Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-01-14

Albino Alderete, Of Belen, shot and
killed himself.
Applications for over 100 auto
licenses have been made.
State receipts last year totalled 81
S7S.1s6 and disbursements $2,332,5sz.
Alamogordo's new amusement hall
was dedicated formally on New
Years.
]. Maesch, a miner, was killed in
an accident at the Navajo mine, near
Gallup.
]. B. Harvey has been nominated
by President Wilson for postmaster
at Carlsbad.
Clayton Masons spent $1,000 for a
banquet to dedicate their new temple,
recently completed.
The City Council of Clovis has vot-
ed to extend the cement sidewalk
along Monroe avenue.
The work OF improving its shops
and other facilities at Gallup is being
prosecuted steadily by the Santa Fe.
Fire, of unknown origin, destroyed
an entire block in the town of Kelly,
causing a loss estimated at about s20,.
900.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Livestock Association will be
held in Ell Paso, Texas, Jan. %. 26
and q.
Juan Sandoval was shot at Vaughn
by a native of Old Mexico named
Munoz, who is being held in the Santa
Rosa jail.
William Hoehne, "a, for fifty years
a resident of New Mexico, died at the
home of his adopted son, Bias Hoehne,
at Santa Rosa.
DR.. G. w. Bennett of Fort Sumner
shot himself. Dependency was said
to be the cause. He leaves a widow
and three children.
Springer reports that the acreage
sown to wheat in Colfax and Mora
counties is by far the largest in the
history OF those sections.
Roswell was the scene of a fatal
shooting affray, as a result of which
Manuel Rubio, twenty-seven, is dead,
and Lopez Gonzales, seventeen, is in
Jail.
Reductions of from Is to 20 per
cent, it is estimated by the State Cor
poration Commission, will be made in
express rates affecting New Mexico
Feb. l..
Governor Mcdonald named A. A.
Jones and B. c. Hernandez as dele
gates to the National Conference on
immigration and Americanization, to
be held in Philadelphia, Jan. 10 and
20.
Alvan N. White, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, has accept
ed an invitation to act as a committee
of one, representing New Mexico, in
the movement to secure an appropria-
tion of 500, 900 for the federal bureau
of education.
The expenditures of the New Mexico
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts in the last fiscal year-Dec. l,
1914, to Nov. 80, 1915-reached a total
of S~157,S1S.75. The total enrolment
during the year was 225-166 men and
SO women.
Montana leads in wool production
with 29,040,0 900 pounds. Wyoming was
a close second with 2S,6S2,2OO pounds.
Other states producing more than TO-
000,0 pounds each were: New Mex
lea, 1921 900; Oregon, 15,6OO,OOO;
Ohio, 14,S5O,OOO; Utah, 13,32O,OOO and
California, IL. 5 900.
In the past fiscal year, 360,325 cat
lie, $4,000 of which originated in Mex
leo, were inspected for shipment in
this state, the annual report of the
Cattle Sanitary Board states.
Governor Mcdonald will visit Ration
and make a personal inquiry into the
case of Austin Kinney, the 6O-year
old negro sentenced to be hung Christ
mas v and reprieved for thirty days
by the executive. Kinney was con
victed of the murder of another negro.
A total of 1854 patients are confined
in the state insane asylum at Las
Vegas, according to the report of the
board of directors. or these, 209 are
men n 1876 women. The daily aver
age of patients shows an Increase Of
fifteen over last year. over $4,000
VAS expended during the year.
The t~wenty-six counties Of New
Mexico, in the fiscal year ended No
vember 30, last, collected a total OF
S4,367, O29.96. This was a decrease OF
$685. 8 40, compared with the total
collections of counties in the proceed.
ing twelve months. In the fiscal year
the liquor traffic in New Mexico gave
twenty-five counties a total revenue OF
$127,S1G.S4, a decrease of s699.16.
Deputy Sheriff Bob Lewis of Mag.
dalena surprised a couple of men With
a bunch of stock near hat town. The
men departed hastily, leaving twenty
two head of horses, several pack