Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-16

COMING EVENTS.
March 2e-22-Meeting New Mexico Cat
tie ana Horse Association
at Albuquerque.
Wool Growers Association at Albu-
querQue.
July s-s-Annual Reunion OF Cowboys
association at Las Vegas.
A new state bank has been organ
lied at Captain.
Tucumcari citizens subscribed 3d.,
800 to build a fiber factory.
Over forty hogs have succumbed to
cholera in Bernalillo county.
The Kaseman blue sky" law was
passed by the Senate and reported to
the House.
The House passed the two liquor
election bills by practically unani-
nous vote.
The City Council Of Clovis has de-
oided to abolish pool and billiard
halls after June 1.
The House took up a new bill on
the Texas boundary dispute and
passed it by a vote of 80 to II.
The taxpayers of Chaves county de-
feated the proposed issue Of 100000
road bonds by a vote Of close to 300.
Governor Lindsey has signed the
bill which creates the county Of de
Baca in the eastern part of the state.
A suffrage league has been started
in Albuquerque to carry on a drive
for equal suffrage for the women OF
New Mexico.
Judge r. o. Barrett of Silver City
and Henry Miller of Cliff died, the
former being so years N the latter
SO years old.
The Mersfelder bill prohibiting mi
nOrs from using tobacco except at the
homes of their parents or guardians
was passed by the Senate.
Creighton M. Foraker, former
United States marshal of New Mexico,
died at his ranch home north of AL
b%uquerque after a long illness.
Memorial exercises for the late Gov.
Ezequiel c. de Baca were held by the
Senate and House of the State Legis-
lature in Representative hall March 8.
The New Mexico electors. N. Up
ton, Jose G. Chavez and Felix Garcia
were in Washington and witnessed
the Inauguration of President Wilson
for a second term.
The Senate finance committee re-
ported a bill which proposes to au-
thOrize the sum o. $4,000 for the
purchase of a silver service for the
battleship New Mexico.
The third new county bill Of the
present session, which seeks to create
the county of "Alvarado" out of a por.
ton of Mora, Union and Colfax, made
its appearance in the House.
Rev. Robt. E. Browning of Mans
field, Ore, has been called to Silver
City to take the post of rector left
vacant by Rev. u. T. Vincent, when
the latter Joined the New Mexico in.
fantry as chaplain.
James A. Hall of Portales, a mem
Der of the constitutional convention,
was appointed a United States com
missioner by Federal Judge Colin
Neblett. oliver G. King was appoint.
ed commissioner at Animas.
A new bill calling for the expendi
ture of 100000 for an addition to the
state capitol was introduced in the
House. The Senate bills on the same
subject called for an expense of 500.
coo and $3.50 respectively.
A way for the teaching of higher
grades in the rural schools of the
state is provided by House bill No.
232. introduced by Representatives
Stroud and diversion, which was
passed by the House by a vote of SO
to 2.
The AlvaradO county bill was taken
up by the house and passed under sus-
pension of the rules. This bill makes
a new county out of parts OF Union,
Mora and Colfax counties. The vote
stood % to %, when Speaker Llewell-
yn asst the deciding vote.
The State Highway Department
was informed hat the War Depart.
ment has commenced work on the
road between FL Paso and Deming
under an agreement to repair such
roads as had been torn up by the
heavy armor motor and wagon trains,
The first step toward military train.
ing in the public schools of New Mex.
leo was taken when the House by a
vote of % to IS passed the Gonzales,
Llewellyn bill providing for military
instruction in the fundamentals OF
military science and training.
Twenty-one Mexicans, charged with
being members of the band which
made the attack on Columbus about
a year ago that resulted in the calling
out of the entire National guard o.
the United States and the dispatch o.
Gen. John ]. Pershing into Mexico. are
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