The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-30

at Magdalena, May 1914.
Cowboys are arranging for n re.
union at Las Vegas in July.
The contract for a new Jail at Farm.
ington has been let for S2,3sO.
Newcomers IN the Rama section have
paid as high as $500 for reiinquish.
ments.
Fred Mcfarland will soon begin
work on the road between Logan and
Nara Visa.
The big lake formed by the Elephant
Butte dam will be stocked with trout,
carp and other fish.
All business IN Albuquerque was
suspended during the funeral OF for.
mer Mayor Frank Mckee.
The United States government will
establish a laboratory OF the Bureau
OF Entomology In Maxwell.
James Barry OF Clovis purchased a
i%4,OOO-acre ranch on the Peoos river,
four miles from Santa Rosa.
At Albuquerque a $4,000 permit has
been issued for the erection OF sani.
tarium cottages It the highlands.
Ella n. Clapper, Of Red River, Taos
county, has been commissioned a no.
tary public by Governor Mcdonald.
Governor Mcdonald will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the dedication OF the
New Mexico building at San Diego on
May 8.
Half "a million ActIara a, uo,,,a IA,
bers represent the value OF cattle
shipped from Silver City during the
year 1914.
Homeseekers filed upon $4,000
acres OF public land In the state dur
ing March, as reported by the six
federal land officers.
The state land commissioner has ar
ranged for the transfer OF $4,000 acres
of land in the Pecos valley which will
bring the state $4,000.
The body of Justo Martinez, living
near Pecos, a pulled cut OF the
Pecos river at that town. The affair
bears the marks of a murder.
There are about 500 more decided
properties In Roosevelt county this
year than there we're last year, accord.
ing to County Assessor Mccall.
A remittance Of $1,000 for the Mora.
Cleveland road in Mora county has
been received by the state t%reasurer's
office from the Mora county commits.
sioners.
The first payment TO creditors of
the First State Bank OF Tucumcari,
which failed over a yerS ago, has
been made. II amounts to 10 cents on
the dollar,
Twenty.nine farmers Of the Melrose
district have bought a total OF 5,44O
acres OF farming land in the district
tributary to Melrose during the past
ninety days.
T. r. II. Smith, the Las Cruces
banker charged with Irregularities IN
connection with the First State Bank
OF Las Cruces, gets a change of venue
10 socorro county.
The month of March was the cold
est Of record for the state, averaging
5.3 degrees a day below the normal,
and a degree and a half a day below
any previous record.
The body OF a newly born boy baby
was found on the bank OF the Rio
Grande at Ranches de Atrisco, near
Albuquerque, It is supposed to have
floated down the stream.
J.. W. Hamilton. owner OF LOO An.
CORA goats, which he ranges In the
Eddy county foothills, reports In Carls.
bad the sale OF l,070 pounds Of mohair
at "a cents the pound.
Columbus is seeking a canning and
a broom factory.
Charles Hart has bought the l.. r..
Greenhouse ranch az Upton, Roosevelt
county, at a consideration understood
TO be $4,000. About $50 head of cat
tie go with the ranch.
Santiago Rivera OF Anton Chico,
James f. Mcfarland Of Logan, Il. Il.
West OF West and j. II. Hull Of Clovis
have been commissioned notaries pub.
lie by Governor Mcdonald.
With the opening OF real spring
weather, road construction and main.
tenance operations are setting In
throughout New Mexico upon a scale
never equalled at this time OF year in
Me past.
That GAS more "spanish-Ameri
cans" than "Anglo-Americans" voted
at the Lac. election in New Mexico IL
shown by statistics complied IN the
office Of the secretary OF state by
Adolph p. hin.
Luis Aguilar. secretary Of the re
Gently impaneled grand jury at Santa
Rosa. and a justice OF the peace. wal
held without bail to await action o.
the grand jury on a charge Of having
murdered John Larkin near Vaughn
last summer
James l.. Porter, indicted at Alamo
gordo by a third grand jury panel To-
/ the murder OF Ralph 8. Cornell, thu
Tularosa poultry grower. last summer