Taiban Valley news., 1917-09-21
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
vestern Newspaper Union News Service.

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| Oct. 11-12-Woodmen of the World
| rally at Santa Fe.
At Estancia 95 voted for prohibition
and SO against.
An attempt was made to blow up the
light plant at Socorro.
The cowboy camp meeting in Grant
county was great success.
Albuquerque Woman's Club has
started a campaign for $50 new mem
bers.
More than 1000 people attended the
Feast of the Immaculate Conception at
Cuba.
Crop experts of Curry county esti-
mate next years wheat crop at over
s4,O00,000.
Ell Paso residents have recently paid
$500 for licenses to fish and hunt in
New Mexico.
The $4,000 bond issue to finish the
addition to the Santa Fe high school
carried by 205 majority.
Mrs. Nora Bell is in the Bernalillo
county Jail awaiting the action of the
grand jury on white slave charge.
State Bank Examiner George H. Van
Stone addressed the state banks warn
Ing them against permitting over
drafts.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars in cer-
tificates are being issued by the coun-
Ly commissioners for road improve
ment in Colfax county.
H. T. Herring, formerly adjutant
general of New Mexico, is now at Pc
oria, ILL.,, arranging to establish trac-
Tor training camp there.
Indications from the first day of reg
lstration at the Silver City State Nor
nal point to a record-breaking enroll
ment for the winter session.
The 13-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Ragle of Lovington dropped
twenty feet off Big Cap Rock, and sus-
tanned many gashes, but will survive.
All women's clubs of the State Fed
grafton are requested by the president
to be represented at the convention at
Gallup, Oct. 25. An interesting pro-
gram has been arranged.
A gasoline explosion on the Duke
farm, twenty miles northwest of Clo-
Wis, fatally burned Mrs. Duke and Sc
verely injured her husband. Mrs. Duke
died at hospital.
The Santa Fe railway has appealed
to the Supreme Court from the deci-
sion of the San Miguel County Court
by which Thomas Transgard was CIV
en- $4,000 damages.
District Judge Reed Holloman
signed the mandamus on State Treas
urer ]. L. Hall, commanding him to
honor warrant for $2,500 in favor of
Attorney Clancy.
The Socorro Woman's Club has do
mated $25 toward Christmas boxes for
soldiers at the front; these boxes to
be prepared under the supervision Of
the local Red Cross chapter.
The Gallup Woman's Club is plan
ming an Historical Pageant of New
Mexico which will be given under the
leadership of Mrs. A. ]. Keith, the pro-
ceeds to be used for civic improve
ment in the town.
The governments September crop
report for New Mexico forecasts the
corn crop at 3,3S0,000 bushels; winter
wheat, 1,220,000; spring wheat, 1,O50,-
900; oats, 2,140,O00 potatoes, 1921
600; hay, $4,000 tons, and apples, 212,-
900 bushels.
The Y. M. G. A. is doing good work
at the Deming camp.
A disease which has caused a loss
of from 80 to 30 per cent of the spring
chicks among flocks which have be-
come infected with it, is now spread
ing from farm to farm around the Dex.
ter and Greenfield districts.
Gov. Lindsey has issued an order re-
storing to citizenship Julian Trujillo
Of Chimayo, who was one of the Rio
Arriba county members of the First
State Legislature, arrested in connec-
ton with the Room "A bribery incident
and who was fined 800.
1t was announced at the adjutant
generals office that Capt. J. H. Toul-
ouse has been appointed inspector
general of the guard, with rank of
major, succeeding Mai Bronson M.
Cutting, who resigned to take the po-
sition Of captain in the national army.
The State Tax Commission refused
to pass on the constitutionality of the
mine tax law on points raised by At.
torney General Harry L. Patton, de-
claring that it is merely a ministerial
body. The assessment on private car
companies was fixed at 81 ,439, ,760. The
valuation on Pullman and express com.
panies is $497,905.
The gang of men who have been
putting in telegraph and telephone
poles and stringing wire for the Noun.
tain States Telephone and Telegraph
Company in the vicinity of Alamogor.
do, have finished their work in that
immediate section and are now work.
ing at Tularosa.
Not only is the mesquite bean, OF