Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-10-20
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

Las GNuGEHs
Oct. 5-15-Annual Convention OF south
western Holiness Assn at Moriarty.
Oct; 1s-20-Curry County Fair at Clio
Nov. 27-sO-MeetinE state Educational
Association at Albuquerque.
socorro county has 5,454 pupils OF
school age.
The new Carlsbad armory building
is a fine inc
Pihon nuts are now being gathered
in the Ramah section.
There are 179 cadets enrolled al
the Roswell Military Institute.
The sale Of $4,000 acres of Mimbres
valley land was reported at Deming.
The Curry county grand jury was
discharged after indicting twenty-four
persons.
Burglars broke into the Fort Sum.
ner p%ostoffice and carried away SCI in
postage stamps.
The boys and girls dormitory at
Rehoboth Mission, six miles east OF
Gallup, was destroyed by fire.
A Mexican couple in a box a al
Wilma, a station ear Deming, was
found suffering with typhus fever.
Santa Fe merchants are making
plans for the entertainment of the Ed
vocational Association during Thanks
giving week.
Rupert f. Asplund of the State Tax
Commission has begun the systematic
and detailed investigation OF schoo
finances in New Mexico.
The sectional conference Of the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis drew au
thorities of high standing to Albu
querque.
Chief Of Police Ben Coles of Las
Vegas arrested one Albert Mazon'
alias Roy Purcell, On suspicion OF
being the thief who has been robbing
Albuquerque residences.
1t is estimated that Phelps, Dodge
G. Co., produced during the first eight
months of the year approximately
lis, O00, 900 pounds Of copper, a big
increase over last years total.
Rev. Duncan Matheson of Langdon.
North Dakota, has accepted the call to
fill the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church at Mesilla Park and State Col
lege.
Members of the Masonic fraternity
from all over the state of New Mex
leo, many of them accompanied by
their wives, were in Las Vegas, to at
tend the meeting of the grand lodge
Juan Chavez, a hermit sheep grower
living several miles west of San Mar
cial, was set upon by two Mexicans,
bound and severely beaten about the
head in an unsuccessful effort to COM
pei him to reveal his hidden treasure.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the State Sunday School AS
ISOLATION held in Albuquerque, resolu'
lions of respect were approved, in
memory Of the Hon. w. H. Pope, form
err president and supporter OF this as
ISOLATION and its work.
Capt. ". c. Reid, general solicitor
in New Mexico for the Santa Fe rail
way, sent to A. e. James, director of
the Taxpayers Association of New
Mexico, the company's check for So
1876 to cover its second years mem
bership in the association.
P. R. Rose, a well known goat raiser
OF the Animas section, in southern
Grant county, was murdered five
miles from the Parker ranch, the
scene of a double murder two months
ago, when William E. Parker and his
pride of a few weeks, were shot to
death.
The big Taos fiesta this year broke
all records for attendance.
During a dance at a school house
near Anthony, Dona Ana county
Sixto Ortega and his wife were killed
and David Aguilar of Berino, was ser
iously hurt. Constantine Patricio
Telles was arrested following the
tragedy and taken to Las Cruces by
deputy sheriffs,
Valentine Gutierrez, Jr., aged about
fifteen years, a resident of Pinos AL
tos, Grant county, where his father
Valentine Gutierrez. is engaged in
business. committed suicide in thai
place by shooting himself through the
heart. Disappointment over a love
affair is given as the reason for the
young mans act.
1t required twenty-nine ballots to de
eide the Democratic nomination fol
sheriff of Lincoln county, at the Dem
ocratic county convention at Car
rizozo. On the twenty-nlnth ballot c
Walker Hyde. whose name had beer
presented, but who had withdrawn
was nominated, neither John B. BairC
nor George C. Clements. the otheI
candidates having been able to secur,
a majority.
The United States Civil Servic,
Commission u an open com
petitive examination for field agent
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