Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-05

gHtoh ol the ScONtibh site MAHOhs a.
June i4-l7-Cowboys' Reunl at Las
Vegas.
Carlsbad is to have a new, modern
hotel.
Logan, in Quay county, is to have
a new national bank.
Six deaths occurred at Deming dur
ing ten days from pneumonia.
The Maxwell beet dump was closed
with a total tonnage Of LOO tons.
Charles Haas of Tucumcari is per
fecting a machine for stripping bear
grass fiber.
Private Albert A. Streigel of the
quartermaster's corps at Columbus,
was shot and killed by a sentry.
George Adlai Feather, student at
the University Of New Mexico, re-
ceived the Rhodes scholarship.
Rev. Sydney M. Bedford Of Waiver
ly, ILL.,, the new pastor of the First
Christian church at East Las Vegas.
The big oil well rig taken to Column
bus by e. c. Kniffin has been set up at
the old well there which is down to a
depth of about 800 feet.
The body of Joseph Romero
Young Joe Rivers-who died follow
ing a prize fight in Denver was taken
to Albuquerque for burial.
Never in the history of Grant coun-
ty have mining operations been more
active than now, this being largely
due to the high price of copper and
other metals.
For the recent campaign the Re
publicans received $70,026 n ex-
pended owe $4,000, while the Demo
Gratis received a little over $4,000 and
expended $31, 792.6Z
William G. Rustin, for years propri-
etor of the Colfax county ranch now
owned by William b. Stevens, was
killed in northern France. He was a
veteran of the Boer war.
1t is stated that a new edition of
the Sumner county bill, vetoed by
Governor Mcdonald, will be one of the
first introduced at the coming session
of the Legislature.
J.. d. Aair, the Santa Fe brakeman
two stations west of Williams, Ariz.,
about ten days ago, died in the Santa
F6 hospital in Los Angeles.
The extensive properties of the
Treasurer Mining and Reduction Com
pany in the Cooney mining district in
Socorro county are to be sold to sat
isfy a judgment for $33O,926.14.
The state of New Mexico spent al
most two million dollars for education
in the year 1915-1916, according to
State School superintendent Alvan N.
Whites annual report submitted to
the governor.
The Austin-Amazon Copper Com
pany, capitalized at 81, 500, 900, with
headquarters at Silver City, is getting
ready to begin operations, the com,
pany having recently incorporated un-
der the laws of New Mexico.
Mrs. Nellie Pierce, formerly of Al
buquerque, has been appointed Police
Court defender for women in Los An
geles. Mrs. Pierce, formerly Miss
Nellie Brewer, had the distinction of
being the only woman lawyer in New
Mexico.
In less than two years the total re-
sources of the state banks of New
Mexico have increased to the extent
of $4,769, 936.S7; the total deposits,
1884, 1907 the total lU9ns, $780,,
1885, and the number o fdepositors,
1854.
Additions to Estancia school build
ings will cost $12, 900.
I The University of New Mexico bas.
ketball team will begin its schedule,
probably, New Years night in a game
I with the Y. M. c. A. team, the new
/ conner in Albuquerque basketball. The
2 game will be played at the Albuquer'
] que armory.
Ralph c. Ely will remain as receiver
Of the New Mexico Central Railway
+ Company for the present, such being
the decision of District Judge e. c.
, Abbott, who was in Santa Fe from the
1 border to sit in a number of import.
, ant cases.
The Sibley Brothers Cattle Com.
pany has added eight sections to its
ranch holdings in Curry county, max.
, ing a total of twenty-five sections o
held by that concern. The company
is devoting its attention principally to
Hereford cattle.
! Dressed turkeys, filling sixty-four
! barrels, thirty-two packing cases Of
"fixings," $500 pounds of candy and
4 large boxes of fireworks were shipped
into Mexico by motor trucks for the
. Christmas dinners of the American
soldiers in Mexico.
: Miss Margaret G. de Baca, eldest
daughter of Governor-elect E. c.. de
. Baca, will christen the great United
States dreadnaught New Mexico