Taiban Valley news., 1918-01-11

| bOclatlOn meeting at silver City.
March 4-6-Stockmen's convention at
March. 1sls-wooi Growers convention
at Roswell.
Many trees are being planted in the
Mimbres valley.
Levi A. Hughes of Santa Fe has ac-
cepted the county Craftsmanship of the
war savings work.
Paul Reddington, district forester of
the Third District, has been appointed
city manager for Albuquerque.
At Hope, T. E. May sold one hun
drede tons of alfalfa at $4,000 per ton
and was offered $500 for more.
At Santa Fe, movement has been
started to revive the De Vargas pa
geant during the coming summer
The Alamogordo Board of Educa-
tion has let a contract for the erection
Of new high school, to cost $53,550.
The big Diesel oil burning engine at
the Silver City power plant blew up
while the engine was running at full
speed.
The work of putting in a string of
casing at the Twin Buttes oil well,
near Clayton, has been going on for
some time.
Nearly 200 boys and girls of San
Miguel county have joined the boys
and girls club organized by Miss Ger
trude Espinosa.
Beginning Jan. employees of the
shops and roundhouses on the Santa
Fe railway system received 10 per
cent increase in wages.
Emeterio Martinez, aged twenty-four
years, was suffocated under pile of
hay in dry arroyo on the Gascon
road near East Las Vegas.
Frank Hallett, lineman employed
by the Santa Fe, fell from a telegraph
pole at Glorietta, breaking his neck,
several ribs and his thigh.
The Supreme Court of New Mexico
affirmed the conviction of involuntary
manslaughter of Stonewall Jackson
Calhoun of Colfax county.
Miss Mabel Case Stafford. execu-
tive secretary of the southwestern
| field, recently took charge of the Y.
w. C. A. building at Deming, and act
i've work has been started therein.
The board of county commissioners
of Luna county met in Deming to dis
cuss plans for the erection of a new
Jail, which will cost $25, 600, bonds for
which amount were recently voted
The State Highway Commission ad-
journed after approving two federal
road projects in Chaves county, and
examining into two projects in Union
county and also into Otero county pro-
jects.
w. C. Mcdonald, first governor of
New Mexico as a state, who was ap-
pointed federal fuel administrator for
New Mexico by President Wilson,
opened up permanent headquarters in
Albuquerque.
State Engineer James A. French
has announced that the lumber, piling
and-other material has been placed in
position for the erection of a new
bridge at Buchanan. The bridge will
cost about $4,000.
Two fatal automobile accidents
were reported from Clovis, Curry
county. The seven-year-old son of d.
D. Able was instantly killed and sew
eral members of the families of J. w.
Keener were seriously injured when
Keener's car turned over ON the edge
of a ravine and pinned the boy down
by the hub of the wheel, crushing his
skull. Everett Vaughn, age 10, a jew
eler, was fatally injured while driving
the car Of e. T. Jernegan from Clovis
to Portales.
Out Of 700 votes cast in Mesilla val
ley in the drainage election, eighty
per cent. favor the proposition which
means immediate construction Of the
much needed drainage system. About
$l,400,000 are to be expended for
drainage and $1,SOO,OO0 for laterals
and distributing systems.
The trail of negro, believed to be
the knifeman who killed Rafaello
Balduini and wounded two other men
at Albuquerque, was picked up by Is
leta Indians in Abo cafion, east of
Belen. A woodhauler put the Indians
on the trail. He reported that he had
seen the negro near the mouth of the
cafion. His description of the man led
the Indians to believe he was the man
they sought.
Lucio Quintana, who has been
sought by the officers for several
months charged with an assault with
deadly weapon upon his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Paublita Sandoval, and Mrs.
Leonardo Salazar, was arrested at Las
Vegas upon Lis return from Colorado.
Quintana waived preliminary examina-
ton and was bound over to the grand
jury on bond of $500, which he fur
nished.
One hundred graduates and former
students of the New Mexico College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at
Mesilla Park are now engaged In