Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-17
Pithy News Items
Gathered From All OUer
NelU Mexico
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
October-Annual meeting New Mexico
Public Health Association.

commissioned a notary public.
A garage at House was robbed OF
seven auto castings and five tubes.
The May 10 call takes 274 men
from New Mexico for service over
there"
w. T. Burgess, aged 70, and Mrs.
M. E. Ketton, aged 70, were united in
marriage at Melrose.
Two hundred out of total of 461
convicts are engaged on highways or
other work outside the penitentiary.
Lieut.. Joseph Quesenberry of Las
Cruces died from wounds, according
to the casualty list issued at Wash
| ington.
That golden era faces New Mexico
as a flour-producing state, was the
prediction made by Ralph c. Ely, state
food administrator.
BY an overwhelming vote property
owners in the district which Gallup
sought to have annexed to the town
defeated the proposition.
Attorney A. B. Renehan has applied
to the State Supreme Court for oral
argument in the appeal of Elbert W.
Blancett for new trial
Pennington, which sold $4,000
worth of Liberty bonds, has received
her honor flag, which now proudly
flies over the telegraph office.
The longest steel span of any bridge
in the state has been completed
across the Canadian or Red river near
Roy, Mora county. 1t is 300 feet long
and costs 100000
The appointment of R. M. Johnston
of Albuquerque as executive secretary
of the Food Administration for New
Mexico was announced by Ralph c.
Ely, food administrator.
The Equity Society of Union county
during the past few weeks, has
shipped 120 cars of broom corn for
members. The brush netted the grow
ers from $132 to 1910 car.
A report of the city physician shows
that during the month of April thirty
three children were born in Albu-
querque. Twenty-one of them were
boys and the remainder girls.
Corp. Hugh E. Burr, B company
Hath machine gun battalion, who was
drowned while swimming at Ocean
Beach, Cal, was the only son of Mr.
and Mrs. James /. Burr Of Deming.
Col. H. V. Eva, an officer of an ar
tillery command at Camp Cody, re-
ceived an honorable discharge from
the War Department and will return
to his former home in Duluth, Mimi
The county of De Baca, the newest
county in the state, has ninety-six
men in the service, according to the
list just compiled by Secretary Ian
sing Bloom of the State Board of His
torical Research.
Andres EspinoZa, Etiliano Lara and
Francisco Dueno, who are accused of
abandoning sheep herds belonging to
E. E. Turner of near Roswell, have
been bound over to the Chaves county
grand jury under $500 bond each.
On account of the demand for con-
vict labor on work already under way
tions are to begin soon, the state will
be unable to send prisoners this year
to work on the Colfax county roads.
Expressing determination to sup
~uf hA to AI4 txA, 80 n
knockout" war workers Of New Mex
leo at Albuquerque closed the state
wide conference called for the purpose
of coordinating the departments of pa
triotic endeavor.
George Curran, a. patient from Fort
Stanton, dropped dead at the Carri-
zozo eating house as the result of a
hemorrhage.
1t is reported from Las Vegas that
Charles Shope, who recently shot and
fatally wounded Edward Smelling, a
young boy, attempted to leave town.
His bondsmen had him arrested, the
bail was forfeited and Shope was
locked up in jail.
G. G. Montoya was convicted in the
Federal Court under a charge Of at
tempting to intimidate Rosetta M.
Read, Socorro county homesteader.
There were three other defendants in
the case besides Montoya. Anastacio
Sereseres was found guilty and Bal
thazar Sereseres and Gabriel Serese-
res were acquitted.
Judge H. D. Terrell of Silver City
has just received word that his son,
Lieut.. Alex w. Terrell, Jr., of the
142nd Field Artillery, who was Sc
verely wounded on the French front
several weeks ago, lost leg by ampu-
tation, and is now in base hospital
Lieutenant Terrell received both the
French war cross and the American
medal for gallantry and conspicuous
bravery in sction.
Grover w. Harrison of Albuquerque
will get $110,286 as his share of the
estate left by his mother, Mrs. Guada-
lupe Perea de Harrison. Judge Her,
bert F. Reynolds of the District
Court granted final judgment in young