The Coolidge examiner., 1932-09-30
Southwestern Briefs

OIllCIdlS IepOTleQ the CIOp 10 SpOltSN
this year and not as good as last.
More than 13O defendants were ar
raigned In Federal District Court in
Albuquerque recently, an even 100 OF
them charged with violations of the
liquor laws.
Payment of past-due salaries to Ari-
zona employees was effected recently,
when registered state warrants
amounting to s1,044,676.35 were paid
by the state.
The New Mexico State Hospital for
the Insane at Las Vegas closed the
twentieth fiscal year with an excess
of receipts over disbursements total
ing s3S,137.77.
From hinterlands of Indian coun-
ty of Northwest New Mexico and
northeast Arizona have come persist
ent reports that an early and severe
winter portends.
Governor Seligman Of New Mexico
granted complete pardons to Pablo
Ybarra of Grant county and L. l..
Hawes, Roosevelt county, both serv-
ing life terms for murder.
Miss Anita Bergere, Santa Fe coun-
ty school superintender is entitled
to reimbursement for actual travelling
expenses not in excess of S540 a year.
Judge Milton T. Helmick ruled.
Needy persons in towns of upper
An Tannlnfffn
feasted on beef from a rolling fat cow
donated to them by Dick Carroll, well
known rodeo star and cowman.
Tilden Young. of Stanley, N. NJ,
pleaded guilty to a charge of cattle
rustling before District Judge NJ. A.
Otero, Jr., and was sentenced to serve
from one to five years in the state
penitentiary.
The executive committee Of the New
Mexico Cattle Growers Association
elected Frank Light of Silver City and
B. A. Christian as New Mexico repre-
sentatives for the national livestock
credit corporation.
Registration at New Mexico State
College Sept. IA totaled 399 students.
The figures were for the first five
days of registration and the total was
almost identical with that for the
same period last year.
Charges brought against DR.. NJ o.
Blakeslee, superintendent of the home
and training school for mental defec-
tivac af nc upae NJ NJ marc aforpJ
to be without foundation" by the board
of directors of the institution, ii was
announced
A total of 600 freshmen took over
the University Of Arizona campus the
opening day of Freshman Week. Indi.
cations are that the class to matricu-
late for the fall of 1882 Will be the
largest entering class in the history
Of the institution.
Indian children for whom policemen
searched a decade ago to fill class
rooms OF government schools, are pay.
ing tuition this year for the first time
at Ganado. Ariz., Presbyterian missionI
and prospects are that the school will
De Illled 10 capacity.
Otis Seligman, son OF Gov. Arthur
Seligman of New Mexico and former
assistant cashier of the First National
bank of Santa Fe, was sentenced TO
five years in federal prison and was
fined $4,000 when he pleaded guilty to
charges of violating national banking
laws.
A bushel of potatoes, bale of hay
a crate of eggs, bag of oats-any.
thing that is food for man or beast
will be acceptable at tn Northern
Arizona State Teachers College this
fall In lieu of cash for board and room
and books for farmers sons and
daughters.
Clyde S. Bailey, assistant general
solicitor for the National Association
of Railway and Public Commissioners,
advised the state corporation commits
sion that the interstate commerce.
commission was unable at this time
to act on en- adjustment of grain rates
from Melrose, N. M, to Texas points.
]. w. James, 43 years old, was in.
stantly killed at the Grand Canyon.
Williams highway, thirty-seven miles
north of Williams, when he was run
over by huge truck loaded with high.
way surfacing material. 1t was the
eighty-seventh fatality resulting from
automobile accidents in Arizona since
January l.
Admission charges to the Arizona
State Fair have been cut in half this
year. The general admission to the
fair grounds each day from October
"a to 29 inclusive, will be 25c for
adults, with children under 10 years
of age admitted free. Grandstand
seats will be soc and bleachers Csc
daily except Sunday. Sunday. Octo-
Der 30, is Automobile Day, at which
time the automobile races will be the
| featured entertainment. On this day
! the general admission will be SOC,