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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1917
Page
6
Western front episodes include British reestablishing St Julien after bombardment and Canadian advances near Lens while Russia gains near Czernowicz and in Bukowina. Kerensky to head cabinet with wide support. Germany’s submarine policy debated. U S. and Allied plans for coast defense, food control, and labor mobilization noted.
Aug 27 Bar Association meeting in Roswell. Sept 25–28 Northern New Mexico Fair at Raton. Sept 26–28 Farmers' Fair at Las Cruces. Dona Ana County Fair in Cruces. Carrizozo street nights. San Jon raises 8400 for highways by levy. New buildings in Portales. Red Cross fund gains 106 at a Cutler dance. Carpenters of Silver City form local union. Big wheat and rye sowing planned in Quay County. Bernalillo County to oil principal roads if price reasonable. Toltec Oil Co reports second experimental well at Roswell down 425 ft. East Las Vegas to add street lights. paving contracts let. W.T. Ellison becomes Grant County agent. Old East Las Vegas turntable replaced by two new ones. NM Field Artillery burying service with full honors. San Miguel County assessment rolls up 1,383,026 to 20,999,896. Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce two-day drive nets 200+ names. G.A. Hatch named assistant attorney general. Citizens' Oil Development Co of Roswell incorporated. Sept 1 possible NM troops go into camp at Linda Vista. Beal Mining Co of Silver City incorporated with 1,000,000 capital. Clovis movement to build Y M C A Building. O N Marron and Francis Wood fined 500 each for contempt. Roswell sheepman Ray Walters shot by J B Alvey during rent collection. L Currant named San Juan highway superintendent. county to levy two mills. Governor Lindsey disapproves Gallup deportation in message to McFie.
Governor Lindsey completes appointment of ten county council of defense groups in New Mexico. Names listed include Bernalillo Chaves Eddy Santa Fe Banta Fé and others with members such as Rafael Garcia C A Rector Celso Lopez and Pedro Montes. Also notes: a $100 reward offered for jewelry recovery and local wartime activities from Camp Cody to Mogollon Mines.
District exemption boards for New Mexico were announced in Washington by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Division 1 includes Felix Garcia B C Hernandez Charles Springer Dr J A Massie H B Karr. Division 2 lists Ronald A Duran Dr H A Miller Max Montoya C R Brice J A McCallum.
Deming enforces a strict vice suppression led by Mayor Max Nordhaus. The restricted district is fully abolished and police are increased to remove female vagrants from the city.
Indications point to end of the strike at the Gallup-American Coal Company. Many workers have resumed mining as others depart town with families. Conditions are nearly back to normal and daily coal output is high.
Eighty four Santa Fé Gold and Copper Company workers at San Pedro press for 50 cents more per day and one hour less work. Company had closed its smelter and spent $60,000 seeking ore. strike unlikely to disrupt production.
Governor Lindsey received a wire from Gallup reporting a threatened strike by all miners in the coal camps. The leaders refused to meet with the county council of defense, and the governor urged settlement through the county council. No official advice on deportation has been received.
Gil Perea of Torrance county, who lost 2000 sheep in a hail storm, has also suffered the deaths of his wife, child, and grandchild within fifteen days. Cleofes Romero, New Mexico state insurance superintendent, notes the multiple tragedies and suggests Perea’s plight as notably severe in the state.
Crowder and aides finalize regulations for mobilization of men drafted. National Guard in federal service Aug 8 numbers total 13 093 officers and 419 834 men with 186 766 war volunteers already in regular service since April 1 leaving ~2 000 regulars vacancies. Liberia declares war on Germany as Lens near enemy lines.
Leslie E. Hubbard Colorado attorney general told the Scottish Rite meeting in Duluth that Masonry will play a key role in universal peace after the war. He said Masonry's mission will influence nations toward brotherly love and democracy and that the order is strong in Germany Austria the United States and Great Britain.
Deputy Sheriff fires three shots at intruders crossing railroad tracks onto company property near Old Dominion mine. Soldiers assist in search. entrance near smelter, soon to resume operations, not found. John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper targeted in House attack linking labor troubles to Montana copper industry. Rankin seeks government seizure of metalliferous mines.
An Indianapolis man Charles E Shate wins a daily orderlie posting at Ft Harrison near Brig General Edwin F Glenns office The pick changes each day The general once asked Shate to handle another officer matter and joked about doing the generals work Himself saying the orderly had five years in Panama and could help out The adjutant urged sociability during the mix up
An editor dismisses a poem titled A Pauper's Grave as unremarkable while a party member offhandedly presents it in the editorial sanctum. The exchange hints at humor and class themes in a bustling newspaper setting.
A fragmentary note references cotton mills in the Southern States valued at 225 million dollars. It hints at romantic discourse and financial themes without clear context or a named party, leaving the main event implicit.
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