Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-26
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
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Feb. lo-2l-Twsnty,third Annual Re.
union OF the Scottish Rite Masons at
Santa re.
Tune i4-17-cowbOys' Reunion at Las
Vegas.
Carrizozo is to have q new national
bank.
Grip and pneumonia are prevalent al
Captain.
Many new buildings are being erect
ed at Clovis.
About $500 auto licenses have al
ready been issued.
Clovis citizens have started a move
ment to get free mail delivery.
A trade trip to Amarillo, Tex, is be.
ing planned by the Albuquerque Ro-
tary Club.
New Mexico will get $42.495 as her
share of the governments million-dol-
lar fund for road work in 1917.
One of the immediate tasks that the
Legislature will be asked to take up
Is the amendment of the finance law.
The original designs for the silver
service to be presented to the battle
ship New Mexico are on exhibition at
Santa Fe.
The Women's Federation of New
Mexico has drafted measures that the
members desire to have passed by the
Legislature.
Sportsmen OF Dona Ana county or
ganized 6 county game protective as
ISOLATION with a paid membership Of
twenty-six.
At a meeting of the state corpora
ton commission, Hugh H. Williams
was elected chairman of that body for
the ensuing year.
The Austin-Amazon copper proper
ties in the Burro mountains have been
taken over formally by the Austin-Am-
AEON Copper Company.
The Water Canon Sheep Company
Of Water Canon station, Socorro coun-
ty, filed Incorporation papers. The cap
italization is 800 700.
Two track laborers employed by the
Santa Fe we're injured, n fatally,
when a handcar left the track at
Houck, a station west of Gallup.
Formal festivities in honor Of the
Inauguration of Governor Esequiel C..
de Baca are to be held, probably dur
ing the first week of February.
William Brown Of Colfax county ar
rived at the state penitentiary at San
ia F6 to serve a term Of one year to
a year and a half for grand larceny.
Charlie E. White was ground to
pieces when his automobile was
struck by a freight train on the west
track crossing in the Alamogordo rail-
road yards.
Widespread interest has been
caused by the censure of the manage
ment of the Elephant Butte Water
Users Association by the grand jury
at Las Cruces.
Senator c. G. Smith of Colfax and
Union counties introduced a bill pro-
viding for the presentation Of a silver
service to the dreadnaught New Mex
leo, to cost $1,000.
Mrs. susanna Gonzales, an old lady
who lives near Questa, tripped and
fell upon the stove. Both arms were
burned up to her elbows and one side
of her face is also burned.
Closing its first semester the Santa
Santa F6 high school already has the
proud record Of an increase of over 20
per cent. over the enrolment for the
entire school year OF 1856.
The directors of the Santa Fe Build
ing and Loan Association declared a
semi-annual dividend of five per cent,
25 per cent. higher han any semi-an-
nual dividend declared in late years.
Uncle Sam will be shy 100000 acres
Of the public domain, and richer by
$4,000 in filing fees from the Fort
Sumner land office for the first week
in January, as a result Of the 640-acre
Ferris bill.
The finding of Mrs. Bersabe Velas.
quez with a broken leg and a cut on
her chin in the alley in the real OF the
n. T. Armijo building in Albuquerque,
is a mystery which the police are un
able wholly to penetrate.
The county commissioners of Eddy
county have given notice of an cleo
ton to be held March 18th for the pur,
pose of voting 500, 900 in five per
cent. bonds, the proceeds to be used
for building good roads.
When the State Board Of Bar Exam.
liners licensed Mrs. Katherine Burns
Mabry to practice law, she became the
only lawyer now in the state
Of New Mexico admitted to practice
before the State Supreme Court.
The appointment Of Dennis Chavez
as state game warden is temporary,
according to a letter from Governor
de Baea received by Miles w. Burford.
of Silver City, president of the New
Mexico Game Protective Association.
Members of the Gallup volunteer fire
department are making efforts to have