Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-10-26
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
OMING EVENTS.
March, 191S-Wool Growers convention
at Roswell.

New Mexico now has COG lawyers.
Many cattle are being marketed
from Silver City.
A large increase is shown in bank
deposits the past year.
Prohibitionists have opened head.
quarters at Santa Fe.
Otero county's quota of the second
issue Of Liberty bonds is $52,66s.
About 1900 acres of wheat will be
sown this fall in the Hope district.
over 500 acres Of tomatoes were
grown in the Pecos Valley this sea-
son.
Chas. Easley, for many years a res
ident of New Mexico, died in Los An
geles.
The state Sunday schools and the
Y. M. c. A. held a joint convention in
Albuquerque.
Two amusement companies that will
operate at Camp Cody, Deming, were
incorporated.
DR.. II. O.. Moore, Of Pecos, Texas,
has received a call to the Presbyterian
pastorate at AlamOgordo.
The second trial of Leopoldo Ma
zon, charged with murder, will take
place in Sandoval county.
Adj. Gen. James Baca has rendered
his services to the War Department
and is prepared to take up any work
assigned him.
The permanent school funds of the
State of New Mexico to the amount
Of $381,SOO we're invested in the sec
ond Liberty loan.
A large and enthusiastic crowd wit
messed the cowboy sports at Traction
park in Albuquerque, during the pa
triotic week celebration.
Twenty men are now at work on
the road to Whitewater power plant
at Mogollon, and this road will be put
in condition for heavy freight.
Corp. Hubert w. Johnson, in charge
of the army recruiting station at AL
buquerque, received word to reopen
enlistments for the aviation corps.
The Torrance County Fair, which
has been held at Willard annually for
the past six years, closed in a blaze
of glory with everybody satisfied.
The Towndrow murder case, taken
to Tucumcari from Colfax county, has
been appealed to the Supreme Court
and bond fixed at $12.5OO, which was
given.
p Twenty thousand dollars is the loss
I reported from a fire at Deming which
( destroyed the plant of the Empire
Smelling and Refining Company, half
, of which is covered by insurance.
The first annual Indian fair given
at Black Rock by the Zuni Indians I'M
D der the direction of r. ]. Bauman, SUI
perintendent of the Indian school and
+ agency, was al unqualified success.
J. H. Reynolds, chairman of the Coun.
ty Liberty Loan Association at East
s Las Vegas, received word that post.
< masters everywhere are authorized to
cash United States government bond
coupons.
t Miss Evlyn Shuler, daughter Of DR.
J.. J.. Shuler, mayor of Ration, has been
: elected librarian of the Ration Public
h Library, succeeding Miss Myrtle Cole
who will be married shortly and re
move to Kansas.
According to an announcement made
q by Col. E. c. Abbott to the Officers
c of the First New Mexico regiment
/ now the 159th United States infantry
in Albuquerque, the regiment is to b'
II broken up into units and assigned t
I machine gun work.
e Columbus Day was generally OBJ
served in New Mexico.
= Tom Insley, who was given a condi
u tional pardon from the state peniten
tiary by Governor Mcdonald just be
fore he retired from the executive OF
d flee, has been granted a complete paI
don by Governor Lindsey.
IT An unusually large number of ar
4 plicants to practice medicine in Ney
Mexico is being examined by the Stat
r Medical board, indicating that for tn
present New Mexico will not suffe
n from a dearth Of medical advice dc
spite the war.
e Eduardo Alarcon, a prisoner in tn
IL county Jail at East Las Vegas, eI
IL capped by climbing over the fence SUI
rounding the prison yard, where h
was at work. Sheriff Delgado and on
% Of the Jail guard succeeded in recal
% turing Alarcon in a deserted house.
to The famous Woodford apple orchar
in the Tesuque Valley, four mile
Ly north OF Santa Fe. has produced a
ie immense crop this year. Mr.. Woo
2. ford and his men have been busy ha.
vesting, and he figures on a total {
IN 5000 boxes Of the finest apples eve
picked in the county.
iy The Sisters of ST. Joseph are carr!
re ing on a campaign at Silver City, ha'
ie ing for It's purpose the raising OF $25
600 10 Durchage the buildings an