Taiban Valley news., 1921-07-29
Southwest News
From An OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News serlco)

The state board of health at Phoenix
reported that S,045 babies were born in
Arizona during the past year. or this
number, 4,265 were boys and 3,S4O
girls. There were III pairs of twins
Dorn.
Stamping Yuma as the premier al
falfa seed district of the world, Mul-
ford Winsor in Phoenix declared that
Yuma county, Arizona, will produce
the biggest seed crop in it's history this
year.
Suffering from the effects of a
wound received when revolver he
was cleaning was accidentally dis
charged, Rosalio Martinez, a young
man of Bernal, near East Las Vegas,
n. Mex, is dead.
Fees collected by the state motor We
hlcle department of Arizona during the
first six months of the present year
amounted to $1S7, ,434.75, according to
an announcement made by Ernest Il.
Hall, secretary Of state.
The Clayton, N. Mex, postoffice has
been officially notified that, beginning
September 20, the city will have free
mail delivery. Plans are now being
made for the new service, and ap exam
ination will soon be held for carriers.
Producing mines in the state of Ari-
IONA were valued at $413, ,0S2, ,735, or 8
per cent less than year ago, in re-
port made public by the state tax COM
mission. The valuation placed on pro-
ducing mines in 1920 was $453,094,-
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According to word received by her
parents, residing in Las Vegas, Mrs.
Perfila Tenerla committed suicide by
pouring kerosene over her clothing and
ignting it. She died at SchOmberg,
eighty-five miles from Las Vegas, n.
Mex. A quarrel with her husband is
alleged to have been the reason for
her act.
If the present plans are carried out,
the mining district of the Tres Her
mans mountains will soon have one of
the largest c0ncentrators in the south
west The big plant will be built to
take care of the low-grade sllver-lead
ores from the mines, and will be erect
ed under the supervision of eastern
capitalists.
Walter Hudson, one of the two men
arrested at SolOmonville, AriZ., when
| they surrendered Orval McKnstry, IL
year-old Lakin, Kan, boy TO officers,
| confessed to Sheriff ]. G.. Hillyard OF
Lakin that he kidnapped young McKln-
stry, according to that officer. Orval
McKinstry was spirited from Lakln,
Kan, after the fatal shooting of his
father, a prominent rancher.
A thief who must have been steeple
| jack and who undoubtedly must have
possessed information concerning the
nature of his prospective haul, recently
got away with $400 worth of platinum
from the highest point on the new
| brick smokestack at the International
smelter at Globe, Ariz. The platinum
| adorned the topmost points of the -four
| lightning arresters used to safeguard
the stack from stray atmospheric elec
| trical bolts.
What will probably be the largest
herd of high-grade dairy cattle in the
United States will soon be placed on Q
tract of land, $4,000 acres in extent
the southern boundaries of which lie q
few miles north of Demlng, N. Mex
The United States public health bu
feau, which will operate the big farm
| plans to place on the tract about 5000
head of the finest dairy cattle in tht
country. together with all the equip
ment which goes to make up an indus
try of this kind,
The wOrkmenS compensation ac
passed by the last Legislature of Ari
zona, creating the state industrial com
mission, IS invalid, according to a de
clsion handed down by the State Su
preme Court The decision upheld the
finding of Superior Judge Il. c. Stan
ford, who issued a permanent fnjunc
tion restraining the commissioners
from exercising any OF the powers
given to them by the act and directing
the state treasurer and auditor to pre-
vent the commission from spending
ony of the states money.
Efforts of the Santa Fe and of thu
Southern Pacific railroads TO force thu
Arizona corporation commission to pu
! in force in intrastate business rate:
| authorized by the Interstate commerce
commission have failed. Sitting ii
bank with Judge William II. Sawtellt
and Oscar Trippet, Circuit Judge Er
skne Ross in Los Angeles denied tht
motion of the railroads for an injunc
tion to restrain the Arizona commits
sion from interfering with the applica
tlOn of the intrastate rates to intra
State traffic. indicating that befor,
granting such an injunction it woult
be necessary to go into the merits o
the matter.
According to the report Of the over
seer of the camp ground in Portales
n. Mex, June was Il record month ant