Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-02
Southwest News
From All Over
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Cwestcrn Newspaper Union News Service }

| Revision of rates charged Dy all mo
tor vehicle stage lines operating in Ari-
zoua will be considered by the State
1 Corporation Commission as soon as
1L4nembers of the commission. meet at
Phoenix
Forty-eight advances. aggregating
$2074O00 for agricultural and live
I stock purposes have been approved by
the War Finance Corporation. The ad-
yances included for Arizona $163,OO0
South Dakota, $4,000 and Nebraska
100000
/ c. G. Golden, 36, car inspector for
the Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific rail-
way at Tucumcari, n. NJ, was killed by
! being crushed to death under switch
/ engine. He had thrown the switch for
the Golden State Limited and stepped
back onto another track and was
Il struck by the yard engine.
The Twenty-fifth United States in
fantry. which has been stationed at
4 Camp Stephen d. Little, Nogales, Arz.,
for the past several years, is to be
transferred soon to Honolulu, and re-
placed there by the Tenth cavalry,
i now stationed at Fort Huachuca, ac-
cording to word received.
The Arizona highway fund benefited
to the extent of $13,S26.51 during the
month of October as result of the l.
cent-a- gallon tax on gasoline, accord
y ing to figures announced by the secre-
tary of state. The total collections
since the law became effective on June
/, 0 now amount to $6l ,34S56 the report
said
i Walter, the little 5-year-old son of
\ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson of Lords
burg, y. NJ, was almost instantly killed
when lie ran in front of an automobile.
The lad had be N in a store with his
mother and had gone across the street
to their car in which he placed pack
age, and in returning to the store he
ran directly in front of a big machine.
The Pioneers Association of New
r Mexico was organized at a meeting
held in Albuquerque, and>plans were
made for the organization of branches
of the association in different parts of
the state The time for the annual re-
union of the society was set for the
second Monday in October of each
year.
} The state of Arizom's title to 10O,-
900 acres of land in Santa Cruz coun-
ty, known as "Baca float No. g." will
not be considered by the Supreme
Court, it was announced, because of
want of jurisdiction. The appeal was
brought bS three Arizona citizens who
| claimed that foreclosure of the land by
I the state on delinquent tax liens was
invalid.
w. H. Smith, former city clerk of
Nogales, AriZ.. was found guilty by a
Jury in the Superior Court on charge
of embezZlement The penalty for this
offense is from one to ten years In the
state penitentiary Smith was accused
Of having embeZzled SLIPS from the
city while he was city clerk. Witness
es for the prosecution at the trial tes-
titled that total embeZzlements by
Smith would amount TO thousands of
} dollars although he was tried for only
the 81 1,125 item.
Ten bales of Durango cotton from
seven acres of unfertilized land is what
w. Harry Wheatley raised on his farm
four miles northwest OF Las Cruces,
N. NJ. He received % cents a pound,
(. o. b. Las Cruces, or 81 100 for the
crop. L. J.. Mayfield, who came to Las
Cruces from Mt. Olive, Miss, is aver
aging a bale an acre from seventy
acres. No fertilizer was used. 1t Is
estimated that from 5000 TO 1900 acres
will be planted in cotton next year
The acreage this season Is 418 as
against 5000 in 1920
The State Corporation Commission
of Arizona issued an order authorizing
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company to increase GER
tain toll rates. The order was signed
by Commissioners A. A. Belts and d.
II. Johnson, but Commissioner Loren F.
Vaughn filed dissenting opinion OBJ
jectlng to the increase In rates.
Motions to strike from the files por-
tions of the amended complaints in
the $4,000 libel suits Of j. NJ. Ray
nolds and A. i. McMillen against Carl
G. Magee and the Journal Publishing
Company of Albuquerque were filed In
the District Court by the defendants,
following the denial of motions to
strike the entire amended complaints
by Judge M. E. Hickey.
In the will of Byron H. Ives, the con-
tents Of which became known at Albu-
duerque, bequests of $500 were made
TO distant relatives and $4,000 is left
rs a permanent fund, the interest of
which Is to be used as scholarships for
young ladies in the university. The
balance of the estate, estimated at over
$4,000, is left in the hands Of trustees
for the benefit of Methodist sanltar-
ium to be known as the Ives Memoir
ial building
County recorders in second class
counties have the power to appoint
their chief deputy and to fix their sal
aries at a sum not exceeding $3.50 n
month, without the consent and ap-