Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-10

The foundation for the building TO
be occupied as a postoffice in Taos
has been completed.
Marie S. Beatty of Albuquerque has
been commissioned a notary public
by Governor Lindsey.
The organization of a company to
put into operation the lumber mills IN
Albuquerque is under way.
New Mexicos quota of the $4,000
men called on May 25 is 985, and they
will go to Camp Cody for training.
Thomas ]. Hunt of Philadelphia has
been reappointed commissioner of
deeds for New Mexico by Governor w.
e., Lindsey.
William Mexican of Taos has been
named county highway superintendent
of Taos county to succeed P. V. Dick
man, resigned
Albuquerque Lodge, No. 461, B. P.
o. E., voted its officers authority to
invest $1,000 of the lodge funds In the
third Liberty Bond issue.
The total of tax levies for all pur-
poses in New Mexico last year was
$5,956,27862, according to figures OF
the State Tax Commission.
John Sullivan, who made two at
tempts to kill himself at Albuquerque
short time ago, died in the State
Hospital for the Insane at Las Vegas.
State land sales were held at Silver
City, for Grant county, and at Deming
for Luna county. About 10000 acres
were auctioned, mostly in small tracts
The State Corporation Commission
has remitted to the state treasurer
the following receipts for April: Cor
poration fees, $547S0; insurance fees,
1922.
For the second time in a year the
sawmill of Raymundo Romero, above
Manzano in the Manzano mountains,
burned to the ground, the loss being
$4,000.
Odd Fellows from all over the Pc
cos valley gathered in Clovis to cele-
brate the ninty-ninth anniversary of
the founding of the order in the Unit
ed States.
A persistent rumor from Socorro is
to the effect that bunch of cowboys
hanged with barbed wire a man
charged with seditious and disloyal
utterances in that section.
Mrs. George w. Prichard has been
appointed chairman Of the woman's
committee of the State Council of De-
fense, succeeding Miss Jessie Massie,
resigned because of i'll health.
The monthly distribution Of state
land funds for April was placed in the
hands of State Treasurer H. L. Hall
by R. P. Ervien, commissioner of pub
lie lands. 1t totals $102, 1884.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cortez of San
Ia Fe received telegram stating that
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Adelaide
Cortez and her little child were run
over by locomotive in Trinidad,
Colo, and were killed instantly.
Albino Garlic was killed and other
members of section crew were bad
y injured near Tecolote when the mo-
torcar in which they were riding was
struck by train. With the exception
of GARLIC, all jumped, and Garlic was
thrown under the train and his head
cut off.
Grover c. Johnson, who recently
went to Santa Fe from Union county
10 give himself into the custody of the
warden of the state penitentiary to
serve term of from twelve to fifteen
! years for murder in the second degree,
has received a Communication of his
sentence to from not less than one
year to not more than three years.
Reports everywhere indicate in
creased acreage of spring wheat, oats,
corn, beans, kaffir corn, milo, alfalfa
and cotton, either in or going in, and
unusual activity in preparation of
both old and new lands" says Meteor
ologist Charles T: Linney in the crop
report for New Mexico.
The ancient salt beds of Torrance
county, to which pilgrims from Colo
RADIO and Chihuahua wended their
way 400 years ago to load their wag-
ons with the precious product and
which contains inexhaustible supplies
of purest salt, are to be worked on a
big scale and New Mexico should be-
come one of the important salt-produc-
ing states of the union.
Mrs. l.. Bradford Prince of Santa Fe,
member of the commission ap-
pointed by Governor Lindsey to pur-
chase silver service for presenta-
ton to the U. S. Battleship New Mexi-
co, reports that during the past year
she has made seventy-four visits to
silversmiths of New York city, with
whom the order was placed. The sill
yer service consists of twenty-four
pieces which are handsomely etched
with historical and typical New Mexi-
co scenes.
Sergeants Ray Grayson, Silver City;
John Parrott, Deming; Privates G. G..
Swatzell, Mckinley county; Lee Cald-
well, Luna county; Rafael Gomez,
Santa Fe county: w G. Bates. Taos