Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-03-19

DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
April 2-3.-AnnuaI Meeting Southwest
ern New Mexico Cattle Growers As
ISOLATION at Silver City.
Alamogordo fruit growers are to Or
ganize an association.
The House passed the tax commits
sion bill by a vote of 80 to 10.
The finishing touches are being put
on the municipal auditorium in Ration.
A Portland, oregon, man has con
tracted with an Alamorogdo man for
$4,000 cactus thorns.
Using goats to clean up the waste
around the feed lots is a new develop
ment in the Elida section.
The Bursum tax commission bill
and the Hawkins mine tax measure
were passed by the Senate.
George Gilliland, a ranoher in the
San Andreas mountains, lost $50 head
Of goats in a ecent cold, wet spell.
The Garden City Sugar and Land
Company will contract for sugar beets
in the Maxwell district at 1914 prices.
A resolution demanding that a pro-
hibition resolution be ~resurrected
from committee was tabled 25 to II.
A committee was appointed to in
vestigate the retention Of $500 in
fees by the secretary of states office.
The total number of bills passed by
both Houses of the Legislature and
sent to the governor up to the 9th was
&c.
The Senate bill fixing the compen-
sation of official court stenographers
was passed, in its amended form, by
the Senate.
Lots have been purchased in Dem
ing, upon which the proposed new
creamery to be built in that city will
be located.
A jitney car service for Santa Fe is
the latest proposal of persons interest
ed in local transit, especially women
who go calling.
The state engineer of New Mexico
has let the contract for the building
of the Tucumcari bridge in Quay
county for 1929.
70 mark the historical landmarks
in New mexico with native boulders,
suitably inscribed, is the purpose of a
bill by Mr.. Doepp.
House Bill No. S57, which seeks to
provide Land Commissioners Ervien
with funds for publicity purposes,
was passed by the House.
T. R. II. Smith is still in Jail for
lack of bondsmen, though it is said
n has qualified for the full amount.
The authorities insist upon having
three.
The appropriation bill introduced by
the finance committees of the Senate
and House totals about $s25,OOO for
salaries of officials and maintaining
state institutions.
The House passed II. B. 1876 by Mar
tinez and Trujillo, which provides fol-
the erection at Santa Fe of the New
Mexico building at San Diego, a replica
of the mission church at Acoma.
1t is reported from Washington that
Hon, Harvey B. Ferguson, late con
gresham from New Mexico, has be
come private secretary of William
jennings Bryan, secretary of state.
The mule tramway built to handle
the zinc concentrates from the En-.
pire Zinc company's mines at Cleve
land, in the Pinos Altos district, to the
Santa F@ railway, near Silver City is
practically completed.
New Mexico Military Institute wor
the rifle shooting championship of the
military schools of the country
at Washington, having won all
of the seven matches and con
cluded the series with a percentage Of
96.7 for the grand aggregate.
In asking for an appropriation Of
100000 to continue the boundary con
tention between New Mexico ant
Texas, Mr.. ReinBurg said the land in
dispute vas worth $4,000, 600.
Governor Mcdonald has granted {
pardon to Lille G. Klasner, who wal
convicted of stealing calves in 1912
and was sentenced to serve from three
to four years in the state penitentiary
which sentence was affirmed by the
State Supreme Court in December o
last year.
The House by a vote of 35 to 7
passed the Senate substitute for H. B
II, by Mr.. Montoya of Bernalillo eoun
ty. providing for the publication of de
linquent taxes. The Senate eliminated
the description of the property from
the publication, and only the amour.
and names are to be printed.
The penitentiary committee intro
1uced House Bill No. Ala to provide
for the support and maintenance o
the child of Alma Lyons as a ward o
the state. This is the penitentiar!
baby, and the bill makes an immedi
ate appropriation of 500, and $40
month until the child is Is years o
age.
Speaker Romeros ill for the taxa
ton Of building and loan association
on the capital stock actually paid in
the surplus funds and the undlyide,
profits, which caused a racial split II
the House, was amended to exemp
all strictly mutual building and LOAF
associations. and in the amended form
was passed unanimously.
and Fish warden is inheart.
sympathy with the efforts of Deput.
Warden w. G. Hoover, of Santa F6, Il
get the migratory bird season change,