Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02

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be held at Albuquerque, August 2, 3
and A..
Efforts are being made to recruit a
company of the National guard at Fort
Sumner.
Efforts are being made to recruit a
company of the national guard at Fort
Sumner.
The Crescent creamery at Tucum-
carl is to be re-opened under new
ownership.
The Spanish war veterans of Ros-
well are planning the formation of a
rifle club.
The Maxwell Commercial Club has
been recognized with twenty-five
local merchants.
A store house to accommodate thir-
ty-five cars of broom corr will be
erected at Portales.
An industrial and merchants par
ade will be a feature of the cowboy
reunion at Las Vegas.
Augustin Vigil y Vigil of LedauS
has been commissioned a notary pub
lie by Governor Mcdonald.
Ration has sold the remainder of
its issue of municipal water works
bonds amounting to $4,000.
Santa Fe entertained the members
of the National Editorial Association
on the way to Los Angeles.
Col. d. X. B. Sellers has completed
a log of the road from Albuquerque
to FL Paso, via Elephant Butte.
A heavy storm wrecked the wind
mill plant which supplied Fort Sum
e with its domestic water supply.
Luna county commissioners have
decided to call a bond election to sub
NIT an issue of 100000 road bonds.
Marcos Laos shot and killed Ramon
Jiminez at Carlsbad in course of a
quarrel. Jiminez was hit five times
and died instantly.
]. A. Fairly of Portales has fifty
acres in corn this year., which it is
believed will yield seventy-five bush
els to the acre.
For the sixth time the New Mexico
Military Institute at Roswell has been
rated as "a honor school" by the
United States War Department.
F~orty-five cars of calves were pur-
chased in Arizona and shipped to East
Las Vegas stockmen to be ranged in
San Miguel county this season.
NJ. L. Davies of Carlsbad lost the
sight of his right y as the result
of a blow from a "nigger shooter" In
the hands of his Z year old son.
Citizens of Portales will vote upon
the proposition of issuing bonds in
the sum of $4,000 on July 8, for the
purpose Of building a new school
house.
For the purpose of establishing a
soap and toilet preparation factory in
Las Cruces, the Fountain Manufacture
ing Company has been organized.
At the end Of May, the close of the
second quarter OF the present fiscal
year, the state had on hand, deposited
in Y banks, a total of $SO1,O19.67.
Sheriff Abe Hixenbaugh of Colfax
county took eleven new prisoners to
the state penitentiary at Santa Fe,
bringing the total number up to 327.
Seventy-five farmers met at Roy
and organized an %anti-horse thief as
ISOLATION for protection against rust
lers in that section of Mora county.
William F. Gillian and Uncle
Joseph Howe" old time citizens of
Aztec, San Juan county, died within
a few hours of each other. Each was
80 years old.
The United States Geological Sur
vey will take up the study of the salt
bearing rocks in New Mexico this
summer, under the direction of Mr..
N. II. barton.
His left leg torn to shreds by a
charge from a shotgun, Paufilo Ger
vautes, a Santa re laborer at Gallup,
died at the Santa F6 Coast Lines hos
pital in Albuquerque.
Ration is preparing to send a dele
cation of twenty automobile loads of
business men to the state convention
OF retail merchants at Santa F6 in
July, the route to include a 400-mile
swing around the circle drive return
ing by way of Taos and Cimarron.
The officials of the department of
public instruction are much gratified
at the attendance at Institutes
throughout the state. From indica-
lions received, 1000 teachers and
others desiring to be teachers, are
either attending Institutes or are pre-
pairing to attend them.
Governor Mcdonald received a let
ter from the chief geographer of the
United States Geological Survey at
Washington, in which the official
suggests that the governor encourage
the organization Of q state geograph-
icol society, preferably through the
fundamentally of the state univer.
sity end having its central organiza-
tion and office at that institution.
Two Mexicans held up Joe Trigear,
manager OF the National mines on
the road between Stems and the Ma.
tional Gold aud Silver Company's
property and robbed him OF $500 and
his team.