Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-02-26

President Wilson nominated Arthur
J. Evans of Elida, register of the land
office at Fort Sumner.
A shipment of fifty elk--ten bulls
and forty cows-was made from Gard
ner, Mont, to Decatur. n. NJ.
Mayor Lea. Of Roswell, designated
Feb. 1920. as cleanup week, and Ros-
well now presents an improved APP
pearance.
The governor has signed the meas
ure extending the term of schools
from five to seven months and 1t is
now a law.
Quay farmers delivered fourteen
wagon loads of broom corn in Tucum-
carl, for which they received from $50
to $40 per Ton.
Quay county has an area of 2,S06
square miles. containing n school dis
tricts, 1O4 school rooms, 1O4 teachers
and 1851 scholars.
Governor Mcdonald announced to
both Houses of the Legislature that he
had signed House Bill 1853, the Blood
investigation measure.
T. L. Stephenson, superintendent of
the Empire Zinc Co., at Kelly, was
seriously, and maybe fatally injured
by a fall in the mine.
The farmers in the n~eighborhood of
Hcndale will plant sixty acres in
tomatoes the coming season. A can
ming factory is assured.
official returns show that Tularosa
lost the high school bond proposition
by 10 votes, 957 votes being cast for
and 976 against the proposition.
The new American-La France triple
combination fire pump, chemical and
hose truck of 100 horsepower, cost
ing $4,000, has been delivered to Dem
ing.
The Rev. Frederick T. Bennett, in
charge of the Church of the Holy
Faith, in Santa F6, from 1894 to 1895,
died at st. Luke's Home in Phoenix,
Ariz.
A dispatch from Washington states
that New Mexico's Military Institute
retains its lead for first place in Glass
A of the national shooting competition
for military schools.
The Hondale members of the Min
bres Valley Farmers Association have
won their contention for a substation
at Hondale for the supply Of fuel oil
for their pumping plants.
An additional appropriation to de-
fray expenses in connection with the
New Mexico Texas boundary dispute
is urged in a special message sent to
both houses of the Legislature.
James T. Fay was fined 500 for
unlawfully selling liquor, after a trial
in Pennington. 1t was claimed Fay,
in dry San Juan county, had been
shipping in five gallons Of liquor
weekly.
Hagerman sustained the greatest
fire loss, measured in value Of prop
erty destroyed, in her history when
the Hagerman hotel building was
burned, the total loss being nearly
$4,000.
Dictator Mason j. Kelly of Silver
City Lodge No. 903, Loyal Order of
Moose, has appointed a committee to
conduct the campaign for securing the
location there of the Moose National
S|anatorium.
During the year, January 1, 1914 to
December 1, 1914, the people of Ros-
well used 26O. 7S4.133 gallons of water,
as shown by the annual report Of the
superintendent Of the water and sewer
department. j. ID. Hudgens.
Governor Mcdonald has named the
following notaries public: Albert S.
Daumer and John f. Simms. Albu-
querque; David c. Johnson, Johnson;
Dudley p. Garrett. Las Cruces, and
Charles L. Kennedy, White Oaks.
I Juan Lucero wal arrested and held
to the grand jury for stealing SO cash
and six bottles OF red-eye from the
saloon of Juan Sanchez in East
Vaughn. The safe IN the store Of Luis
Stern was also robbed OF come $40
and valuable papers.
Articles OF incorporation were filed
J In the state corporation commission
! er's office by the La Luz Copper Com
: pany, with office at La Luz. J. G.
Barrett, statutory agent. The com.
pany is capitalized at s250,OOO, Of
which $4,000 is paid in.
. A farmer Of Curry county paid $500
! for his quarter section. Last year he
= raised 1000 bushels Of kaffir corn
; and milo maize on 1850 acres, realizinp
80 bushels per acre. At the market
price OF $1.06 per bushel he should
q have cleared something like $4,000 fol
the season.
According to the monthly Climati,
4 summary for New Mexico, issued b,
' the section director Of the weather
bureau and assistants here. the montl
. OF January. 1915. averaged far below
the normal In temperature and mucl
above in precipitation. Only onc'
before during the last 25 years (Janu
airy, 1913, with 29.1 degrees) has tn
state experienced a lower average
temperature in January, and only fou.
times during a like period has it re
d ceived higher average precipitation.
Silver City has decided to pave tn
two principal business streets.