The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-02-05

The Roswell high school Ia to have
an agricultural course.
Broom corn buyers were In Hudson
recently. payins $50 per ton
Bank deposits agsregating 100000
is the prosperity showing made by
Clovis.
A carload OF broom corn was
shipped from Rock Island to Amaril
10. Tex.
The value OF the nine state institu.
tons in New Mexico is placed at ST..
100000.
The State bar Association held q
meeting IN Santa Re to discuss need.
ed Legislation.
An election will be held in Quay
county April /. TO vote on the propo-
sltion to issue $50, 900 bonds for roads
and bridges.
It Is reported thirty bushels por
acre vas the average for wheat In
the wheat belt of eastern New Mex.
leo the past season,
A dry.farmed hog, weighing 40
pounds, with one ham Weighing 80
pounds, is a product from the w. IL.
Wilmeth ranch near Taft.
d. NJ. white, formerly territorial en-.
gineer for New Mexico. has accepted
the superintendency Of road construc-
ton for the county OF NJ Paso, Tex.
Senate Bill No. 3, extending the
1914 valuations as fixed by the state
board OF equalization to 1915 assess
ments, was passed after an amend
ment by the Senate.
The Clark Realty aud Investment
Company. with office at Deming,
Theresa Clark, agent, filed incorpora-
ton papers in the office Of the state
corporation commission.
A stringent ~anti-nepotism law, max.
ing II Illegal for officials OF the state,
counties or municipalities to employ
relatives as assistants, IS being drawn
for submission to the Legislature.
lshmael Sparks, formerly proprietor
OF the Santa Fe telephone system, and
later in business I'm Gallup, has pur.
chased the Socorro telephone system
from Capt. T. ]. Matthews.
Fire caused the almost total de.
struction of the planning mill owned
by Mrs. o. S. Warren In Silver City.
A fire at the Sunnyside %Sanatorium
destroyed a large barn, causing a loss
Of $1,000.
Live stock in Lincoln county went
into the winter in good condition, and
the prospects TOY are that the stock
viii come out spleadidly, with every
promise Of good spring grass and am.
pie water.
At the open meeting Of the House
committee, on roads and highways,
held at the De Vargas hotel in Santa
Fe. there was a general expression IA.
voring the adjustment OF the county
road boards.
That Hillsboro, the county seat OF
Sierra county, has recovered from the
blow dealt by the %cloudburst on June
10, which inflicted a $4,000 loss, was
the statement Of former District AT.
torney Edward ID. Tittmann.
New Mexico has one dry county,
twenty-five wet. but most of ;he ter
ritory is dry by precincts and dis.
tricts. Twenty-one elections were
won during 1914 by the drys, and
nine lost.
The libel law endorsed ny the eXecu'
tive committee OF the State Press As
sociation. and which was changed
from the original draft after sugges.
lions we're made by Attorney General
Clancy and others, was introduced In
the House by Nestor Montoya.
The adjustment Of the present ar
bitrary adjustment OF fire losses In
New Mexico by fire insurance adjust
ers is sought by a bill introduced Ia
the House by Representative Skeen OF
Eddy county.
official interpreters and translatora
able 20 interpret and translate Eng
lish and Spanish, will become features
OF the District Courts OF New Mexico
/ II Tue HlAA NMAlAAuNNA III tue AANAnN W
Flavio Vigil becomes a law. The bill
provides that such official interpret
ers and translators shall be paid 81,
200 yearly In all Of the judicial dis
tricts OF the state except the sixth
and that in the sixth the salary shall
be $500 a year.
III Santa ne can raise $1,000. thu
shops OF the New Mexico Central rail
way will be brought there. bringing
with them $1,000 to $1,000 In annun
salaries paid the employees and owe
$4,000 IN salaries paid 10 trail
crews" Such was the information
given 20 the members OF the SAINT
F6 Chamber OF Commerce when thl
new receiver OF the New Mexico Cen
trail. Ralph G. ely, delivered an elo
quont address on the railways posi-
bliitios.
Philip Palioutii. charged with shoot
ing and killing II, sphenola. a
Italian, in the Van Houten coal CAM