Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-15
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
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July s-b-Annual Reunion OF CowboyS
association at Las Vegas.
aug. zI,~Bar Association meeting al
Sept. 35-2s-seventh Annual Northern
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
Hatch. in Dona Ana county, is to
have a new depot.
A heavy windstorm did considerable
damage at Belen.
Clovis Lodge b. P. o. 3. bought $500
worth Of Liberty bonds.
Nfty-four teachers attended thu
Santa Fe County Normal Institute.
The Palace OF the Governors was
the registration place at Santa Fe.
There is a large enrolment for the
State Normal School at Silver City.
The Santa Fe branch Of the Wom-
ans County Auxiliary has been organ
lied.
The State Corporation Commission
has asked shipper TO load all cars to
capacity.
J.. w. Pollard was given a $4,000
judgment for damages against the
city of Ration.
Prof. Alexis Xavier nlinski has been
elected president of the school Of
mines at SocorrO.
Julio Mares of Wagon Mound, is
dead as a result Of handling a re-
volver while lying in bed.
Frank Curry, son of Ex-Governor
George Curry, was appointed bailin
Of the state Supreme Court.
A class of thirty candidates took
the first to the third degrees Of the
knights Of Columbus at Santa Fe.
Work was started at Albuquerque
on the bitches for water supply con.
nectiops at the National Guard camp
on the mesa.
Senator Falls bill amending home
stead act, as passed by the Senate,
would open over 100000 square miles
in New Mexico.
A new ordinance at Santa Fe re-
quires saloons to be closed at $500
p. m. and remain closed until G o'clock
the following morning.
The yield of beans in Torrance
county this year will be nearly three
times as great as last year and al
most ten times as large as in 1915.
Governor Lindsey has appointed
Owe E. diversion Of Gallup and Felipe
]. Hubbell of Albuquerque, captains
in the New Mexico National guard.
The State Supreme Court issued an
order permanently disbarring Attorn'
ey Hilario A. Ortiz Of Santa F@ from
practice in the courts Of New Mexico.
Only once since 1871 did Santa Fe
experience a May so cold as the
month Just past, according to the re-
port Of the United States weather
bureau.
William Babers, Of Babers Bros
sheep and cattle men, of the tornado
10 miles east OF Carthage, Socorro
county, committed suicide by shooting
himself with a rifle.
News has been received Of the
death Of James X. Proudfit at Kan
sas City, Kan, in his eighty-sixtt
year. He was surveyor general o.
New Mexico in 1873.
Preparations were completed FOL
shipping to camp at Albuquerque thu
$50 900 rounds of ammunition ant
other equipment stored in the Ma
tional guard armory at Santa Fe.
Accidental death was the verde
of the coroner's jury after investigat
ing the killing of Private Henry Re
nero of Company E at the Nationa
guard armory in Santa Fe.
Kenneth NJ. oliver has leased tn
5000 acre Ramon Vigil grant, ives
of Santa Fe, from five Detroit auto
, mobile manufacturers, and will stoc
} It with cattle, making 1t one of tn
largest cattle ranches in New Mexico
Reports received by the state couI
ell of defense from field agents, VIII
have visited counties of southern an
=, southwestern New Mexico, show tha
that part of the state will play II
part in increasing the states proGu
J. ton.
Be An additional carload of seed p
8 tatoes and oats for ranches With
the Zuni division Of the ManZano N
+ tional Forest was arranged in a CO
y ference between B. C. HernandeE
o the State Council for Defense, an
Q Paul G. Redington and ]. F. Mullen
the Forest Service.
y Mrs. Washington e. Lindsey, wi
was unanimously elected president
/ the State Women's Auxiliary Of Il
s Council Of Defense. has been furth
1, honored by being designated as Il
r. New Mexico representative Of the n
n tional Women's Auxiliary OF the n
1. tIonal Council Of Defense. The desI
I, nation was made by DR.. Anna Ho
D. ard Shaw.
N W. e. Carroon, formerly chief Gle
In the state department OF educatiS
!. and recently employed in the U.
!. land office at Santa Fe, has been 1
pointed deputy state treasurer
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