El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-03-22

: NIL during the present year. TOmt
, toes for the cahnery will be grow
this year In the Artesia as we'll a
the Lakewood district.
IcLAPP ExONERATED-In the cas-
against Lafayette Clapp. presiden
: of the Las Cruces Water Users al
I ISOLATION, involving a charge of en-
bezzlement, the jury was instructeI
by Judge Medler to bring in a vel
Il dict of mot guilty" The case grey
out Of a shortage in the clerks Of
flee.
FEDERAL BuILDINc-Plans for tn
new federal building at Las Cruce
have reached that place from Wash
ington, and bids will be called TO
by Postmaster Freeman. The plan,
provide for a two-story brick build
ing to cost $125,000.
PUMPING PLANTS--As a result o
the abandonment of Operations by
the Portales Power & Irrigation
company, eight complete pumping
plants have been purchased by al
many Roosevelt county farmers and
iranchers who were formerly sup
piled with power by the P~ortales
company. Pumping plants will be
purchased by many others.
SERIOUS CHARGER. T.. Tusha. Of
Elida, Roosevelt county, has been ar
rested on a charge of sending OBJ
scene matter through the mail. The
warrant was issued by order of u. s
District Attorney Summers Burk.
hart, and was served by Deputy U,
s. Marshal Alfredo Delgado.
PIONEER DEAD-Sergeant P. N. Kari
gan, a pioneer Of Mckinley county,
who went to Fort Wingate over 80
years ago as a soldier, and who In
late years acted as caretaker there,
died q few days ago In Gallup. He
was nearly 81 years of age.
GOAT SHIPMENT-Ferguson Bros,
who recently purchased the Acrey
sheep and goat ranch in Eddy coun-
ty, have shipped 1920 goats to the
Kansas City market, and will make
another shipment of ten carloads
within a few days. They mean to
dispose of all the goats ON the ranch.
BOY FRozEN-Juan Romero, an
S-year-old boy from Old Mexico, who
! was on his way with relatives from
I'll Paso to the logging camp in the
Sacramento mountains, Otero coun
ty, became lost and froze to death a
few days ago.
QUAY ROAD BONDs-Due to Gov
ernor Lindsey's veto Of the bill al
lowing counties, cities and towns to
issue bonds up to A per cent of their
nGQnqoad tnIrrnfnn L The n.oxA--1
Quay county road bond issue of
100000 will have to be abandoned.
The old law limits the bonded in
~debtedness to one and one-third per
cent of the assessed valuation, and
it will be impossible for the county
to issue more than $94, 900. New pc
titions will be necessary.
YARD AND HALF.-Alamogordo, N.
M, March 19.-Some time ago Jim
Gilliland was taken to Kansas City
for an operation for gall stones,
says the News. The operation was
successful, that is it didn't kill him,
but if Mr.. Gilliland hadn't had the
constitution of a bobcat, it would
have killed him, for the wound
would not heal up, and eventually
Mr.. Gilliland had to. go to Ell Paso
for another operation, which was
only a few weeks ago. When he
was opened up again a yard and a
half of surgeons gauze was found
sewed up in the old wound. Jim
is still in the hospital, but he is
getting along nicely and his many
friends hope that this time he will
have no trouble.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER mi
SANE-Amelia Macs, of Mora. has
been committed to the State Hos
pital for the Insane. The girl is
about 81 years of age. Her mother
has been an inmate of the institu-
tion for 1G years.
DEFINING CANNERY-The Deming
canning factory is now assured, and
orders have been placed for the ma
chinery and the boiler for the plant.
Contracts have been closed for the
cultivation of 240 acres of toma-
toes. The Hondale canning inter-
ests of e. ID. Osborne and Berry
Bowen will be turned into the new
company, and they will be allowed
$4,000 OF total capitalization of $13,-
900 of the new joint enterprise.
SELLS 100 WINDMlLLS-W b..
Mundell, a plumber and timer OF
Tucumcari, reports that he has sold
over 100 mindmills in Quay county
within the past 10 months. The
business in this line has more than
doubled within the past year. !.
SCHOOLS FOR GALLUP
The Gallup city council has passed
a resolution calling an election for
the purpose Of voting on a $4,000
bond issue to secure money for
building two new school houses.
The election proclamation names
April IL al the date of the cleo
ton.
A $4,000 SCHOOL ADoiTIoN-The
school bond election to vote $4,000
bonds for additions to the Des
Moines, Union county, public school
building carried by a vote of 100 to
"a, almost 3 to L, Steps will BEL
taken to dispose OF the bonds imme-
diately and it is thought that the
new building will be ready for oc-
cupancy by next fall. II
CONVICTED or MuRDER.-G. CT
Johnson, accused of the murder of
N. A. Hypes of Union county, was
found guilty Of murder in the sec \,
ond degree by a jury in the district
court at Clayton last week. An ap-I
peal probably will be taken. (,
ELEPHANT BUTTE HoTEL--E. G.. /
Snow has leased several OF the
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