Taiban Valley news., 1917-06-15

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lied.
The State Corporation Commission
has asked shippers to load all cars to
capacity
J. w. Pollard was given a $4,000
judgment for damages against the
city of Ration.
Prof. Alexis Xavier Illinski has been
elected president of the school Of
mines at Socorro.
Julio Mares of Wagon Mound, is
dead as a result of handling a re-
volver while lying in bed.
Frank Curry, son of Ex-Governor
George Curry, was appointed bailiff
of the state Supreme Court.
A class of thirty candidates took
the first to the third degrees of the
knights of Columbus at Santa Fe.
Work was started at Albuquerque
on the bitches for water supply con-
nections at the National Guard camp
on the mesa.
Senator Falls bill amending home
stead act as passed by the Senate,
would open over 10000 square miles
in New Mexico.
new ordinance at Santa Fe re-
quires saloons to be closed at $50
p. m. and remain closed until o'clock
the following morning.
The yield of beans in Torrance
county this year will be nearly three
times as great as last year and al
most ten times as large as in 1915.
Governor Lindsey has appointed
Owe E. Overson of Gallup and Felipe
j. Hubbell Of Albuquerque, captains
in the New Mexico National guard.
The State Supreme Court issued an
order permanently disbarring Attorn'
ey Hilario A. Ortiz of Santa Fe from
practice in the courts of New Mexico.
Only once since 1871 did Santa Fe
experience a May so cold as the
month just past, according to the re-
port of the United States weather
bureau.
William Babers, of Babers Bros,
sheep and cattle men, of the tornado,
IS miles east of Carthage, Socorro
county, committed suicide by shooting
himself with rifle.
News has been received Of the
death of James X. Proudfit at Kan
sas City, Kan, in his eighty-sixth
year He was surveyor general of
New Mexico in 1873.
Preparations were completed for
shipping to camp at Albuquerque the
10000 rounds of ammunition and
other equipment stored in the Ma
tional guard armory at Santa Fe.
Accidental death was the verdict
of the coroner's jury after investigat-
ing the killing of Private Henry Ro,
nero of Company E at the National
guard armory in Santa Fe.
Kenneth M. Oliver has leased the
$4,000 acre Ramon Vigil grant, west
of Santa Fe, from five Detroit auto
mobile manufacturers, and will stock
it with cattle, making it one of the
largest cattle ranches in New Mexico.
Reports received by the state coun
Gil of defense from field agents, who
have visited counties of southern and
southwestern New Mexico, show that
that part of the state will play its
part in increasing the states produc-
ton.
An additional carload of seed po
tatoes and oats for ranches within
the Zuni division of the Manzano Ma
tional Forest was arranged in con
ference between B. G. Hernandez OF
the State Council for Defense, and
Paul G. Redington and ]. F. Mullen OF
the Forest Service.
Mrs. Washington E. Lindsey, who
was unanimously elected president ol
the State Women's Auxiliary of the
Council of Defense, has been further
honored by being designated as the
New Mexico representative of the Ma
tional Women's Auxiliary of the Ma
tional Council of Defense. The desig
nation was made by DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw.
w. E. Carroon, formerly chief clerk
in the state department Of education
and recently employed in the U. S
land office at Santa Fe, has been ap
pointed deputy state treasurer by
State Treasurer H. L. Hall, to sue
ceed r. w. Heflin, who resigned tc
accept the position of land appraiser
for the Federal Farm Loan bank al
Wichita, Kans
The mining interests of Magdalena
and it's vicinity are experiencing
lively boom which is apt to continue
at an increased rate owing to present
conditions.