Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-08-04

C%hiropractors cannot practice In
New Mexico with a license.
The Deming Red Cross Society held
a tag day, clearing a neat sum.
Mountaineer has gained a hundred
settlers in the past seven months.
There were seventy-two graduates
at the Las Vegas Normal school.
It is announced hat Mountaineer
will soon have a water and light
plant.
Over a thousand Indians attended
the annual feast day celebration at
Ramah.
Twenty-Five teachers were awarded
diplomas at the Silver City Normal
school.
The 450-horsepower crude oil burn
ing engine at the IS mine was blown
to pieces by an explosion.
The price of alfalfa hay was never
so high as now in July, says a Carls-
bad report, 1880 being offered
A new rural delivery route is to
run from Las Cruces to Dona n
and Mesilla, the service to begin
Aug. 2.
A Silver City landmark, the old
Centennial building, is to be torn
down soon to make room for a mod
ern business block.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company is demonstrating its toll
lines in Grant county and from Sill
yer City to border points.
The rate on hay between Gallup
and Socorro will be reduced to 26
cents July 81. A month later it will
be lowered a half cent more.
Silver City residents are raising a
fund for the purchase of food Tex
tras" for the Silver City boys now at
Columbus with the New Mexico regi-
ment.
Practically every farmer in the
MoUntaineer section has some Of his
land planted to beans, and this years
crop is expected to be much larger
than ever before.
Mckinley Jones, the S-year-old son
Of David Jones of Las Vegas, was
painfully injured when a dynamite
cap with which he was playing ex-
ploded, blowing a hole in his thigh.
W. b. Shipley, of Clovis, was de-
clared by the judges to be the best
all arOund cowboy who attended the
reunion at Las Vegas, and was pre-
sented with a handsome pair OF
chaps.
Fred Neiderman, a resident of Nc
Comb, had his left leg mangled and
his right foot crushed under the
wheels of a Santa Fe train al Vaughn.
He is nov in st. Joseph's hospital at
Albuquerque.
Wharton A. Moore, district inspec-
tor for a fire underwriters associa-
ton, committed spicide 1t Albuquer-
que by taking poison. Moore was de-
PENDANT in a divorce suit filed a week
ago. He was a graduate of the Geor-
gia School of Technology at Atlanta,
and an Elk.
Mountaineer's new $4,000 school
building will be completed in a few
days.
What is declared to be the finest
piece of roadway anywhere in New
Mexico was completed by State Engi.
neer James A. French, between Santa
Fe and La Bajada hill, on the road to
Albuquerque.
Santa Rita and Hurley are New
Mexico towns that reflect the pros
perity of the times and the high price
of copper, The Chino Copper Com
pany has the largest force of men EN-
ployed in its history.
The Progressive state Central Com
mittee, decided at Santa Fe to call
for a state convention of Progressives
and Independent voters in Santa Fe,
Aug. 81, to nominate a state ticket
"if it is deemed advisable at that
time"
Albert Turner, the 1~S-year-old
youth of Yankee, near Ration, who
fired a revolver at his father and
mother, missing both, and later seri-
Ously wounding Louis Barbot, a
neighbor, was taken to Las Vegas
n lodged in the New Mexico hos.
pital for the insane.
The Santa Fe Railway Company,
through General Tax Commissioner
George p. Tunell, asked the State
Tax Commission to reduce its 1916
valuation by $S.347.615. The request
followed the reduction of the assess
ment of the Ell Paso e. Southwestern
by $1.5O2. 131.
All doubts as to the suitability of
the Silver City Manganese ore to an
swer the requirements of the eastern
iron shelters has been removed by
the continued acceptance OF the Sill
yer City ores and demands that the
supply be kept up.