Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-02-18

COMING EVENTS.
March 7-S.-Meeting Panhandle ana
southwestern stockmen's Association
March 1O-11-Meeting New Mexico Cat
tie and Horse Breeders Association
at Deming.
July 4-s.-cowboys' Reunion at Las
Vegas.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Clovis jail.
Carlsbad soon will commence paw.
ing its streets.
The "drys" won at Clovis, the vote
being 81 to 273.
Estancia's village council has gone
into the tree-planting game.
Taylor & Powers will prospect fer
oil in the Red Bill country near Tor
rington.
The contract for thu new $4,000
school building at Mountainair has
been let.
Hicks & Jones of Cuervo have sold
a toral of $125,OOO worth of stock in
the past year.
Las Cruces gets $4,000 for her pub
lie building in the deficiency bill
passed by the Senate.
There is one school in New Mexico
which has a poultry club and also a
pig club. It is at Lovington.
Roswell business men are greatly
dissatisfied over the Sunday closing
rule at the p~ostoffice there.
Ernest Augustus Mayo of Magda.
lena has been commissioned a notary
public by Governor Mcdonald.
The boy scouts of Las Vegas cele-
brated the anniversary of scout move
ment during the week Of Feb. 6.
The New Mexico Electrical Associa-
ton will hold its second annual meet
ing at Albuquerque Feb. IA, IS and 10.
~ total r Of $4,000 acres was
filed upon in the Santa F@ U. S. land
office during the month of January.
The New Mexico Cowboys Reunion
Association of Las Vesas is already
getting ready for its celebration on
July a, 5 and 6.
James e. Edison, a brakeman, was
struck by a car at Deming. sustain
ing injuries to his back, two broken
ribs and minor hurts.
State Bank Examiner Rufus H.
Carter turned into the state treasury
1903, the total of fees collected from
bank during January.
Emmett Goodin was released from
custody at Roswell on a charge of kill
ing Joe B%urleson, only 10 be re-arrest
ed on a charge of white Shaving.
U. S. District Judge William H.
Pope appointed w. F. McIlvaine of
Carlsbad a U. S. commissioner, sue.
ceeding Guy A. Reed, resigned.
Arrangements for the establishment
of postoffices at the So mine and at
Shakespeare were made by Postal In.
spector William Tronsegaard Of Albu.
querque.
The governor appointed the follow.
ing notaries public: j.. A. Mcdonald,
Kelly; Andrew c. Crozier, Lakewood;
Frank Heron, Las Cruces; Edwin H.
Hughes, Solano.
WelDert Sewalt and John Stanley Of
LOyington have bought all the stock
owned by Ned Shattuck Of Queen,
paying $3.50 for ewes, $4.75 for spring
lambs and SIS for bucks.
Suit for $4,000 damages for per
sonal injuries has been filed against
the Victor-American Fuel Company, OF
Gallup by Theodore Kentones in the
District Court at Roswell.
Charles Works was awarded dam
ages in the District Court in the sum
of one cent in his suit in which D. w
Low, Medium Gray and others were
made defendants at Roswell.
Word reached Las Vegas Of the
death of George Kohn of Montoya, a
brother of Charles Kohn, who died in
Kansas City on his wedding tour. The
shock of his brothers death was given
as the cause.
A session of the New Mexico Cattle
and Horse Breeders Association has
been scheduled for Deming on March
10 and IL, Immediately after the SEES
sion of the Panhandle Association al
Albuquerque.
The divorce suit of the Rev. Ellis
Smith, now pastor of a church in Al
buquerque and formerly pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, al
Roswell, produced several sensations
before it closed.
The conviction and sentence in Los
Lunas of Lorenzo Pine and Isidro Cha.
yes for cattle stealing brought to an
end what was practically an alI-sum
mer chase after cattle rustlers in
western Socorro county.
Reports submitted by forest officers
in charge of the national forests OF
New Mexico show a total Of 655 deer,
$50 turkeys, AZ bear, 445 coyotes, 81
wolves and 16 lions killed by hunters
during the season of 1915
William McRae. one Of the most