Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-08-11
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Nevspaper Union Nsw. servlee.

aug. E4-E6-Fair at LoVington.
Aug SO-Demicratic state Convention
Avs. 2l-Progressive state Convention
SEPT. t-7-state Tennis Tournament at
Sept. 1l-i6-Fair at Artesia.
sept. l5-16-Fair at Dexter.
sept. l4-1S-State Fair at Albuquerque.
sept. 1S-23-Live stock and Products
Exposition at Roswell
Oct. 3-6-New Mexico Bankers Assocl-
alton Convention at Grand Canon
oct. 1o-13-Dona Ana County Fair at
Las Cruces.
Clovis is arranging for a poultry
show.
Espanola is having a building
boom.
Tucumcari is becoming a wool
trade center.
MOuntainair's ninth c%hautauQua
was a success.
July was generally n 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.
Contracts have been let for paving
the plaza in East Las Vegas.
Funds are being raised at Santa F6
for the La Bajada road project.
Tucumcarl citizens have subscribed
$4,000 for a Y. M. c. A. building.
The dates for the Dona Anna county
fair have been fixed as Oct. 1913.
Farmers near Carlsbad are plan.
ming to feed stock the coming season.
over 1000 auto licenses have been
issued by the Secretary of State this
year.
A total of 1874 were confirmed in
Grant county in ten days by Bishop
Schiller.
1t is stated that the Clayton flour
ing mill, recently destroyed by fire,
may be rebuilt.
Delays in shipping machinery for
the saw mills at ~Alamogordo has post
poned opening of work.
West Vaughn, Guadalupe county,
has been incorporated and will hold
an election on Aug. u.
Gallup now is said to be enacting
rather heavily the role of oasis to
the Arizona prohibition desert.
The Las Vegas Normal University
has sent 800 pounds Of canned fruits
to the New Mexico guardsmen.
The county commissioners of Albu.
querque ordered the redemption Of
$17,50O funding bonds OF Aug. 2, 1897.
Masonic bodies of Ration have pur.
chased a plot of ground IS by 142 on
which a Masonic temple is to be
erected.
The board of regents of the Silver
City Normal has decided on the cree.
ton OF a new science hall at that in.
%stitution to cost $4,000.
A local option election for the
Guadalupe county district, including
Cuervo, Los Tanos and Hale, has
been called for Aug. 10.
New Mexico gets $7S,737 the first
year for good roads under the appor.
tionment of the $4,000 0 recently
appropriated by Congress.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
erecting at Carlsbad a new five-stall
~roundhouse, a coal chute and cinder
pit, at a cost of about $4,000.
The second section of the addition
to the State Insane Asylum at Las
Vegas is to be built at a cost of S15,
600. Total value of the improve,
ments provided for by the last Legis.
lature is $4,000.
Charles Carson, son of the famous
old scout, Kit Carson, and his family,
of High, Colo, arrived in Taos look,
ing for a COW range on which to To-
cate.
The Chino Copper Company, the
big Grant county producer, is now
earning profits of nearly $1,000, 900 a
month, according to statistics recent
ly printed.
Governor Mcdonald appointed the
following notaries: J. L. Emerson OF
Knowles; l.. E. G~allegos of Clayton;
jeff. H.. Hockey of Lovington, and
L. IL. Miranda OF Lincoln.
Emil Barbout, the young man who
was shot at Yankee, Colfax county.
by Albert Turner, the 1~7-year-old
boy who suddenly went insane and
who is now in the state insane asy.
lum, died at the Miners Hospital at
Ration.
Antonio ~Careovello, the Italian
miner from Koehler who was held at
the Ration Jail on the charge of kill.
ing a fellow c~euntryman, was given
his preliminary hearing before
Justice Guiana n bound over with.
out bail to await a hearing before the
grand jury in December.
The Massachusetts Indian Associa.
ton has given to Bishop Frederick B.
Howden, of the Episcopal church, a
stone building, together with out