The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1932-11-04
Southwestern Briefs

blind at Alamogordo.
Registration in Maricopa county,
Ariz., for the general election next
month has passed the $4,000 mark.
A new postoffice has been allocated
Winslow, Ariz., under provisions of
the Garner-Wagoner relief law.
Three mining men identified the
body of man found near a cemetery
in Prescott, Ariz., as that of Alvin M.
Kilgoe of Corcoran, Calf
B. r. Tenney of Alpine, Ariz., has
submitted low bid Of S1,S71 for grad
ing 1913 mile of the Chiracahua ma
tional monument highway.
During the first thirteen days OF
October, the gasoline tax collection
department Of New Mexico has paid
out $15,3S2 in gsaoline tax refunds.
Jack Nicholson, one of group of
defendants convicted at Santa Fe in
the Saratoga sweepstakes lottery case,
returned to Albuquerque recently,
after serving ten months of his two
year sentence.
The estate of the late Moses H.
Sherman, who was a school teacher
at Prescott. Ariz., in the early days
of the territory, and who died at San
Diego, a few weeks ago, is estimated
at five millions of dollars.
Ralph Vandewart of Roswell, wool
buyer, has purchased the 1882 clip OF
the Frank A. Hubbell Sheep Company,
largest in New Mexico, for the French
Worsted Company OF Woonsocket, r.
l., for about IL cents a pound.
Philanthropic gifts exceeding $4,-
100000 by George H. Maxwell, 6S,
Phoenix resident, who died in Pasa-
dena, Calf, last September, were re-
vealed when his will was admitted to
probate in Superior Court at Phoenix.
With figures from all but six Of the
thirty-one counties available. indica-
tons are that the number of votes to
be cast in the coming New Mexico
election will exceed by $4,000 or more
the total number cast in the 1890 cleo
ton.
The second annual Arizona open
golf tournament will be held at Phoe-
nix Country Club the last week in
January or the first week in Feb
ruary. The dates will be set by the
bureau of Professional Golfers Asso-
citation.
The Santa Fe railroads tie-treating
plant near Albuquerque has been re-
opened, with the employment of a
full force of 100 men. The plant will
be operated indefinitely for six days
a week with a payroll of between &c.,
900 and $4,000 month.
Sportsmen who have visited the Lin
coin National forest in New Mexico
said there is an oversupply of deer
and they predicted state game Off
Gals will permit a second open sea-
son after the first one this month.
The sportsmen estimated there are
$4,000 deer and $3.50 turkeys in the
forest.
Elliott Barker, New Mexico state
game warden, states that 175,000 rain
bow trout at the new Parkview hatch
cry in Rio Arriba county will be ready
for planting in streams of the state
within the next thirty days. The
trout, he said, will range in length
from three and half to five inches.
Some 100000 trout will be left at the
hatchery for planting in the spring.
After five years of intensive work.
health officials believe a campaign
to wipe out malaria fever in Dona Ana
county, New Mexico, has shown re-
suits which indicate complete success
within a few years. DR.. c. w. Gerber.
county health officer and director of
the malaria control campaign, said
the number of malaria cases has de-
creased from 935 in 1928 to 40 this
year.
Edward ROMANCE, IS, died Of in
he was riding plunged off the high
way near Elephant Butte dam, New
Mexico, at the same spot where r. ].
Schmalhausen, reservoir superintend-
ent, was fatally injured in an auto &C
cident recently. Friends said Ro-
manages car left the road as he looked
into the arroyo in which the Schmal-
hansen car had plunged.
Five of eleven defendants in the
state bank superintendent suit to
recover nearly $1,000,000 have filed
motion in Superior Court at Phoenix,
asking inspection of the records Of
the closed Arizona bank. Those seek
ing access to the records are H. ].
McClung, the Northern Arizona Secur-
tiles Company, the Grand Canyon
Sheep Company, the Three V Live
stock Company and the Colin Camp
bell Livestock Company.
The State Game and Fish Commits
sion extended the quail season in
eleven counties an additional fifteen