Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-28

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Aug. 2S-Republican State Convention
at Santa Fe.
Aug. sO-Demicratio state Convention
at Santa Fe.
Sept. I-7-stSte Tennis Tournament at
Roswell.
Sept. 1s-s3-Live stock and Products
Exposition at Roswell.
oct. 3-6-New Mexico Bankers Associ-
alton Convention at Grand Canon
Ariz.
Buyers are now paying $3.50 a ton
for Pecos valley alfalfa hay.
Antonio Romero, a Taos Indian,
was bitten by a r~attlesnake.
A raid on an alleged monte" game
in Roswell netted two arrests.
Roswell will hold it's annual city
tennis tournament in August.
Prospects for a fine crop of beans
in Torrance county are the best for
years.
A company is being formed at Clovis
for the manufacture of a weed cutting
device.
Complete equipment for a new tele-
phone exchange at Tularosa has been
ordered.
Manuel Rivera Of TERRA Amarillo,
died from rabies caused by being bit
ten by a wolf.
Citizens of Grady have voted a
bond issue of $4,000 for building a
new sc%hoolhouse.
1t is reported at Columbus that the
New Mexico regiment is to have a
machine gun corps.
Road boosters of Quay county ara
agitating for a new highway east from
Porter to the Texas line.
Deming saloonkeepers will have to
pay a license of $1,000 a year instead
of the former sum of $3.50.
The Santa F6 soon will commence
construction of a new depot at Day
ton, to replace the n burned.
Ossie Trayelstead, ~S-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. f. Trayelstead of LO-
gan, died from a bite Of a rattlesnake.
Two hundred twenty-five entries
were made at the Santa F6 federal
land office in June, covering over A.
900 acres.
The new national guard armory at
Carlsbad is nearing completion, and
probably will be ready for occupancy
by Aug. 10.
Adjutant General Herring has pro
NOTED c number Of officers of the
First Regiment of the New Mexico
National Guards.
Serapio Lobato, an engine wiper,
injured at Las Vegas by the collapse
of part of the roof of the Santa F6
roundhouse, is dead.
So great has been the increase in
automobile traffic through Ago, Tor
rance county, that much road i'm
provement is in prospect.
The state engineer has been noti-
fled Of the completion of two steel
bridges in Tijeras canon, east of Albu-
querque on El Canine Real.
One-half of New Mexico had not a
drop of precipitation during June, ac-
cording to the official report of the
United States weather bureau.
Roswell residents have contributed
a total of $9O7.S5 to the pension fund
for the benefit Of families of National
guard members now at the border.
Jose Meleundo, an employee Of the
Silver City Power Company, was
-electrocuted while working in a tun-
mel in which there was two feet OF
water.
The Rio Arriba county grand jury
has returned the following indict-
ments: Felix Garcia for murder;
Jose Ignacio and Romero for murder;
Juan B. Baca, assault with deadly
weapon.
Larkspur is causing the death OF
cattle in the San Juan basin.
Repeated q~uarrels, said to have
been over politics in their native laiu,
resulted in the killing of Angelo Cal
lulli and the arrest of Antonio Car
%rezeolli, Italian miners at Koehler.
Tucumcari reports the greatest rail-
road business in it's history during the
month Of June. A total of 24,492
freight cars and 2,425 passenger
coaches passed through there in the
month, an average Of SS5 cars a day.
Commissions as notaries public
have been issued by Governor Nc.
Donald to Lilly NJ. Wample, who lives
In Union county, but receives her
mail at Roy, Mora county; Robert s.
Plat of Hurley, Grant county, and
John j.. Emmons of Gallup, McKin-
ley county.
The seven-year-old son Of Manuel
Otero of Manzano sustained a pecu-
liar accident, having the upper lids
of both eyes nearly torn off when a
COW hooked him. His eyes were
not injured, apparently. though the
animals horn entered the socket just
at the bridge of the nose.
Motor vehicle license fees in the
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