Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-09-17

SEPT. 1s-pct- Ana Cyuhty hah
Oct s-7.ERooseveit County Fair at
P%0rtaies.
Oct. i~f-i6.-state Fair at Albuquerque.
Springer now has electric lights.
A rifle club has been formed at
Deming.
A campaign Of weed cutting is on
at Albuquerque.
Dairy cattle are being shipped into
the Deming section.
New wheat and maize are being
shipped from Tucumcari.
Taos is fast becoming a mecca for
clergymen and church workers.
New Mexico has 27,7ss,357 acres of
government land available for settle
ment.
The attendance at the State Normal
School at Silver City Is larger this
year than ever before.
The State College at Las Cruces
opened the fall term with eight new
members Of the faculty.
A movement has beer started to es-
tablish a national park in the Jemez
mountains in New Mexico.
Thieves visited the ranch Of J. s.
Corl at Ranches de Albuquerque and
got away with twenty sacks of wheat.
Cattle stealing has been going on in
the neighborhood of Rama until the
stock owners are ready to take drastic
measures.
Lewis Bounds. a 14-year-old boy.
was fatally burned on the Bounds
ranch rear Deming, when a can of dis
tillate exploded.
Santa Fe has been placed on the
tourist map of the Bureau of Univers-
ity Travel, the largest and oldest OF
the great tourist agencies.
The extension press service Of the
New Mexico College of Agriculture
has issued a bulletin on the best
means of selecting seed corn.
The mining camps of San Pedro,
Golden, Madrid and Cerrillos are ar
ranging for a mining exhibit at the
state fair at Albuquerque, Oct. 11-16.
Mrs. H. T. Herring, wife of the ad-
iutant general of New Mexico, died at
q result Of taking a quantity of
strychnine which she thought was
headache medicine. The tragedy was
n of the saddest in Santa Fe in re-
cent years.
Following a preliminary examina-
ton held in Silver City before Justice
of the Peace Frank J. Wright, Deputy
Sheriff A. G. Ash was held to await
the action of the grand jury on a
charge of assault, growing out of the
shooting Of Luciano Monies.
A total Of AIS rooms excavated is
the record of the tireless and method
ical Prof. Nels c. Nelson, who has
been delving into the ruins of the
mysterious Tanos villages in the San
ia Fe district during the past sum
mer.
Bert Phillips, the Taos artist, has
suggested an exhibit of Navajo blank
cts at the Museum. He offers to
place his own collection, valued at
10000, on exhibit, and also the finest
specimens from other Navajo blanket
collections at Taos.
Since 1905 more than 100000 home
steaders and practical farmers have
come to New Mexico to file claims
for government lands, according to the
best statistics obtainable at the gem
eral land offices of the six districts of
the state. Many of those who dur
ing this period filed their claims are
men with families.
Amado Chaves, appointed a member
of the State Tax Commission by Gov
rno Mcdonald, has accepted and be-
gan his services on the commission.
Twenty-Five men are at work on the
fair grounds at Albuquerque making it
ready for the biggest event eve held
in New Mexico. the thirty-fifth state
fair. The fences are being moved to
include four city blocks of grounds to
make room for the sixteen big *
hibit halls that will be necessary to
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The Santa Fe monthly weather re-
port says that August sunshine show
ed a slight deficiency. The normal
for the past twenty-five years is II
per cent and the total for August,
1915, was GA per cent or Z per cent
below the average. The highest
monthly percentage Of the possible
amount of sunshine for August was
SO per cent in 1900, and the lowest
monthly percentage was Sc per cent
in 1894. During the month just
closed there were two days with 100
per cent, the LIST and S1st, and none
without sunshine, the least having
been / per cent On the 18th.
Demingites will have an opportunity
to see the Liberty Bell as II passes
through that city in November on its
way from San Francisco to Philadel
phia.
A highway to the Mogollon district
from Duncan, ATiz., via Steeplerock, is
now being talked of. The road would
connect with the Silver City-Mogollor
road at a point near Jackson.
The secretary of state is sending
out copies of the New Mexico Blue
Book to heads of state institutions, TO
members of the Legislature and to Of
ficials in various parts of the state.
Six Pullman cars loaded with Pecos
valley boosters and empire builders
two from Roswell and one each from
Carlsbad, Artesia, Portales and Clovis.
with maybe an extra carload from the
latter city-will 80 20 the state fair
in Albuquerque in October.
Three thousand tourists poured
through the New Mexico building a
San Diego in one day, and William E
Gortner of Las Vegas declared that
despite all he had heard and rea,
about the building he had not reall,
realized how complete and attractivl
It Is until he visited 1t.
When Raleigh Edwards, a grocer,
clerk of Fort Sumner, called for al
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