Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-08-18

Work has started on the Tucum-
carl grain elevator.
Moreno valley men are to improve
the roads in their section.
Oak Grove, No. 46, WOodmen Cir
Gle, was instituted at Albuquerque.
Receipts at the state land office for
July totalled $3.50. all produced by
leases.
The new army camp, northwest Of
Columbus, will comprise four square
miles.
About fifteen cars of catalogues
will be shipped from Fort Sumner this
season.
An exceptional list Of entries has
been secured for the state fair race
meet this fall.
An effort is being made to nj
the stationing at Las Cruces of at
least a regiment of militia.
Fred Sheek, a cowboy. was ar
rested on a charge of killing a ranch
err named Oleson, near Roucks.
T. P. Bates sold his ranch west Of
House, to j. P. Fuller, of the Geneva,
for $12,25O, not including the live
stock.
The Deming branch Of the Red
Cross now has a membership Of 75.
A recent Red Cross tag day there
netted SITS.
New Mexico has been asked to par.
ticipate in the Soil Products exposi.
ton at FL Paso. 1t is to be held from
Oct. II to 26.
Frank Lujan, of S~abinoso, and
John C. Scale of Ration have been
commissioned notaries public by Gov
ernor Mcdonald.
July payments from the pension
fund raised in Roswell for the relief
of families of Battery A members
amounted to $181.05.
Albaro Aragon is dead as the re-
suit of a gunshot wound inflicted up
on him in a quarrel over the owner
ship of a calf at Kelly.
Joseph C. Bunch, town recorder Of
Carlsbad, has been held to the grand
jury on bond Of $1,000 charged with
forgery of town warrants.
Clayton will lower its insurance
rate by raising its water storage tank
forty-five feet, so as to give a CO.
pound pressure in the city mains.
Dewey Johnson has been held to
the Union county grand jury on bond
of $4,000 for the killing of N. A.
Hypes, a Union county farmer, at
Clayton.
Alvan N. White, superintendent Of
public instruction of New Mexico, was
elected a director of the National
Educational Association at the an.
nual convention which was held in
New York.
s. S. Carroll, who resigned from the
state engineers office to take charge
of the reservoir construction work at
Las Vegas, will be succeeded by L. ].
Charles, who has been construction
engineer on the Elephant Butte dam.
Cuervo will vote on the question Of
local option Aug. 10.
Through the New Mexico Cattle and
Horse Growers Association, with
which 1t is affiliated, the Northern
New Mexico Stockmen's Association
has secured for Mora and adjoining
counties an additional cattle inspec-
tor.
Mrs. James H. Paxton, wife of the
former Democratic state chairman
end president Of the board Of regents
of the New Mexico State College, was
instantly killed in an auto accident in
Vii ginia and Mr.. Paxton was perhaps
fatally injured.
The county commissioners at Albu-
querque did not revoke the licenses of
saloon keepers, accused of permitting
tn" running of dance halls in connec-
ton with their places, on condition
that they keep women away from
their premises hereafter.
F. X. Eberle. among the pioneer
mining men Of the Mogollon mining
district, and one of the locators of the
valuable Eberle group of claims, died
his home in Los Angeles, where
he had been living in retirement the
past few years. He was n years old.
The Mesilla valley pear crop is be-
ing gathered, packed and shipped.
The entire crop, which, It is esci-
mated, will amount to twelve or tiff
teen cars, was sold under contract
last May. The crop this year is the
largest yet raised in the valley, and
growers viii receive an average Of
$1.25 per box.
As a result Of the recent visit to
Taos OF President Nudge and other
officials Of the Denver & Rio Grande,
rumors that the railroad plans to
build into Taos have been revived.