The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1916-08-11
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

Roswell
Sept. it-l6-rolr at Artcsin.
Sept. lt-lS-s state Fair at Albuquerque.
Sept rs. 23-Liyc stock ana Products
Exposition at Roswell
sept. 2S-Fuir at G~rccnVille.
Oct. 3.6-New MrNicu lntuNera NSHnrl
alton Convention II Grand canon
AriE
oct. io-I3 bona Ana county Fair at
Las Cruces.
Espanola is having a building
boom.
The Roswell baseball club has dis.
banded.
M~ountainair's ninth chautauqua
vas a success.
July was generally a dry month in
New Mexico this year.
The union men OF Albuquerque will
parade there Labor day,
The Las Vegas paving question was
taken into District Court.
Moreno valley men are to improve
the roads In their section.
The dates for the Dona Anna county
fair have been fixed as oct. 1913.
Oak Grove. No. 10, Woodmen Cir
Gle, was instituted at Albuquerque.
Farmers near Carlsbad are plan.
nhg TO feed stock the coming season.
Receipts ut the state land office Tor
July totalled s5,S3g. all produced by
leases.
The new army camp, northwest oil
Columbus. will comprise four square
miles.
About fifteen cars OF catalogues
will be shipped from Fort Sumner this
season.
A total Of 1874 were confirmed in
Grant county in ten days by Bishop
Schiller.
sam Shoemaker OF Dedman com
miued suicide by shooting himself In
the head.
An exceptional list OF entries has
been secured tor the state fair race
meet this fall.
A movement has been started for
the establishment OF n new town
northwest OF Columbus.
An effort is being made to secure
the stationing at Las Cruces OF al
least a regiment Of militia.
Fred Sheek, a cowboy, VAS ar
rested on a charge OF killing a ranch
er named Oleson, lear Roucks.
The appointment OF a receiver fol
the Albuquerque Wool securing Mile
was asked of the District Court.
Equipment has been ordered bs
Major W. +. TRULY for two hundre,
beds In the new army hospital a
Dcming.
New Mexico has been asked to par
ticipate in the Soil Products exposi
ton at FL Paso. 1t Is to be held from
oct. Il to 20.
Frank Lujan, OF Sabinoso, an
John c. Scale OF Ration have beef
commissioned notaries public by Gov
ernor Mcdonald.
July payments from the pension
fund raised in Roswell for the relic
OF families OF Battery A member
amounted to SlSl.o5.
Albaro Aragon Is dead as the Re
suit OF "a gunshot wound inflicted ~
on him in a quarrel over the owner
ship OF q calf ut Kelly.
The Franciscan Sisters are plar
ning the establishment OF a Catholi
parochial school and a seminary 10
Young ladies in Clayton.
Joseph c. Bunch, town recorder O
Carlsbad. has been held to the gran
Jury on bond Of $1,000 charged wit
forgery OF town warrants.
DR.. NJ. J. Moran OF Deming Ia
been elected vice president OF tn
National Dental Association, Iii
election occurred at Louisville,
CLAYTON viii lower It's insuranC
rate by raising its water storage tan
forty.fIve FED, so as to give a g
pound pressure in the city mains.
sebrun T. Gray. for thirty-one year
a resident OF Lincoln county and 1
one time county superintendent {
4 schools. died at his home in Capita
Walter Naylor has been re-electe
president OF the Cowboys Reunio
Association OF Las Vegas, and w
lam Springer treasurer Oscar Ne
hs was named vice president, al
Robert l.. NJ. Ross secretary.
Mexican laborers at the Nation
Guard camp al Deming, who struC
for higher wages. were arrested Il
yagrancy by order Of Mayor Nor
haus and have been put TO work
the streets. The men were r~eceiyir
.l.5O for nine hours work.
Dewey Johnson has been held
the Union county grand jury on Dol