Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-02-25

COMING EVENTS.
March 7-s.-Meeting Panhandle and
southwestern stockmeh's Association
Mach i0eff.1Meeting New Mexico Cat
tie and Horse Breeders Association
July 4-6.-cowboys' Reunion at Las
Tucumcari is to have a Railroad Y.
NJ. c. A.
Walter Nelson committed suicide at
Silver City.
About 4.SOO auto licenses for 1915
have been issued.
The Portales Cosy theater was bad
Iy damaged by fire.
Many fine consignments Of pelts
have been shipped from Glenrio.
New Census Bureau figures place
New Mexico's population at 4OS, 600.
Sixty candidates received degrees
at the reunion Of the Scottish Rite at
Santa Fe.
Five counties in New Mexico last
year shipped 2S7 carloads Of pinto
beans to market.
A 1.OOO-foot well designed to devel-
op artesian water has been started in
the Columbus district.
Tucumcari schools reopened after
being closed for three weeks on &C
count of scarlet fever.
The M~agdalena Rifle Club has re.
ceived its charter and has leased a
range east Of that city.
Governor Mcdonald appointed Jea-
nette Gregg of Mayhill and Ida N.
White Of Folsom notaries public.
Cow rnor Mcdonald appointed the
following notaries public Nora E
Summers, Santa Fe; Abran Barela, La
Joya.
The $4,000 bond issue for a new
school building in Tularosa carried at
the special election there by a vote Of
2O3 to T..
The Santa Fe Game Protective AS.
sociation now has 23O members, all
regularly commissioned deputy game
wardens.
The contract for the construction Of
the new building at the New Mexico
boys reform school was awarded at
Springer.
Pedro, f~ive-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Yanez of Tucumcari, died as the
result of burns received while playing
with matches.
The officers Of the recently organ
lied National Guard company of Sill
YER City received their commissions
from the adjutant general.
MIS-. Henry Swan, widow Of Repre-
sentative Swan of Quay county, who
died several months ago., has been APP
pointed deputy treasurer of Quay
county.
The body of another dead man, sup
posei to be that of Clyde Virgins,
who has been missing since four or
five months ago. was found in a can
yon neal Mills.
High-grade Turkey Red seed is to
be taken into Colfax county in carload
lots and sold to farmers at actual cost
for the purpose Of creating interest in
the seed improvement campaign.
]. w. Parks received a verdict for
$4,000 for the loss of his hand while
on duty as a brakeman on the Daw-
son-Tucumcari line. The verdict was
returned in an FL Paso court in a suit
for $4,000.
Potash beds of unheard of extent
are believed to be located in the Per
milan strata of eastern New Mexico.
Water from both deep and shallow
wells when analysed was found to
contain in some instances as high as
IA per cent available potash.
French citizens are agitating the
question of a Touring mill for the
tract, having been given u proposition
by Oklahoma and Miami, N. M, CAPT
talists. A $4,000 bonus is demanded.
A conditional pardon was granted
Golden Gamble and Arthur Heating,
youths of is and is years, respective
ly, confined in the state reform school,
by the governor. Each had com.
pleted his minimum sentence and had
behaved in an exemplary manner at
the school.
Austin Kinney, the ~G5-year-old Van
Houten negro sentenced TO he hanged
at Ration for the murder of another
negro at Van Houten last spring, and
whose sentence was committed to
from 80 to 80 years by Governor Nc.
Donald, is now convict No. S7i4 at the
state p~enitentiary.
Judge William H. Pope. in the Fed
eral Court at Santa Fe. issued an or
der that the verdict for $4,000 dam
ages, awarded by a jury to Margaret
Waddell Of Los Angeles, against A. r.
Mandy of Taos. for breach OF promise.
be cut to $1,000 on the ground that
the damages were excessive.
Governor Mcdonald appointed dele.
gates TO the Academy Of Political Sci