The Coolidge Examiner, 1930-06-27

SKY COPS PROTECTS HERDS Phoenix, Ariz., June 27. - The pro pro| - | pro| gress of civilization is slowly abol abolishing - ishing abolishing the chief w*orry of western cattlemen - the rustler. Although there are still evidences of cattle rustling in the Copper State. Ari Arizona - zona Arizona Sanitary Livestock Board offi officials - cials officials are undaunted and have found i away to at least find stolen cattle, | if not che marauders. Recently two airplanes went jon a secret mission to north-east north-east| - | north-east| ern Apache county, their business and destination not being revealed at the take-off. Upon their return the pilots of the planes reported the location of several bands of | stolen cattle in secluded sections of i Apache county. Theft of a herd of 100 cattle from a large ranch in that county ! was reported to Hoyt Medlar, secra secra! - ! secra! tary of the state livestock sanitary board. The rustlers had been trailed, but the posse was unable to traverse the treacherous trails lead leading - ing leading into the haven of the band of ! cattle thieves. The planes were sent to scout the unsettled area. Although the pilots did not find that herd, the discovered seve al herds which viously had been reported stolen. These stray hands were rounded up by livestock inspectors and taken to St. Johns, where owners will be allowed to identify them Some of the brands are distinguish distinguishable - able distinguishable but others are marred. Cattle that cannot be identified, Medlar said; wtll lie sold at auc auction - tion auction by the state. He believed the herd of unidentified would number around 125. Medlar expressed the opinion hu herd had to great a start before the airplanes were called into action. Success of hunting rustlers in unsettled areas of the state by air airplane - plane airplane is practically certain, live livestock - stock livestock officials declared, following the expedition to north-eastern Apa Apache - che Apache county. TIMBER HARVEST Phoenix, Ariz.. June 27. - The bid of $3.86 per thousand board feet of timber made by the Cady Lumber Corporation of McNary, Ariz., for the Rock Top timber unit of the Coconino National forest was desig designated - nated designated as successful, the forestry de department - partment department has announced. The body of timber contains luo,- 000 board feet of western yellow pine, and is located some 35 miles south of Flagstaff. The latter mill has been closed, but will reopen upon completion of repairs. Harvest of the timber will be con conducted - ducted conducted in accordance with the Coco Coconino - nino Coconino plan which provides for cut cutting - ting cutting only mature and over-mature trees, leaving young and fast-grov,- ing trees for future crops. gasolineTood Globe, Ariz., June 27. - A gusning stream o f gasoline deluged a Globe street when a Rio Grande Oil Company truck crashed into a telephone pole, puncturing the huge tank. The truck proceeded to the plant, sprinkling the road in its wake. INDIANS TO ° CELEBRATE Indian representatives of the Pi mas were in Coolidge Thursday assuring the people of this town that, the July 4th celebration at San Tan would be a big one. and inviting all to attend and have a good time. An interesting and ex citing program has been arranged which includes races by horses and by the Indians. At San fan the celebration starts on July 3rd and continues over the 4th. At Blackkwater there will also be a grand celebration and big program on Independence Day. MOVED INTO NEW HOMES I Their new home in the Stoegcr Addition now being completed Mr. 'and Mrs. Bergum moved in early this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ei sen hart have taken possession of their new home in North Coolidge. ! Mrs. Esther Scott has joined her 1 daughter on the coast. f The Examiner's new, phone num numjber - jber numjber is 103.

