Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-03

Nov. 27-3O-MeetinR state Educational
Association at Albuquerque.
June l4-17-CowbogS Reunion at Las
Vegas.
Twelve cant Of trout fry were left
at Santa F6 by the United States fish
car.
The 1917 meeting Of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor will be held at Las
Vegas.
Plans are under way at Clovis for
the erection of a $4,000 high school
building.
Former President Roosevelt deliv-
cred a political address at Albu-
querque.
Supreme Court Justice Richard H.
Hanna Of Santa Fe %dislocated his arm
in an automobile accident.
The New Mexico Electrical Associa-
ton will hold its next convention in
Albuquerque on Feb. IL, 10 and IA.
Tularosa was proclaimed an incor-
porated village at the meeting OF the
board Of commissioners for otero
county.
The New Mexico Cattle and Horse
Growers Association are agreed that
the present bounty law fails of its
purpose.
State Engineer James A. French has
approved the design and specifications
for a steel bridge cross the Canadian
river at the Leon Romero crossing,
near Roy.
An election for the Incorporation of
Roy, in eastern Mora county, has been
called for Nov. 81, at which time a
mayor, four trustees and a clerk are
to be elected.
Damages to the amount of 100000
are asked from the Victor Fuel Com
pany in a suit filed in the Federal
Court at Santa F@ by Julian Kraiacich,
administrator of the estate of Frank
Rujac.
Because her husband was killed by
tramps on a train on which he was
brakeman, between Lordsburg and Ell
Paso, Mrs. Laura e. Stevenson has
sued the Southern Pacific for $4,000
damages.
The receipts of the Santa Fe post
office for the past quarter were ST.
5O3.73, of which $7,O29.3O came from
the sale of stamps; 1886 from sec
ond-class postage and $2SO.25 from
box rent.
Officers of the New Mexico Game
Protective Association made public the
details of a plan which, if accepted by
the candidates for governor, will prob
ably result in divorcing the office of
state game warden from party politics.
The broom corn crop of Curry coun-
ty is being harvested, and the broom
corn buyers who are at Clovis from all
parts of the country say the crop is
lighter than last year, although the
prices are nearly double.
The State Supreme Court at Santa
Fe denied a writ of prohibition to re-
strain District Judge T. c. Leib of RIA
ton from trying John H. Towndrow of
Ration on the charge of killing his
wife.
That additional buildings are to be
erected at the New Mexico Military In
stitute at Roswell to accommodate the
largely increased attendance of cadets
and to make provision for the eason
able growth of the college in the future
Miss Annie Hoose was seriously in
tured, and Severe Ulibarri, aged IL,
suffered a broken leg when a broncho
upon which Jockey" Beal was riding
fell, after having plunged through a
crowd in front of the armory at Las
Vegas.
Percy Fenner, a New York mining
engineer, is working the famous Lady
Franklin mine in the Kingston dis
trict, Sierra county. Tunnels are be
ing driven into Kentucky mountain
from opposite sides, which are getting
into the manganese.
In spite of the wet weather and
consequent heavy roads. five carloads
VI Dtdub WGiG Dilltu OuL lIOul int
Mountainair Santa Fe station during
the week. This brings the total to date
to twenty cars, representing a cash
value of over 100000.
A four-foot vein in quartzite has
been opened by the Pay Ora Mining
Company in the Moreno district at
Elizabethtown, Colfax county. The ore
yields S47.7O per ton. Another 1000.
foot tunnel is to be driven to cut the
ore vein at a depth of 700 feet.
In 1910 the average forest fire
burned off $50 acres, in 1916 two
acres. During the same period cost
Of suppression has been cut in half
and the burned area reduced to one
twentieth of what it was six years
ago. This is the context of a report
Just received by the district forester
at Albuquerque.
Thirty representative farmers o.
Bernalillo county met In the office OF