Taiban Valley news., 1917-10-19
|. NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Many attended the patriotic cele-
bration at Albuquerque.
The sawmills at Alamogordo are to
resume operations.
About 200 cars Of apples viii be
shipped from Hope and Artesia.
The cowboys had royal time at
the Frontier Days celebration at Dem
ing.
Forty thousand native trout have
been distributed in streams In the
Tonto forest.
albuquerque has been chosen by the
New Mexico Medical Society for its
1918 convention.
The Mesa Mining & Milling Com
pany of Ration. capital $4,000 and with
$3,360 subscribed, was Incorporated.
Rev. e. e. Mathes of Albuquerque
was again elected synodical mission
ary by the Presbyterian synod, at Las
Cruces.
Riley Cole of Koehler shot and
killed George Garrett following quar-
rel at the Cole home. The two men
are colored.
For the improvement of the high
way between Alameda and Bernalillo
the Sandoval County Board will levy
special tax.
The Masonic Grand Lodge, the
Templar Grand Commandery and the
| ho M haI noat
ings in las Cruces.
Messages received from members of
A battery have made it known that
the artillerymen reached Camp Greene
near Charlotte, N. C.
For the past month q force of men
has been engaged in improving the
Ozark trail road between Las Vegas
and the county line.
Incorporation papers were filed by
the Lake Arthur Oil Company of Lake
Arthur, capitalized at $250.000, of
which $4,000 is paid up.
The main smelter plant of the EN-
pire Smelling and Refining Company
was destroyed by fire at Deming, with
an estimated loss Of $4,000.
An old man named A. H. Nicholas
was run over by a car in front of a
Magdalena garage and received inju-
ries from which he later died.
Cowboys, experts at fancy roping.
trick and fancy riding, bulldogging,
, etc., took a prominent part at Albu-
querque's patriotic week celebration.
The only Japanese in the state.
. James T. Kosuki, who has been draft
ed, was given banquet at Las Cruces
| at which Mayor ]. H. May presided.
An additional livestock inspector is
to be appointed by the New Mexico
cattle sanitary board, to have charge
!. of the district south Of Albuquerque
along the Rio Grande.
Gladys Cooper Of Belen has been
awarded $4,000 in Federal Court for
the death of her husband. which oc-
edrred on the Santa Fe railroad at
fBelen in June Of last year.
The First regiment is now known
as the 159th infantry regiment of the
National Guard. The regiment will re-
tain its identity as guard organiza-
ton from New Mexico throughout the
war.
Walter Danburg, who resigned from
the state tax commission force as spe-
cial agent, assumed the duties as sec
retary pro tenn of the state council
of defense in place Of Secretary Lee
noir.
District Judge Reed Holloman has
appointed Col. Ralph e. Twitchell spe-
cial master in the New Mexico Central
case to succeed Judge Lorin c. Collins.
Col. Twitchell is already receiver Of
the road.
Official notice was received at Camp
Funston that the regiment would not |
leave Albuquerque before Oct. 18th.
Governor Lindsey has named forty |
six New Mexico physicians as dele |
gates from this state to the South |
western tuberculosis conference, |
which is to be held at Grand Canyon,
Ariz., Oct. % and 23.
| The twenty-first Scottish Rite reun-
ion opened at the Scottish Rite cathe-
dral at Santa Fe with class of 27
present. Preliminary to the opening of
the reunion, the Scottish Rite choir
gave a splendid concert at the cathe-
dra1.
The October crop report for New
Mexico forecasts a crop of $500 900
bushels of corn, 2,21O.0OO bushels Of
wheat, 100000 bushels of oats, l.
$4,000 bushels of potatoes, 237, 900
barrels (of three bushels each) of ap-
pies, and $4,000 tons of hay.
Sixty-two men, comprising all but
nine of Bernalillo county's third con-
tribution to the new national army,
the latter number to journey to Fort
Riley, Kan, from various parts of the
country, left Albuquerque for Camp
Funston on a special train.
Lieut.. Howell D.. Ervien of Camp
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