Taiban Valley news., 1917-09-14
Albuquerque has a curfew law.

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Magdalena has population of 1000
and will incorporate.
There are $1,000 acres in Mora
county under cultivation.
The Cowboys roundup at Tucum
carl was largely attended
Bean growers are urged to start
laying in seed for next year.
The New Mexico Military institute
will open the fall term Sept. IL.
Lieut.. w. H. Neblett, of Silver
City, has been ordered to France.
z. Bachus of Hot Springs was
named United States commissioner.
The new Socorro county high school
at Magdalena has been formally dedi-
Gated.
Roland Hart, 16, was killed by
lightning at his home near TERRA
Amarillo.
During the past year, 212 corpora
tions filed papers with the State
Commission.
G. J. Smith, owner of the San Fran
cisco mine near Golden, died in hos
pital at Santa Fe.
Now is the time to SOW winter
wheat, says agronomist at New Mex
leo Agricultural College.
Twelve murder cases are on the
docket of the Grant County District
Court for the September term.
Prof. Dowden. formerly superin-
tendent of the Gallup schools, was ac-
cidentally shot on his ranch south of
Gallup.
Albuquerque has been selected as
the next meeting place of the National
Game Commissioners and Fisheries
societies.
Secretary of War Baker has ruled
against an all Spanish-American regi-
ment from New Mexico, according to
a telegram received by Governor Lind
sey.
The State Corporation Commission
asks all buyers of coal to preserve
their freight receipts until final settle
ment of the rate controversy, for pos
sible refunds.
Private Clarence L. Craig, Company
E Gath U. s. Infantry, died at tho
base hospital following an operation
for appendicitis. His remains were
shipped to Orrville, Ala.
The Pueblo Indian day schools will
take part in the contest for the $4,000
in prizes which will be distributed
this fall by the National Emergency
Food Garden Commission.
The national forests of Arizona and
New Mexico are carrying 10000 more
cattle and $4,000 more sheep than
last year, according to statistics COM
piled by the district forester.
For the second time since the ia
nous Villa raid on Columbus, of May,
1916, men convicted of participating
in that raid have been taken to the
state penitentiary at Santa Fe.
Upon petition of c. N. Cotton of Cal
lup, the State Corporation Commits
sion has obtained more favorable
freight rates on dry pelts, goat skins
and hides to Gallup from Albuquerque
and Bernalillo.
Charged with holding George Ech-
OILS of Tremintina prisoner while they
drove away eighty head of his cattle,
Ross and Claude Carter were taken to
East Las Vegas by Sheriff Lorenzo
Delgado for trial.
A motion to remove Ralph c. Ely as
receiver of the New Mexico Central
railway on the ground that he is un-
fit for the position was filed in the
District Court at Santa Fe by an attor-
ney for the Pittsburg Trust Company.
Ten thousand small brook trout
from a Colorado hatchery were placed
in the Santa Fe river, in Santa Fe
canon by Adolph Fischer. The fish
formed part of a shipment of 100000
that has been brought into the state
by the Santa Fe railroad.
That the Springer-Hawkins mine
tax law is nothing short of "uncon-
scionable" and that it discriminates
In favor of mines as against other
property to such an extent that 1t
amounts to a Communication or partial
exemption, are declarations of Attor-
ney General Harry L. Patton in a writ
ten opinion on the constitutionality of
the law, which was submitted to the
State Tax Commission.
A reduction in the rate on state
penitentiary brick from Santa F@ to
Carrizozo from Is to 13 cents per hun
dred, has been secured by the State
Corporation Commission, acting on a
petition filed by Thomas Hughes, su-
perintendent of the penitentiary.
Charles Birchfield, a Tyrone dep
uty, whose duty it is to meet trains
and keep a lookout on suspicious
characters, followed man around
town for several hours before he
found out the stranger was his
brother, whom he had not seen for
several years.