The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-06
Southwestern Briefs

10 august 81.
The governors office at Phoenix
received check for S12S,100 from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
for relief to Arizonans during Decem-
ber
E. John Greer was named by United
States District Judge Colin Neblett
as receiver of the Central pharmacy
of Santa Fe, which went into bank
ruptcy recently.
The Santa Fe city council voted to
install call box system so that pa
trolmen can report their location to
headquarters at regular intervals both
night and day.
Upon application of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, its Stein agency, 20
miles west of Lordsburg, has been
ordered closed by the State Corpora
tion Commission. The order is eff
fective January 1.
The Arizona State Corporation
Commission named Roy Rummage.
Phoenix, as actuary, to succeed Will
liam M. Cox, resigned. The latter
was elected state treasurer. He is a
former Cochise county treasurer.
Major F. R. Laferty. senior in
structor of the New Mexico National
Guard, said that Sergeant Leslie R.
Morrison of the machine gun troop,
111th cavalry, stationed at Clovis,
has been ordered to go to Fort Riley,
Kan, for the cavalry school.
Fire that started in the basement
of the former First National Bank
building at Magdalena, N. NJ, caused
between $4,000 and $4,000 damage
and drove occupants of hotel into
the street. A cafe and pool hall were
completely destroyed by the flames.
Judge M. T. Phelps, In Superior
Court at Phoenix, ordered back sal.
aries of S1,34525 be paid County
Treasurer John D. Calhoun and Is of
his deputies. The court ruled that
money from the county salary fund
had been diverted to the expense
fund without authority of law.
Flagstaff again has banking facili-
ties for the first time since last June
when the Arizona Bank closed. A
branch of the Bank of Arizona of
Prescott formally was opened by M.
B. Hazeltine, president of the Pres
colt institution. organized in 1877. 1t
has branches at Jerome and Clark
dale.
A suggestion that all legislators
wishing to sponsor repeal measures
as co-introducers was made at Santa
Fe by Senator-elect Juan A. Sedillo
of Santa Fe county. Such action
would hinge, of course, Sedillo said,
upon agreement among the solons re-
garding the method in which repeal
would be sought.
Prescott, Ariz., is without any city
law prohibiting the sale or possession
of intoxicating liquors under federal
regulation. One Prescott and one
Whipple physician authorized to prac-
tice in the city are reported to have
made application to issue prescrip-
tions of liquor for medicinal purposes,
along with several drug stores here
wanting the right to sell the bever-
ages.
BY January 10 all troops of the
25th United States Infantry at Camps
Stephen d. Little, Nogales, and Harry
]. Jones, Douglas, will have been
moved to Fort Huachuca, Ariz., a gen.
eral order of the Eighth Corps area,
released at Tucson, said. The camp
Quartermaster department has been
directed to dispose of all immovable
to it's owners.
The Arizona Agriculture and Horti-
culture Commissions inspection sta
tion at Gila Bend will be closed after
December 81, it has been announced.
The station was ordered closed after
it was reported to the commission
that no pink boil worms were found
in the Salt river valley during the
past cotton season. The closure,
which is expected to save $500
monthly, will leave five road stations,
located at Yuma, Solomonsville, Tue
son, Salome and Kingman.
Stock raisers may erect fences to
confine their own herds, but not
those of their neighbors, the New
Mexico Supreme Court ruled in an
opinion handed down by John C. Wat
son. The opinion reversed a judg-
ment of the De Baca County District
Court whereby the action of A. J.
Jones in building a fence which al
legedly excluded the livestock of T.
A. Sacra from public lands was up
held. The cause was remanded to the
lower court with directions to over
rule a demurrer Jones was given
leave to answer. Sacra, in the Dis
trict Court, had sought an injunction
to halt the erection and maintenance
of the fence in question, but this was
denied In mis- ODiniOn Judge Watson