Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-06-18

The Chaves county dairymen have
organized an association.
The Logan-Porter Mutual telephone
proposition is wen under way.
A fund of $4,000 has been raised
to assure a fair at Albuquerque.
The McKenzies of Fort Sumner
have finished shearing 1000 sheep.
W. II. Hitson Of Guadalupe county
reports 100 per cent Of lambs in his
flock.
The Santa F6 Blue lodge is re-
modelling it's building at a cost of
81, 900.
A conference of cattle growers has
been called to meet at Magdalena.
June %.
Artesia cattlemen recently made
sales Of 10000 worth; one party Civ
ing his check for 100000.
Governor Mcdonald has issued a
proclamation further modifying the
recent quarantine regulations.
Or. F. /. Given, county health off.
Ger OF Sierra county. has reported two
cases of pellagra in his district.
A. G. Wright of Talentino has set
out $4,000 sweet potato plants and
has five acres in cantaloupes.
Further damage to road signs along
the Ocean to Ocean highway is re-
ported from western Socorro county.
A number of Indians from the neigh
borhood of Gallup will work all sum
mer in the beet fields of Colorado.
1t is stated hat millions of cut.
worms have appeared in the Estancia
Valley and are destroying the young
corn.
The Roswell section anticipates
shipping fifty cars of peaches this
season, barring adverse weather con-
ditions.
Tony Kowacich, a rancher at Page,
was burned to death in his ranch
house. He vas a widower living
alone in his log shack.
County Surveyor William /. Traylor
was killed by his seventeen-year-old
brother-in-law, Arthur Carver, near
Jordan, as the result of a family quar-
rel.
The county commissioners OF Tor.
rance county has issued proclamations
calling for local prohibition elections
to be held on June 1G in Pinos Wells
and in Punta.
Practical talks on the construction
of silos viii be given by County Agent
NJ. r. Gonzales of San Miguel county,
during the cowboys reunion in Las
Vegas, July /, 2 and 3,
A terrific windstorm that swept
over a portion OF Colfax county blew
in one Of the walls of the power house
at the Yankee coal mining camp, and
twisted the smokestacks.
Development Of the power posi-
bilities of the Elephant Butte dam has
been entrusted to a joint committee
of the water users association Of Las
Cruces and of Ell Paso.
President Fayette A. Jones. Of the
School of Mines, reports that he has
inquiries from every state in the
Union. and a greatly increased attend
anoe at the school during the next
term is expected.
j.. NJ. Archuleta, Jr., OF Cabezon,
who poked Harry Yanow in the RIBS
with an automatic pistol, was fined
$50 for carrying concealed weapons.
Plans for the cowboys reunion to be
held at Las Vegas July 1, ? and 3 are
progressing rapidly and il begins 10
look as If the event would be one of
the big gatherings in the history of
that part Of the state.
Attendance at the opening Of the
Silver City summer school, which
opened at the state normal, breaks all
records. More than $50 students and
teachers already have enrolled. The
school continues to July 23d.
Senator Z. c. Champion Of Ration
is confident that the recent $4,000,
600 incrase in the capital of the
Rocky Mountain & Santa F6 Rail.
way Company means that the line is
to be extended into Taos county.
John S. Williamson, who owns $40
acres of land southwest Of Roswell,
believes the government owes hixl
about s1s3,OOO damages because wa
ter was diverted into the Hondo reser-
voir. The claim he filed for that
amount was considered in a hearing,
and testimony taken to be sent to
Washington.
W. D. Lowell, a contractor Of Mime
apolis, Mimi, who win build a sanl
tarium for ~tubercular Indians at the
Mescalero Indian agency I'm OterC
county, is preparing to begin work
The building win be 40 to lGO feet
and Will have accommodations FOL
twenty patients. Il will be completed
by October.
Juan Gomez, an employee OF the beal
grass fiber factory at Tueumoari, hat
his lower limbs scalded when he acct
dentally slipped into a vat Of boiling
water at tho plant.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
as delegates TO the National Tax AS
ISOLATION convention at San Francisco
August 1914. John w. Poe, chairman
Of the State Tax Commission; W. c
Reid Of Roswell, general attorney o
the Santa Fe railroad in New Mexico
Howell Ernest, secretary Of the tai
commission; Ralph c. Ely of tn
New Mexico Central, and J. L. Perez
Of socorro.
Junius W. Johnson, assistant stat
engineer. is preparing plans for fiv
bridges that win be built with count,
monev fn Ounv counfv