TO THE MOUNTAINS Thursday Fred and Mrs. Elledge expected to start on a trip to the mountains with the idea of locating 'a camp in the White Mountain country near Payson. Mrs. Elledge i has been in poor health, and tho:r many friends in Coolidge hope tno outing will do her good. OFFICES AND WAREHOUSE 1 The officials of the Indian Irii Irii-1 - -1 Irii-1 gation Service are starting to move their office equipment from Flor Flor.fence - .fence Flor.fence to their new quarters in the Masonic Temple in Coolidge. They have the lower floor of the temple which is -in the windup* of its com completion. - pletion. completion. The government owns property on Roosevelt street, al almost - most almost directly hack of the San Car Carlos - los Carlos Hotel. Work is now being i rushed laying a concrete founda foundation - tion foundation which will suppoit a 30x54 'galvanized iron warehouse whicn is to be moved over from Florence This warehouse is on the back puui of the Indian Irrigation Service lot. j IMPORTANT^ SCHOOL CENTER: ' I Coolidge is gradually taking on : more importance as a comb * \ school center for this part of the valley. With the filing of the pc- i tit ion of the Signal Peak distnc to have this district annex one half i of their territory twenty-one see-j tions will come under the Coolidge jurisdiction. This action on the part of the Signal Peak residents j '-has been filed with the board of supjrvisors. A sectional descrip j tion of the territory involved is as i follows: eludes part of sections 14. 15 lo and 17 in township 5 south of hang i 7 east and all of sections 20, 21, 22. i | 23, 26, 27. 28, 29, 32, 34; 35 and 36 j in township 5 south of range 7 east! -and sections 1,2, 3,4, 5 and 6 in I township o south of range 7 east..! The boundaries of the Ruius-Cool- j 1 idge district through the annexa annexation - tion annexation would he extended to six mile.-, j west of Borree corner. The other! half of the district will be absorbed the Casa Grande district. !. Dr. W. Jackson, Mr 3. W. IT Farnsworth and H. A. Odom, trus trustees - tees trustees of the Ruins district, have ap approved - proved approved the petition. "RICinNJOWN Attorney H. G. Richardson, pres president - ident president of the Chamder of Commerce ! of Florence, spent a short time here today. Friday. He almost was delayed by the traffic jam in the, business section. O Prescott, Ariz., June 27. - Reser- : Reser: rations have been made at hotels | here by Dr. George A. James, oi. New York, for rooms to accommo accommodate - date accommodate a party of New Yorkers-who will attend the Frontier Days cele - bration, July 2,3, 4 and 5. o Yuma, Ariz., June 27. - A mov2-| ment to persuade property owners | along the Apache Trail to paint j , fence posts has been started by the i Mesa District Chamber of Com - merce. RETURNS TO TUCSON II B. F. B B. F. Batey, of Tucson, -' who substituted for S. E. 1 ellow, -! of the Arizona Southwest Bank s while the latter was back east get get-11 - -11 get-11 ting married .returned to Ye Old . j Pueblo today, Friday.

NEW POOL HALL Adrian Castaneda lias almost completed his big,, adobe building south of Coolidge avenue, a block west of Ma ! n. Its dimensions arc 42x32x14. the walls being 4xl2xiS adobes. He will occupy i£ with a pool hall business. A DANGEROUS COMBINATION From now on until after the 4th of July the small boy and the fire cracker will prove a combination that will call for careful watching. Careless celebrating may be the cause of a costly blaze. ELECTRIC MANAGER HERE L. Westrick, commercial mana manager - ger manager of the Arizona Electric Co., 'with headquarters covering this dis district - trict district at Casa. Grande, was a busi business - ness business visitor in this valleys metrop metropolis - olis metropolis Wednesday FAMOUS MOTOR COPS The news reels lately have fe-< tured the Phoenix motor cops who have a record of being one of the best drilled police corps n 4 tne world. One of the young men, Fitz Fitzpatrick - patrick Fitzpatrick Bates, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bates, of Coolidge. memoriaT David Lee Henson passed away, June 9, 1930, at his home in North ; Coolidge, after a lingering illness. Mr. Henson was a native of Arca Arcadelphia, - delphia, Arcadelphia, Arkansas, coining to An Anj - j Anj zona in 1917, and engaging in farm farming. - ing. farming. He was born July 11, 1870. The deceased is survived by the ; widow, Mrs. Slutie Henson, two daughters, Mrs. Katie Beavers and Mrs. Lecil Drake, seven grand chi; dren and one great- grand-child. Funeral services were conductea in Cast Grande by Reverend Brad Bradford: - ford: Bradford: burial in Mountain View cer eery. OLD TIMER HERE George Fulton, who is with the ! cantaloupe packing crew, thoug h still young in years, is an old-timei in all the cattle country, south oi Thoenix to the Mexican border. He has worked for the big brands about his section long before Coe, idge'wss founded, and Casa Grande i was just a water tank town. Mr Fulton was in Dougllas. Cananeu Hereford and Willcox and al! thruoui the border section. He is an ardent booster of southwest An , zona, and expresses no surprise in | the fast development of Coolidge and this section, for as he sees i ; the sun, soil and water are all here j now.

