The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-02-26

The Engle dam is now 50 per cent
completed.
Harriet c. Butler has been named
postmlstress at Pennington.
Francisco NJ, Bojorquez was re-
elected representative from Sierra
county.
The Commercial Club at Alamogor.
do is arranging for a county fair the
coming fall.
The House passed a %three.cent mile
passenger ate bill by an overwhelm.
ing majority.
Santos Sanchez, 1O5 years old. died
at Albuquerque. He had not been III
for a decade.
Maxwell shipped a carload OF beans
to Kansas City. The owner realized
three cents per pound.
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 ap
pearance.
The governor has signed the meas
ure extending the term of schools
from five to seven months and il is
now a law.
Quay farmers delivered fourteen
wagon loads Of broom corn In Tucum-
carl, Tor which they received from $50
to $40 per ton.
Quay county has an area OF 2,SO6
square miles. containing n school dis.
tricts, 10i school rooms, 104 teachers
and 3,57l scholars.
Governor Mcdonald announced to
both Houses OF the Legislature that he
had signed House Bill l5S, the Blood
investigation measure.
T. Il. 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
Hondale 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 Tor
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 Fe, from 1894 to 1895, |
died at ST. Luke's Home in Phoenix,
Ariz.
4 dispatch from Washington states
that New MeXico's Military Institute
retains its lead for first place in Glass
a OF the national shooting competition
Tor 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-TeXa boundary dispute
Is urged in a special message sent to
both houses Of the Legislature.
James r. Fay was fined 500 for
unlawfully selling liquor, after a trial
in Pennington, It wal 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 wal
burned, the total loss being nearly
$4,000.
Dictator Mason j. Kelly OF Silver
City Lodge No. 800, Loyal Order of
Moose, has appointed a committee to
conduct the campaign for securing the
location there OF the Moose National
Senatorium.
During the year, January /, 1914 to
December !, 1914, the people OF Ros-
well used 2G0,7S4,133 gallons of water,
as shown by the annual report Of the
superintendent Of the water and sewer
department, J. d. Hudgens.
Governor Mcdonald has named the
following notaries public: Albert s.
Daumer and John r. Simms, Albu.
querque; David c. Johnson. Johnson;
Dudley p. Garrett, Las Cruces. and
Charles l.. Kennedy. White Oaks.
Juan Lucero was arrested and held
to the grand jury for stealing 50 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 some $40
and valuable papers.
Articles of incorporation were filed
In the state corporation commission
er's office by the La Luz Copper Com.
pany, with office at La Luz. ]. G.