The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-23

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strator.
Albuquerque has S75 auto cars aud
90 motorcycles.
Several grading outfits ire at work
near Santa Rosa.
There were 1903 land entries during
March az Santa F6.
The Clovis school bond issue wal
carried by 221 majority.
Quay oounty's proposed 100000 road
bond issue was defeated.
The new fibre factory at Tucumcarl
has begun running night and day.
W. II. Curtis Of Murdoch, recently
received $40 per ton for broom corn.
The grand jury In session at Tucum.
carl returned twenty-three true bills.
Commissioners OF Luna county have
determined TO build a new county jail.
Rabbits in the Tularosa section are
reported dying by hundreds from
fever.
The plaster mill near Lakewood
made a shipment OF thirty cars during
March.
Ration oun the completion OF
q bridge over the Vermejo river In
Colfax county.
A new baseball league is organizing
which viii include New Mexico, Ari.
zona and Texas.
The three-year-old son OF John
Thomas, Of Lincoln, was drowned in
the Bonito river.
J. Minner, a San Juan county sheep
owner, has contracted his 1915 wool
clip for 20 cents.
The p%ostoffice at Cooney has been
discontinued. Mail for that place
now goes to Mogollon.
Charles NJ. Boren, a contractor OF
Albuquerque, filed a voluntary petit
ton In bankruptcy.
Once again the government is ad.
vertising to let the Silver City.MoE-
dillon mail contract.
Neal Fitzpatrick, Of Magdalena, ac-
cidentally shot himself. He was taken
70 the Sooorro hospital.
The State Retail Merchants Asso.
citation will hold its annual conven-
ton in Santa Fe July 3 to s.
The opening date OF Raton's new
auditorium, municipality constructed,
has been advanced to April "a.
Pennington postoffice receipts the
past year were more than double the
previous year, totaling SS,205.19.
An encampment OF all the com.
panies OF the national guard In the
Pecos valley will be held at Roswell
in July.
George Edmunds has I'm appoint
ed United States commissioner at
Hatchlta, Grant county, vice 7. ].
Brown.
The body Of Clyde Wolf. pump man
at the Hurley pumping station, was
found in the small reservoir near the
station.
The demand for dairy products in
the big coal camps of Colfax county
is encouraging the dairy industry in
that county.
In anticipation of the spring meet
scheduled, the track team OF the New
Mexico Military Institute at Roswell,
is now practicing regularly.
Rafael Romero, assistant secretary
Of state since August 1913, resigned
TO devote himself TO livestock and
land interests in Mora county.
Adjutant General Harry T. Herring
has announced re-appointments on
the armory board of control, promo
lions and various details for officers
Charles II. Wohrer. manager OF the
Gate City Lumber Company at Dee
Moines, has been held on $4,000 bond
as the alleged result OF attacking J
P. Reichel.
In the past three years COUNTY
Clerk NJ. A. Ortiz. and his assistant
IN "Cupid's Office ia Santa re
Vicente Alarid, have issued 520 mar
riage licenses.
As a result OF an unusual amour.
Of moisture during the winter, loci
weed promises TO be abundant on thu
ranges in the eastern counties of thu
state, and stockmen are preparing 4
fight the growth.
Il Is estimated by some owners tina
. 1.-THE sheep losses in the territory be
/, tween the San Juan river and tn
Rio Grande win reach so per cent
The unusually severe winter ha
played havoc with the herds,
, The formal taking over Of the 81
Louis. Rocky Mountain and Pacifi
! railroad by the Atchison, Topeka an
! Santa F6 Is held by well informe
( Ration business men 10 mean tho b
/ ginning Of a great period OF deyaloI
: ment for the Pass City and the grea
territory lying vest Of 1t.
Walter ". Covington, a brother {
Mrs. A. W. Hardin, OF cuervo, wa
! one OF the victims OF the ill-fate
d Unitod States submarine IA, whio
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