Taiban Valley news., 1917-06-29
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

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owners of Italian bonds.
Hilario Ortiz of Santa Fe has been
permanently disbarred from practicing
law in the New Mexico courts.
Carlsbad people turned out en-
masse to see Company B off for the
mobilization camp at Albuquerque.
Governor Lindsey appointed R. D.
Bruce county commissioner Of Eddy
county, vice w. T. Warkins resigned.
The Santa Fe machine shops at AL
buquerque paid the heaviest payroll
in their history. 1t amounted to $685.
800.
The state land office sold 19,201
acres Of land at a sale at Clovis,
prices ranging from IS to SIS per
acre.
The making of Navajo blankets at
Gallup has become an important and
profitable industry since the opening
Of the war.
The Dona Ana county farm bureau
has now actively undertaken the work
outlined for the bureau at the organ
ization meeting.
The first arrest for violation of the
new federal statute, making it a crime
to sell liquor to a soldier in uniform,
was made at Central.
Thousands thronged the streets at
Santa Fe to witness the annual pa
geant celebrating the capture Of San
ia Fe by the Spaniards.
The yield of beans in Torrance
county will be almost three times as
great as last year, and almost ten
times as large as in 1915.
The first flag presented to the mem
bers of G company, New Mexico Ma
tional Guard, organized Oct. %, 1881,
is now on display at Albuquerque.
With the arrival of more units of
the First Regiment and Battery A, the
National Guard camp at Albuquerque,
is getting under way in earnest.
Albuquerque has been selected as
the next meeting place for the annual
encampment of the department of
New Mexico, Grand Army of the Re.
public.
The first woman victim of the war
in New Mexico, so far as is known
at Las Vegas, is Mrs. Conrado Lucero,
who died of fright because she feared
her husband would be forced to join
the army.
Hurley will celebrate on the Fourth.
James A. French of Santa Fe, w.
E. Moses of Glenrio, Hugh Seaberg
of Ration, Eugene Kempenich of Pc
ralta and j. E. Reinburg of LaUnion
were delegates to the federal military
highway convention at Denver.
Final official figures on the total
registration in Grant County June 9TH
under the federal draft law show that
3,761 men between the ages of q and
80 registered, or SO per cent of the
vote cast at the 1916 general elec-
tion.
At least 100 ministers of the gos-
pei in New Mexico are to hold a
weeks session at the State college, |
beginning Aug. 10Th. The principal |
object of the meeting will be a dis
cussion of rural life subjects, especial |
ly the problem of making farm life in
teresting for boys.
Ruby Graham, the girl whom |
Charles Mitchell called UP on the tele-
phone at Albuquerque to hear the |
shot with which he ended his life, was |
too much overcome by nervous pros
tration to attend the coroner's inquest, |
but the jury got enough evidence on |
which to base a suicide verdict and |
closed the case.
Mark e. Musgrave, animal inspec-
tor for the United States biological |
survey, returned to Albuquerque from |
Cowles, on the Pecos national forest. |
He reports that wild animals thought |
to be grizzly bears, have killed be. |
tween thirty and forty head of cattle
in that region.
The Santa F6 Women's Auxiliary to
the Council of Defense is now making
plans for public market, where veg
etables and other products from gard
ems cultivated by the school children
and other volunteer gardeners will be
sold.