The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-05-07

bank,
An A. +. q A. NJ. lodge has been
Instituted at Tularosa.
A local option election win be held
in Santa Fe. June 9TH.
Deming merchants are planning for
a Fourth OF July celebration.
The compulsory school attendance
law is to be rigidly enforced.
About 1900 cattle were shipFsS
from Rock Island the past few days.
The OF twenty cholera
hogs were cremated at the jail at
Roy.
Much interest centers in the corn
dance, to be held at santo Domingo,
Aug. 4,
improvements to cost $4,000 are be-
ing made IN the Silver City telephone
exchange.
The woman's Club Of Santa F6
recommends a more careful inspection
Of Gairies.
l.. l.. Klinefelter. editor OF the Obar
Progress, died of heart disease In a
Tucumcari hospital.
Attorney General Clancy recon-
mends that S per tent OF taxes be put
aside to pay salaries.
Governor Mcdonald has p~ardoned
Jose p. Lucero, the legislator con-
victed of soliciting a bribe.
san Jon farmers recently shipped
seven cars OF milo maize and kaffir
corn, which returned them SASH.
The intake esa.s. into the Hondo
reservoir has been repaired and wa
ter is again going into the reservoir.
The county commissioners Of San
Juan county have awarded the CON
tract for a new jail at Aztec to cost
S2,SsO.
II is expected that a proposition
will be submitted to the people Of
Deming to vote $4,000 bonds Of good
roads.
May 3 was dedication day at the
San Diego exposition, Governor Nc
Donald leading In the elaborate cere-
monies.
Il. c. Wade, Jr., resigned as assist
ant U. S. district attorney to accept
the position OF legal adviser to the
governor.
1t is stated at Socorro that range
ments have been completed to start
work on a new $4,000 highway to the
Mogollon district.
Roland Harwell, assistant to Prof.
nnu,har4 % tha Gf.f, Ha1IaVa Nau
been appointed agricultural demon
strator for Torrance county.
Deputy Sheriff MELTON Torres of
Socorro county took Jack Morgan to
the pen at Santa F6 to serve nine to
twelve months for assault with a
deadly weapon.
State Engineer French reports five
big construction camps now on
Canine Real north and south highway.
that bridges are being built, and that
the first test Of oil will oon occur
Judge Cornelius McCarty, seventy
five years old, for forty years a resi-
dent OF Grant county, living at Han
over for the past thirty years, died
there and was buried at Georgetown.
G. p. Wilburn and other sheep men
Of the Tinnie district report practical
ly a total loss of lambs dropped before
or during the recent heavy rains. The
loss in yearling goats also was heavy.
The railroads have signified their
willingness to accept. without contest,
the SiO,O00,00O increase In valuation
for assessment purposes, II other prop
erty Is raised In the same proportion.
Luciano Gonzales, twentythree years
Of age, Is In the county jail at Las
Vegas charged with the murder OF
Justo Martinez, the native whose
body was found In the Pecos river at
Pecos.
Manuel Duran, aged seventeen, a
native of Old Mexico. filed suit at
Santa F6 in the U. S. district clerks
office. through his father, Gregorio
Duran. against the st. Louis, Rocky
Mountain and Pacific railway for 500.
600 damages.
George Gonzales Of Roy suffered a
serious loss when a prairie fire,
thouBhtlebsly started by some one, sur
rounded his flock Of sheep and about
eighty Of his breeding ewes we're
burned and seriously injured. Their
wool was badly scorched n their
feet and eyes injured.
William T. Chenault, who was sen.
fenced In Roosevelt county to serve
eight TO ten months IN the Santa F6
pen for seduction and who lost IN his
fight for a now trial, walked into the
state penitsntiary. carrying with him
his own commitment papers which he
turned Owe TO the warden.
A sudden attack OF Illness while
working at his ranch at Tres Piedras.
e a Taos, resulted In Harry Martin,
a pumper employed by the Denver a