The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-06
Southwest News Items

Governor Arthur Seligman was re-
elected president of the First National
bank of Santa Fe, following meeting
of the board of directors of that In
stitution in Santa Fe.
The Pacific and Arizona Gold Com
pany of Prescott, AriZ., was recently
granted a certificate of incorporation
in Phoenix. ]. E. Russell of Prescott
is named fiscal agent.
Charles Trimble of Omaha, NeD.,
was elected president of the Western
Fruit Jobbers' Association of America
at the meeting in Phoenix.
Claiming that he shot in self-de-
fense, e. L. Ramsey, IS, told Loving
ton, N M, police how he killed clyde
B. Nolen, a painter, after Nolen, IN
drunken rage, had shot the boy across
the forehead.
Containing 450 names, the petition
asking mail carrier service for Carls-
bad, N. M, is now in the hands of the
Chamber of Commerce and will be
sent to Washington for action by the
Postoffice Department.
Mayor Leo F Smith of Hot Springs,
N. M, and eight other defendants, ac-
cused of conspiracy to violate the ma
tional prohibition laws, were found
not guilty by jury which reported In
Federal Court in Albuquerque.
Warden William Delbridge of the
Arizona state prison at Florence, has
received word that Jose Olivas, who
escaped from the penitentiary June
27, 1880, was shot to death in battle
with peace officers at Ell Centro, Calf,
on Jan. s. Olivas was serving a term
for burglary when he escaped.
The Arizona state treasurer and the
state of Arizona have been ordered
to repay to the State Banking Depart
ment, in behalf of the depositors OF
the defunct Prescott State bank, the
sum of $7,333.57, held by the banking
department and the court to be due
from the state treasurer as a refund
on excess dividends collected.
Contract has been let to Minters
Gill and Nail of Oklahoma City for
| construction of Clayton's municipal
sewer system for $119, 9,557.19. court
order permitted the town board to
proceed with the improvement as
tanned, providing assessments
against 156 unimproved lots in the dis
trict are withdrawn.
The Coronado reserve of the United
| States forestry service received $45,-
600 from the National emergency re-
! lief fund recently created by Con-
gress. AS a result forestry officials
announced in Tucson that seven road
building projects in Pima, Santa Cruz
and Cochise counties in Arizona will
| begin.
Ed Swope, new warden at the New
Mexico penitentiary at Santa Fe, is
| having his troubles-not with the 500
| odd convicts but with ten women. The
New Mexico penitentiary has no ade-
quate quarters for women, and at pres
ent he has ten of them confined in
small quarters and if we take it from
! the warden, he has job settling their
| quarrels and keeping them from fight
ing.
Joe Salinas, one of four men ar
rested in Winslow, Ariz., for the burg
! larizing of the V. c. Proctor residence
there, pleaded guilty before Superior
Court Judge Phil A. Sawyer in Hol-
| brook and were sentenced to serve
fhan civ
years in the state penitentiary at
| Florence, in addition to a ten years
and seven months term yet unserved
by him. He is an escaped convict.
Ration, N. NJ, has mayor who
commutes to his duties from Roy, N.
NJ, ninety miles away. He gets to
Ration about once a week, and mat
ters of Importance must wait until
the mayor comes to town. Several
weeks ago Mayor A. R. Streicher
moved to Roy, N. NJ, to open den
| tai office. He said he intends to re-
sign if he finds that it will not be pos
sible for him to be in Ration often
enough to care for the city's business.
That there has been considerable
work in dairying done in New Mexico
during the past year is shown by the
annual report of E. E. Anderson, ex-
tension dairy specialist The chief eff
fort of the dairy work has been di-
rected toward increased efficiency in
production by disposing of COWS that
are Improbable and eliminating their
contribution to the surplus of dairy
products. AS a basis for culling herds,
an effort has been made to encourage
more testing. Mail order testing as
sociations in five counties tested 984
COWS.
The special election called by the
Holbrook Town Council, to determine
whether or not the residents of Hol
brook favored the granting of a fran
chise to the Pacific Public Service
Company, a subsidiary of the Stand
ard Oil Company of California, for the