Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-23

lied a trade excursion to Artesia and
other Pecos valley points.
According to reports from Moriarity
blackleg has made its appearance
among cattle in the Venus district.
c. II. McLenathan of Carlsbad says
he expects to ship forty cars Of
peaches from that section this sea-
son.
Dairymen of the Estancia district
of Torrance County are now using the
parcels post extensively in shipping
butter.
Frank La Ferr, aged 35, committed
suicide at Silver City by taking
strychnine. He leaves a wife and four
children.
The propaganda for prohibition in
New Mexico is proceeding, and a num-
Der Of local option elections T
booked for fall.
The contract for remodeling and re-
pairing the Dona Ana county court
house has been awarded to Medinger
& Son for s1,79s.
The sixth annual meeting Of the
National Highways Association of
New Mexico will be held at Albu-
querque, Aug. 2. 3 and 4.
The Alamogordo Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION has ordered 5000 labels to
be placed on all fruit packages
shipped out of Otero county.
Effective July list, employees of the
Chino Copper Company at Santa Rita
began to receive pay at IN increase of
ten per cent. all along the line.
The consolidation Of a large number
of claims in the White Oaks mining
district will enable the new syndicate
to operate on an extensive scale.
Despite the warm weather, scarlet
fever has broken out at Taos. There
are also reports Of typhoid from sew
eral mining camps of southern New
Mexico.
The state fair management is max
ing 1t worth while for county exhibits
by offering three prizes-$1,0O0 for
the best, $500 for second best and
5000 for the third best display.
H. NJ. Banner, agricultural expert
for the Santa Fe in eastern New Mex
leo and west Texas, is organizing a
New Mexico exhibit for the coming
international Dry Farm Congress at
Denver. I
State Treasurer o. N. Marion closed
a deal for the sale of the state high
way bonds to Kelly and Kelly, of Kan
sas City, and Arthur Seligman, of
Santa Fe, at the pay value, $500. 900,
and accrued interest from July 1,
1914.
Francisco Garcia, a member of a
theatrical troupe, has been held to the
grand jury for threatening Robert H..
Boulware, proprietor of the Old Man
corral, with a deadly weapon. at Sill
yer City.
The Bell ranch at Tucumcari re-
ceived a nerd of real buffalo from
the Frank Rockefeller ranch near
Pratt, Kan. The herd consists of two
cows. two calves. one yearling bull
and a yearling heifer.
A damage suit for $4,000 was filed
in the office Of the U. s. district clerk
at Santa Fe by Juan Jose Abrigo
against the A. T., e. S F. Railway
Company. The plaintiff alleges that
on Nov. 2S. 1918, he was run down
by one of the trains Of the defendant
company near San Marcial and his left
leg was cut toff.
The county commissioners at Soc
AFRO, getting on the opinion Of Attor-
ney General Clancy that the Clark
public moneys law, passed by the last
Legislature, is in effect now, have des.
ignated the San Antonio State Bank
as the official depository for county
funds; thus being the first county 70
act under the new law.
Copies of a judgment entered by
Judge Leib, of the Eighth Judicial dis.
trict, in the case of c. w. McCarty. re-
ceiver of the First State Bank of Tu-
cumeari. against Lafayette Clapp, re
ceiver of the First State Bank Of Las
Cruces. was received at Santa Fe. Il
awards McCarty s~1s.475.s2 and costs,
with interest at the rate Of 6 per cent.
The final act of the annual conven-
ton OF the New Mexico Retail Mer-
chants Association was the unanimous
selection Of Albuquerque as the place
for the 1916 convention.
An old-time mine has been rediscov-
cred in the Floridas and is being
worked. Len English came into pos
session Of a map, and with this as his
guide began searching for the prop
erty. He was rewarded by finding a
shaft sixty feet deep in which were
tools marked with the date Of 1851.
The mineral encountered in the work
ings assays gold. silver and a large
per cent Of copper. The new owner
Is working twelve men and placing
the mine in a position to make large
shipments.