Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-06-02

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The Ocean-to-O Ocean Highway Asso
citation will meet in Magdalena in
June.
The concrete foundation for the
Santa Fe roundhouse at Gallup has
been completed.
One hundred twenty. five citizens of
Clovis attended a big booster ban
quet in that city.
The city of Clovis is putting down
another deep well to increase the mu-
nicipal water supply.
Shearing has started in the sheep
camps of Chaves county and a heavy
wool yield is expected.
A Sioux Indian is accused OF
swindling thirty Albuquerque women
on a land leasing scheme.
Federal Judge William H. Pope has
abolished the office Of United States
commissioner at Blackdom.
Jose Medina vas sentenced at Al
b%uquerque to be hanged June 2 for
the murder of Jose N. Chavez.
Frank Burdett, accused of bootleg
ging, was given a fine of 500 and I
Jail term of thirty days in Clovis.
Frank Burdett, an alleged boot
logger, vas fined 500 and sentenced
to thirty days in Jail at Clovis.
Horace A. Trimble, a former resi-.
lent of L%ordsburg, was killed in an
automobile accident at Ajo, Ariz.
The commissioners of Chaves coun-
ty will hereafter conduct the annual
fair and livestock exposition at RIOS.
well.
A carload of horses and mules for
Battery A was sent from Roswell to
Columbus, where the battery now is
stationed.
The Roswell chapter of the Red
Cross is arranging to provide for the
families of men at the front with the
Roswell battery.
Ration has organized a company Of
infantry, under command of A. p.
Harrington, at one time adjutant gen
eral of the state.
Governor Mcdonald pardoned
Charles D. R~ecanzore, sentenced in
1911 to eighteen E-onths to two years
in the penitentiary.
August Reingardt received a con.
tract to build a new $4,000 brick
uormitory for the State School for
the Deaf at Santa Fe.
In southern, eastern and southeast
ern New Mexico there are over g.
5OO,O acres of land open to settle
ment by ho~mesteaders.
Mrs. j. v. Chavez of Santa Fe had
the unusual distinction OF Seeing her
great-great grandson christened.
Paul Huebler of Tucumcari give
himself up for shooting and killing
Jeft Woodward, with whom he had
been staying near Logan.
Preliminary physical examination
of the meL-bers OF Battery A. New
Mexico national guard, disclosed that
80 of Isl failed to reach the service
standard.
Accommodations for GOO educators
have Leen secured In Santa Fe, in
preparation for the annual meeting
or the State Educational Association
here this iall.
The newly organized Silver City
company OF the national guard has in
its ranks five professors from the
State Normal School, one of whom
cane ZOO miles f ON his home to join
it for service.
Silver City paid It's last tribute to
Charles G. Given, secretary to the
phy slclan-in-chief of the New Mexi-
co Cottage Sanatorium, whose funeral
was held under the auspices of the
Elks' lodge, of which he was a life
member.
NJ. T. Dansby, a colored convict
working as a road laborer in the
Tfjeras canon, who made his es-
lpe recently, was captured by the
Estancia authorities.
Robert Wiley, a student at the New
Mexico Military Institute, and son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Wiley of Silver
city, received one of the three ap-
continents to West Point.
Jack Calhoun was convicted of vol
lntary manslaughter in the District
court in Ra.on Calhoun was &C
used of causi g the death of Mrs.
'euge at Koeh.er lnst voar.