The Coolidge examiner., 1933-02-17
Southwestern Briefs

will start this next month with the
opening up of the Nolan group.
Gross gasoline taxes during the six
months ending Dec. 81, 1882, totaled
S1,624,229.99. according to E. NJ. Whit
worth. superintendent of the motor We
hicle department.
Survey of the region between San
! Carlos and Flagstaff, Ariz., is under
way by crew of seventeen engineers
of the United States coast and geo.
detic survey.
The Arizona Legislature has sent
| to Gov. b. B. Moeur a bill to extend
until March l the grace period for
| purchase of automobile license plates
without application of the 100 per cent
penalty.
The Arizona House of Representa-
tives has sent to the Senate a joint
memorial asking the Reconstruction
! Finance Corporation to loan the Verde
river irrigation and power project
$16,OOO,O 600
A measure introduced in the Ari-
IONA Senate by Senators Dougherty
of ella, Conner of Yavapai and Greer
of Apache, would amend the code to
cut sharply the mileage allowance and
/ travelling expenses of state officials.
Governor B. B. Moeur has asked
/ Arizona's congressional representation
/ to support bill to extend r. F. C.
| funds to aid transient unemployed,
/ and at the same time said he would
| seek similar aid from the Legislature
Y. C. White, state superintendent
of banks, announces he has every
reason to believe" more than $1,000
| 900 in cash will be distributed to de-
positors of the defunct Arizona bank
through sale of it's assets, scheduled
to be completed soon.
The number of applications during
the first two weeks of enrolment for
the Phoenix (Ariz) Citizens Military
| Training Camp have broken all rec
/ ords for the first two weeks, accord
| ing to a statement made by Colonel
! Charles H. Rutherford, civilian aide
| to the secretary of war.
Endangering the lives of ninety-one
students and five instructors, fire
RACED the school at Fredonia, Ariz,
! isolated community near the Arizona
/ Utah border. Damage was estimated
at $4,000. All equipment was de-
stroyed Origin of the blaze was not
| known.
Divorces increased and marriages
| decreased in Mckinley county, N. NJ,
! during 1882, the annual report of the
/ county clerk shows. There were 191
marriages last year compared with
221 in 1881 and twenty-three divorces
and one annulment compared with
eighteen divorces the year before.
William E. Conley of Los Angeles,
national commander of the disabled
American War Veterans, is chief
| E-Schu-Du-Ba. He was given the title
in colorful Indian ceremony at AL
buquerque, N. NJ. Indians explained
] ti1cN tic IuEduS OuI Eyes,
and was given Conley because he
wears glasses.
Samuel C. Fowler, 80 years old, one
| Of AriZona's few Confederate veterans,
was buried at Tucson with military
honors. When the Civil war spread
over the south, Fowler organized the
| first company of troops at Gainesboro,
/ Tenn, and later led them in the siege
of Vicksburg and the battles of Murf-
reesboro Missionary Ridge and Shiloh.
The report of the Winslow, Ariz.,
unemployment relief organization, is
| sued by the director, H. c. Kabelin,
reveals in striking figures the wide
amount of relief and aid given to
needy. aged and unemployed, and at
the same time indicates an urgent
need for additional funds to carry on
the work now well launched
Tales of Indian witchery in which
skeletons are used to drive devils
away, were recalled at Martineztown,
n. M, after theft of body was dis
covered at Mountain View cemetery.
Many residents of Martineztown, a ma
tive village near Albuquerque, were
convinced Indian witch doctors"
were responsible for the theft
That Prescott is in better financial
condition than other cities of the West
and East, is seen in a statement made
by E. A. McSwiggin, city tax collec-
tor, centering on tax payments made
on the first half of 1892 tax assess
ments. McSwiggin said 80 per cent
of these taxes have been collected
thus far, amounting in money to $4O,-
500.
The third quarterly apportionment
to the counties of the Arizona state
school fund for the year 1928 has
been announced by Supt H. E. Hen
dirk through w. H. Hairless, statisti-
clan. The apportionment is based up
on funds from both tax and non-tax
sources to the amount of 522,91754.
Mohave county's share of this fund is
the sum of S5,9S6.31.