, 1915-06-24

A store at Deming was robbed of
$500.
Pennington will celebrate on the
Fourth.
A sawmill near Taos was destroyed
by fire.
a site has been secured for the ST.
600 armory at Deming.
a big warehouse for broom corn is
to be built at Portales.
A Frontier Day" will be a feature
of the state fair at Albuquerque.
Senator T. J. Mahry and Miss Kath-
crime Louise Burns were married at
Clovis.
New Mexico's coal production last
year was 3,S77.GS short tons, valued
at $6,23O,s71.
The large house on the J.. F. Nc
Gully ranch near Flora Vista was de-
stroyed by fire.
Fifty years in the priesthood was
celebrated by Rev. Paschal Tomasini,
S. j., of Old Albuquerque.
The new auto line connecting Ros-
Z ~ ZhldllobOiuO ohu
ate points is making good.
The State Fair Commission has de-
cided on Oct. IL for the opening day,
two weeks later than last year.
About $50 students are enrolled at
the summer school of the New Mexico
Normal University at Las Vegas.
Roy Mcdonald of Albuquerque was
appointed receiver of the Williams
Drug Company, under bond of s12,5OO.
The state board of pen~itentiary com
missioners at their recent meeting
awarded contracts amounting to $780,
500.
Sale of New Mexico's 100000 road
bond issue was postponed by State
Treasurer o. N. Marion until June
Gath.
Springer and Vaughn both voted
against local option, the former going
wet by % majority and the latter by
5 votes.
Mountainair will vote June % on the
proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for the erection of a new high school
building.
Manuel Cazares of Deming was SEN
fenced to serve from W. to -four
years in the reform school for larceny
of a horse.
The Eagle dam is 92 per cent COM
pleted, and there is now ample water
in storage for the 10000 acres under
cultivation.
Tk- NI1,, IA.s-- uT@-l ,..ta a.
sociation will hold its annual meeting
at Albuquerque during state fair week
in October.
The $134,00 bonds of the Hager-
main drainage district have been sold.
and the contract let to construct the
drainage system.
The Bluewater Valley country pro.
duced as high as 200 pounds of beans
per acre last season. or $143 an acre,
while oats ran up to seventy-five bush
els per acre.
Governor Mcdonald issued a pardon
for William d. Denton, a young Dane
who came to Deming from Mexico and
landed in the county jail through no
fault of his own.
His left leg torn to shreds by 9
charge from a shotgun, Paufilo Ger
vantes, a Santa Fe laborer at Gallup
pita, in Albuquerque.
A matter Of half-a-million dollars
worth of wool is the result of the cliI
thus far this year from the San JuaI
section of the state, or, rather from
the Pennington and Aztec districts.
According to statistics OF the Cattle
Sanitary Board. a total of 369. 419 heaC
of cattle we're shipped out of the state
last year, which, at an average price
of $3.50 per head, realized $17,547,
1922 so to their owners.
The New Mexico Historical Societ,
has been handsomely recognized a
the San Diego exposition. The third
week in July is to be devoted to his
torical congresses and July 90 viii
be e Mexico Day.
Col. Geo. w. Prichard, who has been
L member Of the Knights of Pythias
for thirty-four years, and who was the
first of the order in New Mexico, was
Santa Fe Lodge No. 2.
Walter Center and Harry Grady. two
young men who held up and robbed
Ben White, a Roosevelt county farm
er. Ut his home near Claudell, have
been placed in the state penitentiary
by Deputy Sheriff B.. B. Clayton o.
Portales.
Deputy State Treasurer Frank Mar.
ron made the June apportionment OF
funds. totaling $119. 900, the chief
items being as follows: State pur-
poses, $3O,775.7s; road fund. $40, 259.-
80; state institutions, s~46,676.56; char.
table institutions. s~3,590.23: current
school fund. $~5,129.30; interest fund,
con Et7 20