Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-22

NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

June 21.-Reunion OF Scottish Rite Ma
sons at Santa Fe.
July 4.-Races at albuquerque Speed
July s-5-Annuai Reunion OF Cowboys
association at Las Vegas
Aug. zI.-Bar Association meeting at
Sept, 25-2s-seventh Annual Northern
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
Santa Fe is to have a new 100000
hotel.
willard is to have a 5000 bean ele-
vator.
Las Cruces is to have a new water
works system.
It is estimated that $4,000 registered
on June s.
The otero county chapter Of the
Red Cross o has 1870 members.
A ~2OO-pound black bear was killed
within eleven miles Of Silver City.
Three more of Farmington's boys
have gone to the service of their coun-
try.
Company G, New Mexico regiment
left Albuquerque for Elephant Butte
to do guard duty.
A%nastacio Martinez of Santa Fe, a
Union army veteran, died at his home
in the state capital.
James E.. Averill, aged 80 years.
committed suicide in Albuquerque by
drinking carbolic acid.
Approximately $35O.OOO worth Of
Liberty loan bonds have been sub
scribed for at Silver City.
Organizations of the boys and girls
Of Carizozo for outing parties this
summer have been completed.
Three arrests have been made in
New Mexico on charges Of failure to
register for selective CONSUMPTION.
Las Vegas has been designated as
the junction point Of the Ozark trails
with the Santa Fe trail and the trans
continental highway.
A Carrizozo farmer offers to be one
Of a hundred farmers to donate the
product of n acre of their crops to
the Red Cross Society.
The New Mexico National guard
has passed the 1000 mark and daily
new recruits are enlisting to serve
their state and nation.
Large sums OF money will be spent
by The Santa Fe beginning this sum
mer, on construction of new branch
lines in the southwest.
With the arrival of their uniforms
members of L Company, First New
Mexico infantry, are now fully
equipped for camp life.
Mrs. Thos. Lyons has announced
that she will pay a reward of $4,000
for the arrest n conviction of the
murderers Of her husband.
Boaz Long, minister of San Saliva
dor, is safe, according to a message
received at East Las Vegas from Sec
rotary Lansing by Judge E. v. Long,
his father.
Douglas Howden, son Of Bishop
Frederick Howden, and Geo. B. Farr,
son of DIR. w. M. Farr, will leave AL
buquerque for France with one of the
American ambulances.
Alexander b. Harrison of Albuquer.
que knocked out Cabell Of the TWEEN
ty-fourth infantry in the second round
of a scheduled fifteen-round bout at
Columbus.
Fort Worth, Waco and Houston,
Tex; Fort Sill, Okla; Deming, N. M,
and Linda Vista, Cal, have been APP
proved as additional camps for Nation
al guard mobilization.
The Mersfelder district prohibition
law passed by the last Legislative AS
sembly, was upheld by the State Su-
preme Court as applied to the election
which made Curry county dry.
The sum of STA, $500 has been
turned into the State Treasury by
State Land Commissioner Robert P.
Ervien for the rental and sale of state
lands during the month Of May.
The wool clip Of the Mocho Broth
ers' ranch in the eastern part Of Soc
orro county this year will amount ia
more thar $4,000. They have just
finishedS shearing 5000 head of their
sheep.
10oNRA O0Ikl III hbkA AAIh "a ANEA
dent of Mentmore, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with a razor
He had been i'll for two months fol
lowing an accident in which une Of
his legs was broken.
Completion of the $4,000 Perchs
dam in the Rio Grande below Ele
plant Butte, has been postponed from
August to December, according to an
%nouncement by the reclamation serV
ice.
A battery. New Mexico NationO
Guard, now has its full quota Of meI
for peace strength. No. 1875 vas &C
cepted and there is already a reserv'
list awaiting the formal order from
headquarters to enroll the battery Il
war strength.
Mrs. Juanita Trujillo was burned Il
death accidentally at her home in Eas