The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16
Southwestern Briefs

Gordon Stores. Inc, of Las Vegas,
n. NJ, concluded a closing out sale
recently and moved the remainder of
the stock of goods to Grand Junction,
Colo.
The New Mexico state corporation
commission cancelled the charters Of
the United Royalties, Inc, of Albu-
querque. for failure to file required
annual reports.
Thomas V. Truder, Republican can
didate for district attorney in the
fourth judicial district, New Mexico,
reported he had spent 1915 during his
campaign for office.
A jury in District Court at Las
Cruces acquitted Gideon Redding
cowboy of Big Lake. Texas, on
charge of robbing the First National
Bank of Hatch, n. NJ.
H. Merle Cochran of Tucson, Ariz.,
has been commissioned as secretary
in the diplomatic service and has been
designated first secretary of the
United States embassy in Paris.
Mrs. Glen Davis of Fairbanks, Ariz.,
is in a hospital at Bisbee suffering
from injuries received in an automo-
bile accident in which her brother,
Merlin Clymer, &c, was killed
Low bids of S74,595.2O was submit
ted by f. H. Honnen of Colorado
Springs, Colo, for construction of four
and one-fourth miles of forest highway
between Taos and Las Vegas, N. NJ.
Two counties in New Mexico have
already forwarded advance payments
on their 1882 taxes to the state. Dona
Ana County has sent $4,000 to the
treasurer and Otero County $4,000.
Paul Turner and Larry Sheldon.
TRUSTEES who escaped from the Ari-
zona state penitentiary at Florence.
were captured by prison guards while
asleep in field southwest of Chan
dler.
Taos is rapidly recovering from the
effects of $25O,OOO fire which oc-
Cured there last May Practically
all of the business section razed by
flames, the north side of the plaza, is
being rebuilt.
Arizona's next annual buffalo hunt
will be held in House Rock valley next
February IS. The herd of buffalo,
which now numbers 106 head, is the
only one in the nation which still
roams free on the range.
J. d. Rick, 25, and Jimmy Sneddon,
40, both employees of the Gallup
American Coal Company at Gamerco,
N. NJ, died almost instantly when
their homemade airplane plunged
downward to a street intersection and
burst into flames in Gallup.
Secretary of State Scott White said
]. A. Mulcahy, treasurer of the Demo
cratic state central committee, re-
ported the recent Democratic cam
paign in Arizona cost $1O,25292. Mul.
cahy reported that $10,458 was con-
tributed to the campaign and that
$2C5.71 of that amount was not spent.
Gov. Arthur Seligman's first econ
he requested all state departments,
institutions and state officials in New
Mexico to prepare their budgets for
the 1888 state legislature on the basis
of not to exceed 80 per cent of the
appropriations granted by the tenth
state legislature.
From his sick bed in hospital at
Phoenix, Governor George w. p. Hunt
signed an order declaring Arizona's
prohibition law null and void. Ari-
zonas prohibition law was adopted six
years before national prohibition. The
only liquor law now effective in the
state is the federal act Vote on re-
peal of the state law was $3.50 to
36,219.
Patrick ]. Hurley, secretary of war,
and his assistant in charge of avia-
ton, F. Trubee Dawson, accompanied
by more than 200 army officers and
ninety airplanes, will come to Phoenix
December II to accept on behalf OF
the war department the Frank Luke,
Jr., memorial trophy presented by the
Arizona department of the American
Legion.
Elliott Barker, New Mexico state
game warden, said that two more
Rocky Mountain sheep arrived in
in Santa Fe from Banff, Canada, for
planting in the mountainous region
near Aspen ranch, north of Santa Fe.
The sheep, two ewes, will be added to
the Rocky Mountain sheep let out of
the country near the Aspen ranch sew
eral months ago by the game depart
ment.
One of the richest strikes ever to
be recorded in the mining history Of
Graham County, Arizona, was that
made by Van Lee in the Ft. Grant
mining district, newly opened sec
tion near Stafford. Assays of the ore
show them to be worth from s845.00
to $1,632.0O per ton. The news caused