The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-10
Southwest News Items

fiscal year 1JOl-lJ0z. winch ndQ Deeu
accepted tentatively on May 26.
jeanette Wood of Ration has been
announced as the winner of the $50,
first section prize for New Mexico in
the national flower appreciation con-
test, in which schools throughout New
Mexico competed.
c. c. Case, Arizona superintendent
of public instruction, reports that ST.
995, ,600.07 in state school funds was
apportioned to the fourteen counties
last year. The apportionment was
made in four insta1lments, based on
$25.35 per pupil on an average daily
attendance Of 1858.
The Arizona Corporation Commits
sion has collected $2S7,51S.61 from its
three sources of revenue so far this
fiscal year, William Coxon, secretary,
announced in Phoenix. The money
has been transferred to Nit Simms,
state treasurer, to be credited 10 the
general fund
The New Mexico Tax Commission
has refused to approve levy of to
5 mills for Hobbs, N NJ, to take up
have been issued at a total of $110,-
600, to build schools. The request was
made at the hearing on the Lea coun-
ty school budget.
Superintendent Of banks for the
state of Arizona, James B. Button,
has taken charge of the Arizona
Southwest bank of Tucson and placed
deputy examiners in charge of the in
stitution's branches In Douglas, Casa
Grande and Coolidge for the an
nounced purpose of protecting deposi-
tors from loss because of depleted re-
serves.
Plans are being made by farmers,
grain and implement dealers and rail-
roads for the handling of what is be-
crops in the history of eastern New
Mexico. The first wheat will be cut
about June 20, and before the end Of
the harvest season the yield in Curry
county is expected to pass the 4,000,-
900 bushel mark.
Two complaints, charging Emerson
Watts, former New Mexico state
treasurer and member of the broker
age firm of Harrison, with en-
beZzlement, have been filed In Ros-
well, n. M. The first charge against
Watts was filed by Louis Keel who
alleged that he had lost $4,950 through
the firm. Mrs. Olivia Rhea Martin
filed the second charge, alleging she
had lost $1,000.
Assistant District Attorney Earl
Kenney of Santa Fe is investigating
the triple shooting near Espanola, n.
NJ, during which Rose Garcia, 16, shot
her sweetheart and her brother and
then killed herself. Milton Chavez,
Espanola drug clerk, the fiancee, was
shot through the head, and j. B. Gar
cia, the brother, was shot through
the right shoulder. Both men are in
the hospital in Espanola.
Excavation of ruins at the Chettro
Kettl pueblos in Chaco canyon has
been started by the University Of New
Mexico archaeological expedition, ac-
cording to word received in Gallup,
N. NJ This year the university IS
aided by the School of American Re-
search at Santa Fe and the party is
working under the direction of DR..
Edgar L. Hewett Of the archaeological
department of the University.
Judge Howard c. Speakman, in Su-
perior Court in Phoenix, ruled litiga-
ton to obtain for personal injuries re-
suting from industrial employment
accidents can only be brought in the
Supreme Court on appeal after an
award has been made by the State
Industrial Commission. Suit cannot
be instituted in Superior Court, Judge
Speakman ruled in an action by John
Norton against the commission and
the Calumet and Arizona Mining Com
pany.
Sheriff Felipe Zamora said his in
vestigation of fire in the county jail
in Albuquerque, which caused a panic
among the prisoners, had convinced
him that the fire was caused by the
accidental throwing of a match into
some refuse, and was not an attempt
by any prisoner to burn the building.
On July 2, 3, 4 and 5, Frontier Days
and the Northern Arizona State Fair
will be celebrated in Prescott, where
the latch string will be out and the
glad and sincere hand of welcome will
be extended all her visitors by COM
mittee headed by the mayor of the
city, Bert Tilton.
New Mexico State Game Warden
Elliott Barker issued warning
against the capture and keeping In
captivity of young game animals. The
State Game Department has found
more than the ordinary number of
cases this year where young deer,
antelope and cub bears have been
caught and are being kept in captiv-