Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-08-31

rally at Santa Fe.
Wheat is being threshed in the Clio
Wis district.
Laying steel on the North Texas &
Santa Fe railway is in full swing.
Fred Arthur has been appointed SUI
pervisor of the ella National Forest.
An outbreak of diphtheria is report
ed from southwestern Torrance u
ty.
A hearing will be held on the two
Wills of q. A. Miera at Bernalillo, on
Sept. 3.
The State Land Office sold 1900
acres of state land in Luna county for
$40,O
Federal officials will open bids Sept.
u for erecting a postoffice building
at Ration.
Out of 324 men examined, it is es-
timated that there will be 100 kemp
lions at Socorro.
Walter Gray, one of the clerks in
the Columbus postOffice, has been de-
tailed for duty in France.
One man was instantly killed and
three others were injured in an auto
mobile accident six miles west of Gal
lup.
The FL Norte Copper Company of
Silver City incorporated with $1,000
600 capitalization, of which $4,000 is
paid up.
S. NJ. Brown Of Deming, a patient at
the New Mexico hospital for the in
sane, killed himself by blowing his
brains GU with a shotgun.
The Woman's Museum Board is put
ting the final touches to the plans for
its headquarters in the beautiful new
Museum building at Santa Fe.
Jesse Allen, Jr., who shot and killed
his brother-inlaw, William Tiger Of
Bristow, Okla, was acquitted at the
preliminary hearing at Socorro.
The sum of 1882 has been added
to the municipal treasury since Aug.
l of this year as the result of an oc-
cupation tax drive at Albuquerque.
The Woman's Board Of Trade Of
Santa Fe, which supports a free pub
lie library for the city, has started
an endowment fund for the library.
The Tucumcari City Federation,
which usually issues an elaborate
Year Book, is this year planning to
use the money for patriotic purposes.
The acreage of winter wheat to be
planted in San Miguel county this fall
will be about 10000 acres, according
tn County A%griculturist M. R. Coma
lez.
Isidoro Martinez, alleged wife STAY
err, bleeding from half a dozen glanc-
ing wounds, was maHacled in a wheat
field in the mountains north of Santa
Fe..
The Board of Bar Examiners, in ses-
sion at the state capitol gave nine
candidates licenses to practice law in
New Mexico admitting them on GER
tificates.
Brig. Gen. Hubert F. Allen Of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was ordered to report
at Camp Cody, near Deming, to as
sumo command of the Sixty-seventh
infantry brigade.
While heavy rains have been re-
ported frorR every part of the state
and even close to Santa Fe, the city
itself still finds itself with ten months
dNouth practically unbroken.
Chas. F. Kanen, chief clerk in the
office of the state engineer, has re-
signed and the position has been tilled
by C. M. Wells, who has been disbuTs.
ing clerk in the same office.
The New Mexico chapters of the
Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton have agreed to supply the crew OF
the u. s. destroyer dale" with knit
ted comfort garments for the winter
The Toltec Oil Company, which has
more than $50 acres of state land un
der lease for oil exploration work, has
unloaded drilling machinery at Dex
ter. in southern Chaves county, and
will put down a well.
The Santa F6 railway has just sem
a circular to employees connected will
the freight traffic, urging them to u.s.
every effort possible to conserve
freight equipment and to prevent los
or damage to freight shipments.
Colorado need not imagine she II
theswhole thing in the line OF touris
patronage, Notwithstanding her over
whelming victory this year over thu
half deserted Yellowstone country
New Mexico is so much nearer thu
great empire of Texas that it, too, hal
had unusual attention this summer.
After readiAS "The Man Without
Country" James n ely. a federal prif
oner in the county jail at AlbuqueI
que, attempted to commit suicide. II
climbed to the top of the cage Of tn,
jail and was about to dive to the CO
ment floor when stopped by othe
prisoners.
During the mast wear New Mexic