Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-05-21


a motor fire truck.
Eighty sheep were burned in a
prairie fire near Roy.
Preparations arc being made at
Roswell to properly observe Memo
rial Day.
The Morris state bank has been sold
to the First National bank Of Albu-
querque.
Magdalena was the Mecca Of Cen
trail New Mexico stockmen Thursday
and Friday.
A much larger acreage than usual
has been sown to oats in Quay county
this season.
George Roslington has been appoint.
ed receiver Of the Albuquerque Trac.
tion Company.
wanton killing of Wild game in Ute
Park during the past winter is report.
ed from Cimarron.
The El Paso District conference of
the M. e. Church, South, was held at
T%ularosa May 1916.
Clovis has issued a municipal order
against the running Of pigs at large
within the city limits.
Springer. Colfax county. shipped
during 1914, 200 head Of horses and
1886 head OF sheep.
Marshall Parker has beer missing
for several weeks from his home at
Aztec. Suicide is feared.
w. J. Wamel, a Mimbres valley
farmer, lost 400 ions of hay, valued at
$500, by fire at his ranch.
The Alamogordo town board has
inaugurated a fly-catching campaign
for boys and girls Of the town.
The next annual convocation Of the
Episcopal church for the New Mexico
district viii be held in FL Paso.
The Phelps-Dodge people expect to
be producing copper from their Burro
Mountain mines before the end of the
year.
John w. Poe of Roswell, chairman
Of the State Tax Commission, is re-
ported seriously Ill at his home in Ros
well.
Contractors are repairing the Santa
Fe railroad reservoir at Ute Park, and
will have it ready to receive water
this summer.
The Washington authorities have
authorized a new sanitary dairy at ,ne
marine hospital service s~anitarium at
Fort Stanton.
About 5000 per acre was paid by W.
c. Cox for the o. II. Scott ranch of
eighteen acres, about a mile and a half
from Alamogordo.
The movement of stock from the
southern ranges to northern New Mex
leo, Colorado and Wyoming is now
steadily increasing.
That Santa Fe offers unique climatic
advantages for a four months term OF
outdoor school for youngsters is the
statement of Mrs. w. G. Turley.
An old man known by the name Of
Jack Mason, was found dead in a de
serted stage coach at the side of the
One Man corral near Silver City.
Arrangements for the local option
election to be held in Santa F6, June
Z, were completed at the regular
monthly meeting of the City Council.
The question of securing the Hondo
reservoir as a means of protecting
Roswell against future floods, is being
agitated in the Chaves county metrop.
oils.
Magoosh, one of the few surviving
Apaches who participated in the raids
OF Geronimo, died at Elk Springs, on
the Mescalero reservation, at an ad-
vanged age.
Denver parties have leased a thous-
and acres of placer ground on the
Rio Grande in Taos and Rio Arriba
counties. The lessees will install ma
chinery and operate on an extensive
scale.
After being driven thirty miles up
the Pecos river from their temporary
pens neal Santa Fe, thirty head of
elk from Gardiner. Mont, were re
leased on Hamilton mesa in San Ma.
guel county.
Wednesday, May %, the annual
May Day Fete and Festival viii be
held by the Santa Fe public schools
under the auspices Of the National
Playground and Recreation Associa.
ton of America.
Lieut.. Governor E. c. de Baca re
turned to the governors office after
attending the meeting Of the insane
asylum board in Las Vegas, at which
contracts for supplies we're let aggre-
eating $1,000
That there arc a number of people
and firms in New Mexico and Arizona
facing penalties Of $50 to $1,000 for
failure 10 make income tax returns on
or before March /. was ascertained on
good authority at Santa Fe.
The sunnyside %sanatorium, one o.
the well-known health resorts neal
Silver City, has been acquired by the
Methodist s%anatorium. possession e
be given on June l..
w. f.. schwind Of Lincoln, Neb., hal
been appointed, temporarily, as pri
vate secretary to Secretary Bryan. II,
succeeds former Congressman Fergus
son of New Mexico.
improvements on a large scale are
being made at the l60-acre tract o.
land owned and used by the United
States government for the education
OF Indians near Santa re.
The reclamation service officers
obeying a temporary mandatory in
junction issued by Judge Medler a
Las Cruces, on petition OF the hle