Taiban Valley news., 1917-10-12

La Fonda" Santa Fe's new $210,
900 hotel, is to be built within a year
The State Embalmers' Board
granted licenses to embalm to eight
persons.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs convention at Gallup was large
ly attended.
E. D. Reed of Roswell pleaded guilty
to operating a gambling game and was
fined $2O6.4O.
1t is estimated that 200 cars Of ap-
pies will be shipped from the Artesian-
Hope district.
Governor Lindsey has commuted to
life term the death sentence imposed
upon Juan Rodriguez.
The Albuquerque girls who worked
on the registration lists for the char
ter election will be paid $3.50 each.
Miss Callie Harris, who has made
her home with her sister, Mrs. E. E.
Spindle, near Meek, committed suicide.
At Silver City, Alesandro Garcia
was convicted of rape on girl of nine
years. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
George Cavender, convicted of MUIR
der in the second degree at Silver
City, was given 80 to 80 years in the
penitentiary.
A war congress- of New Mexico
women will be held in Albuquerque
Oct. 18th and 18th, during Patriotic
Week there.
The women of Santa Fe have filled
125 Christmas Good Cheer" bags for
the American soldiers and sailors on
foreign duty.
Claude Wheeler, miner, was shot
and fatally wounded at Hachita, as he
was getting into his automobile at the
railroad station.
The Shakespeare Club of Roswell
will give its whole year to work for
the Red Cross; holding only business
meetings of the club.
Thomas E. Owen was appointed re-
ceiver of public moneys at the land
office at Clayton, and Paz Valverde
register of the same office.
Judge Herbert F. Reynolds at Santa
Fe ruled in favor of District Attorney
J. H. Crist in the Read-Crist election
contest in the District Court.
The compiled assessment rolls for
the twenty-eight counties show 7,191
automobiles on the tax rolls in New
Mexico valued at $2,39S,234, or about
$500 apiece.
Unofficially, the First New Mexico
is the 159th infantry, although the
change has not been announced, and
the regiment continues to hold its
state designation.
The New Mexico Association for
Science is the first section of the New
Mexico Educational Association, to an
nounce it's annual banquet, which will
take place Nov. 26.
Steve Burnett, who pleaded guilty to
robbing Mrs. Marie Louise Wagner of
Pinos Altos, and robbing her of about
$4,000, was sentenced at Silver City
to Is years in the penitentiary.
Martin Chavez of Picacho reports
that he has just harvested wonder
full crop of beans. He planted three
and one-half acres of Hondo land to
pink beans, and from this small acre
age has threshed 1000 pounds of a
very fine quality.
Capt w. R. Reed, the United States
army officer who has been acting as
quartermaster of the National Guard,
has received orders to report at San
Antonio for duty with the Nineteenth
infantry.
The Silver City Woman's Club will
have a class in dressmaking under its
household economics department this
year. Every other meeting of the club
during the year will be given to Red
Cross work.
The extent of an industry believed |
peculiar to New Mexico was !. indi-
Gated when it was made known at (
Nara Visa that local man had re-
ceived a contract for one hundred |
carloads of soap weed (mole).
Since Jan. /, 1917, the New Mexico
state land office has sold total of |
232,657.06 acres, in all parts of the
state, for total of $2,156,507.61, or
an average of $6.48 an acre. This in
cludes all sales made up to Aug. 1.
Fourteen carloads of "shocks"-
knocked down apple boxes-have been
located by the State Food Administra-
tion and those desiring boxes should
communicate with Administrator Ely
at Santa Fe, who will Immediately re-
fer them to the proper parties.
simultaneously with the decision of
the executive committee to hold the
state convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in Santa
Fe. comes the announcement that
Miss Anna Gordon, national presi-
dent of the w. c. T. u, is to come
10 the convention and will visit sew
eral cities Of the state.
Among the indictments returned by
he Guadalupe grand jury, was one
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