Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-04-06

~ N~90-1NNEAAn ANNuhI ANWNAMNA "a
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
A general store at Las Vegas was
robbed Of SOC in cash.
A $4,000 addition to the Des Moines
public school building will be built.
Albuquerque has a population of
26,425, according to the 1917 city di-
rectory.
Fire that broke out in the public
school house at Golden did consider
able damage.
The recently-named Cattle Sanitary
Board has elected T. D. Allen Of Mag
dalena, secretary.
The Deming canning factory is now
assured and orders have been placed
for the machinery.
The new round house Of the Santa
Fe railway at the Carlsbad terminal
was destroyed by fire.
Theo. Ronault, Jr., appointed state
game and fish warden by Gov. Lind.
sey, has taken charge of the office.
Governor w. e. Lindsey has desig.
mated Friday, April 6, as Arbor and
Bird day for the state of New Mexico.
Gallup citizens will vote April II on
a proposition to issue $4,000 bonds to
raise funds to build two more school
houses.
Mrs. Guadalupe Luna de Baca and
Pascual Fajarda, tried on the charge
Of murder at Los Lunas were found
not guilty.
The superdreadnaught New Mexico,
a sister ship Of the Pennsylvania, will
be launched at the New York navy
yard April 20.
Plans and specifications have ar
rived for the new $125,OO0 federal
building, which is to be built at once
at Las Cruces.
Santa Fe gets the 1919 convention
of the Head Camp, Woodmen Of the
World. with 200 or more delegates
from New Mexico and Arizona.
The 11-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs,
Frank Watson of White Signal, was
killed when he received an accidental
bullet wound while handling a rifle.
A car containing wool exhibits, in
charge of experts and accompanied by
interpreters, will our the state Of
New Mexico from April 81 until May Z.
II. H. Brook, who built the first silo
in the state, has quit the ranch to be
county agent for Dona Ana county,
and will be stationed at State College.
Denver postal authorities arrested
Walter Roberts as the fourth suspect
in the robbery Of $4,000 from a mail
pouch in the depot at Albuquerque,
Feb. 20.
According to the computations of
President Frank II. H. Roberts of the
Normal University, 6O9 teachers out Of
the 1907 employed in the state are
former students Of that institution.
Frank Chavez, Santa F6 mail car
rier, was arrested by a deputy U. g..
marshal on a warrant sworn to by a
~postoffice inspector, charging him
with opening letters addressed to
Archbishop Pitaval.
Sergeant P. N. Karigan, a pioneer of
Mckinley county, who went to Fort
Wingate over 80 years ago as a SOL
der and who in late years acted as
care-taker there, died in Gallup. He
was nearly 81 years Of age.
Former Governor M. A. Otero re-
ceived a telegram from Senator A. A.
Jones Of New Mexico, announcing that
the Senate had confirmed his nomina-
tion as United States marshal of the
Canal Zone.
TheMogollon Mines Company is
working steadily on the tailings carry
ing flume down Silver Creek.
Gov. Lindsey went to Ell Paso and
Presented to Gen. John j. Pershing
the medal voted him by the New Mex
leo Legislature, and which was to
have been presented to him in Santa
Fe on Washington's birthday.
While hunting and trapping in the
Jicarilla mountains some twenty miles
northwest of Carrizozo, S. l.. Starkey
and Jack Cleghorn captured what is
thought to be the first porcupine ever
found running at large in this country.
The State Corporation Commission
has issued an order continuing under
advisement the 3-cent passenger ques-
ton until the cast of the A. T. & s. F.
Railway versus the Arizona Corpora.
ton Commission. now in the Federal
Court, which involves the same cues
ton, is decided.
Manuel Mares Of Dawson, son OF
Representative Enrique Mares Of Col
fax county, who was one Of the door
keepers Of the House during the re-
cent legislative session. has been Sc
lected by the new Capitol custodian
committee as Capitol superintendent.
to succeed Ed. Andrews of Santa Fe.
The Toltec OIL Company of Santa
F6, which has leased thousands OF
acres Of state lands for oil prospect.
ing purposes, has struck a second flow