Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-16
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

Feb. 19-21-Twenty-third Annual Re-
union Of The Scottish Rite Masons at
Santa re.
july S-5-Annual Reunion OF Cowboys
association at Las Vegas.
Santa Rosa is enjoying a building
boom.
Clovis Methodists are planning a
$4,000 church building.
The Edwight ranch near Corrumpa
was sold to r. A. Haley for $15O.0OO.
A campaign is on at Las Vegas to
raise $4,000 for the Vegas-Texas high
way.
Two masked men held up the Sun
nyside saloon at Old Albuquerque and
took more than 500.
Noel L. Johnson reports the sale Of
a %200-section ranch for $4,000. The
ranch is in the big hills southwest Of
Hope.
A 20 per cent increase in the value
Of New Mexico live stock is reported
by the Department of Agriculture,
now being worth $~ss,627,0OO.
Byron o. Beal; special agent for the
State Tax Commission, has started on
his rounds to locate taxable property
that has escaped assessment or has
been assessed too lowe
Whirring aeroplane propellors her
aided the arrival of Major General
Pershing's first unit across the bor-
der, according to long distance tele-
phone messages from Columbus.
Sentences were passed by Judge
Meechem in the District Court at So
zorro. Frank MCGEE was given from
three to ten years in the penitentiary
for the death of a cattle herder near
Kelly.
It is announced that plans have been
approved for a 100000 hotel at Tyr
one, together with a $4,000 bank
building, the two new structures to be
included in the Burro Mountain Cop
per Company's plans for a modern
city.
Jose Antonio Pine, killed by Special
Officer V. L. Snyder at Bosque, Valen-
cha county, was an escaped convict,
OlllCdIb DclAGNGs n man WIN lAO
same name got away from the clay pit
at the Santa Fe penitentiary Nov. 8.
He was serving a sentence for cattle
stealing.
Members of the Water Users Asso-
citation who accompanied Senator A. A.
Jones to Washington in the interests
OF the Mesilla valley drainage below
Elephant Butte report satisfactory In
terview5 with the secretary of the in
terror, and immediate steps by the de-
partment TO relieve the drainage prob
lem below the dam.
At a meeting Of the board of regents
of the State Museum at Santa Fe, Col.
Ralph d. Twitchell, chairman of the
exposition board, reported that the
New Mexico building at San Diego will
be maintained intact by the park board
and will become a part Of the Art and
Archaeological Museum, but devoted
entirely to exhibits from New Mexico.
Despite the fact that superintendent
John B. McManus has shown his abil-
fly to feed prisoners in the state. pen
itentiary at a daily cost OF 1914 cents,
the House voted its belief that the
high cost of living has made it impos-
sible to feed jail prisoners for so cents
a day, and passed a bill allowing %
cents additional, or a total Of rs cents.
DR.. j. A. Massie at Santa Fe per-
formed the operation of TRANSMISSION Of
GOO cubic centimeters of blood from
Representative Upton of Luna county
into the veins Of Governor p. G. de
Baca, as a part of the treatment being
administered to the governor for per
nicious anaemia. The TRANSMISSION was
successful and the governors condi-
ton good.
A Columbus dispatch states that l.
100 refugees crossed the border from
Mexico, including Americans, Mexi-
cans, French, Germans, Chinese, Japa-
nese, Arabs and others. The line of
refugees extended from the border
line gate to Palomas Lakes, a distance
Of seven miles. They were escorted
to the line by a troop of the Fifth
- . NHN"Hys
In a letter received at Santa Fe by
State Senator G. c. Smith, of Union
county, Thomas E. owen, receiver OF
the United States land office at Clay
ton, announces that government land
in that district totoling 1886 49 acres
was filed on under the 640-acre home
stead law from Jan. 2 to Jan. 20, and
that the fee for these filings amount.
ed to $11,7SS.
That the new 100000 federal
building to be erected in Santa
Fe should be in harmony
intellectually with Santa fFe's
historic style, is the view of the board
OF regents CT the New Mexico mu.
scum, which at It's meeting addressed
a memorial to that effect to the super
vising architect of the Treasury De
partment at Washington.
Plans for the development Of oil In
San Juan county promise to prove sue