OFF FOR CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean left Thursday, last night, for Crescent City, California, where they will j make an indefinite visit. LEONARD AND JOHNNY RETURN Leonard and Johnny Moody have { returned from a month's visit with ! folks in Chandler. Their mother. Mrs. J. T. Moody, left here on the I 15th for San Bernardino, Calif., J. T. and the boys may shortly take a run over on a visit, WALTER SMITH FOR JUDGE Attorney Walter Smith, of tas; Grande, will run on the republican i l ticket for judge of the superior court of Pinal county. Attorney Smith ha 3 practiced law for sev several - eral several years in Casa Grande, and [ well known over the county as an able practitioner. LEAVE FOR PANAMA Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Morrison and little son Sidney, who have been i making there home with Mrs. Mor Mor; - ; Mor; rison's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. IT. Farnsworth, will soon leave for Panama, where Mr. Morrison has accepted Ihe management of a mau mau! - ! mau! ufacuring concern. Monday the i Morrisons were the guests of honor at a surprise luncheon given by Mrs. J. C. Jayne. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Farus worth and daughter Miriam, and ; son Richard, Miss Lucile Chipper Chipperfield - field Chipperfield and Richard Chipperfield, N. J. Reed, J.. C. Jayne. ROAD WORKERS | Luring the past week Bruce Bros., who have the surfacing and oiling ! contract on the highway between Coolidge and Picacho. have been getting their forces and machinei - under full headway. Work has been going on while new men an! machinery were arriving. The names of the workers be be-1 - -1 be-1 longing to the contractors' force who have already arrived 'from the coast, are as follows. E. J. Hargraves, C. A. Bland, L. > M. Tuttle, Eddie Underwoou, George Underwood, Frank Under ' wood. B. H. Mashen, H. T. Slicor, F. M. Bland. These men are experts in the ! handling of the heavy road buila jmg and oiling machinery whicu Bruce Bros, use in putting throu fa h i the work. Other men belonging to i! their regular force and local work workers - ers workers will be added as required. The i men who have arrived have been j quartered at the San Carlos Hotel.

SUCCESSFUL JUNK MAGNET Phoenix, Ariz.. June 27. - During the past two years the Arizona Highway Commission's home-buiii magnet, which scrapes highways of the state, has collected loO.OCO pounds of iron, nails, screws, bits of wire and machinery from roads. Tacks, springs, knives, forks, spoons, bolts are included in the 7.) tons of junk collected off the roaus of the state, thus saving Mr. Mo Motorist - torist Motorist many flat tires while en route to a fishing hole or picnic ground. The magnet, which has covered practically every mile oi state main maintained - tained maintained highways in Arizona, was built in the highway department shops here. YOUNGESTTEACHER RED HEADED Tucson, Ariz,. June 27. - To Tu son goes the honor of having tile i youngest school ma'am in Arizona, ; and she is red-headed. The little lass is Beatrice Diaz, who is just past her fifteenth mile stone in life. She has been teacher at St. Catherine's Indian Mission School at Topawa on the Papago j Indian* reservation. gress toward the successful consum consummation - mation consummation of the organization plans. Every detail has been most care carefully - fully carefully conssidered with the result, according to Mr. Rainey, that the contract which this district r.jld r.jldfor - for r.jldfor power is one of the best ever to be executed. A contract for power has also been signed w r itn the Maricopa irrigation district it is ; understood The total bond issue will be so ?290.000; however the first issu issuance - ance issuance will be in the neighborhood 1 of $89,000, officials of the district i say. Under the terms of then con thact they are to secure twenty-five cycle power at the rae of .017 pe kwh. COOLIDGE TO HAVE MODERN THEATRE It is reported that a new and extremely up-to-date lhaatie is to be built in Coolidge sometime wuu in the very near future. This the theatre - atre theatre building will he located, it is said, directly opposite the Grasty implement buildiug. - Casa Grande j Dispatch. o TELEPHONE 103 for Job Prii t tj - j tj ing of all kinds. Nothing too large; nothing too small.

