Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-08

49, RANhANANAgA INV - " Ag NNaNG1
in the Supreme CouN.
Tax collections in nearly all coun-
ties are reported good.
Congressman Walton is wearing a
pinto bean on a tie-pin.
Senator Barth of Albuquerque will
plant 176 acres of beans.
A largely attended patriotic meet
ing was held at Clayton.
Five Mckinley county men were
convicted of election frauds.
Memorial Day was observed in the
cities and towns of the state.
The McGaffey saw mill in the Zuni
mountains was destroyed by fire.
Fire at Las Cruces damaged a
bank and drug store. Loss placed at
$1,000.
The residence of Mrs. Camelia Oh
linger, at Mesilla Park, burned to the
ground.
George Hermanos, a Greek coal min
er of Gallup, was acquitted on a per
jury charge.
Lester Sands, a Las Vegas mer-
chant, was fined $50 for selling meat
without a license.
More than 5000 mead of cattle have
been shipped from Luna county during
the past two weeks.
Seventy . five members Of the
Knights of Columbus took the fourth
degree at Albuquerque.
Geo. Lougee has been made assist
ant to Director A. e. James Of the
Taxpayers Association.
Andrew H. Hudspeth was nominal
ed by President Wilson as marshal for
the New Mexico district.
Funeral services for Thomas Lyons,
who was murdered in FL Paso, were
held by the Elks at Silver City.
Bernalillo county women will organ-
ize a branch of the woman's auxiliary
to the State Council OF Defense.
A new company has been organized
for the purpose Of developing a group
of mining claims in the Eteeple Rock
district in New Mexico.
Governor Lindsey has extended ex-
e%cutive clemency to Hugh Green and
Nestor Sanchez Of Chavez, and Alvin
c. Ash of Grant county.
The Bethlehem Copper Company OF
Stems has filed papers of incorpora-
ton at Santa Fe, giving its author
lied capital as 5 l 1000, 900.
The educated Navajos at the Crown
Point agency have organized an asso,
citation for the betterment and ad-
vancement Of the Indians.
Frank Scott. aged 3S, committed
suicide at East Las Vegas by jumping
head foremost into a small well at his
home east of the Santa F6 tracks
A million dollars worth of cattle
in n county which were said to
have escaped assessment, were report
ed to the State Tax Commission.
Twenty-Five convicts vent to the
Canyon de Chama to plant 600 acres
to corn and beans, the land being on
the estate of the late Thomas d.
Burns.
Crop conditions in most parts of
the state are reported fair by the
Santa Fe Weather Bureau.
A solid vein of silver, four feet thick
has been discovered on the Christmas
claim near Carrizozo. Assays show
values of several hundred dollars to
the ton.
T,na stb mill ba ono 80 tbo - ia
ter days in American history. The
governor and the council of defense
for the state requested every man to
register.
State Engineer James s.. French has
announced that the survey of the
~eighty-seven mile road between FL
Paso and Alamogordo will be under
taken at once.
Burglars blew open the Ellsworth
Company's safe at Captain, twenty
miles east of Carrizozo, took more
than $500 in currency and several
hundred dollars in checks and negoti-
able papers and escaped.
Two detachments of Company G, Of
the National guard, have been ordered
into the field for police duty. Ono
detachment, commanded by Capt. H
NJ. Peck. will relieve Texas guards
men at Elephant Butte dam.
More than seventy homes for min,
ers and others in the employ Of STAG
Canon Fuel Company at Dawson
eighteen miles from Cimarron, will be
built this summer.
Thomas McMillin, former chief Of
police Of Albuquerque. is to be assist
ant superintendent Of the state peni
Tertiary. to succeed Barney Spears
formerly Of Gallup.
John V. Conway, assistant state
school superintendent, narrowly es