Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-09-10
STATE NEWS
IoF TO ALL
NEW MENlCO


49,
Sept as-pumpkir Pie Day at Max
sept ae-so-oot. L-Noi thefn New Mex
ico Fair at RATION.
sept l.ZAiisata FestiVal
Sept. 2e-Oct i-Dona Ana County Fair
Oct. b-7.SRoosevelt County Fair At
Oct. ii-is.-state Fair ut Albuquerque.
Clovis bank deposits have increased
500, 1000.
Ration win have a %ctnautauqua next
summer.
It is proposed TO erect a $4,000 ho-
tel in Las Cruces.
The State Taxpayers Association
held a meeting in Santa ne.
w. II. MCDOWELL has resigned as a
county commissioner for Eddy county.
The date set for the DOna Ana Coun-
ty Fair is Sept. 20 and 80 and Oct. 1.
The Citizens Trust Company has
been consolidated with the Bank Of
Pemihg.
Petitions have been completed for
calling a prohibition election in Tu-
cumcari.
Terezo Acosta has filed suit at SAN
Ia re for $4,000 for the loss Of his
little finger.
The value Of the school property in
Roosevelt county is placed at more
than $4,000.
The Four Lakes ranch near Roswell
and about 1000 head of cattle sold for
about $5OO,O0O.
Roosevelt county farms are fast be-
ing stocked with high grade and thor
Oughbred cattle.
Joe Pavolich has filed suit in the
u. s. court at Santa Fe for $4,000 for
the loss of an eye.
Wheat on irrigated land near
Cimarron is reported averaging 40 to
SO bushels per acre.
Carpenters at. Albuquerque began
making the fair grounds in Old Town
ready for the State Fair.
The onion harvest is well under
way at Carlsbad, and the Denias are
of good size and fine quality.
Magdalena, realizing the need Of
better fire protection, is now serious
ly considering incorporation.
Major ]. M. Pence exhibited sam
pies Of Sudan grass at Silver City that
measured eight feet in height.
A Cloudcroft woman lost about $400
worth Of diamonds, according to in.
formation furnished the sheriff.
The half million road bond fund
has been apportioned for deposit in
several banks throughout the state. o
A fifteen-pound boy was born to
Juan e. Moya and wife. Mr. Moya is
the janitor at the federal building at
Santa Fe.
Nineteen of the twenty-six counties
in New Mexico have made appropria.
tions to exhibit at the New Mexico
State Fair.
Silver City's new telephone system
which has been under way for two
months has been completed and put
into service.
The Rio Grande Livestock Com
pany, which has a ranch at Bonanza,
has changed its office from Santa F@
to Albuquerque.
Fifteen modern bungalows are to be
erected at once by a $4,000 Silver
City stock company, to be rented to
health-seekers.
There is a gratifying interest in
dairying in the state, according to R.
w. Latta, who is the dairy field man
for the state college.
Willard Carrouth Of McAlester,
Okla, was arrested by Sheriff Frank
Ward near Montoya on a charge Of
violating the white slave act.
Doha Maria de Jesus s. de Baca,
mother of Don Adelaide C. de Baca,
Jr., of Albuquerque, died at Albuquer-
u at the az of So years.
Messrs. Jooste and Lindsey, promi-
nent Beers of South Africa, were at
Tucumcari investigating. possibilities
there for placing a Boer colony.
Governor Mcdonald named the fam
GUS Boer general, B. j. Viljoen, of
La Mesa, delegate to the Internation-
al Irrigation Congress which meets at
Stockton, Calf, Sept. 18th.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad officials at Santa Fe received
word that washouts in the vicinity
OF Gallup had delayed overland trains
twelve hours. One washout DESTROYED
tracks for a distance Of 300 feet.
T. C. Hallowell has been appointed
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lector at Hatch, Dona Ana county;
Remingio Lopez, license collector at
Roy, Mora county, and E. B. Seward,
license collector, at Tres Piedras.
]. G. RichardS was caught in the
act of robbing the post office at
Mountain Park, put under arrest and
taken to Alamorgodo. The arrest was
made by G. O. Sommerville, assistant
postmaster, in whose store the post
office is located.
Motor cars are popular in Grant
county, both for pleasure and com
mercial purposes. OF 1880 autos IL
censed in the state, 1928 are owned in
that county.
After a month n a half Of delay
alnce the SUCCESSFUL DID wal made, the
deal for the sale of the 100000 state
highway bonds was completed and the
money paid.
Governor Mcdonald received a let
ter from Frank McBee Of San Mar
cos, Tex, stating that he is trying to
locate his brother, John A. McBee,
who has disappeared.
Silver City is to have a great white
way, as cluster lights have been or.
dered placed along the principal bust.
ness streets, six poles for each block.
Andreas Flores, about so years Of
age. committed suicide on Chlhau.
hua, the Mexican suburb of Alamo
gordo, by hanging himself with baling
wire.
A shooting scrape near Columbine
resulted in the death OF two Mexicans
in the employ Of the Carbon County
Sheep and Cattle Company. The
shooting was done by Joe Beldare. a