The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-07
Southwestern Briefs

Luth B. Foster, 81, the last Civil
War veteran in Dona Ana county and
president of the New Mexico A. and
NJ. College from 1901 to 1909, died at
Las Cruces.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the girls dormitory at the San
Carlos Indian school at San Carlos.
Ariz. Authorities estimated the loss
at $4,000.
Gov. B. B. Moeur of Arizona signed
a bill setting up machinery for a vote
on repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment, probably at special election
next October 8.
Among the prominent educators be-
ing considered for the presidency of
the University of Illinois is DR.. Harry
Clinton Gossard of the Normal Uni
versity at Las Vegas, n. NJ.
John Duncan. director of the Ari-
zona state temperance enforcement
commission, said 1000 persons have
applied for license to sell beer, wine
anu OlHtI SpllILOuS DQuOIS.
F. A. Woodward, for twenty-eight
years interested in mining in the
Globe district, died after an illness of
year. He was 81 years old and came
to Arizona from Massachusetts.
The Prescott Frontier Days Asso.
citation will have the aid of the Ari.
zona Cattle Growers Association this
year in the annual four-day rodeo. The
event is set for July l, 2, 3. and 4.
Hidalgo IN. M)@ounty's tax collec.
tions were brought up to 80 per cent
with May receipts. Curry county had
collected 72.11 per cent at the end OF
May and Santa Fe county 1927 per
cent.
Announcement of federal road prof.
ects to be undertaken in New Mexico
means about s15O,OOO has been re.
leased by the government for pre-.
viously planned construction in the
state.
The Maricopa county (Ariz) board
of supervisors to date has granted
twenty-nine old age pensions under
| the new state law. Two hundred and
fifty applications remain to be acted
upon.
S. H. STANCE of Hidalgo county and
/ w. S. Silsby of Grant county, N. M
/ sold 2S,000 pounds of mohair at a price
Of 1712 cents pound or 10 cents a
pound more than was paid ninety
/ days ago.
William Boggs. 1O-year-old stepson
of Representative August Wieden OF
Pima county, Ariz.. was shot and
killed accidentally by his 1S-year-old
uncle, Reed Pearce, while hunting
rabbits on the desert.
Between four and five hundred
/ members of the Agricultural Workers
/ Industrial Union went on strike In
Chaves county, N. NJ, demanding &c
cents an hour wage scale for cotton
choppers teamsters and hay balers.
Working the combination to the
vault, robbers obtained between 49,.
600 and $4,000 in currency from the
Valencia county IN. M treasurer's
| office and made their escape after ig
noring several thousand dollars worth
/ of checks.
The Mckinley County, N M, Inde
! pendent Merchants Association has
adopted $3.50 a. m. to $3.50 p. m. as
standard daily opening and closing
hours to comply with the provisions
of the new eight-hour laws. Saturday
night hours were made optional.
A fiat one-half of l per cent tax Oh
gross retail sales would be substituted
for the administration sales tax in q
measure presented to the lower House
OF the Arizona Legislature. The origi.
nal bill provides for a varying tax
from one-eighth of ] per cent to
! per cent.
THE first National Bank of Gallup,
n. NJ. will be prepared to resume busi.
ness on normal basis on or before
January l. 1894 fully qualified under
the Glass-Steagall bank deposit insur.
ance bill, John Emmons, president OF
the bank. said following his trip to
Washington.
With citizens of the Salt River val.
ley uniting IN the celebration, Chand-
Ter dedicated the recently completed
oil-surfacing of the PHOENIX Chandler.
Tucson highway. Governor Moeur.
principal speaker on the program, Of.
fciially dedicated the road by break.
ing bottle of wine.
New Mexico fishermen have been
asked to cooperate with the state
game warden in an attempt to compile
data on the various species of trout
in streams IN the state. The object OF
the survey, State Game Warden El
l!ott Barker said, is to place fish plant.
ing in New Mexico on a more scien
tific basis.
Trains carrying reforestation re.
cruits from eastern cities to California
must abide by the state train limii
law, the Arizona Corporation Commits
sion ruled The federal government