The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-03
Southwestern Briefs


snow recently, while other regions of
the state were soggy with rain Flag
staff reported over fifteen inches
Brighton.-A murder which netted
gree murder and a sentence of death
to three Mexican youths at Brighton.
Development of water resources in
the Bowie, Ariz., region is expected
to result in improved colonization
when the present economic unrest is
settled
Organization of a reserve air corps
squadron for Arizona with headquar-
ters at Tucson, is under way follow
ing approval of the move by the war
department
Abolition of all county deputies ex-
cept those of the sheriff's office is in
cluded among legislative action advo-
Gated by the Socorro County, New
Mexico, Taxpayers Association.
The semi-centennial of the organiza-
tion of the st. Joseph stake of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints in the ella valley, Arizona,
will be celebrated at Stafford Feb. 26
Thirteen cases of tuberculosis,
eleven of which were in Bernalillo
county, were reported to the New
Mexico state bureau of public health
during the week which ended Jan. 7.
The branch bank of the Federal
Agricultural Credit Corporation in
Santa Fe, N. NJ, will likely be open
for business February 1, according to
general opinion among banking cir
cles.
A centralized Red Cross sewing
room will be established in the lower
rooms of the new Masonic temple
members of the Mckinley County.
New Mexico chapter voted at a meet
ing.
Approximately $4,000 worth of
property and merchandise went up
in flames at Ration, N. NJ, when the
j. C. Penney Co. store and the Nord
Stationery store were entirely de-
stroyed
The state senate of Arizona has
adopted a bill to appropriate ST.
$3.50 for maintenance of the depart
ment OF agriculture and horticulture
highway inspection stations until the
end of the present fiscal year.
A gigantic land deal involving near
ly S160,00O and $4,000 acres in McKin-
ley County has just been completed
in the county clerks office with re-
cording of patents on state lands to
the Mckinley Land and Lumber Co.
Legislation affecting reduced taxes,
stricter bank control and regulation
of fire insurance companies, the cor
poration commission, transportation
agencies and usury is sought by the
Arizona Taxpayers Investigators bu-
reau.
Approval of plan to set up a plant
at the New Mexico penitentiary for
the manufacture of motor vehicle
plates and road signs has been re-
ceiyed from the state highway de-
partment and the state cemptrollers
office.
Passage of a meature by the legis-
lature of New Mexico which will sup
ply free text books to all school chill
dren from the first to the eighth
grades is forecast by Chairman J. d.
Lamb of the state corporation COM
mission.
Antonio Mirabal, one of the spokes.
men of the Taos Indian pueblo, told
newspaper men in Washington that
he had been advised by New Mexico's
congressional delegation and others
that no effort will be made to pass
the pueblo relief bill this session.
Prescott's gallant little band of In
dian fighters has high place on the
honor roll of the United States war
veterans, according to the national
adjutant's report for the year 1892,
just received by John F. Mahoney,
commander of the department of Ari-
zona and New Mexico.
Ernest A. Polansky, United States
referee in bankruptcy, says: mo pc
titions in bankruptcy in New Mexico
have been filed yet this year and
only two cases involving small claims
were filed in December. There may
be a depression, but the referee in
bankruptcy certainly isn't profiting
by it."
Warning against any special prop
erty tax levies and calling for strin-
gent economies throughout the entire
public structure, Governor Arthur
Seligman told a joint session of the
eleventh New Mexico legislature that
adverse financial conditions are now
more serious and aggravating than
two years ago.
Cattle shipments from New Mexico
for December totaled 52,492 head, as
compared with shipments of 1856
head in December a year ago, ac-
cording to Walter Naylor, secretary