Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-03-10

IOF Inb buuy OouhAy
Fair are already being discussed.
John Harvey has succeeded John T.
Bolton as postmaster at Carlsbad.
with a cotton gin and a canning
plant Dayton will be a lively town.
Five persons we're arrested at Tu
cumcar in a raid on a gambling den
Arch Brite of Elk has sold his
ranch to James Cady for $4,000
cash.
Death has taken seven members of
the Silver City Elks' lodge since
Jan. /.
Sugar beets will be raised as an ex.
pertinent this season in the Roswell
section.
Road work has COMMANDED In Col
fax county on the Canine Real, south
of Ration.
Capt. W. H.. Jack of Folsom, Union
county, member of the State Cattle
Sanitary Board, died in FL Paso.
Bishop Howden Of the Episcopal
diocese Of New Mexico has been visit
ing in Grant and Luna counties.
Clayton is advertising for bids on
the $4,000 school bonds issue, which
was voted on about two weeks ago.
A total of $12,O92.46 was spent on
the improvement Of the Rio Grande
in nine months Of the last fiscal year.
John H. Riley, a pioneer Of the
Southwest and early resident of Las
Cruces, died at Colorado Springs,
Colo.
]. w. Phillips Of Deming shipped
a carload of calves TO Fort Sumner,
receiving an average Of $50 for 1916
stuff.
John Nelson, aged 70 years, a pio-
neer mining man of the Red River dis
t.ict, died at the Miners hospital in
Ration.
The Lakewood district of eddy
county this year expects to ship fifty
cars of tomatoes, as against thirty.
five last year.
Muriel Hickman, an employee OF the
Chino Copper Company at Santa Ri.
Ia, was seriously scalded by falling
into a steam barrel.
Commissions as notaries public
have been issued by Governor Melon.
aid to ]. r. Daughtry of Roswell and
A. S. Hanson Of Roy.
Mexican beans sold tor Az cents a
pound in Clovis. J.. W. Leagan, who
made the sale, said beans would net
him 1872 an acre this year.
The Mora grant, consisting Of more
than $4,000 acres, was sold at East
Las Vegas, in two sections, under a
court decree, for a total of $4,000.
w. c. Simpson was appointed sher
iff of Luna county, as successor to
Sheriff Stephens, who was shot to
death by ~jailbreakers near Rincon.
The state game warden placed al
order for 100 pairs of Chinese ring
necked pheasants, market value near.
ly $1,000, but will give native game in
part payment.
The blanket raise Of rs per cent in
the assessment of mercantile firms al
Silver City made by the State Board
of Equalization was unauthorized, ac
cording to the decision of Judge Colin
Neblett.
Owing to Ill health, Jacob Klaua
scnek of Ration, who has made his
home in Colfax county for a number
OF years, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head with 1
revolver.
> The Santa F@ railway, through the
Chamber of Commerce, will be asked
to establish a sleeping a service OF
. its Silver City branch, in addition t
the archaeological chair a which
was recently installed.
The funeral of Dwight B. Stephens
sheriff of Luna county who wal
killed in a battle with escaped prison
ers near Rincon, was held at DeminI
under the auspices of the Masons
and was the largest funeral ever he'll
there.
A charge of assault and battery wa
made against Miss Lorraine Shradel
a teacher in the Roswell schools, a
a result of administering punishment
to MACK" Wilkinson, a pupil. 1t /
said the teacher removed a quantit
Of hair from the boy in the course Q
the chastisement.
Added to the troubles Of the RoI
we'll ~postoffice of the last few week
comes an order from the Postoffic
Department to Postmaster Radney {
reduce his force. A city carrier an
a clerk in the office are to be take
from the staff.