Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-09-15

Sept. 27-2g-First annual Cowboys
General Roundup at TucumcarL
Sept. 2S-Fair at GreenVille.
oct. 3-Woman's Clubs annual NEST
ing at Las Vegas.
Oct. s-6-New Mexico 5ankers' ascot
alton Convention at brand Canon
Ariz.
oct. iO-1s-Dona Ana County Fair at
Las Cruces.
About 500 acres Of mineral land
in the Cerrillos district has been
sold.
Jose Chavez of Barelas was given
a sixty-day Jail sentence for beating
his wife.
The formal opening Of AlbuQuer-
oue's Y. NJ. c. A. will be held Sun
day, Sept. "a.
E. U. Brown, of Estancia, has a
fine 15O-acre field of beans about
ready for harvest.
Arthur Seligman of Santa Fe was
chosen chairman OF the Democratic
State Central Committee.
The model for the new depot n
Harvey House to be built at Gallup
the first Of the year has been placed
on display.
A long postmastership contest has
been settled by the appointment OF
Mrs. Ethel Harper as postmistress at
Mills, Mora county.
The sixth annual meeting OF the
New Mexico State Federation OF
Women's Clubs will be held in Las
Vegas Oct. 3, 4 and 3.
A. A. Jones of East Las Vegas, as
sistant secretary Of the Interior, re-
signed to become Democratic candi'
date for the U. S. Senate,
Forty-four rattlesnakes were killed
in less than an hour by J.. H.. Will
meth, P. R. McDaniels and Ed White,
on a homestead in Curry county.
George A. Zandt, a resident of the
country two miles southeast of Tu-
cumcari, was found dead in his bed
following the sound of an exploding
shotgun.
It is estimated that before the end
of this month New MeXico's regiment
of guardsmen at the border can well
stand the addition of some hundred
and fifty men.
The San Jon community was given
a shock when it wac learned that
Mrs. c. l.. Owens had been acciden-
tally shot in the abdomen by her
brother, Arthur Skoglund.
Two Old Mexicans were arrested
at the stock pens at Tucumcari
charged with threatening the life and
property of one Teo Martinez, who
lives west of Tucumcari about foul
miles.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the office of the State Corporation
Commission by the First ~Spiritualistic
church of Roswell, the registered Of
flee being in Roswell, and Mrs. Ethel
Fowler is designated as statutory
agent.
Three districts in Rio Arriba county
were granted state aid to build school
houses, district No. 80 receiving 800
for two school houses, district No.
IS getting $3.50 and district No. % be
ing given $3.50 additional to its former
grant.
Lee Longacre, a resident of the
Alamo district Of Guadalupe COUNTY,
who is accused Of having beaten J. A
Jones, a neighbor, into unconscious.
ness with a rock, has been held to the
Guadalupe county grand jury in bond
of $500,
The NAN ranch of about 100000
acres at Dwyer has been sold for
$25O,000.
Mining interests in New Mexico, es-
p~ecially at Mogollon, are involved I'm
a will contest which has been begun
by suit to enforce a trust deed alleged
to have been made by f. X. Eberle,
the New Mexico mining man, who
died in Los Angeles. q
While crossing Ute creek, near
Bueyeros, a flood crest struck the bug
gy in which Mr.. and Mrs. Eulalio Blea
and children were riding and the three
children were drowned. 1t was with
considerable effort that Mr.. and Mrs.
Blea saved themselves.
Assistant state Engineer Farwell
has given assurances that not less
than seven teams with as many men
as can be put to work will begin active
road construction in the Cimarron
canon at once and continue the worl.
until the last of December. Arrange
ments are now being made with par
ties who have men and teams to place
on the work and it is probable that
the number win be greatly increased
when once construction is actively
begun.
The city officials and the business
men Of Clovis are in a controversy
over the question of paying cup
ton licenses, and the matter has been
taken into court on a test.
Mesilla, Valley dairymen, members
nf tho RfO Drapa. nj ~