Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-12-22
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

1hloh VI the ocvttlbh hiAe AahohA ~
June i4-17-Cowboys' Reunio at Las
Vegas.
Hay is quoted at $40 per ton at
Cimarron.
The light company's office at Gallup
was burglarizeG.
Stanley people are well pleased with
their new school building.
The Democrats spent $3,146.S3 in
the campaign in San Miguel County.
Santa Fe men have obtained an op-
ton on a site for a big tourist hotel.
Bruno Marquee Of Albuquerque was
stabbed in the back by an unknown
man.
The people OF Columbus are now re-
ceiving their mail in the new post
office.
The income from state lands in 1917
will reach and perhaps exceed
$40 ZOO.
Clovis people will vote on q $4,000
bond proposition for erecting a new
school house.
over 100000 pounds Of beans,
worth $780, 600, we're shipped from
Mountaineer this season.
1t is reported hat w. II. IAdams, liv-
ing near House, this year raised over
$4,000 pounds of f~rijoles.
Clovis, as well as several other
eastern New Mexico towns and cities,
is threatened with a coal famine.
The postal receipts of the Santa F6
p%ostoffice for the month of November
were about 20 per cent higher than
usual.
Mescal Begay, Navajo Indian, was
acquitted at Gallup on a charge OF
murder for the alleged killing of an
other Indian.
President Wilson is expected to ap-
point soon a successor to the late
Judge Pope, Federal Judge for the
District of New Mexico.
Fort Sumner is to have a special
election to vote on tue proposition to
issue $32,50O bonds to build a new
school house.
Lying on the floor of her little
house in Santa Fe the dead body of
Mrs. Isabel Romero, aged 80 years,
was found by neighbors.
Good ore continues to be mined on
the Eureka claim at Mogollon, but a
scarcity of burro trains handicaps
shipment OF the product.
Mining activity at Hanover at the
present time is unprecedented, with
several large companies already Op-
Grating there on a large scale.
November's sunshine percentage at
Santa Fe reached the 81 mark, accord
ing to the United States Weather Blu
reau. There was not a single day
without sunshine.
Pronco Kid Smith, the 1~36-pound
boxer of Lordsburg, will mix it for
ten rounds with Speedy Moreno, the
~140-pound indicated champion of the
So mine, on Christmas night at Lords
burg.
With Christmas only a few days
off, p~ostoffice officials all over the
country are sounding the call of
EARLY Shopping" Patrons of the
parcel post are urged to mail their
packages early so as to insure prompt
delivery.
1t was ascertained that every one
of the five convicts who made a des-
perate and extraordinary attempt at
Santa Fe to scale the eighteen-foot
pen walls by means of a blanket lad
der, had attempted before to get out
of prison.
Ten thousand tons of alfalfa we're
raised in New Mexico this year.
The Santa Fe Railway will give EN-
ployes at Albuquerque approximately
$4,000 in Christmas presents. This
sum is part of the 81, 900 set apart
recently by the Board of Directors of
the railway for distribution among
employees.
The enormous and unprecedented
sum Of $201, 101 20 derived from land
sales and leases was apportioned by
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Alvan N. White, giving each county
$40 per capita of its new school
census.
A. A. Jones for United States SEN
ator, and Robert P. Ervien for land
commissioner, led, respectively, the
Democratic and Republican tickets, in
the recent election, according to the
totals made public by the New Mexi-
co State Board of Canvassers.
The school census for 1916, now
completed, shows that there are a to-
tai of 1926 persons between the
ages of 8 and p years in New Mexi-
co. Multiplied by 3H, the figure gen
orally taken in estimates, the popula-
ton Of the state would be 1885.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
was filed at Santa Fe in the U. s..
District Clerks Court by RemijiO
MiraOal, former state representative
Of Gallup and 1t is one of the largest
in the matter of liabilities filed for