The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-06-30
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

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alton Convention ~ Gioud Cahu"
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Las Vegas wants a beet sugar fac.
tory
ror,ales is to have a new grain
elevator.
Fire destroyed five frame houses
at Carrizozo.
The Clayton mill and contents We're
destroyed by fire
\ now ice factory has been com.
pleted al Farmington
The capacity OF the Houdale can.
merry has been doubled.
RoswolTs new automobile fire
truck is now In service
James Walker has been nominated
Tor postmaster at Estaucia
Plans are being maze TO establish
9 b%ottliug plant at pemng.
Gallup has increased The saloon ii.
."nsc fee to $500 per year.
\ large number of state Guards
are do Hg duty on The border
The new bridge across the Santa
Fe Ut La Bujada is nov open
The Santa Pc County institute Will
last eight weeks instead OF four
New Mexico has twonty-one rifle
/ clubs with over 1000 members.
Melrose people have filed suit fog
The disincorporation Of that town.
Several improvements are being
made in the Magdalona postoffice.
The Ration city council decided to
purchase a motor truck fire engine
The Rosa-lEnacio Telephone Com.
pany filed articles Of incorporation
Alfalfa registered a sharp adyanc,
in the Pecos valley, going to $40 a
ton.
The contract for the erection Of the
new Lordsburg high school has been
let.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Kclner Of
Gallup celebrated their silver wed.
ding
The estimated cost oil the proposed
iiailIuad y. NJ. G. a. at Tucumcari is
$g5.uuu.
Wool buyers are reported TO have
purchased 250.0oo pounds OF the wool
stored 1T Roswell
The Labor Day celebration at Ros
a. n this year will surpass the BIZ
vent Of last year
Fireworks to the value Of Sl,oo1
have arrived in Ration tor the Fourth
of July celebration
Battery A Of the Nrv Mexico Ma
tional Guard has taken up station az
lis new post. El raso.
lupros cmcnts at Roy end To sur
piss those before the recent disa5.
nous fire i'm that community
The first forty tons OF ore taken
Tor a new gold strike north Of Organ
is said to have brought $4,000.
The explosion OF a coal oil lamp
at Artesia caused a fire that de-
stroyed l.. J. DiNon's residence.
Richard Pohl OF Belcn and Edwin
49, Seward Of Tres picdras were
AIMED notaries by the governor
Miss Eugenia Roy Of Roy, Mora
county. has announced herself a can
Gidatc for superintendent OF schools.
An opcn.air dance on the paved
streets 1T night win he a feature Ui
silver City's Fourth OF July cclebra
ion.
Francisco Rios was killed at the
Grand Central mining camp near SIl.
yer city, when a charge of shot from
a blast struck him.
The governor pardoncd from the
reform school Floyd Mcngc and
Nathan Merriman, whose sentences
were nearly completed
Teachers on duty with the national
guard have been excused by state Su.
perintendent Alyan y. White from
attending Institutes rhis summer
That the state troops are improying
rapidly in efficiency was the state
ment OF col. f. g.. Abbott, command
.ug the New Mexico regiment, in L
paso.
The Chino Copper Company are
making extensive improvements al
> Hurley. which when completed will
make that camp M OF the blgges'
and most completely equipped mill
towns
The report reached Albuquerqu,
that Santa Re train No. . killed Al
? Indian at Alaska, nea Laguna. Tn,
4, Indian was said TO have been NOR,
than loo years old. he was sittinl
on the track, but got up as the train
approached lie fell on the track IL
l front OF the engine.
The State Corporation Commission
( will attempt TO secure a three-ceuI
p passenger rate at the informal con
5 ference with railroad officials to b,
n hold In ganta lie Iult IN