Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-12


Clovis has voted $4,000 for a 9
higt. school building.
The coal shortage at East Las
Vegas has been relieved.
The State Bar Association will hold
a meeting in Santa Fe on Jan. IL.
New Mexico is in the Wichita, Kan,
Federal Farm Loan bank district.
A fine program was arranged for
Farmers week at the State College.
The Cowboys Association at Las
Vegas gave its annual ball on New
Years.
An Artesia man bought $5,400 worth
Of ducks, turkeys and chickens in No
vember.
Land office officials are busy with
filings under the new S2O-acre home
stead law.
New Mexico stock growers object to
the raising of the grazing rate on for
est reserves.
A few hours after having been hit
in the head by a teacup hurled by Luis
Madril, Cristobal Martinez, aged about
80, died in the Las Vegas hospital.
The railroads of New Mexico will
pay taxes in 1917 on a total valuation
of s97,3 ,72e. This is the valuation
fixed by the State Tax Commission.
A reward of 800 has been offered
by relatives of Miss Bessie French.
daughter of ]. L. French, who disap-
peared from her home in Old Albu-
querque.
Private James Devices, of Company
F, First Arkansas infantry, died at the
Camp Deming hospital of pneumonia.
The body was shipped to his former
home at Hope, Ark.
State School superintendent Alvan
N. White has granted state aid of 800
to School District No. 62, of Guadalupe
county, and $50 to District No. A Of
Rio Arriba county.
Peter Kitchen, 15-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Kitchen, pioneer citizens,
was shot and almost instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of a gun
III lne Hills near Gdllup.
The first Pullman service in and
out of Santa Fe inaugurated by the
Santa Fe railroad Jan. 4, will be con
tinued until the end of the state legis-
lative session in March.
Governor Mcdonald committed the
sentence of H. S. Holloway, a convict,
from seven to ten years to three to ten
years. Holloway was sent up from
Dona Ana county in April, 1915.
Governor Mcdonald gave a condi-
tional pardon to Thomas A. Insley Of
Albuquerque, sentenced in November,
1911, to twenty to twenty-five years,
for the killing of his brother-in-law.
A total of SS5,SS6 sheep were
shipped out of New Mexico in the fis-
cal year ended Nov. 30 last, according
to the ANNUAL report of the sheep san
itary board, filed with Governor Nc
Donald.
over $15, 900 in Santa Fe pay checks
was distributed among Santa Fe EN-
ployes at Ration who were entitled un-
der the rules to receive the Santa FEES
bonus of 10 per cent in wages earned
during 1916.
1t has been an unusually good year
for the potato growers. Banner yields
in the Las Vegas district have reached
$50 and 100 bushels per acre. ATor,
rance county farmer reports $50 an
acre from potatoes.
OF the 78,4S5, 79O acres of New Mex
leo, nearly half is public land, and IA,
600 1000 acres state land.
j. II. Crist, district a~ttorney-elect fol
the counties of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba
and San Juan, denies the Jurisdiction
Of the District Court to try the contest
case filed against him by District At
torney Alexander Read.
Engineer John Walker left Santa F,
for Cieneguila. Taos county, TO stake
out a lew road over the big sand hill
on State Road No. 8 from Santa Fe t
Taos. Tom Neel has moved his con
struction camp from Questa to thii
sand hill.
The receipts of the twenty-six coun
ties of New Mexico in the last fisca
year, ending Nov. 80, 1916, amounted
to $3.50, 6O4.60, and the disbursement
to $5,261, 1854. At the end of tn,
year the county %treasurers had OF
hand a total balance OF 81, 150,7 73.28
A wind storm visited Columbus.
blew the roof from the military post
office, partially destroyed the hanga
being erected on the aviation field ant
slightly damaged the army ~aeroplanes
The estimated velocity Of the win,
was e~ighty-five miles an hour.
New Mexico is Just beginning to ge
into her gait in improving her high
ways. Some $685. 900 has been spen
on state roads in the past five years
$4,000 for bridges; 81, 100000 o
county funds has been expended. Tn
state engineer has outlined a pre-
gram for the expenditure OF e, 200, OO
in the next five years, to construct