Taiban Valley news., 1917-08-10


Cruces.
Sept 26-29-Dona Ana County Fair
at Las Cruces
San Jon county will raise $S,400 for
highways by levy.
Several new buildings are being
erected in Portales.
At dance in Cutler, $1O6 was raised
for the Red Cross fund.
Pedro Monies was hanged at Silver
City for killing Rufina Villenueva.
There will be big acreage sown to
wheat and rye in Quay county this
fall
Santa Fe business men will make a
trade excursion to Estancia Valley
towns
The Albuquerque Chamber of Com
merce has admitted women to men,
bership.
The second experimental oil we'll OF
the Toltec Oil Company at Roswell IS
now down 425 feet.
W. T. Ellison, State College 1915.
has succeeded w. A. Gardner as coun-
ty agent for Grant county.
The San Miguel county assessment
roll shows an increase of s1,3S3,026,
showing a total of $40, ,999,S96
Ten more applicants for the Off
GERS reserve corps passed the medi-
cal examination at Santa Fe.
To have or not to have a state fair
this fall is the question which is being
put up to the people of Albuquerque.
G. A. Hatch of Clovis has been ap-
pointed an assistant attorney general
by Attorney General Harry L. Patton.
Incorporation papers were filed by
the Citizens Oil Development Com.
pany of Roswell, capitalized at $1.0O0.-
00G.
1t may be Sept before New Mexico
troops will go into camp at Linda
Vista, accc riding to reports from Cali
fornia.
The Beal Mining Company of Silver
City, authorized capital $1,OOO,0OO, has
incorporated under the laws of New
Mexico.
w. E. Kelly, aged 81 years, one Of
the oldest attorneys in New Mexico,
was found dead in bed at his home in
Socorro.
A movement has been started in
Clovis to erect Y. M. C. A. building
tn contain gymnasium, reading room
and library.
The license of the Arizona Fire In
surance Company to do business in
New Mexico was revoked by the State
Insurance Department.
Ray Walters, Roswell sheepman,
was shot and killed by Jas E. Alvey
when he went to collect the rent for a
garage occupied by the latter.
Nathan Salmon has announced that
he will give reward of $100 for the
recovery of lot of valuable jewelry
which was stolen from his home in
Santa Fe.
OF the half million bushels of wheat
a conservative estimate of Curry coun-
tvs crop this year, less than $4,000
bushels have as yet been placed upon
the market
About eighty young women of Las
Vegas, under the leadership of Mrs.
Charles w. G, Ward, have begun the
task of making and equipping kits for
soldiers.
If recommendation that Gov. Lind.
sey will make to the War Department
al Washington is carried out, the New
Mexico regiment will be composed al
most entirely of Spanish-Americans.
The Santa Fe Dredging Company
commenced hauling from Stanley on
their quarter of a million dollar
Gredge and for the next six months ex-
pect Golden to be very busy camp.
Kenneth White, aged 18, who re-
Gently enlisted at East Las Vegas in
the Colorado cavalry troop, has been
promoted to the rank Of corporal, ac-
cording to reports received from Den
yer.
The Luna county tax roll for 1917,
was received by Secretary Asplund of
the State Tax Commission. It shows
a total assessment Of $11, 1889, ,710, COM
rared with $11,458,263 in 1916, an in.
crease of $431,4 ,447.
William Edwards, the Denver & Rio
Grande engineer who was killed in
jumping from the cab in wreck near
Caracas, Colo, was a resident of
Chama, and had been in the service of
the D. & R. G. for nearly thirty years.
Lorenzo Otero, convicted of rape in
Socorro county several years ago and |
sentenced to serve from Is to 20 years
in the penitentiary, was granted par
don by Gov Lindsey. The pardon was
recommended by the penitentiary
board.
The high cost of living may result
III the deportation to Mexico of nearly
100 natives of that country now con-
fined in the state penitentiary at San.
ia BE. 1t has already resulted in the
discussion of such action by the state