Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-01-01

and a canning factory.
The cost OF the recent election in
San Miguel county was $4,000.
NJ. C. Jones has been appointed
agent for Wells-Fargo at Rock Island.
It is stated that the laws enacted
by the last Legislature Of the state
cost $50 each.
stockmen cannot recall a winter
when the coyotes were as thick as
they r this year.
Harry Makemson Of La Lande sold
$4,000 worth of cattle to William Ell
hot, forty miles south.
Harry j.. Little of Lincoln county
shot wilde Tumwalt, claiming that he
mistook him for a deer.
At least 100 Indians from New Mex
leo and Arizona will be in attendance
at the San Diego exposition.
The first general meeting of the
Northern New Mexico Press Associa-
ton, recently organized, was held at
Ration.
This years hay crop in the territory
tributary to Obar has been heavy, and
the growers have been baling it ex-
tensively.
Nearly 400 applications for 1915
automobile licenses have been already
received at the office of Secretary Of
State Antonio Lucero.
About the first of the year the Santa
Fe railroad system will install an en-
tirely new dispatching system along
the Pecas valley lines.
Charles McEcklin, a stranger, is in
a hospital at Tyrone, suffering from
a bullet wound in the leg, groin, sus-
tanned, it is said, in a drunken saloon
brawl.
The Chino Copper Company, the
most important mining and milling
concern of New Mexico, pays nearly
one-fifth Of the total taxes Of Grant
county.
AS a result Of the recent destruction
by fire of the home of II. T~ecklenburg,
living near Page, one of Uncle Sans
postoffices now is being maintained in
a tool chest.
The travelling auditor of the state
has appointed c. w. Gerber of Las
Cruces to take charge of the First
State Bank, that closed its doors re-
Gently. He is under a $4,000 bond.
They have a hotel near Deming that
should make it's owners rich, with no
coal bills to pay. A hot spring near to
the hostelry furnishes heat and hot
water up to 1907.
1t should be a pretty good piece Of
property that it bring a price Of
$32, 500. The w. Love farm, near Port
ales, of 800 acres, was recently sold to
A. l.. Kenyon of Oklahoma at those
figures.
At a hearing before Judge Mcclure
in Roswell in the matter OF the Dex-
t~er-Greenfield drainage district, the
court set the assessment at $325,O00.
This is a reduction of $4,000 in the
amount previously set.
Intimation comes from the bondhold-
ers in Pittsburg, Pa, that another plan
is on foot, to save the New Mexico
Central railroad from closing down al
together. The plan is said to involve
a change in the ~receivership of the
road.
Judge Edward l.. Medler brought the
case of the State VS.. Samuel Fam.
brough, charged with assault with in
tent to kill. to a sensational termina'
ton at Carrizozo when he issued in.
structions for a verdict OF not guilty
and then bound over the defendant
and the prosecuting witness, Samuel
Woods, for duelling.
That the number of high schools in
New Mexico has quadrupled in six
years is one notable fact among Others
showing educational progress which
appears in the report of State Super
intendent Alvan N. White to the gov
ernor.
Assessor A. b. Baca has just com
pleted Socorro county's tax rolls fol
the ye0- 1914. According to these
rolls, the total assessed valuation o.
the county is $11, 2S6,S67, and taxes
will be paid on one-third Of this sum
or on $S,762,2s9.
State Land Commissioner r.. P
Ervien has turned in his report t
Governor Mcdonald showing his de
partment has since 1900 taken in the
sum of $1.S7I,457.92, one-half Of which
approximately, collected since New
Mexico became a state.
James A. French, New Mexico stat'
engineer, has notified Robert J.. Tau
pert of the San Miguel cOunty roaC
commission that the state has ex
pended the sum of $6,76.19 in tina
county from Dec. /, 1918, to Dec. 1
1914. This sum has been spent oil
fixing the road between ROmerovill,
and the county line.
A committee consisting of Fred Mil
Ter. Clark Dilley and W. c. Reid hal
been named by President T. A.. Rolf o
the Roswell Retailers and Business
Mems Association to work with Secre
tary Sam Toms of the Commercial
Club in an effort to secure Legislation
at the coming session of the State Leg
islature.
According to figures believed to b
authentic. the agricultural and llv
stock territory around the little tow
Of Melrose, Curry county, is shippin.
out $4,000 worth Of products a mont
or S36O,OOO worth a ear.
After being out twenty-five hours
the jury brought in a verdict of mo
guilty" in the Ease of the state Of Ne'
Mexico VS.. Claude M. Cooley. charge
with murder, which was heard befor