Taiban Valley news., 1917-08-31

Clubs at Gallup.
Oct. 11-12-Woodmen of the World
rally at Santa Fe.
Wheat is being threshed in the Clo-
Wis district
Laying steel on the North Texas &
Santa Fe railway is in full swing.
Fred Arthur has been appointed SUI
pervisor of the Gila National Forest.
An outbreak of diphtheria is report
ed from southwestern Torrance coun-
ty.
A hearing will be held on the two
wills of E. A. Miera at Bernalillo, on
Sept. 8.
The State Land Office sold 10000
acres of state land in Luna county for
$4,000.
Federal officials will open bids Sept
12 for erecting a postoffice building
at Ration.
Out of 324 men examined, it is es-
timated that there will be 100 exemp-
tions at Socorro.
Walter Gray, one of the clerks in
the Columbus postoffice, has been de-
tailed for duty in France.
One man was instantly killed and
three others were injured in an auto
mobile accident six miles west of Gal
lup.
The El Norte Copper Company of
Silver City incorporated with $1,000-
600 capitalization, of which $4,000 is
paid up.
S. NJ. Brown of Deming, a patient at
the New Mexico hospital for the in
sane, killed himself by blowing his
brains out with a shotgun.
The Woman's Museum Board is put
ting the final touches to the plans for
its headquarters in the beautiful new
Museum building at Santa Fe.
Jesse Allen, Jr., who shot and killed
his brother-in-law, William Tiger Of
Bristow, Okla was acquitted at the
preliminary hearing at Socorro.
The sum of s798.32 has been added
to the municipal treasury since Aug.
l of this year as the result of an oc-
cupation tax drive at Albuquerque.
The Woman's Board of Trade of
Santa Fe, which supports a free pub
lie library for the city, has started
an endowment fund for the library.
The Tucumcari City Federation,
which usually issues an elaborate
Year Book, is this year planning to
use the money for patriotic purposes.
The acreage of winter wheat to be
planted in San Miguel county this fall
will be about 10000 acres, according
to County Agriculturist M. R. Coma
lez.
Isidoro Martinez, alleged wife slay-
er, bleeding from half a dozen glanc-
ing wounds, was manacled in wheat
field in the mountains north Of Santa
Fe.
The Board of Bar Examiners, in ses-
sion at the state capitol gave nine
candidates licenses to practice law in
New Mexico admitting them on GER
tificates.
Brig. Gen. Hubert F. Allen Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was ordered to report
at Camp Cody, near Deming, to as
sumo command of the Sixty-seventh
infantry brigade.
While heavy rains have been re-
ported from every part Of the state
and even close to Santa Fe, the city
itself still finds itself with ten months
drouth practically unbroken.
Chas. F. Kanen, chief clerk in the
office of the state engineer, has re-
signed and the position has been filled
by c. M. Wells, who has been disburs-
ing clerk in the same office.
The New Mexico chapters of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tlon have agreed to supply the crew of
the U. S. destroyer dale" with knit
ted comfort garments for the winter.
The Toltec Oil Company, which has
more than $50 acres of state land un-
der lease for oil exploration work, has
drilling machinery at Dex-
ter, in southern Chaves county, and
will put down well.
The Santa Fe railway has Just sent
a circular to employees connected with
the freight traffic, urging them to use
every effort possible to conserve
freight equipment and to prevent loss
or damage to freight shipments.
Colorado need not imagine she is
the whole thing in the line of tourist
patronage, Notwithstanding her over
victory this year over the
half deserted Yellowstone country.
New Mexico is so much nearer the
great empire of Texas that it, too, has
had unusual attention this summer.
After reading THE Man without a
Country" James Kelly, federal pris-
)ner in the county Jail at Albuquer-
Iue, attempted to commit suicide. He
climbed to the top of the cage of the
all and was about to dive to the ce-
nent floor when stopped by other
prisoners. h,
During the past year New Mexico
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