The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-17
Southwest News Items


Cruces, N. M.
John P Sloan Of Phoenix has been
chosen chairman of the Arizona fish
and game commission, succeeding
Thomas E. Mccullough of Flagstaff,
whose term expired
Four convicts escaped from the Ari-
zoaa state penitentiary at Florence
when the driver of a gravel wagon
buried his three companions in the
gravel and drove out of the prison
yard.
Gov. Arthur Seligman of New Mexi-
co recently signed commission con-
ferring upon Adjutant General Osborne
G. Wood the title Of brigadier general
Wood is the son of the late Major Gen
eral Leonard A. Wood.
Any resident of Arizona who wishes
to hunt or fish must secure a license
which includes both of these sports.
Heretofore a number of hunters and
fishermen have been using either their
hunting or fishing licenses for both
sports.
Grants, N. M, Union High School,
Roy, N. M, High School, and Elida,
N. M, High School were elected to
membership in the North Central AS
sociation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools at the recent meeting of that
organization held In Chicago.
Fees collected by the Arizona State
Highway Department from it's various
revenue sources totaled $2,493, 1884
for the first eight months of the pres
ent fiscal year, E. NJ. Whitworth,
superintendent of the motor vehicle
division, declared in Phoenix.
The Arizona Federation of Women's
Clubs selected Prescott for it's 1882
convention city at the final session
of this years conclave in Mesa. Mrs.
H. T. SouthWorth of Prescott was
elected first vice president of the Or
ganization to succeed Mrs S. H. Mar
tin, who resigned.
Ownership of motion picture the
atres at Ajo, Hayden, Florence and
Ray were recently transferred from
George A. Mauk of Phoenix to Mich
olas Diamos, Tucson show-house pro-
prietor. Under an agreement Mauk
will continue to operate the Superior
and Florence theatres for ten years.
Ruins older and more extensive
than any previously found in Arizona
have been found by group of archie
ologists and Papago Indians near the
historic mission San Xavier Del Bac.
1t was revealed in Tucson by DR.. By
ron Cummings, dean Of archaeology at
the University of Arizona
Cecil H. Lockhart and his wife. Mrs.
Minnie Lockhart. of Ell Paso, filed suit
in Federal Court against the Cont
mental Oil Company and the California
Oil Company for recovery of oil lands
in Lea county, New Mexico, valued
at $1,19S,595. 1t involves 1897 acres
near Hobbs, N. NJ.
The duck season in Arizona has
been reduced fifteen days by order of
the federal biological survey at Wash
ing. R. l.. Rayless, state game war
den, was advised. The season will
open, according to the order, at high
noon October 16 and last until Janu-
ary Is, instead Of January 81.
Traces OF gold have been found by
the United Verde Extension in it's ex-
ploration work at the old Vulture mine
near Wickersham. Ariz., for a lost
vein which has yielded $2O,OO0,OOO in
gold ore. d. r. Finlayson, president
of the Vulture Mining Company, said
the exploration shaft had been sunk
400 feet.
The District Court conviction of
Carrie Adair Armijo and Louis Marti-
nez for conspiracy in connection with
the $1,000 Bernalillo county, New
Mexico, cash box theft was affirmed
by the State Supreme Court in Albu
querque, N. M. Both were sentenced
from five to seven years in the peni-
tentiary.
8 State Treasurer Warren r. Graham
announced in Santa Fe that his office
would soon make a distribution Of
$113,841.07 to the counties of the state
of New Mexico as their share of the
cash revenue from the Motor Vehicle
Department The total amount to be
distributed between the state and
counties is 71,05O.16
Miss Mary Louise Tuition, of Mesila
Park, was elected May queen of New
Mexico State Agricultural College at
Las Cruces. N. M, and will be
crowned during the Kollege Kactus
Karnival, May 2. Elizabeth Sweet,
Las Cruces, was elected the most pop
ular girl and Steve Quinlan, of Fort
Bayard, most popular boy.
Two damage suits against the Pick
wick-Greyhound bus line as a result
of the Isleta crossing accident in
which twenty-five people were killed,
were dismissed by Federal Judge
Colin Neblett in Santa Fe. The cases
have been settled and dismissal was
on motion of counsel for the plaintiffs.