The Coolidge examiner., 1931-01-30
Southwest News Items

The 25th annual convention of the
Arizona Cattlegrowers' Association
will be held in Stafford Ariz., Feb 10
and II, c. w. Peterson, president, an
nOunced.
Five convicts of the New Mexico
penitentiary, who over a long period
dug themselves a 3O-yard tunnel from
the bottom of shaft in drying kiln
in the brick plant to a point outside
the outer wall, recently escaped.
Pedro Martinez was held to District
Court in Santa Fe without bond on a
charge of first degree murder for
shooting to death Mrs. Apolonia Mar,
vaiz, at Cerrillos, while she was fix
ing medicine in the kitchen for her i'll
aunt
Among events appearing on the un-
official calendar of the tenth legisla.
ture will be the dedication of the
bronze tablet placed on the wall in
the lobby of the capitol to the memory
of the Rev. SeabOrn Crutchfield, who
served as Chaplain of the House of
Representative from statehood until
his death in 1927.
Seven existing game refugees have
been re-established and twenty-three
| others created since the inception of
the Arizona Fish and Game Commits.
sion, r. L. Bayless, state game war
den said in his biennial report. The
report shows 36945 hunting and fish.
ing licenses were issued during 1890
A total of 2,113,6OO acres were set
aside for protection of wild life.
Tsatsana, the high priest of the
Zuni and ruler of his people for over
half a century was buried In the Pueblo
cemetery near Gallup with honors be.
fitting his estate in life. The census
roll of the pueblo carries Tsatsana as
80 years old, but tribal records show
that his age was past one hundred. this
fact being substantiated by the older
members of the tribe.
The Central Arizona Highway Asso
citation recently filed articles of in,
corporation in Phoenix as a non-profit
enterprise, naming j. w. Strobe OF
Miami, president, w A. Sullivan q.
Globe, secretary and J. J. Keegan of
Globe, treasurer. Globe is designated
as headquarters Membership in the
organization is limited to residents OF
Maricopa, Gila, Pinal, Graham. Apache
and Greenlee counties.
r. E. Grouse, superintendent of thc
Federal Free Employment Bureau
which, until Gov. G. w. P. Hunt sew.
cred connection with it was a federal
state cooperative enterprise, received
| instructions from Washington to close
the office. Arizona withdrew from
participation in the bureau when the
Department of Labor declined to an.
prove c. p. Flynn, Governor Hunts an.
pointee to replace Grouse as superin.
tendent.
Striking laborers, who quit work on
Cochise cOunty'S 100000 courthouse
and a 100000 high school building In
BIsbee, Arlz., have returned to work
The strikers demanded only local citi.
zen labor be employed, and asked an
increase in pay from SO to S4 per day
The contractors agreed to the labor
provision and offered a wage comprO.
mise Of $3.50 per day, which the strik.
ers accepted.
Efforts are being made by Lea
county officers to determine the ident.
ity of an unknown middle aged man
who was found badly beaten at Hobbs
early in November 1880, and who has
ben held in Loyington' pending. identi
fication or the return of the mans
memory The man appears to be about
fifty years old; is dark complexioned
and has blue eyes. He weighs $50
pounds; is five feet nine inches tall
has grey hair and two scars on the
upper part of the left arm.
First steps in establishing a chain
of hospitals for the relief of stricken
Indians were taken in Tucson by DR.
Paul d. Mossman, medical director Of
the United States Bureau of Indian
Affairs, in planning the site of $128,
600 hospital near the historic San
Xavier mission. The San Xavier
structure will be the initial unit in a
chain stretching across the entire
southwest and ultimately will entail
the expenditure of many hundreds OF
thousands of dollars, DR.. Mossman
said.
Dean Charles F. Emerson of the
medical department of the University
of Indiana, who spoke at the dedica
tion of the Maytag Research labora
tory at the Presbyterian sanatorium
in Albuquerque, said the institution
is likely to become so valuable in the
fight against tuberculosis that it will
be used as a postgraduate school fol-