Taiban Valley news., 1917-06-22
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

July S-o-Annual Reunion of Cow boys
association at Las Vegas
aug. 27,-Bar Association meeting at
Roswell.
Sept. 25-2S-Seventh Annual Northern
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
Santa Fe is to have a new 100000
hotel.
Willard is to have a 5000 bean ele-
vator.
Las Cruces is to have a new water
works system.
1t is estimated that $4,000 registered
on June 5.
The Otero county chapter of the
Red Cross now has $50 members.
200-pound black bear was killed
within eleven miles of Silver City.
Three more of Farmingtons boys
have gone to the service of their coun-
try.
Company G, New Mexico regiment
left Albuquerque for Elephant Butte
TO do guard duty.
Anastacio Martinez of Santa Fe,
Union army veteran, died at his home
IN the state capital
James E. Averill, aged 80 years.
committed suicide in Albuquerque by
drinking carbolic acid
Approximately $35O,OOO worth of
Liberty loan bonds have been sub
scribed for at Silver City.
Organizations of the boys and girls
OF Carizozo for outing parties this
summer have been completed
Three arrests have been made in
New Mexico on charges of failure to
register for selective conscription.
Las Vegas has been designated as
the junction point of the Ozark trails
with the Santa Fe trail and the trans
continental highway
A Carrizozo farmer offers to be one
of hundred farmers to donate the
product of one acre of their crops to
the Red Cross Society.
The New Mexico National guard
has passed the 1000 mark and daily
new recruits are enlisting to serve
lnelr state and nation.
Large sums of money will be spent
by the Santa Fe beginning this sum-
mer, on construction of new branch
lines in the southwest.
With the arrival of their uniforms
members of L Company, First New
Mexico infantry, are now fully
equipped for camp life.
Mrs. Thos. Lyons has announced
that she will pay a reward of $40, 900
for the arrest and conviction of the
murderers of her husband.
Boaz Long, minister of San Saliva.
dor, is safe, according to a message |
received at East Las Vegas from Sec
retary Lansing by Judge E. v. Long,
his father.
Douglas Howden, son of Bishop
Frederick Howden, and Geo B. Farr,
son of DR.. w. M. Farr, will leave Al
buquerque for France with one of the
American ambulances
Alexander B. Harrison Of Albuuuer.
que knocked out Cabell of the Twen-
ty-fourth infantry in the second round
of a scheduled fifteen-round bout at
Columbus.
Fort Worth, Waco and Houston,
Tex; Fort Sill, Okla; Deming, N. NJ,
and Linda Vista, Cal, have been ap-
proved as additional camps for Nation
al guard mobilization
The Mersfelder district prohibition
law passed by the last Legislative AS
sembly, was upheld by the State Su.
preme Court as applied to the election
which made Curry county dry.
The sum of $114,93S.O9 has been
turned into the State Treasury by
State Land Commissioner Robert p.
Ervien for the rental and sale of state
lands during the month of May.
The wool clip of the Mocho Broth.
ers' ranch in the eastern part of Soc
orro county this year will amount to
more than $4,000 They have Just
finished shearing 5000 head of their
sheep.
Joseph Dojc, an aged man and resi-
dent of Mentmore, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with razor,
He had been i'll for two months fol-
lowing an accident in which one of
his legs was broken.
Completion of the $4,000 Percha
dam in the Rio Grande below Ele-
phant Butte, has been postponed from
August to December according to an.
louncement by the reclamation serv. !
ce.
A battery, New Mexico National
Guard, now has its full quota of men
or peace strength. No. 1876 was ac. 6
,epted and there is already a reserve I
ist awaiting the formal order from !
headquarters to enroll the battery to |
var strength. t
Mrs. Juanita Trujillo was burned to
leath accidentally at her home in East
las Vegas. Mrs Trujillo struck a
match to light a cigarette, and her ]
lothing caught fire. She ran into d
he street and had burned To death h