Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-21

condition.
e. V. Hesser, a resident of Clovis,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
Jack Torres, Of Albuquerque, and
Dick Wells fought ten rounds to a
draw at Las Vegas.
Jose e. Abeyta, a resident Of Cham
isal, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor.
"Slim" Allen, a cowboy, was hurt
while bulldogging a steer at the Lac
Vegas cowboys reunion.
Within the past year there has been
$125,O0O worth of hogs shipped out OF
the Pecos valley from Clovis.
Motor truck transportation between
Columbus and the field base has been
hampered greatly by heavy rains.
New Mexico's share of the $15O,OO0,
600 appropriated for road work during
the next five years will be $1,235,25O
George L.. Reece was appointed a
member of the board of regents of the
military institute, succeeding Joseph E.
Rhea.
Roswell Elks are planning a street
fete for the benefit of the pension
fund for dependents OF the Roswell
battery.
The Santa Fe city school board has
let a contract for a 5000 steel fire
escape to be erected on the CatrOn
school building.
Knowles, in Eddy county, will &c
dry" Sept. 1, when the only saloon
there will be closed by j. p. Andrus
and Col. Hardin.
A damage suit for $4,000 was filed
by Louie Plem VS.. the Victor Ameri.
can Fuel Company, in the Federal
Court at Santa Fe.
The Deming land office has been
informed that homesteaders may be
granted permission to leave their
ranches temporarily.
The New Mexico Cattle and Horse
Growers Association will hold its
third annual meeting in Albuquerque
March 10, 16 and II.
c. B. Steed, whose term as a mem.
Der of the State Board of Embalmers
had expired, was succeeded by r. NJ.
Thorne of Carlsbad.
The supply barn of the ella Farm
Company at Nogales, Grant county,
was totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Santa F@ railway has just per
fected a plan by which benefits will
be paid the families of employees who
die in the service of the company.
Lem .Spillsbury, the scout who was
captured with the negro troops at Car.
rial, formerly lived at Walnut Wells,
Grant county, and is well known in
that section.
Sixteen Albuquerque saloon men
have filed a petition with the city
council asking that the license fee
there be reduced from $1,000 to $1,000.
Catching highballs seems to be the
principal proposed athletic feature OF
the New Mexico Athletic Association
of Columbus, which filed articles OF
Incorporation with the state corpora
tion commission.
The New Mexico state University
at Albuquerque opens Aug. %. Early
applications for entrance indicate a
freshman class of 1875, a number equal
to the total enrolment Of the univer.
sity four years ago.
That New Mexico can be proud OF
the men of her National Guard, now
on the border, vas the statement OF
the Governor, who returned from q
visit to the guard camp at Columbus
and from El Paso. where the Roswell
battery Is stationed.
The tax rolls for the entire state
show that in 1915 Of the S12,O 900 cattle
assessed, 629, 1000 were held in herds
Of fifty or more. There were 1871
owners returning more than fifty heaC
each. And the average holding wai
319 head per owner for that number.
Roscoe r. Hill, professor of history
at the State University, is at Berke
ley, Calf, where he is delivering
course of lectures on Central anC
South American relations. before tbs
University of California summer
school. He is %lecturing under direc
ton of the international Cancellation
Association.
j. M. Hudson, an Oklahoma OF
man. declared In Santa Fe that tbs
Mexican war, with its ensuing short
age of production in the Mexican
oil fields. was a large factor in boom
ing oil development in this state.