Taiban Valley news., 1918-06-28
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service. :

July 4-6-Cowboys' Reunion at Las
Aug. 7-i1-Round-up and Sports Car
nival at Magdalena.
october-Annual meeting New Mexico
Public Health Association.
Roswell gets the 1919 Ozark Trail
convention.
Fire destroyed about 1000 cords OF
wood at Willard.
1t is stated that Senator A. B. Fall
will be candidate for reelection.
A Bean Growers Association was
formed at meeting in Albuquerque
The Twin Buttes Oil Company has
, it's test well in Otero county down
over 900 feet.
Fred Melton, young blacksmith,
was drowned at Clovis in the Santa
Fe supply tank.
The new Salvation Army building at
Camp Cody, Deming, has been COM
pleted and opened.
The New Mexico State Press Asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting at
Albuquerque, June 24-25.
The summer school term of the New
Mexico Normal opened at Silver City
with an enrolment of $50.
Arrangements are being made to
build concrete dam across the river
at Tularosa for irrigating purposes.
Preparations are well under way for
he hin Dnnnd-TIn onh CnnfnQf nf
Western Sports to be held at Magda-
lena, August to IL.
Enrique Hernandez of Blcssburg
was burned to death at Ration when
the house in which he was living
caught fire and burned.
Mrs. Eulogia Chaves, 102 years old,
died at her home in Albuquerque.
Senility was the cause of death. AS
far as is known Mrs. Chaves was the
oldest woman in the state.
Bernalillo county's tax valuation
will be increased by about $1,O0O,000
for 1918, according to a preliminary
statement made by Assessor Stephen
E. Roehl to the State Tax Commission.
Because of the need of beef for
Uncle Sans fighting men in France
and the soldiers of his allies, Socorro
will not have a barbecue on the Fourth
of July. Instead the town will have
watermelon feast.
The city council of Roswell at it's
regular monthly meeting passed an
ordinance requiring every male inhab-
liant of the city between the age Of
10 and 55 years, except students in
schools, to engage at once in some
useful occupation. The penalty for
idlers will be a fine of from $40 to
900 or confinement in the county Jail
for not more than ninety days, or both.
The second registration during the
war, which occurred June 5, has en-
rolled 1874 men in twenty-three coun-
ties, as follows: Bernalillo, 131; Cha
yes, SO; Colfax, 1O9; Curry, So; De
Lincoln, 50; Luna, 81; Mora, s.;
Otero, 62; Rio Arriba, 1870; San
Miguel, 100; Torrance, 4S; Union,
~; Guadalupe, '76; Quay, 46; Roose-
welt, &c; San Juan, "a; Taos, AZ; Val
encla, 39; Sandoval, 18; Santa Fe, 60.
New Mexico's cowmen who now are
walking the deck of a warship, kick
ing up dust on the parade ground of a
training camp or hurling lead and
steel at the Hun are to be honored at
the fourth annual Cowboys reunion,
to be held at Las Vegas, July 8, 4 and
5. A monster service flag, bearing
stars for all the cattle handlers in
New Mexico who have gone into the
army or the navy is to be unfurled to
the breeze and dedicated on the after
noon of independence Day.
Cut worms damaged the 100 acres
of beans on the c. E. Anderson farm
near Roy so badly that replanting was
necessary.
The thirty-fifth annual encampment
of the New Mexico department of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Albu-
querque, ended with the election of
John w. Terry Of Las Vegas, depart
ment commander; s. W. Sherfey of
Las Cruces, senior vice commander;
o. L. Gregory of Las Vegas, junior
vice commander; John Greenwald of
Socorro, assistant adjutant general
and assistant quartermaster general;
8. X. Sydes of Las Vegas, chaplain,
and E. s. Slower, medical director
Two incendiary fires were discov-
cred at Las Vegas, one destroying a
drug store, the other damaging
tailor shop. Firemen fighting the
blazes discovered what is believed to
be an internal machine. The machine,
which resembles a bomb, was fash
ioned from a tin box to which a cap
and fuse had been attached. The "fire-
bug" used highly inflammable oil COM
bined with some mysterious explosive,
the combination forming blaze which
spread rapidly and rendered the fire /
men almost helpless.
The Sheep Sanitary Board has pro-
mulgated an order instructing all
sheep growers of New Mexico that
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