MESA AGAINST FIRE WORKS Mesa, Ariz., June 27. - Fireworns venders who have set up stands just outside the city limits to avoid arrest may be held responsible for injuries or property damage caused by fireworks sold by them. Citv j Marshal Howard Peterson declare^. PROJECT* MORE TIME Yuma, Ariz., Juue 27. - Plans for presenting a requ st to the govern government - ment government for a tw'o-year moratorium on construction tax against Yuuia project lands are being discussed by members of the Yuma County Farm Bureau. morelanFinder JUICE Final plans were made last wvck for the formation of Electrical Dis District - trict District No. 3 and the voting of $290,- 000 worth of bonds for the taking care of this work. Sixty-two thous thousand - and thousand acres comprise this district, ac according - cording according to Secretary Forrest T. Rainey. The contract for the furnishin Q of power has been let to the Ari Arizona - zona Arizona Edison Company and they will start work very soon on the construction of power lines which will be completed by October Ist, stated Mr. Rainey It was also stated that a delay of six months would be necessary before any bonds were voted, in order to allow all lands which wished to come into the district to do so. According to the contract, bonds do not nave tu be voted for three years if it is the wish of the governing board whict) is composed of J. L. Mayfield, chaii chaiiman; - man; chaiiman; J. L. Rowland, vice chairman, D. H. Smith, treasurer; and Forrest T. Rainey, secretary, with M. W. Davis. J. M. Rainey and E. H. Heth Hetherington - erington Hetherington as members of the board. The legal firm of Sloan, Holden, Scott and McKesson, of Phoenix, represent this district in all legai matters. Reports indicate that this distri was organized four and one liaif years ago, and during the inter intervening - vening intervening time work has been in pro-

Adjudication of water rights so. 2000 parcels o£ laad. which bring a step nearer the full cuit* vation cJ 100,000 a'res 01 land a.oug the Gila river, probably will beg this fall. CayL Edward A. Smith, special assistant United Staieo at torney general, announced yeste.* day. "The case of the United *tai s versus the Gila Valley Irrigation district and others, involving some 1500 defendants, probably will be set for trial in October," Captain Smith announced, giving the first definite indication of when the case would go to trial. The adjudication of water rights which is expected to result from the case, which was filed in the federal court at Tucson, will affect everyone along the Gila river from the Gila River Indian reservation to 10 miles east of the Arizona-New Mexico line, it was said. Tre acreages involved are from a half-acre to 320 acres in size and 89 dates of water priorities are in involved, - volved, involved, adding considerably to the projected labor of adjudication, The majority of the land affected is in the Safford. Duncan and Florence- Casa Grande valleys. Evidence in the case, which is expected to be a long time in trial, involves southwestern history and events back to the time of Fathei Kino, and has meant arduous re research - search research through volumes of govern government - ment government records dating prior to 1859. when the Gila Indian reservation was established. The case affects indirectly pract practically - ically practically the entire state, since the adjudication of water rights affects the irrigation of 50.000 acres of land not on Indian reservation, and j 50,000 acres on the Gila River In Indian - dian Indian reservation. Pima Indians in inhabit - habit inhabit the reservation. Captain Smith has been working on the case for the past three years. - Arizona Republican,

SUNDAY IN PHOENIX Mr. and Mrs. Nichols spent Sun day in Phoenix. GOLDIE VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Pointer, of Pho,- nix, were week end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Goldie. IMPROVES DISPLAY WINDOW The Mandell store has had iin provements made to the store from display windows. MOVED TO TOWN Allen Huff, who has been fanning west, of Florence on the Winn place has moved here and is occupying his home in North Coolidge. COVERING WATER TANK I. C. Hughes and family arrived here Wednesday night. Mr. Hughes is railroad carpenter and is work working - ing working at covering the top of the wate. tank. PERSONAL BATHING SERVICE R. N. Reed, the plumber, has been busy during the past few days ad adding - ding adding an addition and putting in a modern bath room equipment at his home in North Coolidge. PREPARING DECORATIONS Many of the business uouscL about town are fixing up their dec decorations - orations decorations for the 4th of July, and the i small boy is practicing shooting oti fireworks. SWIMMING POOL NEEDED That a fine plunge would be « treat in Coolidgg during the sum summer, - mer, summer, has been the expressed opin I ion of many people during the pas few days WILL RUN FOR SENATOR S P. Morgan, democrat, of Cas_ j Grande, who served in the last leg islature as representative in the! house from this district, and is web known as an active participant in the upbuilding of this valley, is n ,v making a campaign for state sen sena'or. - a'or. sena'or. He i$ giving legislative expc-. rience and knowledge of the needs of farmers and mining interests as qualifications with which he can give valuable service as a legisla legislative - tive legislative member. He expects to eunf. with the voters in Coolidge shortly. 1 Vote for the School Bond Issue July 12.