Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-05-28

ment Of the State College will be held
Thursday, May 9th.
Farmers in the Roy district have
purchased nine gas tractors for local
farm use this season.
There has been talk Of 3O-cent wool
and 81 wheat, and nov copper is ex-
pected to reach 25 cents.
Elephant Butte dam, including all
its related features, was so per cent
complete at the end Of April.
j. e. Minner and sons of the Farm
lngton section this season sold $4,000
worth of wool and sheep.
Broom corn raisers in the Portales
section have realized $50, 600 from the
product of last seasons yield.
The latest thing in the way of rec
reation for the business men Of Ros-
well is in the nature of a golf club.
Rodeo, Grant county, has an inn
ems deposit of sodium nitrate of
commercial value, discovered in 1913.
Land Commissioner Ervien turned
in to the state treasurer over $4,000
of income from state lands during
April.
The National Editorial Association
will be entertained at Albuquerque
July "a on its way to the California
Expositions.
Mrs. T. H. Felis, wife of Tom, the
section foreman, arrived in Rock ISL
and from Greece. She was twenty
two days en- route.
Arizona's population as indicated by
the 1914 school census, is 275,OO0. That
of New Mexico, as indicated by the
same census, is S55,000.
The local option election in several
precincts of Rio Arriba county indi-
cate that Monero, Lumberton, Las
Truchas and Valarie voted dry.
Alamogordo valley has come for
ward with a most encouraging report
OF the fruit possibilities this season in
that part of the state.
State Engineer James A. French is
advertising for bids for, the sinking
VI AhlkG MGlAD III LEAGuNld valley dL1
sections in Torrance county.
c. C.. Davidson of Tucumcari has
been chosen to make selection of
range riders in Quay, Guadalupe, Cur
ry, Otero and Lincoln counties.
As a plea for state control of gov
eminent land, Commissioner Ervien
claims there is application for 4,OG0,-
600 acres, were the land available.
The Grant county road board has au.
thorized the construction of a new
county highway from Central to Santa
Rita and Hurley. Work is under way.
Cowpunchers from Quay, San Mi.
guel, Mora and Colfax counties, have
accepted invitation to be present at
the cowboy celebration to be held at
Las Vegas July l, 2 and 3.
Fine fruit prospects are reported
from the Espanola valley.
Two railroads are appealing to
State Land Commissioner Ervien for
right of way to construct four miles
of track to the IS Copper Mine in the
Lordsburg district, Grant county.
Milton Dow, pioneer merchant OF
Bernalillo county, and widely known
throughout central New Mexico, died
at the Presbyterian Sanitarium in Al
buquerque, where he was taken sew,
eral days ago for an operation in the
hope of prolonging his life. Mr.. Dow
was SO years Of age.
A telegram received by the State
Corporation commission from w. j
Black, general passenger traffic man
ager Of the Santa Fe railway, an.
LOUNGES that radical reductions" in
summer tourist rates from Missouri
river points to Las Vegas and Santa
Fe are to be made.
With the dry forces led by Cosme
Martinez and Sixto Chavez and the sa.
looms joining in the campaign against
themselves, the town Of Vallecitos
Rio Arriba county, went dry by unani
o consent at the election, sixty,
two votes being cast against the ga.
looms and none in their favor.
Thomas o. Miller, who was sen
fenced to serve from five to siS
months in the county jail Of Mora
county at the recent term of the dis
trict Court at Mora, has been granted
a pardon by Governor Mcdonald.
That Mrs. Kate Bell, the ashes Of
whose body were found among the
ruins of her home at Mineral Hill, came
to her death accidentally, through fire
origin unknown, was the verdict
reached by a %coroner's jury. The rem
nants of the body were taken to La,
Vegas.
If Holm o. Bursum, the soccrrC
county Republican leader, to whom {
place on the state tax commission wal
recently offered by Governor MELON
aid. can name two other members o.
the commission, thereby establishin,
a majority Of his selection. he viii un
dertake to make the so-called Bursun
tax law work out successfully.
Acting Governor de Baca appointed
Robert e. Putney Of Albuquerque f,
member Of the State Fair commission
to succeed Simon STERN OF Albu