Taiban Valley news., 1920-02-27
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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]. III. Boileau, a local architect, has
! just completed the plans and drawings
for new eighty-room hotel which will
be erected at Tucumcari, N. NJ.
The state of Arizona is eight years
old this month. Eight year ago, Feb.
| IA, Valentine Day, Arizona emerged
from a territory into a sisterhood of
states.
Captain Jaces N. Gladding, former
ly city engineer of Albuquerque, and
recently from military service over
seas, has accepted the position of city
manager of Albuquerque.
Much interest is being evinced by
members of organized labor in the
Miami district over the projected
plans for the construction of new
labor temple in Miami.
Oscar Price and Mabel Shaw were
arrested in Phoenix on a federal war
rant charging them with conspiracy to
aid a federal prisoner to escape from
the custody of the United States mar
shal.
The annual convention of the New
Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers AS
sociation, which will be held in Ros-
well, N. NJ, March 20, 80 and 81, will
be one of the most Important in the
history of the association.
Every session full of interest and
every intermisSion full of entertain
ment is the aim of the committee in
charge of the New Mexico Wool Grow
ers' Association convention which will
be held in Roswell March and 8.
Valuable equipment, which will be
used in the construction of roads, has
been given by the War Department to
the State Highway Departments of
twenty-nine states. The states re-
ceiving the apparatus include Arizona
and New Mexico.
At meeting of the local post of
the American Legion at Deming, n.
NJ, the members went on record
unanimously as favoring the organi-
cation of a troop of National Guard
cavalry and directed the adjutant to
send copy of the resolutions pledg-
ing "active support" to the adjutant
general.
Formal acceptance of the personnel
of state advisory board for New
Mexico, to cooperate with the Saliva
boards in New Mexico, in the eXecu-
ton of the armys 1920 home service
program, has been announced by Lieu
tenant Colonel John w. Cousins com
mander in the inter-mountain province
A negro who gave his name as
James Williams but who answers the
description of Arthur Sims. wanted
for the murder of Patrolman Law
renee J. Bear, at Swan Creek, Mary
land, on December IL last year, has
been arrested at Albuquerque. He ad-
mitted being in Maryland on the date
of the murder but denies he is Sims. |
Admission by James Patrick OMal-
ley, an admitted l. w. w. organizer
and applicant for citizenship papers,
that he favored Squeezing out the |
class" by reduction of hours |
and increase in wages, drew from Ex-
amner A. +. Eldridge of the bureau
Of naturalization denunciation of
radicalism at Prescott, who refused
OMalley citizenship papers.
Banks in New Mexico made a gain
In total resources under call of $7,S04.-
21221. j. b. Read, state banker ex
aminer, in his report for the calendar
year of 1919, filed in the governors
office, shows their total resources un-
der call on November II, 1919, as $65,.
On November 18, 1918.
here were $57,9S4, 4,S1669. The fig
lres are for both national and state
banks.
A verdict of $500 damages has
,een awarded Sophie Martinez, admin
stratrix of the estate of Carlos Mar.
inez, against the Southern Pacific
'ailroad in the United States Court
1t Tucson. The suit resulted from Il
of an automobile by train
It Cochise station few years ago.
l. W. eUleTeu IIle |
'ank at Camp Verde, sixty miles
northeast of Prescott, Ariz., held up
asher Butler and escaped with APP
$1,000 After completing
he robbery, the bandits carried
asher Butler one mile out of town,
nd there left him under threat of
cath If he summoned help. Butler,
lter returning to Camp Verde, re-
orted the holdup.
Five of the six bandits who early in
he morning of November "a, 1919, at
empted to loot the home of Abran
ontreras at La Joya, N. NJ, and in
ne pistol duel which followed shot
ontreras through the arm, resulting
! the death of Contreras December
|, entered pleas Of guilty to murder
the second degree Pedro Sais was Il
to life Imprisonment and
he other four were each sentenced TO
srve thirty years. t
The new tunnel at the Shea mine
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