Taiban Valley news., 1920-08-13
Southwest News
From All Ouer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Corona.
The total valuation of Arizona rail
roads for 1920 placed at $101 ,064,
35006, an increase of $1,OO0O00 over
the valuation of 1912.
|, Arizona, third in schools, and New
York, thirteenth, or the youngest state
ten points ahead of one of the thir.
! teen original states.
Teresa Jimenez, aged % years, was
shot and instantly killed by Jose Por-
rOs during quarrel at the Jimenez
home in Church Canon, near Miami.
The annual convention of the Liga
PrOtectOra Latina will be held in Tue
son in September. More than 140 deS
egates from various parts of the state
are expected to attend.
New Mexico is the latest state in the
Union to follow the example of Ari-
zona, the recognized leader in tax con-
ferences, and will hold it's first tax
conference this summer.
L. B. McMullen of Greeley, Colo,
former vice president of the Valley
City, N. D., Normal School, will be
president of the Northern Arizona
Normal School, Flagstaff, succeeding
J. o. Creager, resigned.
John Stark, manager of the Walnut
Greek Mining Company, which was
the Peerless mine, reports that the
work of unwatering the old mine is
progressing nicely and the survey Of
the mine has been made possible.
Unconditional surrender was de-
manded of Gov. Esteban Cantu of the
northern district of Lower California
by the representatives of Provisional
President del Huerta, who recently
conferred with him at Mexicali.
According TO reports that have come
to Yuma, the Yuma country is going
to have one Of the finest cotton crops
in the history of cotton raising, South
west Cotton Company erecting two
large gins, one in Yuma and the other
in Somerton, costing $55,000 each.
An attempted Jail delivery was made
mt Phoenix when prisoners attacked
Night Jailer John Isaacs, overpowered
him, beat him, took his keys and
choked him with Il towel. The plan
was frustrated when trusty sum
-moned deputies by hammering on a
cell.
The meeting of the executive board
of the New Mexico Cattle and Horse
Growers Association, which was held
i'm Silver City, was one of the busiest
in the history of the board. Besides
the members of the board many of the
stockgrowers in different parts of the
state attended.
James Nations, Grant county, N.
NJ, boy, has been notified by the adju-
tant general of the United States army
of the award of distinguished sev
ice medal for extraordinary herOsm
in action during the late war. Nations
won the medal as a result of rare brav-
cry near Fleville, France.
Mesquite honey is finding its way
to the East to vie for favor with the
famed clover honey of New York
state and other rival flavors. Bee men
along the Salt River valley report the
hest season they have ever known,
and say that mesquite honey is selling
at an average of $4,000 car load.
Clyde NJ Ney, mining engineer,
was instantly killed in blast in the
Old Dominion mine at Globe, Ariz.
Ney is said to have been engaged in
measuring work done by men working
on contract when he walked into the
blast unconscious of danger. Life was
extinct when workmen found the body
three minutes after the blast.
Frank =. Davis and Alexander Nc
Donald recently found on their hold
ngs on Squaw creek, what is said to
he the largest tin nugget ever found
not only in this country, but in the
world
Decrease of $7,250,OO0 in assessed
valuation of Yavapai county, Arizona,
mines, as the result of the assess
ments by the State Tax Commission,
was announced by the Board Of Su-
pervisOrs. Increase in the county as
SCISSORS rolls In assessments on other
classes of property brought the net
loss in valuation this year as compared
with 1919 down to $14,022,000.
A balance Of $127, 1926 is on hand, ac-
cOrding 10 statement of administra-
ticn of the Arizona state institutions
furnished to Governor Thomas X.
Campbell by Clayton Bennett, secre-
tary to the board of directors of state
institutions. There Is a balance cred
tied to every institution of the state
with the exception of the state hos
ptal, which shows a deficit directly
due to the added number of inmates
together with the increased cost of
clothing, fOodstuffs and wages. The
deficit amounts to $16,17954 and will
be cared for from the emergency fund.
AIlis Taylor, 17-year-old North
Carolina boy, sentenced to a year in
prison and to whom Governor Beckett
extended a pardon on condition that
ne enlist in the army or navy, will not
he allowed to take advantage of his
OnDOrtunity according to a statement