The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-23
Southwestern Briefs

murder cnarSe IN lne QeaJn OF MRS.
Hazel Ice.
Cotton picking operations in the
Pecos Valley in New Mexico have
been completed and cotton growers
estimated the production would be
about $1,000 bales.
Moving to tighten the load of Ari-
zona taxpayers, Governor-elect B. B.
Moeur ordered drastic economies in
the administration in the states
school system in the coming year.
Rudolf Rothermel, proprietor of the
Hotel Jerome, Jerome. Ariz., managed
by Harry Parker, left an estate val
ued at not to exceed $1,000. accord
ing to a petition for the probate of his
will that was filed in the Yavapai
County Superior Court.
George Bowers, former Chicago adj
vertising man now of Albuquerque,
was held on bond of $4,000 charged
with manslaughter in. connection with
the death of Frank Vallejos of Five
Points, unemployed father of five chill
dren, who was killed by Bowers car.
After three hours deliberation, the
jury gave a judgment of $238, ,66666 to
V. H. McNutt against the United
States Potash Co. McNutt. San An
tonic, Texas, geologist, had sued for
100000 in return for his services in
developing the rich Eddy County pot
ash fields.
Removal of the state dry law has
left Phoenix without a liquor ordi-
nance. L. c. McNabb, city attorney,
said the prohibition amendment to
the state constitution, upon which the
Phoenix ordinance was predicated, SUI
persedes the city charter The latter
does not empower the city to prohibit
liquor.
Although practically every munich
pality in Arizona has liquor ordi-
nances, authorities of most of them
indicated no action toward enforce
ment would be taken because of the
overwhelming repeal of the state law
and the proclamation of Governor
Hunt wiping the statute from the
books.
The quail season in ten counties of
New Mexico has been extended fifteen
days The extension is from Dec. 10
to % 1t applies to Eddy. Chaves,
Lea, Lincoln. DeBaca, Guadalupe,
Quay, Grant, Luna and Hidalgo Coun-
ties. Sportsmen reported quail and
other wild fowl are plentiful in this
section.
Lloyd E. Fuller, the man who con-
fessed to robbing the Jules Maurel
home in the Hassayampa Mountain
club tract in Arizona and then setting
fire to the residence last October 20.
pleaded guilty to arson and was SEN
fenced to serve not less than two nor
more than five years in the state peni-
tentiary at Florence.
A Coconino County Superior Court
jury awarded Miss Hazel Neer, Flag
staff nurse, S24,99293 damages for in
juries allegedly received in an auto
mobile accident June IL, 1929. De-
PENDANTS in Miss Neer's $4,000 SUIT
were M. J. Pilkington. owner of the
Flagstaff Motor Company, and M. e.
Brooks, Phoenix mechanic employed
by the motor company in 1929.
Reduction of $10,380,410 in the as
sessed valuation of the United Verde
Copper Company's producing mine for
1881, under a decision given by Supe-
rior Judge Levi S. Udall of Apache
County, will entail a refund of $685.
$40 in taxes to the company. OF this
amount, he said the state of Arizona
is obligated to return s106.634; the
county, $90,376; and school district
No. 8, $4,000.
Las Vegas producers of Pascal cell
cry claim their crop this year offers
the best quality ever grown and that
no imports are comparable. The claim
is supported by both merchants and
local consumers, but the former la
ment that the local supply is insuffi-
cient for store demands. This product
may be more extensively grown in the
future, not only for the local market,
but for general Shipment.
The internal revenue office at Albu-
querque was requested to collect taxes
from fifty New Mexico bootleggers.
The request came from prohibition Of
ficials at Washington. Previously the
names of forty-four New Mexico boot
leggers were sent to Albuquerque with
a request that taxes be collected from
them. All the bootleggers were con-
victed in Federal Court and the gov
ernment claims they should pay
manufacturers tax under law en-
acted before prohibition.
Litigation started year ago has
resulted in a decision favorable to the
plaintiffs in their suit against oil COM
panies for an undivided one-half inter
est in Lea County, N. M, oil lands
valued at 2 million dollars. The suit
was brought by J. M. Wooley on behalf
10 bairc of q fOrYno or owuor 0f fho land