Taiban Valley news., 1921-09-02
Southwest News
From All OUer
Ncu Mexico
and Arizona

The Winchester Junior Rifle Club
is the newest organization in Magda-
lena, N. Mex. The boys will be under
the supervision of l.. HI. Canoll, who
will instruct them in the use of the
rifle.
Work will begin at Las Cruces, N.
Mex, early in October on town paw
ing Improvements estimated to cost
$37, 7,8S422, 1t. was announced today by
]. III. Paxton, chairman of the board
of trustees of Las Cruces.
Authentic information has been re-
ceived at Gallup N. Mex, that a new
cartridge factory is soon to be erect
ed at Fort Wingate which win employ
over 200 men and will have a month
ly payroll of about $4,000.
The Automobile Club of Arizona has
shipped to its various offices through
out the state metal signs to be placed
in front of such offices on metal stand
ards, already erected. This will mater
tally aid the travelling public.
The Ration, N. Mex, Chamber of
Commerce reports that the Texas
tourist traffic alone has amounted to
over $1,000 day during the summer.
This is probably about 80 per cent of
what has passed through the city.
The gasoline tax in Arizona will
amount to much more than was sup
posed at the time it was imposed. Re-
turns received at the office of the sec
retary of state show that there was
collected for the month of July the
sum of $4,000; the receipts for the
last twenty days of the month We're
$4,000.
According to A. L. Hamilton, coun-
ty agent, Porter valley and the coun-
try in the vicinity of San Jon, N. Mex.
is rapidly developing into one of the
big wheat belts of the state. The
crop this season has been great sue
cess and 1t is estimated that during
the next year at least 1900 acres of
wheat will be planted.
james Haverty, cattleman, broke
down and wept In court when Judge
A. G. Lockwood sentenced him to not
less than six nor more than ten years
for Staying his brother, Richard Hav-
erty, following a quarrel on April %.
James Hayerty was found guilty of
manslaughter, following trial on
charge of murder at Tombstone.
The local Game and Fish Protective
Association of Taos, N Mex, is now
1nf xr-o in hn Cfn inc nf q
local trout streams and will plant
thousands of trout fry during the fall.
In spite of the fact that most of the
streams in that vicinity are fished by
hundreds of people every year, there
is still splendid fishing.
A woman whousays she is Baroness
Victoria Wolff Won Totenworth of
Germany, was arrested at Albuquer-
que with her son, charged with hav-
ing crossed the Mexican border with
out a passport. She says she lost her
fortune in the war and was trying
to make her way to New York where
she hoped to obtain employment as
cook and her son as a waiter.
A big meeting will be held at Lords
burg, n Mex, on the second Friday
in September when the Lordsburg
Chamber of Commerce will be succeed
ed by the Hidalgo County Chamber Of
Commerce and a full set of officers
will be elected. Every outside pre-
cinct will send representatives to the
meeting which will be the largest of
its kind ever held in the county.
The names of the members of the
Arizona National Guard rifle team
that will represent Arizona in the ma
tiOnal rifle matches at Camp Perry, o.,
Aug. q to Sept. %, have been an
nounced by Maj. e. S. Linton at Phoe-
nix.
The new high school building at
Wilcox, Ariz., will be completed SO
that school will commence Monday,
Sept. IL. The work is being rushed to
completion as rapidly as possible. 1t
win be beautiful and commodious
structure.
The Santa Cruz county tax rate for
Arizona for 1921, as fixed by the board
of supervisors, is $1.637 Las year 1t
was $126. The total rate to be paid
this year by residents Of Nogales, in
Guiding state, county, city and school
district levies, is $4,389.
The recent order of the Treasury
Department prohibiting transportation
of liquor in bond through the United
States was rescinded in orders re-
ceived by Charles i. Fowler, collector
of customs at Nogales Ariz. The new
order provides that liquor in bond
may be transported from one point in
Mexico, through the United States, to
another point In Mexico.
The Santa re, Ration & Des Moines
railroad is to be sold at auction Oct.
10, at Ration, N. Mex. as the result
Of the foreclosng of mortgage held
by the United States Mortgage and
Trust Company The mortgage se-
cured bond issue Of $1,000,000 and
was made in 1906
GalInn hae raised over 5000 for thp