Taiban Valley news., 1920-11-12
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
J. II. Childers died as the result of
injuries sustained from fall of ap-
proximately forty feet at the G. and A.
smelter at Douglas, Ariz., when
scaffold which he had mounted in or
der to make repairs crashed to the
ground.
The body of Albert Russell, private,
Twenty-fifth United States infantry,
who died at Nogales, Ariz., as a result
of what officials said was blow in
the stomach during a friendly boxing
bout, was sent to Gary, Ind, for inter
ment.
Governor l. @. Enriquez Of Chihua-
hna, Mexico, has sent Governor Camp
bell of Arizona his thanks for Cover
nor Campbells message to President
Wilson urging recognition by the
United States of the present govern
ment of Mexico.
Two men we're killed and five in
1ured near Jerome, AriZ., when state
highway department truck overturned
on the Prescott-Jerome highway. The
accident occurred at the summit of
Mount Mingus. Three of the injured
had broken legs.
Shifting ground in the Junction mine
at the Calumet and Arizona Mining
Company at Bisbee, Ariz., gave way
resulting In huge timbers croshing
downward and instantly killing John
James, timberman. Two other men
with James escaped unhurt.
Twelve members of the Boys and
Girls Club of Tucumcari, n. Mex,
who attended the stock judging con-
tests at the Clovis fair returned home
with two first prizes. A large camp
was provided for the members Of the
clubs and over 1000 members were in
attendance from different parts of the
state.
Before Judge Samuel L. Pattee of
Tucson, sitting in the Bisbee deporta-
tion trials at Tombstone, r. n.
French, county attorney, moved the
court that all remaining cases against
deportation defendants be dismissed,
and Judge Pattee made the order, thus
wiping the court clean of all these
criminal cases.
Below par physically as a result of
being wounded in the war, Henry
structor at the Los Alamos Ranch
school west Of Santa Fe, died of ex-
haustiOn in lonely canon in the Jem-
ez mountains while on a hunting trip
with Student Donald Thompson, aged
IA, of Washington, d. c.
The body of Private George g. La
herty, formerly of Co. C, 302nd Bat
terry, Tank corps, who died in England
in 1918, arrived in Ration from Chi
cago and was taken to the mortuary
Of the Errington Undertaking Com
pany. The funeral was held and in
terment was made in Mount Calvary
cemetery.
The mineral exhibits at the Luna
County Fair, which was recently held
in Deming, N. Mex, represented fifty
six mines in New Mexico and was one
of the finest ever seen in the South
west. From the specimens that were
shown indications are that the Tres
Hermanas district will soon become
one of the best mining sections in the
state.
A big strike of rich sulphide ore is
+I, .b,I ,;I,
nine miles from Patagonia and near
Harshaw. The new ore was opened
up on a croSs-cut from the main shaft
and is reported thirty feet wide with
a richer tonnage expected beneath.
Shipments of this new ore are said to
have netted the mine 500 per ton
from the sulphide of silver and lead
mixture.
Farmers in the San Juan valley in
the vicinity Of Pennington, N. Mex,
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have been signed up for sugar beets IL
the factory is built.
Suits aggregatlng $4,000 on alleged
prOmissOry notes have been filed by
the Santa F6 against the Prescott
Farms Company, the Hassayampa AL
falfa Farms Company and the Arizona
Land and Irrigation Company, pro-
moters of the tract near Jerome juno
'tlon. The cases grew out of the al
legged loans made to the project by the
railroad company earlier in stage of
development Of the tract.
Ben Holdener, 80 years old, was
found dead on ditch bank about six
miles west of Phoenix with a bullet
wound in his head and pistol by his
side. In pocket was note that his
effects would be found in a Phoenix
hotel which he named. At the hotel
officials found Holdener's suitcase. In
the suitcase was pocketbook con-
tanning first naturalization papers and
papers showing Holdener had about
10000 francs on deposit at Stackton
and San Francisco branches of the
Bank of Italy.
The work Of paving the streets of
Gallup, N. Mex, has been COMPLETED