Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-04-28
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
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at Albuquerque.
June e-s--Teachers' Meeting at East
July l-s.-cOwbOyS Reunion at Las
Sept. 1-i-stats Tennis Tournament at
Oct. s-s-New Mexico Banker AssocI-
alton Convention at Grand Canon,
Ariz.
Six inches Of snow fell at Santa F6
on the 18th.
Tucumcari will have a baseball
team this year.
Work has been started on a test
well for oil at Columbus.
Manuel Garcia Of Lumbertown was
appointed a notary public.
Railroad men in East Las Vegas are
organizing a baseball team.
The prohibition petitions in otero
county have been withdrawn.
Work has been started on the new
Museum building at Santa Fe.
Work has been started on the new
Catholic rectory at Silver City.
The contract has been let for build
ing a new $4,000 church at Hurley.
The Clovis school board has bought
a site for a $4,000 high school build
ing.
Fourteen prisoners have been sent
from Grant county to the state peni-
Tertiary.
The Knights Of Columbus Of Gallup
will hold a big initiation and banquet
April 30.
A deposit of fine red and blue gran
tie has been located a few miles
south of Lucy.
A ban has been placed on dancing
in the school house at Mountainview.
in Luna county.
The sale Of S2,493 acres Of state
land in Grant county will be held at
Silver City May 8.
The 1915 report of the Carlsbad pro
iect shows that the ares for which wa
ter is ready is 24,796 acres.
Folsom will hold an election on May
q to decide whether or not it shall re-
main an incorporated town.
Thomas H. Casey, Of Hot Springs,
has been commissioned a notary pub
lie by Governor Mcdonald.
The petition for the Incorporation
Of Roy has been approved by the
Mora county commissioners.
An effort will probably be made at
the next State Legislature to get a
teachers pension bill passed.
CarrizoEo soon will hold an cleo
ton on the question Of Incorporating.
A special census is being taken.
Thomas A. Rivera, Of Ranches de
Taos, has been commissioned a no
tary public by Governor Mcdonald.
Andrew F. Mayes has applied for
the use of the waters of Box canon,
Lincoln county, to irrigate 800 acres.
At a public stock sale in Quay
county grade GOV sold as high as
$S5 each and yearling heifers brought
$500.
Punk Woods and Pete Standife-
we're arrested at Clovis and taken to
Amarillo on the charge Of white
slavery.
The annual report If the Carlsbad
project shows an increase Of go per
cent in the number of hogs owned on
the project.
Bills providing a special appropria
ton for a bridge cross the San Juan
river at Pennington have been intro
duced in Congress.
Ira Lane is dead near Jal in south
eastern Eddy county and Charles
Lassiter is in Jail at Carlsbad,
charged with the killing.
Deming will have a casket factory.
Since April 1, approximately 5000
people have visited the New Mexico
building at San Diego. Six hundred
and twenty-six have registered.
The Old Barracks building, land
mark Of army days in Santa Fe, is
soon to be merely a memory, for
workmen are dismantling the struc-
ture.
o. H. B. Turner, Ration; Stephen
Andres, J. L. -Brenneman, John d.
Clark, Albuquerque; L. j.. Charles,
Elephant Butte, are the New Mexico
members Of the defense board named
by Secretary Daniels.
Self defense was the plea set up by
Jose Medina at Albuquerque in his
trial for the murder of Jose Chavez,
the San Jose saloonkeeper. He killed
Chavez unaided. he said. and had no
a~coOmplices before or after the crime.
Harold, a son'of Dave wester, OF
the Granite valley, near Des Moines,
almost lost his life when the team he
was driving ran away, throwing him
out Of the wagon, which passed over
his body, breaking several ribs. The
wagon was loaded with five barrels
of water.
A bridge oVer the Canadian or
Red river, at Logan, Quay county, to