Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-10-15
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
October 9.-Convention OF New Mexico
state Association OF Highway Ofh-
Gals, Santa Fe.
Oct. ii-16.-state Fair at Albuquerque.
20.-Annual meeting Of the
New Mexico Educational Association
at Albuquerque.
Mrs. Jennie R. Hicks died at Ros
well at the age Of 49,.
Secretary of State Lucero has II
censed 4.7Os automobiles.
Joe and Jack Turner Of Lordsburg
shipped 1900 angora goats to Texas.
A pear Weighing TX pounds has
been on exhibition in a store at Por-
The postoffice at Tularosa and Roy
have been raised from fourth class to
third class.
Henry Pollard will ship twenty-five
carloads Of apples from two ranches
rear Espanola.
A Colorado company will SOW
wheat on seven sections Of land
north of Clovis.
Despondent because Of i'll health,
Otis Rogers of Grande committed sui
eide by shooting.
Felix Apodaca Of Escabosa was
killed by his wagon overturning in
which he was riding.
Felix Miller was acquitted Of the
charge Of murder of Acrey before the
District Court at Carlsbad.
Good progress is being made on the
construction of the state highway be
tween Portales and Clovis.
A Denver man has been awarded
the contract for erecting the new no
tel at ojo Caliente Springs.
H. A. Coomer, general manager OF
the New Mexico Central railway, has
resigned and will go to Oklahoma.
Six jitney bus lines have filed their
runs with the Albuquerque city clerk
and given their bonds for $4,000 each
The state treasurer has in
vested $6S,OOO of the permanent
school fund in bonds of the city of
Ration.
Oscar Beadle of Dexter sold two
cars Of Jonathan apples for $1,12O
net, prices running from S1.3O to S1.75
per box.
Fourteen companies filed incorpor
alton papers during September, the
combined capitalization being %.
10000.
The Magdalena Ice, Light, Power
Water and Laundry Company has
been incorporated with a capitaliza.
ton Of $4,000.
After a chase of fifteen hours with
a pack of bear hounds, Mrs. M. G.
Chase killed a large cinnamon bear
near Cimarron.
DR.. j. w. Waffensmith exhibited in
Santa Fe a tarantula captured at Es.
pamela, which measured six inches
from tip to tip"
An alfalfa meal mill is being
planned at Dexter. 1t is reported
over 900 cars of alfalfa are stored
around that place.
A report from Tyrone says that
Mrs. Lucius c. Hightower was killed
by her husband, who fled but was
trailed and captured.
Mrs. Jesse Beatty was killed by
lightning while sitting in her home
near Grady. Her little daughter,
nearby, was uninjured.
The grand jury at Santa Rosa in.
dicted Hugh and Noah Daniels on a
charge of numbering ]. A. Tatum
aged 60, last May, and Damasio Ara
gon, charged with killing his wife
Mrs. Manuelita Baca de Aragon.
The entire output of the Hondale
cannery, 10000 cases Of tomatoes,
was sold to an FL Paso company for
something like $4,000.
Quay county District Court at tn.
cumcari will consider 95 civil cases
and so criminal cases, three of the
latter being for perjury.
At the meeting of the first synod Of
the Presbyterian church in New Mex
leo held at Roswell, a committee oil
nine was appointed to reorganize the
work in the state. e. e. Nathes, Ne
silla Park, is chairman of the commit
tee.
II. A. Jastro, former president OF
the company, secured the Albuauer
que Traction Company on his bid Of
$4,000. 1t is said a new compan,
will be formed to take over the prop
erty and spend $4,000 on improve
ments.
The Fort Sumner saloon case.
which was to have been appealed by
attorneys representing the proprietors
of the four saloons in that town. has
been settled by the attorneys with.
drawing their appeal and accepting
the decision Of Judge Leahy by
which the election continuing the sa.
looms was set aside.
Adolph p. Hill has been appointed
assistant secretary Of state by Secre-
tary Lucero. Mr.. Hill has been acting
in the capacity Of assistant for sew
eral months.
Business men of Roswell d~eprecate
recent newspaper reports Of the hail
storm in the Pecos valley as being
overdrawn and not representing the
actual damage done.
Charles Youngblood Of Trinchera
Pass, Colfax county, bagged four
bears in three weeks. MIR. Young.
blood is 81 years old but gets around
in accordance with his name.
Mile Sergkorksky, a waitress,
killed herself by shooting in Albu.
querque. She left a note giving the
name of a man responsible.
The Wilson land and Grain Com.
pany OF New York has bought 10000
acres Of land neal Mills. The tract
will be developed as a wheat pro
Queer.
Walter Collins fell from a freight
train in the Belen yards and was TAX.
en- to the hospital at Albuquerque