Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-08-25

IAOnEs
At Cimarron, Jose Gonzales
stabbed and probably fatally injured
Bernabe Mares.
Peach shipments from Alamogordo
at present average $50 crates, or 49,
600 pounds daily.
More than 800 exc~ursionists at San
Ia F6 attended the Santo Domingo
Green Corn Dance.
Fifteen miles of surfaced road are
to be built by a state force that will
start to work south of Ration.
Petitions are being circulated In
Magdalena asking that the commu-
nifty be incorporated as a village.
The ranch home Of Governor Nc
donald at Carrizozo, is undergoing
extensive repairs INT additions.
Cornelius Daley, a Civil War veter-
an and for more than fifty years a
resident of New Mexico, died at his
home in Cimarron.
The third crop Of grasshoppers has
attacked the Espanola Valley in such
numbers as to sweep some Of the
fields nearly clean.
The next annual meeting of the
Gulf-to-C Colorado Highway Association,
which recently met in Ration, will be
held at Vernon, Tex.
Some of the Las Vegas people who
attend the state fair at Albuquerque
will show their riding ability in cow
boy and wild west stunts.
The New Mexico state tennis tour
nament at Roswell, which will begin
Sept. 4, is expected to be the largest
ever held in the state.
Prof. j. d. Wilson, holder of a
masters degree from Harvard. has
been named professor Of mathematics
at the Silver City Normal School.
State Bank Examiner Rufus H.
Carter turned over to State Treasurer
o. N. Marion S165 in fees for the ex-
animation of state banks during July.
While working cattle a few miles
southeast of Hillsboro, l.. c. Latham
discovered what he believes to be an
ancient mine worked by the Span
iards many years ago.
The widow of L. B. higgins, who
was killed when the boiler of a Santa
F6 engine exploded at Gallup on
March II, has been given $4,000 by
the company.
Robert S. Randall. of Albuquerque,
sentenced to the state penitentiary in
June, 1913, to serve from six to eight
years for embezzlement, was par
doned by Governor Mcdonald.
The merchants and physicians and
other energetic and public spirited
citizens of Clovis and vicinity ara
actively engaged in endeavoring to
secure subscriptions to a fund for the
purpose of erecting a community hos
pital.
Socorro Garcia, a Mexican, charged
with assaulting w. E. Burlington, a
Southern Pacific freight brakeman.
with a knife, was held to the grand
jury at Deming on bond of $1,000.
James C. Hamilton, Of Roswell,
first lieutenant Of Battery A, now in
federal service and stationed at Fort
Bliss, has been placed in charge of
5000 head of army horses at a point
on the Rio Grande, near Ell Paso.
After setting aside 5000 to aid
twenty-one school districts to build
and equip school houses. Superintend-
ent Alvin N. White still has $4,000 at
his disposal in the building fund to
aid other districts.
According to q dispatch from Globe,
Ariz., Foxy" Miller. former Silver
City boxing promoter, wrestler and
pool hall employee, has fallen heir to
$15O,OOO left by an tncle living In
Frankfort, Germany.
Mrs. Serapio Lobato of East Las
Vegas will receive $3.50 from the
Santa Fe railroad for the death Of her
husband, who was killed when a part
OF the Santa Fe %roundhouse roof fell
on him.
Two more Silver City Elks, George
". Butt and Eugene Warren, died.
Their deaths make a total of sixteen
in the Silver City Elks' lodge within
eight months.
over 1000 trees Of various kinds
have been set out in Fairview Gene
terry at Albuquerque under the direc.
ton of formeC Governor e. e. Slower,
president of the association.
OF the $500 teachers estimated as
being likely to be employed in New
Mexico schools the coming scholastic
year. ore than $500 actually attend
eJ Institutes this summer.