Taiban Valley news., 1918-10-25
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS


100000 cans of tomatoes.
Work on new barracks at the State
College is proceeding rapidly.
Fifty convicts will be placed at work
on the gdalena road.
Contract let for twenty-one miles OF
federal road at Tucumcari to cost
$102,143.
Announcement of the issuance of
pardon to Benito Lovato was made at
the executive offices
New Mexico produced $4,000 bush
els of apples, of which 81, 900 boxes
were commercial apples.
Joe Hovey, Santa Fe, and Charles
w. Hoskins, Pennington, have been
wounded severely in action.
The production of beans for 1918
in New Mexico is $4,000 bushels, or
about the same as last years produc-
| ton.
The production of corn in New Mex
leo is estimated at 4,042,000 bushels, or
an increase over last year of 642,0O0
| bushels.
Mayor C. F. Montgomery of Roswell
died Of influenza Oct IA. There were
two other deaths. There are about $50
cases in the city.
Three fires in forty-eight hours
time in Tucumcari in a week have re-
suited in. the setting on foot of an in
vestigation by the authorities.
The county board of health ordered
| the public schools of Mountainair
closed. What is thought to be a case
of Spanish influenza has developed. x
Arturo Fernandez, a taxi driver,
was arrested at Albuquerque by Con-
stable A. s. Morega upon complaint
charging seduction, made by Sevaria
Padilla.
Another Bernalillo county boy fig
ures in the casualty lists. He is Gas
par Candelaria, 26 years old, of Los
Candelarias, who is reported wounded
severely.
College women in the state of New
Mexico are to be banded together un-
der the supervision of the food ad-
ministration for the service in the
cause of food conservation.
New Mexico produced 1866 bush
els of spring wheat, making a total
production of all wheat of 3,656,OOO
bushels for the state, or an increase of
about one-third over last years pro-
| duction.
| New Mexico is to be represented at
the meeting of the National Tax Asso-
citation to be held in st. Louis on the
18th of November. Governor Lindsey
has made public the names of the del
egates whom he asked to attend.
The child's welfare department OF
the Women's Club of Santa Fe an
nounces that the weighing and meas
uring of babies has been discontinued
for the present, as precaution against
the spread of influenza.
! A. B. Banta, cattleman of Magda
lena in Socorro county, and Mr.. Bor'
rowdale who formerly lived in this
state, were killed in an auto accident
near San Diego, Cal, according to
word received at Albuquerque.
Beginning several days ago with on
ly few cases, fifty-seven cases OF
Spanish influenza had developed at
the University of New Mexico at Albu
querque up to Oct. IS. Most of the
sufferers are members of the students
army training corps, and it may be
necessary to suspend drills and classes
in that organization for an indefinite
period.
William Bell died at Ration as the
result of gunshot wound sustained
when he was out hunting in the Davis
canon with two young companions.
The first life insurance paid by the
federal government on account of the
death of New Mexican in France
was received by the parents of Fran
cisco Mares of Cabezon, Sandoval
county. They are to get $3.50 month
ly for twenty years. Young Mares met
death in action little more than q
month ago. He held $4,000 policy
which he took out shortly after he en-
tered the army. His father is Jose
Mares.
Officers to serve the grand encamp
ment of Odd Fellows for the coming
year were chosen at an executives ses
sion held at Albuquerque, the meeting
being brief on account of the influenza
closing order. They are W. J. Howells
of Ration. grand patriarch; c. l.. Dot
son of Silver City, grand high priest
w. E. Bowen of Hagerman, grand sen
ior warden; ]. r. Whitesides of Albu
querque, grand junior warden; G. A
Doty of Roswell, grand scribe, and
John c. Spears of Gallup, grand treas
urer.
Record of ninety-four deaths in New
Mexico's soldier forces has been taken
from newspaper clippings and from
other sources since the beginning oi