The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-20
Southwest News Items

publishing the University newspaper,
magazines and yearbook.
Rejuvenation of Tombstone, Ariz.,
which once was the largest city in
Arizona, as a health center is seen in
the announcement that work is to
start soon on $150000 sanitarium,
according to an announcement made
in Tombstone by Mayor R. B. Krebs.
In its history either as state or a
territory, Arizona has convicted only
twenty-eight women of slayings, on
charges ranging down to manslaught-
er-two only of first degree murder
during the fifty-three years records
have been preserved-and only one of
these has it hanged.
Bucking contests, calf roping, bronco
riding, wild horse races and bulldog
ging featured the rodeo sponsored by
the Las Cruces Kiwanis Club here
November Ia and Is. Proceeds from
the rodeo, DR.. Troy B. Sexton, presi-
dent, said, will go to the underpriv-
ileged children's fund of the organiza-
tion.
Fifteen thoroughbred horses, valued
at $21 900, will be kept in Las Cruces,
N. NJ, at Ups and Downs stable of
H. M. Dow and Major H. P. Saunders
during the winter months. Nine of
the horses came from the Renfro
stables at Menard, Texas, and the 9th
ers from the Brownlee and Waggoner
farms.
Indian school children are far from
nonenity in Arizona. School enroll.
ment figures credit Arizona with A.
1872 Indian children between and 13
years. OF these, SO per cent are in
some school Public schools have 344,
government boarding schools on reser-
vations 2,844, other federal boarding
schools 2,483, government day schools
966, and mission and private institu-
tions ,596.
County Attorney Lloyd J. Andrews
announced in Phoenix that he plans
to bring Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd,
charged with the murders of Mrs. Ag-
nes Anne LIE Roi and Miss Hedvig
Samuelson, to trial mot later than the
first week in December" Andrews
said he had not decided definitely
which murder the woman will be tried
upon first, but it probably would be
that of Mrs. LIE Roi
Out of grand total of 1875 child
rem in New Mexico between the ages
of and q during the school year
1930-1931, 81 per cent were boys and
49 per cent girls. These figures are
revealed in an article on the Mortal
ity in the Public Schools of New Mex
leo During 1930-1931,' by George |.
Sanchez, director of the division of
information and statistics of the State
Department of Education.
Registration of motor vehicles in
Arizona during the year to Oct to-
tailed 1878, E. NJ. Whitworth, super
intendent of the motor vehicle divi-
sion Of the State Highway Depart
ment, has announced. Fees collected
from the vehicles during that period
-
393.20 was collected as fees on non
owner operator fees, duplicate regis
tration cars and card holders.
Letterheads and envelopes made of
a coated cotton cloth have been
adopted as the official type of sta
tionery for the executive offices of
Governor George w p Hunt of Ari-
zona. The governor used the first of
the cotton Ietterheads in a mfmeo-
graphed letter to heads of state de-
partment3, in which he suggested that
all state officers use the new type
stationery as means of reducing the
cotton surplus
Ramsey Patterson, big game hunter
of Mayer, Ariz., owes his life for the
third time to an inhalator squad of
the Prescott volunteer fire depart
ment. Patterson was found gasping
and fighting feebly for breath, but was
soon restored. His condition was due
to a collapsed condition of one lung
and semi-congestion in the other. Last
February the Prescott firemen saved
Patterson's life on two occasions with
the inhalator.
The Copper Queen smelter of the
Phelps Dodge Corporation will be
closed in Douglas, Ariz., as soon as
ore now on hand has been used. Of
ficials said, however, the Calumet and
Arizona smelter, recently merged with
the Phelps Dodge, will continue to op-
crate at almost full capacity with
crew of approximately 450 men, Cur
tailment of operations, the officials
said, @is necessary until an advance
Of the present money-Iosing price of
copper"
The work of a department justice
agent, j. A. Street, described by his
superiors as job accomplished by
patience and perseverance under
most trying circumstances, resulted
in the arrest at the White River In
dian reservation of an Apache brave,
Golney Seymour, after he had con-
fessed to attacking and killing Miss
Schmerler, brilliant Columbia Univer-