Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-10-27
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Services.
COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 27-3O-MeetinR state Educational
Association at Albuquerque.

Two cars OF honey were shlppeu
from Pennington.
Sugar beets viii be raised next year
by Deming farmers.
Operators are now at Santa Fe pre-
pairing to drill for oil.
The Santa F6 tax levy has been
fixed at S2.52 per 500.
Claude Hoskins of Roy ground his
fingers in a cider press.
A new, up-to-date elevator has just
been completed at Clayton.
The open deer season in Northern
New Mexico opened Oct. 16.
Frank Stidham, a rancher living
near Hachita, was shot and killed.
Ernest Leatherman was burned by
a bucket OF blazing gasoline at Roy.
After years Of idleness, the saw
mills at AlamOgordo are again busy.
The school census of Otero county
shows 1885, a gain Of 265 over last
year.
Two men alleged to have taken gold
ore from the Aztec mine made their
escape.
There are twenty-seven student
teachers enrolled at the New Mexico
Normal University.
Three tons of gold and silver ore
were shipped from the Mogollon
mines in September.
The grand lodge of Masons win
meet in Las Cruces next year on the
first Monday in October.
Beans are yielding from 1000 to
1900 pounds per acre in the Moriarity
section, bringing over $50 per acre.
Alex. d. G%oldenberg Of Tucumcari
was elected Grand High Priest at the
Royal Arch Masons at the Las Vegas
meeting.
The mountain town of Chama is
now a busy place, as 100, 600 lambs
are being shipped from that section
to market.
Union county farmers are happy
over the big crop yields this season,
and the high prices prevailing for all
farm crops.
Ray Malcolm Of Hillsboro was in.
stantly killed by the accidental dis
charge Of a shotgun in the hands of
Harry Benson.
A large class was initiated into the
Shrine at the session held at East
Las Vegas by Ballut Abyad temple
of Albuquerque.
Nineteen Mexicans were indicted
on murder charges at Deming for al
legged connection with the raid on Co
lumbus on March 8.
Two carloads of hosting engines
and derricks are on the ground at
Cimarron for the construction work
OF the Eagles Nest project.
Bud Clayton, a well-known rider,
was so badly injured on the first day
OF the roundup at Tucumcari that he
was almost put out of the contest on
later days.
In a bulletin issued by the State
Department of Education, and sent to
educators all over the state, great
stress is laid on the Importance of
sanitation in the schools.
The city council of Gallup will not
permit chairs in saloons. and instruct
ed the city attorney to prepare an
ordinance requiring all dry goods and
grocery stores to close on Sundays.
Gerald Carder, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. H. Carder, was shot through the
foot while out hunting with some boys
in La Huerta, by Lee Ward, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Ward Of Carls-
bad.
w. H. Burns Of Mountaineer had
his jaw broken by a we'll drill.
Las Vegas is making a strong eff
fort to have the Ozark trail route run
through that city over the new Texas
New Mexico Mountain highway, which
connects that place with Amarillo.
Fred and John S%akariason, Socorro
county men who were convicted of
cattle stealing in January, 1915, and
sentenced to serve a yea in the peni-
Tertiary and to pay fines of $500 each
and costs, were granted pardons by
Governor Mcdonald.
A suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed in the United States district
clerks office in the federal building at
Santa F6 by Julian Kraiacich, admin.
istrator Of the estate, goods and chat.
tells of Frank Rujie VS.. the Victor.
American Fuel Company.
Wrapped in the flag that he had
served at the Mexican border, and
surrounded by the representatives Of
the military organizations he had
loved, Lieut.. Antonio ]. Luna, Of the
Twentieth U. s. infantry, who died al
Fort Bliss after a brief Illness, was
laid to rest at Santa F6 in the Ma
tional cemetery.
Stockmen around Bland are said tC
be considerably aroused over the loss
OF some twenty-five to thirty head Of
cattle which recently fell dead beside
the little stream that flows through