Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-08-20

a local OpllOn eleCAlon VIII Nc htih
at Manzano Sept g..
Apple shipments have been started
from the Roswell section.
A German colony is founding the
town Of Hindcnburg in San Juan
ty.
There is a big demand at Hagerman
for alfalfa meal, and the mill there is
busy.
Lincoln county's fruit is now giving
promise of eclipsing anything in the
history Of the country.
A barbecue and sports carnival will
be features Of the Labor Day celebra'
ton at Silver City.
The new $4,000 school at La Lande
will be ready for occupancy at the be-
ginning Of the September school term.
A shipment of 400 sacks Of wool,
three carloads, was made from Ken
nedy. 1t represented the 1915 clip Of
that section.
The greatest collection of Indian ex-
hibits ever gathered will be seen at
the New Mexico State Fair in Albu.
querque in October.
The State Land Office turned into
the state treasury $14,O2S, the total Of
receipts from the rental and sale Of
state land during July.
Another important link in the sys-
tenn of the states highways will soon
be completed, when the road between
Clovis and Portales is finished.
A number of prisoners have asked
for pardons or paroles and their re-
quests will be acted upon at a meet
ing of the pardon board Aug. IS.
Socorro county has turned oyer to
State Treasurer o. N. Marion 49,
01S.7S of taxes collected in July. Mora
county paid in similarity $~1,754.5O.
Eddy county is going to the New
Mexico State Fair to be held at Albu-
querQue, October IL and following
days, with a first-class and varied ex-
hibit.
The Empire Zinc Co. Of Pinos Altos
has received delivery OF a 250-horse-
power. two-cylinder, four-cycle oil en-
CINE for use in the Cleveland mining
camp.
Charged with opening the United
States mail, Roy Houston, a soldier
stationed At Hachita, was taken to
Santa Fe and in default of bond
placed in the county iail.
Howard H. Winchell, a farmer Of
Aztec, San Juan county, filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy in Federal Court.
His liabilities were given as 33,S92.O4
and his assets as nothing.
The report of Frank H. H. Roberts
on the condition and work of the New
Mexico Normal University at Las We
gas is very interesting and gives a
number of facts not generally known,
The State Corporation Commission
RENTED ITO the state treasurer
S645.2O in incorporation fees, and
S235 in insurance fees. The amounts
we're collected during the month Of
July.
Along with the big picnic and barbe.
cue which Lovington will have begin.
ming Aug. 10, the boosters have ar
ranged for a ten-round fight between
Alfred Higgins and Bart Gordon OF
Roswell.
Santa Fe county has a total assessed
valuation of $9,947,3 1928 worth of tax.
able property, according to the general
abstract completed by Assessor Teles
foro Rivera. This is a gain over 1914
of S572,4O1.
r. C. Mcmahon, a saloonkeeper, and
]. T. Bennett, a cattleman, both of Ha,
chita, were killed by a Southern Pa,
cific freight train between Deming and
Separ while walking on the track in
a heavy rainstorm.
Work on the cooperative creamery
building near the union station on
Railroad boulevard in Deming has
been completed. The building is "a
by IS feet of adobe laid up in mortar
and plastered on the inside.
A 100000 mining deal was consum-
mated at Socorro when the Socorro
Mining & Milling Company, operating
At Mogollon, purchased at public sale
the entire holdings Of the Mogollon
Gold & Copper Company in the Mo
COLON mountains.
l. X. Busch, a farmer on the Cot
tonwood, northwest of Artesia, lost
six cows from feeding them the sec
Ond growth of feterita that contained
prussic acid.
J. M. Foster, a pioneer farmer and
cattleman of Deming, died at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. Jennie Pierce
He was SO years old and had been III
for more than a year.
The Southwestern New Mexico Min
ing Company, with principal place o
business az Hachita. was granted q
state charter. The capital stock il
S15O,0O0, fully subscribed.
N. s. Nord & Company, who recently
acquired the Abramson and Welsh
group Of mining claims in the Contra
mining district near Hanover art
planning TO widen the scope of tn,
work which has been done on tn,
property since they took 1t over.
Ben Ames is very enthusiastic ovel
a new orn which he has on his farm
on the Berrendo this year. 1t is al
Ohio corn Of the Yellow Dent variety
and II some unfavorable feature doei
not develop, he believes it win be tn,
best corn ever tried for the Roswell
country.