The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-03-18
NEWS OF THE STATE

Talk about your shining examples;
San Juan county has closed its distillery
shut up its saloons and burned up 1900
gallons Of perfectly good brandy; all in
30 days.
Tularosa. in Otero county, is artaug
ing to hold an election to vote on the
proposition to make n bond issue Of
$4,000 for the construction of a new
school building.
The state corporation commission has
received Geographic adviccs from Wash
ington to the effect that the New Mex
leo rate cases will be called for oral ar
gument before the whole commission in
Washington, April II.
In addition TO the half million dol.
lar bond issue by the state for good
roads, there will be available for good
roads and bridges in New Mexico dur
ing the present fiscal year the sum Of
S3s7,lgI.
margarine Candclario. who escaped
from the state penitcntiary with Ililar
ip Ruiz, ON December 10. 1913, returned
voluntarily 90 the penal institution. lie
told q weird story Of having bccu in
Denver, but the state authorities do not
Nclicvc this story.
William Schocn, police commissioner
Of Milwaukee, and j. \. Mciseron, city
engineer of the same city, while in Al.
huquerquc last week, concluded the pur.
chase Of the Lucky Bill mine in Grant
county, near Fort Bayard, paving - cash
consideration of $4,000.
The foundation for the New Mexico
building at the san Diego exposition t..
completed and not later than August
!. the entire structure will be- finished
setting nm example for speedy work
that viii dispcl the idea that New Mex
leo is the land of mnnnua.
The state board Of penitcntiary com
m%i,siOncrs, in session last week ordered
the prison superintendent 20 place 100
more convicts at the disposition of rho
state highway commission for work ON
The state roads, now under construction
~ present 90 conyicts are employed IN
road work, and today order therefore
morc than doubles the number.
The department of irrigation has ap
proved applications Of the Cimarron Val
lty Land Company Of Colfax county
The applications contemplate diversion
~ n large flow from the rimarron and
from pouil creek, 20 storage reservation
which will irrigatc approximately &c.,
600 acres Of land. The project : est.
mated cost will be 100000. Cons,ruc.
ton Of the irrigation plant is 10 begin
this spring and is to be followed 10y n
colonization of the company's lands
Cra2cd with grief because he had ac.
cidentally shot and killed his best friend
Alexandra Gallegos. during p general
'HN ll.'HAlN lhNllhNe AT lN' ''l'lIullon
~ n wedding in a native village a. the
ella, Claro Garcia shot himself in the
breast and died next day. several Of
the guests were hilariously firing of
guns when Garcia = went oT uncypcc'.
eddy, the bullet striking Gallcgos in
front Of the ear aud killing him instant.
~. Before anyone could interfere Gar
Ella iabbed the muzzle of the gun into
his breast and pulled the trigger.
New Mexico is one of the richest
states in the union in the arcn of uuap.
propriated public domain. The state
boasts Of 81 POS ,62l acres subject 10 set.
tlcment, Of which l0,370,s29 acres are
unsurveyed. The area Of unappropri.
attd land is rather remarkable when h
is known that the forest reserves cover
more than 10000 900 acres, and the
state lands 10000 900 not to mention
tho millions of acres embraced in indian
reservations, pueblo indian grants, pri.
'atc land grants and railroad grants.
Quay county has 1893 acres Of public
land, while Curry has the smallest acre.
age Of any county in the state, 2l,j0G
acrcs.
Carlos Gallegos, Of Las Vcutanas, on
being arraigned charged with choking
his wife 10 death, waived preliminary
hearing, was held to the grand jury
without bond aud committed to iai. An
uncondrmed rumor is that he has con,
fessed the crime The latter as iudi.
Gated by the condition # the body
when exhumed yesterday by orders of
District Attorney Ward was a fright.
full one. The body hastily buried with.
out "A coffin showed the neck was broken
with deep finger prints in the flesh of
the neck; there were 20 bruises on the
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