Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-30

ANNn
Twenty.eight cents was offered for
some exceptionally fine wool at Albu-
querque.
A big delegation of Silver City
Moose attended the annual onven
ton in San Diego.
Twenty-Five hundred 3~-year-old
steers we're loaded out of Turquoise
station last week.
State land totaling 2s,S19.91 acres,
and having a minimum value of $780,
957.95, will be sold at public auction.
New Mexico's state college re-
ceived a $1,000 check from the gov
eminent in aid of agricultural devel-
opment.
j.. w. Reed of Hope made the first
big shipment Of fruit by parcel post
this year. The shipment contained
las crates Of plums.
The body found near Riverside has
been identified as Mason Russell by
his son. A. N. Russell, an employee of
the Slaughter ranch neal Roswell.
Eugene Brewer of Hope, H. B. Nor
gan Of Artesia and L. H. Chamber
lain Of Albuquerque, have been COM
missioned %notaries public by Governor
Mcdonald.
The eighteen months old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Deadwiley of
Hagerman was injured by being run
by a horse. The child's thigh
vas broken.
c. o. Kiser Of Canon City, Tex, has
located 100 claims of a copper show
ing in Torrance county that returns
five per cent or better from the sur
face outcrop.
The deed to the lots for the armory
at the corner Of Silver avenue and
Hemlock street in Deming has been
filed, having been approved by the at
torney general.
There is talk at Santa Fe that Gov
ernor Mcdonald may call the Legisla-
ture in extra session to change the
law governing the raising of revenues
for the state.
At San Antonio, Antonino Garcia,
So years old, was instantly killed at a
crossing about a mile below the depot.
He was a brother-in-law of Elias
Baca of SOcorro.
Sheriff Mansker of Union county
has been suspended pending the ad-
j~udication in court Of charges of Of
fetal malfeasance and T. J. Crumley
has been appointed to take charge of
the office.
A man, name unknown, nationality
Mexican, was found alongside the rail
road track at mile post 161, seventeen
miles east of Carrizozo, by Conduc-
tor 1. e. Schaeffer and crew, with
head severed from body.
There are approximately 100000
head of cattle in New Mexico, accord.
ing to the report of the tax commits
sioner, for the past year.
Justices of the peace in New Mexi.
CO a perform marriage ceremonies
at any place in the county in which
they reside, according to an opinion
by Attorney General Clancy, written
for ]. B. Archuleta of La lara.
There is distress among some Of
the Columbus homesteaders, because
their lands have been covered by
mineral filings following the oil ex.
element which age undated in the
border town.
The authorities are holding as a
suspect in the case of the murder OF
Curt Cronemeyer, an Indian trader,
and c. A. Mcdonald, an employee OF
Cronemeyer, an Indian who was ar
rested at Gallup.
A. s. Combe, a Clovis blacksmith.
had one side of his head crushed
when T. M. Dickens, a helper in the
Santa F6 shops, hit him with a ham
mer during a fight, An operation was
performed on Combe, who is expected
to live.
The fiber factory recently destroyed
at Tucumcari, entailing a loss OF S25,
400, it is said, will be rebuilt Of fire.
proof material. The machinery was
insured for $4,000.
Senator b. F. Pankey, who owns the
San Cristoyal ranch near Lamy
shipped thirty carloads of fine two
year-Old steers to Wyoming, where
they win be grazed.
Within the past two weeks a dozen
forest fires have occurred on the Gila
National Forest. according to reports
made by the headquarters Of the su
pervisor at Silver City.
That his wife ran away without any
intention whatever of committing sui
eide seems to be the belief Of RoberI
Ferris, husband of the woman who
disappeared from the Mt. Alton room
ing house, leaving a suicide note
Ferris learned Of the Disappearance,
when he returned to Albuquerque
from Cuba, N. M.
Filadelfo Baca, assistant superin
tendent Of the department Of publ,
instruction, issued fifty-four teachers
certificates, twenty-five of them being
first grade. thirteen second and six
teen third grades.