Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-03-24

the nineteen students attending, but
one is q girl.
Nara Visa was the scene Of a dis
astrous fire when seven buildings
we're destroyed.
Sweet potato growers around Por-
tales are shipping out their product,
stored since last fell.
The Santa Fe county grand jury
concluded its work with the return
Of fourteen indictments.
The recent fire on the GOnza1tOs
messa partly destroyed the timber
and damaged the range extensively.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
tine ottosen Drug Company's store in
Willard, Amin Bros store and n
residence.
The 1916 motor vehicle licenses is.
sued total 1910, or only 60 less than
the number issued during the whole
Of 1915.
Ralph w. Enos of Silver City will
represent the Indian factory in the
Albuquerque-Phoenix motorcycle race
late in May.
The fire limits of the city of Gallup,
in which no frame building a be
erected, were extended to cover eight
additional blocks.
The principal speaker at the com
mencement exercises Of the ST nta
Rosa High school, on May 10, will be
Chief Justice Clarence j.. Roberts.
The Silver City council has formal.
ly accepted the paving on Billiard and
Broadway streets. recently completed,
at a cost of $4,000.
H. F. Coggeshall has been appoint.
ed Indian agent at Shiprock, succeed
ing w. T. Shelton. who founded the
San Juan school and agency twelve
years ago.
Incorporation papers for the Gold
Bell Mining Company were filed with
the State Corporation Commission,
the authorized capital of the concern
being 100000.
The Roswell city council has passed
an ordinance creating the Roswell
Cemetery Association. which will
hereafter have the control of the RIOS.
we'll cemetery.
The tennis players of New Mexico
will meet in state tournament in Ros.
well this fall for third successive year.
The tournament will be staged Sept
4, 8, 6 and z.
State land brought almost a record
price at the sale at Carlsbad when
Capt. Fritz Muller sold 1000 acres to
various parties. One parcel brought
$25 an acre.
A total Of S994,5OO win be spent on
roads and bridges In New Mexico
during the present year, according tC
an estimate issued by State Engineer
James Adams French.
More than a million acres of pasture
were swept by a prairie fire thai
started near Obar and burned fol
forty miles through the northern por
ton of Quay county.
A copy of the Presidents proclama
ton creating the Bandelier nationa
monument was received by Register
Delgado and Receiver Vigil of the
United States land office at Santa F9
Governor Mcdonald notified tbs
Secretary Of War at Washington thai
the National Guard of New Mexico
consisting of s~ixty-One officers and 81
men. was ready for service on shor'
notice.
Ada Brown, colored, Of Ration. hal
pleaded guilty to rObbing an Italian
miner of some $3.50 in East Ration
The woman implicated George Wyatt
now in custody. and William Thomas
who is said TO have the currency.
District Judge Edmund C. Abbott a
Santa F6 sentenced Celso Roybal Il
serve from fifty to seventy-fiVe year
at hard labor in the state penitentiar.
for numbering Alexandra Maestai
near Espanola on Feb. 20.
Alamogordo voters will be Gale,
upon to decide whether the town shall
issue bonds in the sum of $275,000 o
less for acquiring the city water sys
tenn, and in the sum of $4,000 TO
acquiring a municipal electric plant
at the general election, April 4.
George Woodhouse has been name
chairman of the Board of County Con
missioners of Coltax county, to sue
coed Rev. Harvey M. Shields. VIII
died in a Texas hospital. A success
sor to DR.. Shields will be ~appointe
by Governor Mcdonald.
Thomas D. Burns, a pioneer settle
Of northern New Mexico. veteran pol
-ician and legislator and owner {
numerous valuable mercantile estaI
.ishments in Rio Arriba county, Ne
Mexico, and southern Colorado