Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-04-21

about ended.
Fire destroyed the livery barn of A.
S. Beck at Clovis.
Deming will observe April Is to %
as Dress Up Week.
T. F. Gormon has been appointed
postmaster at Tucumcari.
Santa Re Presbyterians are plan
ming to erect a new church building.
A local branch OF the American
Red Cross is being organized in Sill
yer City.
Clayton has a mysterious poison
case which nearly los the life Of J. w.
Van Horn.
The body OF Charles C. Brainerd,
the Tyrone bartender was buried in
Silver City.
A Silver City trained nurse, Miss
Emmeline Silva, has been stricken
with typhus al FL Paso.
F. ". Nations has shipped 1000
head of Angora goats from his ranch
near Montoya to market.
A Sunlight Meeting of farmers to
near AhG kOoBCl VI BCNNGA O hAhA6 -
a new departure at Auga Fria.
The $4,000 issue Of Deming sewer
extension bonds carried at the recent
election by a vote Of Is to %.
Orders have been issued for the es-
adjustment Of an underground tele-
phone system at Fort Bayard.
Peter Crimson killed a mountain lion
near Cimarron which measured seven
feet ten inches from tip to tip.
At the recent elections water bonds
were voted by the citizens of Cimar-
ron, East Las Vegas and Las Cruces.
Contracts for beets are being signed
up and the acreage this year on the
Maxwell tract will be fully 500 acres.
More than 300 nativ IS, men, women
and children. were confirmed by
Bishop Schiller, of Ell Paso, at San
Jose.
The Borderland Tire Manufacturing
Company with an authorized capital Of
s15O,OOO, has been organized in Las
Cruces.
Repairs and improvements totaling
$4,000 will be made at Cloudcroft in
preparation for the summer rush Of
tourists.
The sum Of approximately $4,000
Will be spent on identifying and i'm
proving Cloudcroft before the resort
opens about May 1.
The streets around the State Capt.
yOl building in Santa Fe will be
paved, $4,000 having been approp-
rated for that purpose.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
charging the s~tockyards, and max
ng numerous repairs at Arriba, three
miles north of Las Vegas.
Petitions asking the county commits
sioners to employ a county agricultu-
raj agent are being circulated among
taxpayers of Union county.
Spring conditions in the Estancla
yalley were never better, the recent
snows having put the ground in excel
lent condition for crops. The bean
creage will be more than doubled
his year.
Gov. Mcdonald appointed w. P.
Southland of Albuquerque a member OF
the State Fair Commission to succeed
Robert E. Putney, resigned.
Mamie D. Mccullough, of Allie,
vincente Mortimer of La Liendre, fl.
s. Van Peters of Las Vegas, and
]. d. Allen Of Magdalena, have been
commissioned notaries public by Gov
srnor Mcdonald.
April came in like a lion in Santa
Fe with several light snowfalls culmi-
mating in a fall that covered the land
scape to a depth of a couple of inches,
the trees and shrubbery being loaded
down with a white coating.
Farmers under the Rio Grande pro-
iect will save $25. 600 a year until the
project has been opened formally, it
Is believed, as a result of a revision
Of the contract covering operation
and maintenance of the project units.
A judgment for $4,000 was award
ed in favor Of the defunct First State
Bank OF Las Cruces against w. N. Ha-
ger. surety on the bond Of M. o. Lie
wellyn, former treasurer of the State
College, which had about $75 1000 in
the bank when 1t failed.
A rifle club is being organized I'm
Silver City. to be under the direction
of the National Board for tho Pro
motion of Rifle Practice I'm the United
States.
On behalf Of constituents, Con
gresham Hernandez asked the U. s.
Indian Department 10 widen the
sheep trail across tbs Jlcarilla res
ervation.
All the canned tomatoes in the
plant Of the Lakewood Truck & Fruit
Growers Association, have been sold
to jObbers. The supply amounts to
four carloads.