The Coolidge examiner., 1932-11-11
Southwestern Briefs


A three and a half foot width of gold
ore between the walls that is said to
run $40 ton. has been uncovered at
the Negro mine near Cherry. Ariz.
Headquarters of the New Mexico
Educational Association has been
opened in Roswell. The annual con-
vention will be held Nov. 4, and 6.
Jose Dominguez, wealthy Tijeras
store owner, collapsed and died in the
police station at Albuquerque, where
he had gone to pay fine for his son.
All the tricks of the range are be-
ing used to capture wary band of
wild cattle, which has been grazing
on the 400, 0,000-acre Ladder ranch near
Hillsboro, N. M.
Recent gifts have made the collect
ing of material on Arizona in the Ii
brary of the Arizona State Teachers
College at Flagstaff one of the finest
in existence.
Edward V. Shaw of Yuma, Ariz., has
been appointed adjutant of the Ari-
zona department, veterans of foreign
wars, succeeding H. R. Jordan of
Phoenix, resigned.
The Chandler, Ariz., branch of the
Pecos Valley alfalfa mill has resumed
operation after being shut down
throughout the summer. The mill is
employing fifty men.
Harvesting of the fall grapefruit
crop in the Yuma, Ariz., district has
begun. The yield appears good. Crops
in the Salt River section are good and
pastures are used to fatten stock.
Lifetime passes to all athletic events
sponsored by the Arizona State Teach
ers College at Flagstaff are to be
awarded to graduate lettermen, who
have won two awards in a major
sport.
DR.. R. /. Hust of Albuquerque and
Harry Kechter of Santa Fe were ac-
quilted by jury of charge of MUIR
der and criminal abortion for the death
of Mrs Justine Harrington Elms of
Santa Fe.
A youth who gave his name as Frank
Martinez of Fort Collins, Colo, was
held in Santa Fe for cashing check
for SGT and attempting to cash anoth-
er check for $3.50, both of which bore
the name of Bronson Cutting"
Officials of the Salt River Valley
Water Users Association in Arizona
announced it's local subsidiary, the
Agricultural Credit Finance Corpora
ton, had received a loan of $S80,000
from the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
The Arizona State Corporation Com
mission announced it had fined E.
Engstrom of Omaha, Neb., 800 for
failure to comply with the rules and
regulations of the commission govern
ing the operation of stages and buses
through the state.
w E. Quaint, representative of the
u. S. Department of Labor, arrived
recently in Santa Fe from Washing
ton, to begin survey of the New
pose of preparing statistics on the out
put of prison-made commodities.
A total of seventy-three contagious
diseases were reported to the New
Mexico State Bureau of Public Health
for the week ending Oct. Is. Tubercu-
losis cases headed the list with 20.
Other cases reported were: Scarlet
fever, Is; typhoid, 10, and influenza, 6.
Nick Martinez, 3S, member of one of
the best known Spanish-American
families in the Lordsburg, N M, dis
trict, died after he was shot through
the abdomen, and Jack Collier, form
er cowboy at the Diamond A ranch,
was held in the Hidalgo county jail
for the Staying.
Lower railroad rates on sugar from
California to New Mexico points, will
become effective Nov. 26, Santa Fe
railroad officials announced. The rate
will be reduced from "a to So cents
a hundred pounds from California to
Magdalena, Silver City, Gallup, Albu-
querque and Ell Paso.
Between Sept. and Oct Is the Ari.
zona State Highway Departments
magnetic road sweeper picked up 81
500 pounds ow metals from 22S miles
of Arizona roads. The average was
1895 pounds per mile. Nearly 24,500
pounds of nails, bolts and other met
ais were picked up on the fifty-two
miles bet1 cen Florence and Tucson.
Complete instructions regarding the
big game season in New Mexico, which
opened Oct %, are being sent to spe-
cial patrolmen. The game depart
ment, Elliot Barker, state game war
den, said, will spend $4,000 this year
in patroling the big game areas to see
that the game laws are enforced and
will employ approximately forty spe-
cial patrolmen. Patrol stations will
ho cd fbic 1yoor