Taiban Valley news., 1917-09-28
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Sept. 26-2s-Dona Ana County Fair
at Las Cruces.
Oct 2-5-Convention of Womens
Clubs at Gallup.
Oct. l1-12-Woodmen of the World
rally at Santa Fe.
Grant county is to have a new Jail
building.
The grand jury at Silver City re-
turned eighty-five indictments.
The 40 per cent of the drafted men
have left for the training camps.
The Mt. Dora section expects to ship
twenty cars of beans this season.
The potato crop in New Mexico this
year will be almost double that of
year ago.
The government report predicts a
963,000-bushel bean crop in New Mex
leo this year.
Lightning fired the building used as
manual training school at Clovis and
it was destroyed.
The Albuquerque Woman's Club is
beginning the years work with big
urlVe TOT new MEMBERS.
T. W. Womack of Montoya was
among the wounded reported in the
Ottawa, Can, casualty list.
The sale of marihuana in Albu-
querque is now prohibited under an or
dinance passed by the council.
A. NJ. Suller fell from an engine
south of Las Vegas and received sew.
eral cuts on the hands and face.
Jose Leon Pinard, town marshal of
Las Vegas, dropped dead at his home
opposite the North public school,
William Tarring, postmaster of Ger
rillos, died at Santa Fe sanitarium
OF cancer, at the age of So years.
In the last two months New Mexico
game and fish licenses sold in Ell Paso
have returned revenue Of $1,231.
R. L. Earron was fined $50 in the
City Court of Albuquerque for not hav-
ing state license on his automobile.
Lucinda Lucero, aged 16, living in
the west part of Tucumcari, was acci-
dentally shot and killed by Eugenio
Hernandez.
Silver City is to have two boys in
the aviation service of the United
States They are Frederick G. Ship
p ley and JOHN w. Penniwell.
That BUSINESS in New Mexico is good
in practically alf lines and that the
state is prospering was the opinion of
delegates to the meeting of the New
Mexico Bankers Association at East
Las Vegas.
AS 1t now appears probable that
New Mexico's 1917 valuation will
reach $365O00,000, an increase of over
$35,O00,00O compared with last year,
the question of reductions in tax lev
les is being discussed.
Miss Eula Turner, special worker
or the War Council of the Young
Woman's Christian Association, has
begun her work in Deming among the
schoolgirls, the employed girls and
those who are living at home.
An epidemic of ,ptomaine poisoning
in a light form prostrated almost 20
members of G company, Third Min
nesota infantry at Deming, as a result
of eating canned tomatoes which vera
brought with the company from Min
neSota.
The latest announcement in regard
to railway rates for the Federation
convention at Gallup gives an open
rate Of a fare and one-third with the
selling dates for all points north,
south and east of Albuquerque and
Belen, beginning Sept. 3Oth, and the
return limit Oct. 7th.
Students in the University of New
Mexico are to receive thorough train.
ing in the fundamentals of military
service, the work beginning when the
University opens. for the coming year
on Oct. l.
One-quarter of the patriotic celebra-
tion to be held by the Albuquerque
Chamber of Commerce Oct 10, II, 12
and 13 will be dedicated to Battery A.
the artillery unit at Camp Funston.
That is, one of the four days will be
Battery A Day.
Mrs. Lola Franklin, colored, who
was arrested at Albuquerque by Lieu
tenant Thomas Noe, the provost mar
shal, charged with selling liquor to a
soldier was held for arraignment be-
fore United States Commissioner
George r. Craig.
Because woman at Vaughn be-
came insane when her two sons joined !
the army, the board of directors of the |
New Mexico insane asylum at Las
Vegas is asking Governor Lindsey to |
permit the use of $4,000 of the war
emergency appropriation made at the
special session of the Legislature in
the erection of an additional building
at the asylum.
Construction Of the second largest
irrigation system in New Mexico,
which will rank second only to the Ele-
phant Butte system, is in progress at
East Las Vegas. The system will
place under irrigation about 10000