The Coolidge examiner., 1933-01-13
Southwestern Briefs

Las Vegas, N. M.
Funeral services were held at Ros-
well, N. NJ, for Andres Garcia, said to
be the Oldest person in Roswell, who
died at the age of 102 years.
Harold Keyes, one of three men who
escaped from the Arizona state prison
in a truck Dec. G, was captured at
Phoenix by w. T. Allen, deputy sher-
iff.
A temporary writ of injunction, clos
ing the fashionable Country Club, Inc,
located in Tesuque, N. NJ, which was
raided by Sheriff Jesus Baca, was is
sued by District Judge NJ. A. Otero.
Manslaughter charges were filed
against John Nelson, garage owner at
Tinnie, N NJ, in connection with the
fatal shooting of Vernon Bishop, 20,
while he was on a hunting trip last
Nov. IL.
The New Mexico Educational Asso-
citation has not withdrawn from its po-
sition in favor of sales tax so far as
he knows, George I. Sanchez, head of
the statistical division of the State
Department of Education, said.
An outbreak of petty cattle rustling
is marrying New Mexico cattlemen.
Numerous cases of cattle rustling
are being reported to our office each
week." Miss Bertha Benson, secretary
of the New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association announced.
For the first time in four years
snow fell in Tucson recently, covering
the ground to depth of two inches
as frigid temperatures struck the
state. Nogales also reported snow
and the lower valleys of eastern and
central Arizona wore drenched with
light rain.
Formal oath of office was filed with
Secretary of State Scott White of Ari-
zona by B. B. Moeur, governor-elect;
w. NJ. Cox, state treasurer-elect, and
Thad M. Moore, tax commissioner
elect. Cox filed bond of 100000 as
custodian of state funds and $4,000
bond as custodian of the state COM
pensation fund.
Proposal that should the Collier
beer bill be adopted as law by Con-
gress, that Arizona place small tax
on beer sold in the state has been
offered as a means to aid in balancing
the states budget. The tax would
amount to / or cents a bottle of
beer, it was said. Establishment of
the tax probably would be the only
Liquid regulation" on part of the
state, it was indicated.
Foes in days gone by, the red man
and the white man, have peacefully
settled their debts. The Indians of
the Colorado river reservation were
indebted to the merchants of Parker,
Ariz., for $4,000 and the latter owed
the redmen like amount. They set
tied their financial difficulties by can
ceiling all debts. The agreement is
believed to be the first of its kind, in
volYing all merchants of a town and
all Indians of a reservation.
Or. r. N. Trotzky, Winslow, Ariz.,
physician, who says he is a cousin of
Leon Trotzky, exiled Russian, was at
liberty once more, exonerated Of
charge of murder After three hours
and thirty-five minutes of deliberation
a Conconino County Superior Court
jury acquitted Dr. Trotzky of a charge
of numbering Mrs. Della Releford, Nc
Nary negress. Mrs. Releford died last
August, following an operation per-
formed, police said, by DR.. Trotzky.
Nearly $50 employees of the Gallup
American Coal Co. resolved to make
the month of January, 1888, non-acci-
dent month" in their safety meeting
at the Elks hall in Gallup, N. NJ. They
adopted their resolution as a motto
for all employees. Through the meet
ing, officials of the company said, they
hoped to impress upon employees
minds that they must practice safety
methods all of the time and to en-
phasize need for safety, particularly
for the men working at the face
where greatest danger lies.
DR.. Grady Gammage, president OF
the Arizona State Teachers College
at Flagstaff, announced a statistical
survey had been completed indicating
that the college annually spends $780,
900 in Flagstaff The statistics were
compiled to illustrate the value of the
college at Flagstaff. The sum includes
approximately s15O.O0O in salaries;
$4,000 by the college kitchen for food
and supplies; $4,000 spent by sum
mer school students, estimated at 700;
and s23,4OO spent by the 500 students
during the regular year.
Traditions of three heritages-In-
dian, Spanish and Anglo-Saxon-com
bined to make New Mexico's Christ
mas celebrations probably the most
unique and colorful in the world
Though just stripping in the union
twenty-one years old on It's last birth
day-the state Saturday night, Dec.
"a, observed it's 333d Christmas eve.
In 1899, the first of the Spanish colon
icfc oalobrafod tho oO1n{pO aP fho