Taiban Valley news., 1917-11-16

reported to the board of health from
Taos county
Sixty-siX persons in Mountainair
subscribed a total of $12,450 to the
Liberty bonds.
While waiting at the Santa Fe de-
pot at Ration to take train for Den
yer, ]. M. Aldrich dropped dead.
d. H. Kunkle, pastor of the United
Brethren mission at East Las Vegas,
died after long illness from paraly-
sis.
Report comes from San Juan county
that the bumper apples crop can not
be moved because of lack of freight
cars.
Monday, Oct. 29, 1917, was the cold.
est Oct. 20 at Santa Fe in forty years;
the thermometer registering 49,
above zero.
The Santa Fe troop of Boy Scouts,
some thirty strong sold total of $685.
900 worth of the second issue of lib
erty bonds.
Incorporation papers were filed by
the Drovers' Chattel Loan Company
of Missouri. The capitalization is
$2OO,0OOOO
Manuel Delgado, aged S3 years, a
lifelong resident of Las Vegas, died
at the home of his niece, Mrs. Mar
garlic Delgado.
Steps have been taken by the coun-
ty authorities to close the saloon re-
Gently established near the Santa Fe
depot at Glorieta.
The Twin Butte Oil and Gas Com
pany of Otero county has developed
at the depth of 900 feet large stream
of flowing water.
On account of the car shortage for
shipping livestocy, Ramah sheep and
cattle men are reported suffering
many expensive delays.
The Santa Fe Woman's Board of
Trade library shipped 273 books to
Camp Cody to be added to the library
already installed there.
The total state valuation for 1917,
exclusive of the net output of mines
and the valuation of private car COM
panies is $342,08S683.10.
The Grant county sheriff's office
was apprised by telegraph of the
shooting to death of ]. E. Schrimsher,
chief deputy sheriff at Hachita.
The Oaks Co.'s new strike on the
Maud S. Mine is being opened from
two sides and the values and width
continue to increase in both cases.
That the crops raised under the FL
ephant Butte dam this year exceeded
$4,00O,000 in value is the assertion of
l.. M. Lawson, the project manager.
Sunshine Chapter, Daughters of the
banquet to the Schoolmasters' club
during the educational convention at
Santa Fe.
Juan Isidro Tafoya, an Indian of the
San Juan pueblo, was found guilty at
Albuquerque in the United States Dis
trict Court Of assault upon his wife
with knife.
State Senator Albert Calisch of
Montoya has been appointed curator
of the Hall of Fame which the county
board of commissioners of Quay
county has established in the Quay
county court house.
Sheriff Rafael Garcia and Police
man Julian returned to Albuquerque
from Las Vegas with the three men
and two women arrested in connec-
ton with the Guevara shooting
The first shipment of ore to be
made from Santa Fe was loaded for
Salida, where it will be treated at the
smelter. The ore came from mine
on the De Vargas grant, south of San
ia Fe.
Historian Benjamin NJ Read was
appointed by Gov. w. e. Lindsey to
succeed Miguel Chaves, resigned,
upon the commission to select a sill
yer service for the battleship New
Mexico.
The discoverer of the corpus delicti
tonic Sandoval y Griego, aged about
so years, was shot down, it is alleged,
in cold blood, at the home of Mrs.
Tabor at Glorieta.
Benedita Flores, aged 10, was fatal
'ly wounded, and her little brother, 9
years old, had bullet pass through
his lungs, shattering his right arm as
it passed out, while playing with
.30-30 Winchester at Picacho.
For what is said to be the first time
in the history of the army, fish were
issued for Friday messes at Camp
Travis, Tex. The camp used about
10000 pounds.
Fire destroyed the oceanic Ocean
garage at Socorro, causing an esti-
mated loss of $25,0OO There were
probably fifteen automobiles in the
garage They were destroyed
The State Board of Health has been
informed that the case against c. o.
Warriner, chiropractor, for practicing