Taiban Valley news., 1920-09-03
Southwest News
From All Over
NeU Mexico
and Arizona
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

A fine stone school house was built
by the people of Montoya Springs, San
Miguel county, in New Mexico, in just
three weeks after they decided to
erect it. The people quit their regu-
lar work and all pitched in to help.
Another 10000 pounds in co-opera-
tive wool shipments was made this
month in San Juan county, New Mexi-
co. There have now been fOrty-fOur
men who have shipped comparatively
and their shipments have passed the
10000 pound mark.
Jesus Maria Barboa was found not
guilty in the west Phoenix precinct
Justice Court on charge of numbering
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Erhardt at their
home in Phoenix the night of June g.
Barboa has been in custody since
June IA, and was alleged to have made
a confession.
Lieut.. Alexander Pearson, famous
for his victory in the first transconti-
mental air race, was painfully injured,
possibly internally, and Lieut.. Frank
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the head and face when their plane
crashed thirty feet to the ground in a
nose dive at Douglas, Ariz.
John A. Bermudes, who lived on
ranch about thirty miles east of
Albuquerque, was instantly killed by
lightning during severe electric
storm recently. Bermudes was work
ing among his cattle when the storm
came up and the body was found sew
eral hours later by his son.
Carl Jacobs, fifth man to be sen
fenced Of a charge of aggravated
assault in connection with the at
tempted Jail delivery at the county
| Jail at Phoenix recently, in which
| prisoners chOked and beat the night
jailer, was sentenced in superior court
to serve three to five years in state
prison.
Following the discovery in a Phoenix
warehouse of fifteen crates and boxes
declared by agents of the depart
ment of justice to have been stolen
from the government, Il. V. Voss, car
penter, employed at the United States
| public health service hospital at
Whipple barracks, Prescott, was ar
rested
According to a report of the man
agement, the Albuquerque Business
College opened on the first of Septem-
her with the largest enrolment in his
tory. This was the first college of its
kind in the state, and since it was
established under the present manage
ment, twelve years ago, it has grown
much beyond the greatest eXpecta-
tions.
Uncle Sam will take full charge of
the hot springs at Hot Springs, Sierra
county, n Mex. They are on federal
land and the department of the in
terror now has the question of their
care under consideration, it was an
nounced at the federal land office at
Santa Fe There is a possibility that
they will be made national monu-
ment.
Three days after he hanged himself,
the body of an old man was found
dangling at the end of rope thrown
over a rafter in an unused stable in
Peoria, Ariz Officers could not say
anything definite regarding his ma
tiOnality, as the body was in decOm-
posed condition when found. No means
of Identification were found on the
body, but it is thought the dead man
might have been Il Mexican, who had
been noticed lettering around Peoria,
but who had not been seen recently.
Colonel John ]. BOniface has arrived
in Phoenix and will make that city his
headquarters for the next four years.
Colonel Boniface has been placed in
command of the national guard cav
airy regiments of Arizona and New
Mexico. He is well-knOwn throughout
the state and served several years on
the border at Douglas.
The new gold and silver cyanide mill
of the Duncan Mining & Milling Com
pany, in the Steeplerock district, west
"rn Grant county, New Mexico, twelve
miles east of Duncan, Ariz., was COM
pleted about month ago and recently
made Its first trial on the gold and sill
yer Ores and the first cleanup in
g e'ghteen days yielded bar of bullion
which sold at the United States mint
in San Francisco for $4,000
A story Of misfortune and death on
the desert was told in the sheriff's of
flee at Phoenix by Michael Sunar,
thirteen years old, and two deputy
sheriffs who had gone to Aqua Ca
liente, eighty miles southwest of there,
to investigate reports of the death of
Marco Sunar, the boys uncle. Stricken
Nv heat. the man had wandered on the
desert until he fell and died within a
few miles Of Aqua Caliente, the Of
ficers said.
A. ]. Stockbridge, who is In charge
of the old Dan Hind property, now
known as the Rocky Trail mine, near
Silver City, Mexico, has installed a
fifty-ton cirlsher and mill to handle
the free milling gold ore which Is be-
ing mined in that section.
A ten-year-Old Indian boy wls in
lin