Taiban Valley news., 1917-07-13

LIS vegas gave $6,500 for the Rec
Cross war fund.
The New Mexico National Guard
has 1,S42 men, of whom SO are Off
GERS.
The Dona Ana Country Club was
incorporated by five Las Cruces resi-
dents.
The total of Red Cross contributions
in Santa Fe was reported as close to
$4,000.
A barbecue was a feature of the
Fourth of July celebration at Hot
Springs.
Grant county's quota was $4,000
for the Red Cross fund, and $4,000
was subscribed.
The cowboy reunion at East Las
Vegas was largely attended and a sue
cess in every way.
Sixty-two candidates from all over
the state took the Scottish Rite de-
grees at Santa Fe.
U. S. District Judge Colin Neblett
appointed Don w. Lusk, U. S. COM
missioner at Silver City.
Several farmers and ranchmen of
San Miguel county have lost valuable
hogs during the past few weeks from
cholera.
The archaeological expedition that is
excavating the Hawaiku ruins at Zuni
has unearthed ninetyeight skeletons
inside a months digging.
Jose Mendosa, a native of Old Mex
leo, died at the county hospital at
Ration from the effects of a gunshot
wound received at Koehler.
Club women in the state will be in
terested to know that the date of the
next State Federation Convention has
been set for Oct. End to 5th.
Five men have been put to work
on the prospects of the Guadalupe
Copper Company, Guadalupe county,
twenty miles south Of Santa Rosa.
Bernabel Duran, aged 13, was run
over by Santa Fe freight train near
Bernal and suffered injuries from
which he died in the Las Vegas hos
pital.
The automobile license record for
the first six months of 1917 has been
closed at the office of the secretary
of state, with 1O,995 automobiles IL
censed.
There is strong probability that
within the next few weeks two more
batteries of 3-inch guns will be organ
ized as units of the New Mexico Ma
tional Guard.
There is strong probability that
within the next few weeks two more
batteries of 3-inch guns will be Or
ganized as units of the New Mexico
National Guard.
The body of Guadalupe Munoz,
laborer in the employ of the Chino
Copper Company at Hurley, was
found dead on a road leading north
east from that town.
A fire which caused a loss of up
wards of $4,000, destroyed the laun-
dry, garage, wood bins and pump
house at the New Mexico Cottage
at Silver City.
Joseph Evans, aged 29, who acci-
dentally shot himself in the foot
while hunting about a month ago,
died at Hillsboro following the am
putation of the injured member.
1t is stated that the Wilson Com
pany, of Mills, has 1,700-acre bean
patch. A fair yield on this acreage
will produce enough to give 100000
soldiers feed of beans every day for
a year.
A Gila monster was found near the
Institute for the blind by c. c. Nc
Matt of Albuquerque. The monster
was captured and is now on exhibit
ton in the window of the Commercial
Club rooms.
A flying squadron of speakers,
which toured Sierra county at the
suggestion of the State Council of
Defense, moved the county to greater
efforts to comply with demands for
agricultural and economic prepared
ness.
The picture of the late U. s. Dis
Lrict Judge William H. Pope, at. one
time chief justice of New Mexico,
which was sent from Atlanta, Ca, to
be placed in the capitol, has arrived.
Judge Pope died last summer in At
anta, after long illness. He is bur-
led in Fairview cemetery at Santa
Fe.
All saloons in the mining camps
If the Gallup American Coal Company
we're closed following the strike Of
miners at Gallup under the leader
ship of an Austrian now under indict-
nent for refusing to register Recog-
1ition Of the union is demanded. The
has refused to grant recog-
lition.
Adjutant General James Baca, who
has returned to Santa Fe from an in
spection Of the militia camp at AL
ouquerque, reports that the 1900 men
ire in the best of health and spirits
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