Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-01-08

creamery station at Carrizozo.
A fire at Carlsbad burned $50 tons
Of hay stored in a livery stable.
The carload Of turkeys recently
shipped out of Artesla brought the
shippers $1,000.
One hundred thousand brook trout
have been introduced into the streams
around Silver City.
Cattle shipments from Deming and
vicinity inside three days amounted
to close to $4,000.
Claude NJ. Cooley was acquitted at
Aztec Of the charge Of numbering his
cousin, Ed Gililland.
New Mexico has q%uarantined against
all cattle i%mportations from any source
outside the state.
The section around Melrose has
shipped 100 cars of produce the past
year, valued at $360,OOO.
The grand jury which convened at
the court house in Ration Jan. 4 had
seven murder cases to act upon.
Bales of soapweed %aggregating many
tons we're used to construct a tempo
rary loading pen for cattle at obar.
The destruction by fire Of DR.. ]. E..
Manney's Home SanitarTum at Tucum-
carl resulted in a loss Of approximate
ly $4,000.
There are ~thirty-nine private and
sectarian schools in New Mexico, with
ZAP teachers, $3.50 pupils enrolled, and
and a daily average attendance of A.
2O9.
The New Mexico Federation Of Wom-
ans Clubs has begun a campaign for
legislation empowering the state to
participate in work Of a charitable
nature.
For the first time in many years
stamps dropped on ore from Gold hill,
north of Lordsburg, this taking place
at the new mill erected by Frank G..
Cline on his property.
A shipment Of LII steers made by
]. w. Phillips brought the handsome
sum of $4,000, and the prices paid
were the highest that have yer been
paid in the Deming section.
County Treasurer Cox Of Las Cruces
has received the proceeds from the
sale of the recent $4,000 issue of road
bonds and the money is now available
for use on the bona Ana county roads.
The average daily population Of the
year ended Nov. 80 last was 1862, and
the actual cost Of maintenance per in
mate per day, taking into c%onsidera.
ton every item Of expense, was 5O.1
cents.
Next May the formal opening Of
the Elephant Butte dam, the biggest
irrigation project ever undertaken by
the reclamation service of the United
States, will be celebrated by New Mex
leo and Texas.
Landlord John B. McManus OF the
states Hotel de Vile in Santa E6, re.
ceived % more guests, increasing those
registered with him to SGS. Twenty
N Of the newcomers were brought
, from Phoenix, Ariz.
At the point of guns masked men
held up Mrs. John Simons, wife Of a
saloonkeeper at Pinos Altos, and COM
PEELED her to reveal to them the hid
ing-place Of $1,000 in cash that was
secreted in a trunk. The robbers, two
in number, escaped.
! After being out twenty-five hours,
the jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty in the case of the state of New
Mexico VS.. Claude NJ. Cooley, charged
; with murder, which was heard before
District Judge Abbott at Aztec, San
Juan county.
The structure erected in 1913 to
, house the exhibits of the famous Max
well Pumpkin Pie Association has
, been sold to the Maxwell Irrigated
Land Company for $212.5O. The build
ing cost a little more than $500. The
sale enables the association to pay all
Indebtedness, and it is understood that
it will go out OF existence.
State aid for the Parochial schools
of New Mexico! In a statement Sec
, rotary of State Antonio Lucero advO-
Gates II, suggesting to the coming Leg
l~slature that a law be passed authoriz-
ing boards of education in towns
where there are parochial schools to
donate at least soc per child monthly
to those in charge of the Catholic in
situations.
The recommendations OF the state
school superintendent, embodied in his
report to the governor, are those
urged at the recent d. NJ. e. A. meet
: ing, including, a minimum school term
Of seven months; raising the age lin
it under the compulsory education law
from fourteen to sixteen years; bet
ter school supervision; better training
of teachers. and the passage OF a free
textbook law.
The Clovis Chamber of Commerce
is sending out circular letters to 9th
err commercial organizations in vari-
Gus parts of the state. telling Of last
years success with Sudan grass and
offering to furnish seed for distribu-
ton by the organizations addressed.
Declaring that the State Board Of
Education has been hampered and
crippled in its work for lack of funds,
Avian n. White, secretary Of the
board, asks Governor Mcdonald to re-
/, quest the State Legislature for an aP-
, Precipitation OF not less than $4,000 a
year TO carry IN the work of the board.
A total Of 1925 acres Of land in the
northeastern part of the state recent
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