Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-16
Southwest News
From All OUer
NeW Mexico
and Arizona
Cwesterr Newspaper Union News Service. }

A. ii. OrcuLLp en- route from I'll EdSO
to Roswell, N. NJ, was held up and
robbed of $94 In cash by bandits at the
foot of Picacho hill, thirty miles west
of Roswell.
The Roy, Hagerman and Alamogordo
high school stock judging teams, hav-
ing won the district contest, will COM
pete in the state contest to be held at
Roswell, N. NJ, Dec. IL.
One man was killed, several others
injured, none seriously, and property
was damaged to the extent Of $780,
900, as a result of fire in the busi-
ness district of Yuma, Ariz.
Approval of advances aggregating
more than $6,500,000 has been an
nounced by the War Finance corpora
ton. Agricultural and live stock loans
of $6,420,000 were distributed among
twenty-four states, including Nebraska,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Ore
gon, Iowa, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah,
Nevada and Texas.
The receipts of the office Of secre-
tary of state of Arizona are mounting
higher each month, and where former
ly the revenue was negligible, it now
amounts to a considerable sum month
ly During the month of November
the tidy sum of $14,277.31 was taken
in In 1920 the receipts were $1,579.4S
and in 1919, $1,779.77.
A feature of the boys department of
the Y. NJ. G. A. for the month of De-
cember will be the organization of a
club among the newsboys of Albu-
querque, n. NJ. The club will be
formed to get all the newsboys of the
city into one organization under the
leadership of the Y so they will have
better opportunities for all kinds Of
sports.
Statistics from the 1920 government
census show that there are 5023 reg
istered Hereford cattle in Arizona.
This is 4,799 more than any other beef
bred, showing how greatly the Here
fords predominate in this state. There
are also 1900 registered Hereford
bulls in the state as compared with
215, the greatest number of any other
breed.
According to reports given out by
sportsmen who have just returned
from the Black Range country in New
Mexico, the number of hunters in that
section this year has broken all rec
ords. 1t is estimated that over 300
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the Burro mountains alone, besides
many others in the Pinos Altos and the
Datil hills
The two-year-old daughter of Sheriff
and Mrs. NJ. G. Montoya of Bernalillo,
N NJ, died at the hospital as the re-
suit of getting the shell of piflon nut
fast in her throat. Several children
had been eating the nuts and as soon
as the trouble was discovered the little
one was rushed to the hospital, but in
spite of all that could be done for her
passed away in short time.
Mrs. David Sun, wife of David Sun,
Maricopa Indian, died on the Mari
copa reservation, about fifteen miles
southwest of Phoenix, being struck in
the face with an axe by her husband.
Sun was arrested and taken to the
county Jail. Joseph H. Holub, assist
ant United States district attorney, an
nounced that the government would
file a murder charge against Sun.
An injunction permanently restrain
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pany from doing business in Arizona
and an order directing that the State
Corporation Commission assume
charge of its affairs, were issued in
the Superior Court at Phoenix. Both
were issued at the request of AttOr-
ney General w. J. Galbraith, acting
for the State Corporation Commission.
New Mexico gets Sol sos of the more
than $1,000,000 allotment for road
building carried in the recently passed
S75,000,000 highway act for every $751;
492 the state puts up, Highway En-
gineer Gillet has been officially adj
vised.
A big three days rodeo will be staged
at Fort Bayard, n. NJ, under the aus
pices of the American Legion, the
dates having been set for Dec. "a, 20
and 26. Liberal prizes will be award
ed to the winners of the events, and
besides the hundreds of people from
all over the southern part of the state
the big show will furnish amusement
for more than a thousand men from
the big hospital.
Mrs. Edna Mcdowell was awarded
damages in the sum of $4,000 against
Hale Chenoweth by jury in the Su-
periOr Court Mt Tombstone, Ariz., fol-
lowing a short deliberation. Mrs Nc
Dowell had sued Chenoweth for $4,000
for damages due to the death Of her
husband, Claude Mcdowell, alleged to
have been caused by gunshot wound
at the hands of Chenoweth, and for
which he was convicted and sentenced
to state prison, afterward having been
pardoned.
Ridge-Igo Post Of the American Le-
glOn plans to build community build
ing in NOgales, Ariz., next year that