The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-16
NEW MEXICO NEWS
Gathered Fsom
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept 2e-30-Oct. Northern New Mex
ico Fair at Ration.

Company ID, N. NJ. N. G.. has been
mustered out OF the service.
Sheepmen report the most success
full season on record In the state.
Silver City shipped a half million
dollars worth OF cattle during 1914.
The fishing season opens June / in
stead OF May Is, and closes Nov. 25.
The Quay county road bond PROPOSE.
tion was defeated at the recent cleo.
ton.
N~inety.five OF New Mexico's SOM
are enlisted in the United States
navy.
The volunteer fire department of
Springer has purchased a motor fire
truck.
A water, electric light and power
company is being organized at Fort
Sumner.
The new $4,000 Elks' Home at Albu.
querque is expected to be completed
by Oct. /.
Governor Mcdonald delivered an ad.
dress at the cattlemen's convention at
Silver City.
Three men are charged with ship
ping quail from Clayton in violation Of
the game law.
San Juan people were enthusiastic
over plans for growing beets at a
meeting in Aztec.
Eddy county is considering the en-
ployment Of a county agriculturalist
and farm demonstration.
A well for irrigation is now being
drilled on the high school demonstra.
ton farm neal Deming.
The machinery for the bear grass
fibre factory at Tucumcari has ar
rived and is being placed.
NJ. C. Jones has received his com.
mission as postmaster at Rock Island,
and assumed his new duties.
II is claimed there are more than
1000 new settlers scattered over the
plains Of eastern New Mexico.
The town Of Springer has granted
a twenty-five year franchise to J. s.
Bowman for electric light and power
service.
Bids have been asked for the con.
struction of an adobe building for the
proposed cooperative creamery at
Deming.
There are six patients In the insane
asylum Of New Mexico from Quay
county. The institution is caring for
a total Of 1903.
A new road from lima to Cap Rock
has shortened the state road from
Clovis to Santa Rosa and Albuquerque
by nine miles.
Secretary OF State Antonio Lucero
announced that he expects TO have the
new state blue book ready for dlstri-
button by June /.
Three thousand acres viii be plant.
ed TO cane this season in the Roswell
section and a thousand acres of corn
in the irrigable area.
Las Cruces saloons In future will
close at 6 o'clock Saturday night. The
saloons have been under a . o'clock
closing order for some time.
News has been received at Santa Fe
Of the death of Father ]. NJ. Mara,
the distinguished Jesuit, at Naples.
Italy. He was seventy-one years OF
age.
BY the will OF an uncle who recently
died In Baltimore, Frank and HANDLE.
ton Noel Of Fruitland. San Juan
county, received requests OF $4,000
and $4,000 respectively.
A rich silver and lead ore strike
has been reported by J. W. White
man in the Tres Hermanos noun
tains. The ore, II is reported, runs
$2b TO the ton, silver predominating.
For the good OF the service" a gem
eral shakeup in the force OF Lewis r.
Carpenter. collector OF Internal reve.
nue. for the district OF Arizona and
New Mexico. Is announced in a dis
patch from Phoenix.
Pete Hidalgo. Pierce Roberts aud
Joe Brown, miners employed IN the
Empire Zinc Company's mine at KEEL.
ly, we're injured by the explosion OF
a shot that had missed fire. Hldalgo's
injuries are serious.
The social features arranged IN
connection with the meeting at Silver
City OF the Southwestern New Mexico
Cattle Growers Association, consisted
OF a smoker at the Elks' Club and a
dance at the Elks' theater.
In the opinion Of Attorney General
Frank W.. Clancy. district attorneys
nave authority TO collect delinquent
taxes by personal suit. The opinion
wal expressed In a letter TO 8. u
Ferree OF Artesia.
Many thousands OF acres In New
Mexico have been recently surveyed
under orders from Surveyor Genera
Luolus Dils and are now or vii
shortly be subjected TO filing.
'rhe enactment into law Of the Sent
bill for the training OF rural teacher
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