Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-04-16

M. G. Jones has received his com
mission as postmaster at Rock Island,
and assumed his new duties.
The State Retail Merchants Asso-
citation will hold its annual conven-
tion in Santa Fe July > to 8.
1t is claimed there are more than
1000 new settlers scattered over the
plains Of eastern New Mexico.
The town of Springer has granted
a twenty-five year franchise to ]. s.
Bowman for electric light and power
service.
Bids have been asked for the con-
struction of an adobe building for the
proposed cooperative creamery at
Deming.
An encampment of all the com
panies of the national guard in the
Pecos valley will be held at Roswell
in July.
The demand for dairy products in
the big coal camps of Colfax county
is encouraging the dairy industry in
that county.
There are six patients in the insane
asylum of New Mexico from Quay
county. The institution is caring for
a total of 1OS.
A new road from Ina to Cap Rock
Clovis to Santa Rosa and Albuquerque
by nine miles.
In anticipation of the spring meet
scheduled, the track team of the New
Mexico Military Institute at Roswell,
is now practicing regularly.
Three thousand acres will be plant
ed to ane this season in the Roswell
section and a thousand acres of corn
in the irrigable area.
Las Cruces saloons in future will
close at G o'clock Saturday night. The
saloons have been under a 9 o'clock
closing order for some time.
Rafael Romero, assistant secretary
of state since August 1918, resigned
to devote himself to livestock and
land interests in Mora county.
Adjutant General Harry T. Herring
has announced re-appointments on
the armory board of control, promo
tons and various details for officers,
Charles H. Wohrer, manager of the
Gate City Lumber Company at Des
Moines, has been held on $4,000 bond
as the alleged result of attacking ].
P. Reichel.
1t has been suggested that a spe-
cial train carrying none but people
from New Mexico 1e made up to at
tend the dedication ceremonies of the
display building, May l, at San Diego.
Colorado and California parties will
lease 5000 acres in the Mimbres val
ley and plant them to beets to be
handled by a branch to be estab
lished by the sugar company of Holly,
Colorado.
Santa Fe county officers sent wore
to Chief Coles of Las Vegas to look
out for Pine Madril, who stabbed his
wife at their home in Lamy. The
woman was wounded twice, once in
the left side and once in the back.
A Deming rancher has the figures
from Washington to prove that mile
maize flour as an element for build
ing up the tissues in man or beas'
is richer than either wheat or corn
and in protein it is richer than corr
though it does not quite COME up t
wheat in this respect.
BY the will of an uncle who recently
dto1 a, na1ffnanra EfranIr and Hanah1a
ton Noel of Fruitland, San JuaI
county, received requests Of $500
and $4,000 respectively.
A rich silver and lead ore strik,
has been reported by j.. w. White
man in the Tres Hermanos noun
tains. The ore, it is reported, run
S25 to the ton, silver predominating.
Many thousands of acres in New
Mexico have been recently suryeye
under orders from Surveyor Genera
Lucius Dills and are now or vii
shortly be subjected to filing
Jacob Fleming, a restaurant keepe
of Albuquerque, has filed a petitio,
of bankruptcy in the United State
District clerks office at Santa Fe H
gives his liabilities as $S93.26, and hi
assets as $685., Of which $4,000 is 4
insurance policies and the remainde
in stock.
In the matter of providing for pull
lie education, the taxpayers of sierr
3 county are liberal. The appropril
+ ton for the schools Of the count
last year. was $29.S66.S2. There ar
twenty school districts in the countl