The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-03-19

ISOLATION, az SILVER city.
A%lamogordo fruit growers are to or
ganizc an association
The House passed the tax commits
sion bill by a vote OF 80 TO 10.
The finishing touches are being put
on the municipal auditorium In Ration.
A Portland, Oregon, man has con.
tracted with an Alamorogdo man for
$4,000 cactus thorns,
Using goats to clean up the waste
around the feed lots is a new develop
ment in the Elida section.
The Bursum tax commission bill
and the Hawkins mine tax measure
were passed by the Senate.
George Gilliland, a rancher in the
San Andreas mountains, lost $50 head
OF goats in a recent cold. wet spell.
The Garden City Sugar and Land
Company will contract for sugar beets
In the Maxwell district at 1914 prices.
A resolution demanding that a pro.
hibition resolution be resurrected
from committee vas tabled 25 to II.
A committee was appointed to in.
vestigate the retention Of $500 in
fees by the secretary OF states office.
The total number OF bills passed by
both Houses of the Legislature and
sent to the governor up to the 9th was
&c.
The Senate bill fixing the compen.
sation Of official court stenographers
was passed, in its amended form. by
the Senate.
Lots have been purchased In Dem.
ing, upon which the proposed new
creamery to be built in that city will
be located.
A jitney car service for Santa Fe is
the latest proposal OF persons interest
ed In local transit, especially women
who go calling.
The state engineer of New Mexico
has let the contract for the building
Of the Tucumcari bridge in Quay
county for $3.50.
70 mark the historical landmarks
in New Mexico with native boulders,
suitably inscribed, is the purpose of a
bill by Mr.. Doepp.
House Bill No. 357. which seeks to
provide Land Commissioner Ervien
with funds for publicity purposes,
was passed by the House,
r. r. II. Smith is still in Jail for
lack OF bondsmen, though It is said
one has qualified for the full amount
rhe authorities insist upon having
three.
The appropriation bill introduced by
the finance committees OF the Senate
and House totals about SS25, 900 for
salaries OF officials and maintaining
state Institutions.
The House passed II. b. 1876 by Mar.
tinez and Trujilo, which provides for
the erection at Santa Fe of the New
Mexico building at San Diego, a replica
Of the mission church at Acoma.
1t is reported from Washington that
Hon. Harvey -. Ferguson. late CON
gresham from New Mexico, has be.
come private secretary OF William
jennings Bryan, secretary of state.
The mule tramway built to handle
the zinc concentrates from the En-.
pire Zinc %company's mines at Cleve.
land, IN the Pnos Altos district, to the
Santa F6 railway, near silver City is
practically completed.
New Mexico Military Institute won
the rifle shooting championship of the
military schools OF the country
At Washington, having won all
Of the seven matches and con
cluded the series with a percentage OF
9G.7 for the grand aggregate.
In asking for an appropriation Of
$4,000 to continue the boundary con.
%tention between New Mexico and
Texas, Mr.. Reinburg said the land In
dispute was worth 100000 600.
Governor Mcdonald has granted a
pardon to Lille c.. Klasner, who was
convicted OF stealing calves in 1912,
and was sentenced TO serve from three
to four years IN the state penitentiary
which sentence was affirmed by the
state Supreme Court in December OF
AAnN aNNAH
The House by a vote OF 80 to 7,
passed the Senate substitute for II. B
a, by MIR. Montoya of Bernalillo coun.
~, providing for the publication Of de
linquent taxes. The Senate eliminated
: the description of the property from
the publication, and only the amount
and m are to be printed.
! The penitentlary committee intro
, duced House Bill No. 414 to provide
/ for the support and maintenance o
, the child OF Alma Lyons as a ward o
! the state. This is the penitentiarl
baby, and the bill makes an immedl
: ate appropriation Of 500, and $40
month until the child Is IS years o
age.
Speaker RomeroN III for the taxa