The Coolidge examiner., 1933-04-21
Southwestern Briefs

dUOuI ZUO men are IN IndI SectlOn OF
the mountains washing for gold
Federal salary cuts amounting to
flat Is per cent will take $1S5,OOO a
year from the income of the $50 fed
eral employees located in Albuquer-
que.
District Judge NJ. A Otero, Jr., has
ruled that sheriffs, under a law passed
by the Eleventh Legislature of New
Mexico. may compel prisoners to be
fingerprinted.
Excepting in cities of 10000 or more
population, the New Mexico State Cor
| poration Commission has absolute
control and regulation of utilities, ac-
cording to Chairman ]. d. Lamb of
/ the commission.
Generosity on the part of the Santa
Fe railroad in the advance payment of
taxes will pay at least part of the sal
aries now due rural school teachers
of San Miguel county, N. NJ, it was
announced recently.
Pupils in the grade schools of San
doval county, in New Mexico, have
put away their school books until next
fall. The seven-month term of schools
in that county ended last week. Lack
of funds caused the short term.
Mrs. Jessie W. Chapman, noted
woman flier Of Los Angeles and Chi
cago, was killed April / in a collision
between a truck and her automobile
on the coast highway near Liberty,
thirty-five miles west of Phoenix.
More than 5000 men will be thrown
out of work by the New Mexico State
Highway Department unless Congress
continues federal aid after July l, ac-
cording to Gov. Arthur Seligman. The
| present appropriation expires June 30.
Temporary receipts, or licenses"
! permitting the sale of beer and wine
| in Arizona under the new federal law,
are being issued by the internal reve-
nue. department for Arizona in lieu of
the special tax stamps required under
/ the act.
| A contract for complete engineer
ing survey of the city of Roswell, N.
construction of municipal light and
| power plant was favored unanimous
/ ly by a committee of the City Coun-
Gil recently.
A trio of Pennsylvanians, who, Sher-
if Arthur Nandevier said, apparently
| derived their ideas of cattle rustling
/ from Western fiction magazines. have
/ been lodged in the Coconino county
! jail in Flagstaff to await trial on cat
tie theft charges.
Members of the mems and womens
debate teams of Arizona State Teach
ers College of Flagstaff, Ariz., went
| TO Stockton, Calf, recently, where
they competed in the Pacific Coast
Forensic tournament, held there the
latter part of March.
The Arizona 1888 wool clip will fall
about one-third short of last years
clip, but is better quality, Jerry W.
Lee, secretary of the Arizona Wool
Growers Association, announced re-
Gently. Last years clip was close to
five million pounds.
J. d, William of the University of
Arizona has asked New Mexicans who
saw the meteor which passed over
New Mexico, to send reports of their
observations to him at Tucson. The
data is being collected on behalf of
the American Meteor Society.
Applications as candidates in the
New Mexico constitutional con+en-
tion election in September will be re-
ceived by Mrs. Marguerite P. Baca,
secretary of state, until July 21 under
provisions of the White bill, enacted
by the Eleventh Legislature.
Sheepmen in the section around Ar
tesla, N. NJ, have already started the
lambing season. Prospects, according
to reports, are very good this year.
Last year there was only a SO per
cent crop in many sections, whereas
this year sheep growers anticipate a
crop of from so to 80 per cent
The Magma Copper Company has
proposed to the State Tax Commits
sion that the 1892 valuation of the
company's mine at Superior, Ariz, be
fixed at approximately S5,O00,000. The
valuation has been placed at about
| $7,000,000 by the tax commission The
mining company has brought suit TO
have the valuation reduced.
Grant and Sierra counties. in New
Mexico, have pledged 100000 to sup
port the construction of a forest type
road over Black range. State high
way engineers have reported that
with a few changes in the original
survey a good road can be built for
$4,000 mile and $1sO,OOO will be
adequate to complete the project.
One silver dollar that has been in
hiding for many year came back
into circulation in Albuquerque re-
Gently. A merchant received several
dollars. One of them, he discovered,
was larger and heavier than the rest
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