The Fort Sumner review., 1911-05-13
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.

Minor Occurrences of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.
The American Boy Scouts are or
ganizing in Deming.
Deming voted to remain in the wet
list at recent election.
The Santa Fe Baseball Association
has been organized.
The Boyd Bros. shipped 742 head Of
cattle from Columbus recently.
Lake Arthur and vicinity receiving
a good, slow, soaking rain.
In the future the Dexter schools
will give a high school course.
A new building for the First State
bank of Las Cruces is being erected
The building trades during this
month are extremely active in Dem
ing.
Fifteen-year-old Maria Renteria
committed suicide at Lordsburg by
shooting.
The recent rain was reported gen.
eral throughout Southwestern New
Mexico.
District Court is in session at Hills
boro with Judge Frank w. Parker on
the bench.
There is big movement of cattle
from the Roswell section to Kansas
pastures.
During the session of the Federal
Grand Jury at Roswell five true bills
were found.
The postoffice department has re-
fused to change the name of Moriarty
to Garden City.
Farmers in the Portales valley are
taking great interest in the growing
of cantaloupes.
Crops in the Taos valley are report
ed to be unusually good this year.
The fruit is good.
Las Cruces will have a $250,000 fed
purchased the lot.
Training for the fall races at the
New Mexico State Fair at Albuquer.
que has already begun.
Forty men and teams have been put
to work on the Hammond-F Pennington
canal in San Juan county.
The new and handsome public
school building being erected by Sill
yer City is nearing completion.
The proposition for special levy
of Is mills for school purposes at Ar
tesla carried at recent election.
The territorial convention of the
Modern Woodmen recently held d
three days session in Santa Fe.
The Odd Fellows of the lower Pecos
valley have organized with Jesse
Smith Lea of Roswell as president.
F. G. Tracy, expects to ship 10000
boxes of select peaches from his orch
ard at La Huerta, a suburb of Carls-
bad
Walter Clayton, Silver City boy,
was recently killed in Mexico, where
he was serving with the revolution
lists.
represented New Mexico at the recent
National Peace Conference at Balti-
more.
Juan Builron, aged forty-seven, a
wealthy citizen of Juarez, Mexico,
dropped dead in Roswell with heart
failure.
The Wayside Oil & Gas Company
was recently organized to drill in the
Rad Lands, sixteen miles east of Tu-
cumcari.
Suit has been brought in the Dis.
trict Court at Alamogordo to adjudi-
cate the water rights to La Luz and
Fresnal caf1ons.
Las Cruces will on May 9th vote on
bond issue of $4,000 for sewer
system, and $4,000 for municipal
water system.
1t is planned to pipe the water from
the Milk Ranch spring on the Fore
Wingato military reservation twelve
miles to Gallup.
The Plainview country has another
great well, the latest one being five
miles south of town. The flow is 800
gallons per minute.
The campaign started by the Albu-
querque Society for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis, perma-
nently organized recently
The list of special prizes for the
poultry show at the New Mexico ter
ritorial fair this year is greater than
for. any previous year.
The shortage of County Treasurer
c. B. Chenault of Quay county was
found to beS $15,900 and is said to
have been due to loose bookkeeping.
With an alleged shortage in his ac-
counts, variously estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000, G. H. Chenault, coun.