The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-09
NEW MEXICO NEWS
cathered From
All Parts of the State

225 acres to cantaloupea this season.
The Roosevelt County Teachers As.
ISOLATION will meet In Portales April
9TH to 10th.
A telephone line is being built from
Potrillo. Guadalupe county, to Santa
Rosa, the county seat.
The Golden Eagle Mining Company
81 Mogollon has incorporated with a
capital stock OF s 100000.
C~arrizozo, Fort Sumner and Magda-
Iena are among New Mexico towns
considering Incorporation.
Parties hope to erect a mill totreat
the ore from the Sally Dear mine at
Iacarilla, Lincoln county.
About fifty teachers attended the
meeting OF the Soeorro County Teach
srs' Association in Magdalena.
An incendiary burned down the
Buckhorn district school building for
~ miles northwest OF Silver City.
The familiar three.legged calf is re.
ported again, this time from the Har-
yey Williams ranch neal Roswell.
Grant Arthur whittier has been ap-
pointed state travelling auditor and
Paul A, Han and e. T. Wiley assist
ants.
Although so per cent OF the 1914
taxes were delinquent on Dec. /, only
41.34 per cent had been collected on
March !.
The Catholic church OF Deming was
robbed OF some sacramental wine, an
Incense holder and some other fittings
off the altar.
A bold, bad hold.up invaded a poker
game at Engle, cleaning out the pot
and pockets OF the players at the point
of a revolver.
Lake Arthur was visited by a de
structlve fire, entailing a loss Of SIS,
600, distributed among half a dozen
business firms.
A Rock Island grain firm has
shipped a dozen cars Of maize heads,
and have two or three times that
amount in sight.
Prizes amounting to $135 have been
offered in an all season corn growing
contest in the Cottonwood district
near Lake Arthur.
Arizona parties are reported to have
taken an option on the Jaynes mining
property at Pinos Altus and will
work It for the zinc.
Arbor day was generally observed,
as per Governor McDonald's procla-
nation, by the planting Of many trees
throughout the state.
II is stated that conditions on the
dry farms OF eastern New Mexico are
fine and that the outlook for 1915
crops could not be improved.
II is said Roswell has lost $4,000
in ices during the past three seasons
through the spray used in the orch.
ards OF that portion Of the state.
Sam Forney, an old.time prospeetor
and miner Of Taos, dropped dead OF
heart failure while en- route from Taos
to the residence Of a friend nearby.
One hundred and fifty land filings
we're made in the United States land
office at Tucumcarl during February
and sixty from March 1 to March Is.
Socorro is rather proud Of the fact
that John II. McCutcheon, Jr, led the
New Mexico Military Institute rifle
team which won the national trophy.
The interest in the good roads
movement In Chaves county il grow
ing daily. The hanging up of three
purses as first, second and third
prizes are having effect.
At the examining trial OF Martin
Stallcup on the charge OF shooting J,
b. Cotton in Artesia, young Stallcup
was bound over 10 the September
grand jury under $1,000 bond, which
was furnished.
The business men OF Mogollon with
the interests of the mining companies
have over $1,000 for the Silver City
Mogollon road. Now It is up to the
business men OF Silver City to put ~
the same amount.
They live long and hearty in Gran.
county. Grandma" Doheny Of For
Bayard sang three songs, made 4
number OF speeches. and otherwise
demonstrated her youth at a part,
given at her home in honor Of he
ninetieth birthday.
Last year a man out southeast o
Tucumcari paid a dollar and a quartz
for a half pound Of Sudan grass seed
He sowed Il carefully upon one.thir'
Of an acre Of grsund. The patch yield
ed him a ton Of hay and over twl
hundred pounds Of seed.
The state has served upon Superir
tendent Of Insurance Jacob Chavez tn
papors IN the case against Morgan c
Llewellyn. treasurer OF the State c.
lego, and the Southwestern Surety II
surance Company Of Oklahoma, to r.
cover $4,000, the amount OF the co
lege funds on deposit in the Firi
State Bank OF Las Cruces when
failed.