Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-12-15
. NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
June 14-17-Cowboys' Reunion at Las
Vegas.

Farmers of the Mimbres valley are
preparing to raise sisal hemp.
According to the federal census New
Mexico has a population Of 10000.
A carload Of oil castings was received
by the Toltec Oil Company of Roswell.
Colfax county road builders are
making good progress OF the state
highway.
l.. J. Knight raised $50 worth of tur-
nips from one acre Of ground on his
farm north of San Jon.
Senator-elect A. A. Jones filed a
statement in Washington showing his
campaign expenses were Ss,197.
About 1000 tons of beets were de-
liyered by Colfsx county growers to
the dumps at French and Maxwell.
w. c. Wills, of San Jose, raised
1880 pounds of beans on five and
a half acres, bringing him over $40
per acre.
While chopping wood, a chip flew up
and hit G. w. Puce, foreman at the
u. s. experiment farm near Tucumcari
in the y and put it out.
The little son of Nat Roberts was
almost instantly killed at Knowles by
a big automobile striking him, knock
ing him down and passing yer his
body.
At the request of the state corpor-
alton commission, Pullman service
will be maintained between Deming
and Silver City for the next ninety
days.
The body of A. Wollang, a Norwe-
gian, was found in a room in an Albu-
Querque hotel with an empty carbolic
acid bottle and a suicide note by his
side on the bed.
l. Cabin is-to- haze a. new corporation
with a capital stock of $150,000. The
name of the new organization will be
the Citizens Light, Power and Tele-
phone Company.
Almost t~hree-quarters of a million
dollars is the mount of income which
the state lands have contributed to
the maintenance of the state govern
ment during the year 1916.
Albuquerque police were told by
Governor Mcdonald over the long dis
lance telephone that he had honored
Governor Hunts requisition for the re-
turn of Jack Elliott, held at Albu.
querque, to Arizona.
Farmers in the Miami valley of Col
fax county are busily engaged erecting
large barns and sheds as rapidly as
material can be hauled to their prem
Uses with a view of purchasing large
numbers of dairy COWS for the dairy
industry.
Thomas Transgard, formerly an EN-.
ploye of the Santa Fe railway at Las
Vegas, has sued the Santa F6 Com.
pany for $4,000, the suit growing out
of the injuries sustained on Nov. %.
1914. while in the employ of the de.
PENDANT company.
Carl Hinton, secretary of the Silver
City Chamber of Commerce since Feb.
/, 1915, has rendered his resignation,
effective Dec. 81. Mr.. Hinton has been
elected secretary of the Denver Man.
uf~acturers' Association and will take
up his new duties or Jan. /.
Dashing past the prison guards as
they unlocked the steel cells to allow
the cooks to prepare the morning
meal, five convicts of the state peni-
Tertiary made a bold attempt to scale
The eighteen-foot brick walls at the
Santa Fe prison and were restrained
rom climbing up a blanket ladder
only after forty shots had been fired
n their direction.
The Oaks Company is making an
other shipment to custom mill of ore
from Clifton mine obtained in develop
ment. North and south drifts at so
foot level on Eberle mine are yielding
mill ore. Both of these properties are
On the Queen vein, MOgollon district.
The resolution offered by Prof. w.
B. Mcfarland to get the government
to appropriate 100000 acres of gov
eminent land for a permanent educa.
tional fund for New Mexico-land that
is not mineral or timbered and is UNI
occupied, passed unanimously before
the convention of the New Mexico Ed
vocational Association at Santa F6.
The library section of the Educa-
tional Association, which met in an.
nual session at the Old Palace in San.
ia Fe, elected Miss Myrtle Cole of RIA
ton, president; Mrs. Villa Skipwith OF
Roswell, vice president; Miss French
of State College, secretary; Miss
Louise Henderson of the Silver City
Normal school a member of the Edu.
uational Council for three years; Miss
Pauline Madden of albuquerque for
two years. and Miss Lola C. Armiio OF
Santa Fe for one year.
The selection of Santa F6 as the
convention city for 1917 and the cleo.
ton Of DR.. +. H. II. Roberts as presi
dent for the coming year were the
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