Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-02-05

and bridges.
1t is reported thirty bushels per
acre was the average for wheat in
the wheat belt Of eastern New Mex
leo the past season.
A dry-farmed hog, weighing 40
pounds, with one ham weighing so
pounds, is a product from the w. e,
Wilmeth ranch near Taft.
d. M. White, formerly territorial en-
gineer for New Mexico, has accepted
the superintendency of road construc-
ton for the county of Ell Paso, Tex.
Senate Bill No, 3, extending the
1914 valuations as fixed by the state
board of equalization to 1915 assess
ments, was passed after an amend
ment by the Senate.
The Clark Realty and Investment
Company, with office at Deming,
Theresa Clark, agent, filed iucorpora-
ton papers in the office of the state
corporation commission.
A stringent anti-nepotism law, max
ing it illegal for officials Of the state,
counties or municipalities to employ
relatives as assistants, is being drawn
for submission to the Legislature.
Ishmael Sparks, formerly proprietor
OF the Santa Fe telephone system, and
later in business in Gallup, has pur-
chased the Socorro telephone system
from Capt. T. j.. Matthews.
Fire caused the almost total de-.
struction of the planning mill owned
by Mrs. o. S. Warren in Silver City.
A fire at the Sunnyside %Sanatorium
destroyed a large barn, causing a loss
of $1,000.
Live stock in Lincoln county went
into the winter in good condition, and
the prospects now are that the stock
will come out ~splendidly, with every
promise of good spring grass and am
pie water.
At the open meeting of the House
committee, on roads and highways,
held at the De Vargas hotel in Santa
F6. there was a general expression ia
voring the adjustment of the county
road boards.
nat AAAAAobblOB nv NOhAAAg o0aN VI
Sierra county. has recovered from the
blow dealt by the cloudburst on June
10, which inflicted a $4,000 loss, was
the statement of former District AT.
torney Edward d. Tittmann.
New Mexico has one dry county,
twenty-five wet, but most of the ter
ritory is dry by precincts and dis
tricts. T%wenty-one elections were
won during 1914 by the drys, and
nine lost.
The libel law endorsed by the eXecu-
tive committee of the State Press AS
ISOLATION, and which was changed
from the original draft after sugges-
tions were made by Attorney General
Clancy and others, was introduced in
the House by Nestor Montoya.
The adjustment of the present ar
bitrary adjustment of fire losses in
New Mexico by fire insurance adjust
ers is sought by a bill introduced in
the House by Representative Skeen OF
Eddy county.
Official interpreters and translators,
able to interpret and translate Eng
lish and Spanish. will become features
of the District Courts of New Mexico
il the bill introduced in the House by
Flavio Vigil becomes a law. The bill
provides that such official interpret
ers and translators shall be paid ST.,
200 yearly in all of the judicial dis
tricts of the state except the sixth
and that in the sixth the salary shall
be $500 a year.
"If Santa Fe can raise $4,000, the
shops of the New Mexico Central rail
way will be brought there, bringing
with them $1,000 to $4,000 in annual
salaries paid the employees and over
$4,000 in salaries paid to train
crews" Such was the information
given to the members of the Santa
F6 Chamber of Commerce when the
new receiver OF the New Mexico Cen
trail, Ralph c. Ely, delivered an elo
quent address on the railways posi-
bilities.
Philip Palioutii, charged with shoot
ing and killing r. Sphenola, ar
Italian, in the Van Houten coal camp
is being sought by a posse headed bl
the sheriff of Colfax county, in the
/, heavy SHOWS Of the Taos mountains
} Sphenola arrived from Italy the day
before he was killed,
? At Carlsbad, w. b. Acrey was founC
not guilty. He was charged with tn,
killing Of Richard Murrah out in tn,
Rocky Arroyo country last March. II,
was indicted and tried last septem
: Der. The jury failed to agree on I
verdict and was discharged.
! United States civil service examl
! nations win be held at Santa F6, AL
%buquerque and Chama on Feb. 20, 70
eligibles to fill vacancies in fourth
, class postoffices where the salary Il
, $500 to 1893 per annum. Examina
, tons viii be held only in the tire,
: places named.
Harry M. Dougherty, prominen
+ lawyer, Democrat and Mason, an,
delegate from socorro county in tn
constitutional convention. died o
pneumonia at his home in socorrC
! lie was forty-seven years Of age.