Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-01
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

duly Reunion OF CoWpoyh
association az Las Vegas
Aug. 2T-Bar Association meeting al
Sept. Ss-ss-seventh Annua NOrthsra
New Mexico Fair AZ Ration.
San Jose voted dry" 80 to 2.
Curry county voted dry by a big ma
Iority.
A Chinese regiment is drilling at
Columbus.
The Maxwell company is to rebuild
the Hebron dam.
Colfax county will spend $4,000 in
assisting farmers.
New Mexicans to enter service Of
nation on Aug 5th.
Silver City is to hold a patriotic
celebration on the 4th Of July.
Abram Holiday. aged 81 years. died
at his home at East Las Vegas.
New MexicRns are expected to take
81, SOC, 900 Of the Liberty loan bonds.
Corn, cane, beans and potatoes con-
tinue to lead in the acreage planted.
The Ramah Reservoir Company has
placed the reservoir dam under guard.
1t is stated that the delinquent
taxes In the state amount to t1,600S
goo.
Roy James, q waiter, was found in
jured near the Santa Fe tracks at
Dalies.
Six hundred recruits have been
added TO the national guard Of the
Sunshine state.
The prospects of a bumper crop in
the Estancia valley are looking better
all the time.
Prospects in the Aztec and Farm
ington sections are for a bumper fruit
crop this year.
The state council Of the knights of
Columbus chose Gallup, N. M, as its
next place Of meeting.
The Christian churches of New
Mexico and West Texas held their an
nual meeting in Clovis.
The contract for the plumbing In
the new museum building at Santa F6
has been let for $415.S1.
An increase in wages has been
granted employees of the mines at
Kelly to take effect June LIST,
Boards have been appointed for the
registration Of men between Fl and 30
for the selective draft on June 9Th.
Spanish-speaking residents Of Las
Vegas to the number of siXty-five
have enlisted in the New Mexico Ma
uonal Guard.
Malcolm Trap of Corona won his
fight against serving his sentence for
the killing of j. II. MeAdams at Cor
eve years ago.
A new company has been organized
for the purpose of developing a group
of mining claims in the Steeple Rock
district in New Mexico.
The Bethlehem Copper Company Of
Stems mas filed papers Of incorpora-
ton at Santa Fe, giving its author
lied capital as 100000.
William H. Sloan, at one time su-
p%erintendent Of the Las Cruces
schools and on the faculty Of the State
College, died at ~LeavenwOrth, Kan.
An appeal was made to young men
of Spanish ancestry by Secretary of
State Antonio Lucero to volunteer at
inc for service in the army and
navy.
Many of those young men who
served with Company H, First New
Mexico infantry, on the border for
eleven months, who returned home in
April, are re-enlisting.
Through the efforts of L. J. Dean.
physical director of the Y. M. C. A., a
movement for the organization of sew
eral companies Of boy scouts has
been started at Albuquerque.
Forest rangers and supervisors are
directing local committees. assisting
in the collecting and distributing oil
seed, and urging the cultivation oil
land in the mountain communities.
Benjamin NJ. Read has decided t.
decline the position OF president o.
the Spanish-American Normal schoo
at El Rito and has so notified tb'
board of trustees Of the institution.
Thirty thousand trout and baSI
were swept down the TesuQue river b.
a flood that took out the dam o
Charles @. Catron at his summe,
home twelve miles northeast of SAINT
Fe.
The fourth degree-the patriot,
step in the Knights Of COiumbus-wal
conferred at albuquerque upon a clasl
Of eighty candidates by a degree
team headed by Robert r. Morrison o
Prescott, AriE., master OF the fourtI
degree in the district composed o
New Mexico, Arizona and 81 Paso
Tex.
w. L. Elser, who for some time haI
been assistant director Of the Exten
sion Department Of the New Mexio,
College of Agriculture and Mechanics
Arts. has been appointed secretary o
labor. His duties will be to place Ia
korara NTH fhoaa uaodln0 than, a.