Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-10-29

Bank loans In New Mexico total
over S21,OOO,OOO
Heavy shipments Of cattle are being
made from Silver City.
A ~three-day session Of highway off
cials was held at Santa re.
Bids for %postoffice quarters have
been asked at Silver City.
A new militia company has been or
ganized at Silver City with sixty mem
bers.
Elevators at Mills. Mosquero ant
Roy are receiving large quantities Of
grain.
The attendance at the state fair at
Albuquerque was larger than ever be-
fore.
Postoffice Inspector Mark Williams
has been transferred from Santa Fe tc
Austin, Tex.
A half million dollars is to be spent
in railroad improvements at Gallup by
the Santa Fe.
One hundred cars Of wheat will be
marketed from the Dedham section in
Colfax county.
The output Of the Chino Copper
Company at Silver City is $4,000, OOt
pounds per year.
over 1000 head of live stock was
on exhibition at the state fair grounds
at Albuquerque.
Governor Mcdonald is expected al
Deming when the Liberty Bell visits
that city, Nov. 16.
Charles and George Weir, Carlsbad
ropers, earned $4,000 at Wild West
shows this season.
Luna county stockmen have bought
thousands Of Arizona and Old Mexico
cattle for winter feeding.
Miguel Lamy, the Navajo Indian
hunter, took the second bear he has
slain this season to Santa F6.
One of the bright attractions of the
state fair assemblage of musical or
CARNATIONS was the Girls band of
Clovis.
Eighty-seven makes of motor cars
are now owned by New Mexico auto
lists. Three homemade cars have
been registered.
A. Muilenburg of Moriarity raised
$4,000 pounds of beans this year on
twenty acres, an average of Las
pounds per acre.
Mrs. John s. Clark, wife of State
Senator Clark, and mother of Herbert
w. Clark of the State Tax Commits
sion died at Las Vegas.
The deer season opened in northern
New Mexico-in that portion of the
state lying north of the S5th parallel
Of north latitude-Oct. 16.
According to reports from oscuro,
a poisonous weed growing on the Nal
Pals is causing extensive losses to
cattlemen in that section.
State Engineer James A. French
was informed by Walter J. Pinson
that he had finished the 240-foot pile
bridge across the San Jose river at
Laguna.
The Cox Canon road work is pro
crossing rapidly; about thirty men
are now employed and as soon as ad
d%itional tools arrived at CloudcrofI
many more will be put on.
An attempt was made to blow Ut
the New Bridge saloon at Barelas. Six
sticks of dynamite, a bomb filled with
nitro powder and a can of gasoline
were used in the attempt.
Roosevelt county was awarded 81,
900, the first prize for the best coun
ty exhibit at the state fair. Eddy
county was given the second prize
and Colfax county the third.
The State Tax Commission, at til
recent meeting. raised the cattle as
sessment of State Senator b. F
Pankey 1000 head, placing the valu
alton of these additional cattle at $50,
300.
Attorney General Frank w. Clancy
in an opinion given State Auditor VIII
liam G. Sargent, holds that the latte
will be justified in making a specia
levy to raise the $4,000 required b!
the appropriation for twelve charit
able institutions.
The Santa Fe railroads Farmers
Special" a nine car train carrying IA
farmers, from nineteen d~ifferen
states, and piloted by Charles L. Sea
graves, general colonization agent o
the Santa F6 system, stopped in Al
buquerque for five hours while it
passengers we're taken to see tn
New Mexico state fair, as guests O
the State Fair Commission, and wer
much pleased with the big show.
A decree of absolute divorce wa
granted Mrs. Alice G. Morley from he
husband, Sylvanus Griswold Morle!
at Santa Fe, by District Judge NJ. {
Mechem Of Socorro, sitting for Dil
trict Judge Edmund C. Abbott, who
! out Of the state.
l Suit was filed in the U. S. DistriC
clerks office at Santa Fe by Ami
M. Fraley of Los Angeles, adminil
3 tratrix Of the late Ellen Elizabet
Priohard, against Col. George v
Prichard of Santa Fe, asking an a
counting according to the stipulation
made when divorce was granted.
The work Of the federal officials /
!. investigating the sale Of liquor anon
Indians, and the cheerfulness Of II
U. S. marshal are especially con
+, mended by the federal grand jury
its report at Santa Fe, which gives n
number Of indictments found as fit
The Cimarron & Northwestern raj
= road. extending from Cimarron
Ponil Park, a distance of twenty-tW
e miles, operated at a loss Of $5,S11.;
n in the fiscal year ending June 80, las
n The interest on the funded debt
the road raised the years loss to s.
6S5.S7.
State Land Commissioners Robt.
Ervien has appointed Mrs. VILLA
II II. Upton as publicity agent to c,
lect and publish New Mexico 7
source statistics under the new la
authorizing the use for this purpo.
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