Taiban Valley news., 1920-11-19
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From All Over
NeU Mexico
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The pinto bean industry is growing
rapidly around Estancia, N. NJ, where
several million pounds of beans now
are stored.
Dawson is probably the first town
in New Mexico to start a night school
for the miners and other laborers in
the town and after the first month has
been completed the school has been
pronounced a great success.
The Arizona Cotton carnival at Mesa
is over for this season, and there is
probably not a person to be found who
will venture to say that it was not
worth While from. every standpoint.
The six days were crowded with stir
ring events from early morning until
midnight.
Marshall l. Skies, said to be wanted
by the police at Madison, Wis, for for
gerry, was arrested at East Las Vegas,
N. NJ, and is being held pending ar
rival of an officer from Madison. Skies
inherited $12,500 six years ago. He
wired his guardian in Madison for
funds, this leading to his arrest.
Jockey S. Lambert was killed at
Phoenix when his mount, Iron Man,
stumbled and fell in the head of the
stretch in Il race at the State Fair
grounds. Harry Rowe, riding Captain
Point, and Lee Burk on Dinero, were
injured when their mounts crashed in
to the fallen Iron Man. They were sent
to the hospital.
There are only $50 convicts now in
the New Mexico state penitentiary.
This number may be considered 2S9
too many, but for all that it is said to
be the lowest enrolment at the pen in
ten long years or more. There have
been as high as 500 prisoners at one
time on the roll call, although some of
them have been in road camps.
A press dispatch last month telling
of the detention at Nogales, Ariz., of
Charles LOsey and his wife in connec-
tion with the death here of A. ]. Born,
resulted in reuniting father and son,
separated for years. The father of
Charles Losey is George w. Losey,
president of a bank at Hagerman, n.
NJ, former sheriff in Nebraska and a
member of the Legislature of that
state.
With fifteen state fairs in the past,
each one annually marking another on
ward step in the progress and pros
perity of the state, Arizona set new
record with the opening of the six
teenth annual state fair when the big
main gates of the fair grounds swung
open to admit the crowds of enthusi-
asts who constituted the interested
spectators Of the gigantic siX-day pro-
grams of sports and exhibits. Thous-
ands of visitors were in Phoenix.
The agricultural conditions in Roose-
Welt county, New Mexico, during the
past season are the best ever known,
and the acreage of grains was the
largest in the history of the county.
The growing of sweet potatoes is rap
idly becoming one of the principal in
dustries of the county and the new
warehouse which was recently built
has a storage capacity Of over 4,50O
bushels, besides many private plants
in different parts of the county.
Judge Samuel L. Pattee of Tucson
sitting in the Bisbee deportation trials
at Douglas, wiped the court clean OF
all these criminal cases on motion OF
r. n. French, county attorney, who
moved that all the remaining cases be
dismissed. The first prosecution con
nected with this deportation was start
ed in the United States Court in Tue
son when twenty-five of those accused
of being implicated in the deportation
were indicted for kidnapping.
Suit has been filed in the United
States District Court at Phoenix, Arlz.
on behalf of J. L. Hurt of Denver
against DIR. Il. B. Perrin of Flagstaff
and several members of his family il
an action involving $4,000 and q
large acreage of land in northern Ari
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The Columbus State Bank at Colum
bus, N. NJ, closed its doors because Of
heavy Withdrawals. The liabilities are
placed at 100000 by J. L. Greenwood
its president, who announced that HI
will turn over his personal holdings tt
satisfy all claims. Greenwood wal
elected a member Of the State Legisa
ture at the last election.
The biggest auditorium in Arizona
so described by the architect, is near
ing completion at Camp Stephen d
Little, near Nogales, where the Twen
ty-fifth infantry is stationed, having
been built completely by hitherto un
educated negro soldiers in the Twen
ty-fifth infantry studying in the arm.
vocational school at the post unde
direction of Maj. John @. Fairfax
morale officer
Work of surveying has been com
menced on the federal aid road from
Pennington, N. NJ, to Aztec. 1t is es