections so far, only 62,O63
gasoline propelled vehicles of all