Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-14

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Mining operations In Grant county
is very active at the present time.
Eight New Mexico companies have
been mustered into the u. s. service.
Tucumcari now has raised $500
for the building of a railroad Y. NJ.
c. A.
1t is stated that Gallup liquor deal
ers will fight the raise in the price of
licenses.
Indications are that the beet crop
In Colfax county this year will be Of
record size.
Capt. Charles Youngblood. aged 80
years. captured a bear on the Cimar-
ron mesa, near Ration.
Venerable Sister Rosann Dant, aged
81, passed away at the Loretto
academy in Santa Fe.
A factory to make grain cake" a
substitute for ~cottonseed cake, may
be located at Clovis oon
Company c, with three officers and
sixty-five men, has been mustered
into the federal service.
bona Ana county sold its $4,000 is.
sue Of bridge bonds at par. accrued
interest and a premium Of $685..
Engineers have completed surveys
Of Springer's streets and alleys for
the new water and sewer system.
The number of men sent to the
front with the New Mexico troops
from Chaves county nov is over 200.
Raymond r. Ryan has been appoint
ed referee of the Peoples Savings
Bank & Trust Company of Silver City.
1t is estimated that the receipts Of
the state land office will total $780,
600 before the end of the current fis-
cal year.
The output of New Mexico mines in
1915, as reported by the United
States geological survey had a value
Of more than sig, OOO,0 O0.
Clarence B. Mccormack OF Montoya
has been named United States com.
missioner in place Of w. c. Simpson,
who resigned.
Plans have been drawn for the new
Santa Rosa high school. The build
ing will be in mission style and will
cost about $4,000.
Mrs. Amelia c. de Gomez and her
niece, Jesus VslSerde, we're arrested
in Deming charged with passing
counterfeit $40 bills.
The first of the Curry county wheat
yield to be sold this year was a two
carload lot, raised by Bryan & Reed,
at so cents a bushel.
Entries of exhibits at the Roswell
Livestock and Products Exposition
will come from as far away as Dallas,
Oklahoma and Colorado.
Aug. 8, 9 and 10 have been selected
as the dates of the Gulf-to-C colorado
Highway Associations annual CONVEX
ton, to be held in Ration.
Nearly 6,4OO auto licenses have been
issued this year, and the secretary of
state expects the number to reach
5000 by the end of the year.
Ration has organized a rifle club.
Nestor Gonzales was fined $40 or
fifteen days in jail in the city court
Of Albuquerque for beating his niece
by marriage, Bersabel Griego.
c. P. Tiffany, a former student at
the School of Mines at Socorro, is
now a corporal in the English army
and is on the battle front in France.
Miss Lulu E. Stallman, head OF the
department of domestic science at the
Las Vegas normal, and her assistant,
Miss Mary Harris, have resigned their
positions.
During the storm at Hagerman
lightning struck a horse ridden by a
daughter Of j. s. WrOmasky, killing
the animal instantly aud seriously in.
iuring the girl.
ID. c. ImbOden has been secured to
act as secretary OF the Silver City
Chamber OF Commerce pending the re-
tnrn OF Capt. Carl Hinton, now with
the National Guard.
Peace officers Of the county are
making a determined effort to locate
three men who robbed Mrs. Fusanita
Garcia OF 5000, after beating and
choking her into insensibility at her
home at GusanO.
Clovis was deprived Of half It's po-
lice force when F. q. SadleF, night
maIGhal, six feet four inches tall and
weighing yer 200 pounds. enlisted in
the National Guard.
The annual corn dance festival at
the Santo Domingo pueblo, which al
attracts a large number Of peo-
pie from Albuquerque, will be held
this year on Aug. 4.
Judge Reynolds in the District
Court at Albuquerque suspended
Francis p. Wood from practice IN
the Second Judicial district until fur.
Their act OF the court,