Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-16
NEWS
or TO ALL
NEW MEXICO


Flower Show at Artesia.
Magdaiera sold wool at twenty-six
cents.
A carload Of butter was shipped to
Ell Paso from Tucumcari.
About 1000 people attended the cow
boy reunion at Las Vegas.
Roswell retail houses will close
Thursday afternoon for a half holiday
each week until Sept. l..
The Rhea White ranch sold 10000
pounds Of wool at Roswell to Boston
people, realizing 2l1s cents per pound.
F. G. Robinson lost two young
horses that were struck by lightning
in the pasture Of Mr.. Henrilze near
San Jon.
Nearly one-fourth of the total
amount of wool stored at Roswell, es-
timated at 100000 pounds, was sold
within the last few days.
Carnallite. a form Of potash, has
reen discovered in a number of Dor
ings in the Panhandle and in the Rock
Island section Of New Mexico.
E. Montoya was arrested at Tucum.
carl, charged with having murdered
his wife at Vaughn on June ~. The
woman was killed with an axe.
The Santa Re has reduced the
freight rate on Pecos valley peaches
to Denver from II to 81 cents a hun
dred.
Grasshoppers are said to have
worked considerable damage to crops
and fruit trees in the Fort Sumner
district.
The State Corporation Commission
turned into the state treasury $500 in
corporation fees and $40 in insurance
fees, the total collected in June.
A live stock show and broncho
busting contests were held during the
fourth annual convention of the Re-
tailers' Association al Santa Fe.
The first remittances from June tax
collections was received by the state
treasurer's office from San Miguel
county. 1t amounted to $7,4O475.
Land Commissioner Robert P. Err
wen turned into the state treasury ST.
S74.47, the total amount collected in
rentals from state lands during June.
The peach growers Of the Pecos val
ley have obtained a reduction in the
freight rate from Roswell to Denver
from seventy-one to sixty-two cents a
hundred.
The records of the secretary of
states office show 300 automobile
licenses issued for the first half of the
fiscal year. This is 700 more than
in all of 1914,
Governor Mcdonald appointed DR.. S.
D. Swope of Deming, a delegate to
The second national conference on
a C betterment, which meets in San
Francisco. Aug. AS.
Malcolm Cameron, postmaster at
San Marcial, disappeared June rs, &C
sording to William McHenry, district
~)ostoffice inspector. An investigation
If the affairs of the office is being
made.
Advertisements for the sale Of $780,
300 worth of armory bonds, issued for
The building of National guard armor-
les at Carlsbad and Deming, have
been ent out by the state t~reasurer's
office.
The first reported death as a re-
suit of the Fourth Of July celebration
was that of little Miss Maxine Ed
mondson of Albuquerque, 6 years old,
whose garments were set on fire by
a pin wheel.
The bear grass factory at Tueum-
carl will Don be able to output three
cars Of fiber per week.
A. S. Combe, a blacksmith in the
Clovis railroad shops, is in the hospi-
tai with a broken head as a result OF
a blow with a hammer administered
by T. M. Dickens who says Combe
used abusive language to him.
Governor Mcdonald appointed DR..
R. L. Bradley of Roswell and DR.. w.
P. Mills and DR.. H. M. Smith of Las
Vegas, delegates to the fourth annual
convention Of Alienists and Neutrolo-
gists of the United States, at Chicago.
OF Importance to thousands of
homesteaders in New Mexico, is a de-
cision just handed down by the land
office that in failing to make the
necessary proof, where the settler is
not at fault, the right to desert entry
will not be denied him.
Twenty $40 gold pieces of the date
of 1851. were found in an Indian ball
at Fort Fillmore by Donald Young
and Theodore Roualt, Jr., who were
e~xeavating around the ruins Of the
Old Fort. This is no doubt part of
the traditional treasure buried at the
Fort during the Civil war days.
That the designation by county com
~missioners of official county newspa-
pers, which has been the custom for
years, is not provided for by any law
on the statute books Of New Mexico,
is a statement made by Attorney Gen
eral Clancy in a letter sent to a pub
fishing company at Cimarron, Colfax
county.
Definite progress that is very salts
factory has been made in industrial
education in the schools of Bernalillo
Guadalupe, Lincoln and Quay eoun
ties.
The Hammond-C reamer Ditch Com.
pany, authorized capital $165.OOO. filed
articles Of incorporation with the