Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-29
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENT..

permanently disbarred from practicing
law in the New Mexico courts.
Carlsbad people turned out en-
masse to see Company B off for the
mobilization camp at Albuquerque.
Governor Lindsey appointed R. D.
Bruce county commissioner OF Eddy
county, vice w. T. Warkins resigned.
The Santa Fe machine shops at AL
buquerQue paid the heaviest payroll
In their history. 1t amounted to $780,
500.
The state land office sold 19,2O1
acres of land at a sale at Clovis,
prices ranging from So to $15 per
acre.
The making of Navajo blankets at
Gallup has become an important and
profitable industry since the opening
of the war.
The Dona Ana county farm bureau
has now actively undertaken the work
outlined for the bureau at the organ
ization meeting.
The first arrest for violation of the
new federal statute, making it a crime
to sell liquor to a soldier in uniform,
was made at Central.
Thousands thronged the streets at
Santa Fe to witness the annual pa
geant celebrating the capture of San
ia Fe by the Spaniards.
The yield of beans in Torrance
county will be almost three times as
great as last year, and almost ten
times as large as in 1915.
The first flag presented to the mem
bers of G company, New Mexico Ma
tional Guard, organized Oct. %, 1881,
is now on display at Albuquerque.
With the arrival of more units of
the First Regiment and Battery A, the
National Guard camp at Albuquerque,
is getting under way in earnest.
Albuquerque a been selected as
the next meeting place for the annual
encampment OF the department of
New Mexico, Grand Army of the Re-
public.
The first woman victim of the war
in New Mexico, so far as is known
at Las Vegas, is Mrs. Conrado LucerO,
who died of fright because she feared
her husband would be forced to join
the army.
Hurley will celebrate on the Fourth.
James A. French of Santa Fe, w
e. Moses of Glenrio, Hugh Seabere
of Ration, Eugene Kempenich of Pc
.ot4, o-d I II Doiuhurg oP TaTTnfnr
were delegates to the federal military
highway convention at Denver.
Final official figures on the tota
registration in Grant County June 5tl
under the federal draft law show tina
1851 men between the ages of Fl anC
] 80 registered, or SS yer cent of thu
vote cast at the 1916 general cleo
y ton.
E At least 100 ministers of the gos
pei in New Mexico are to hold
a weeks session at the State college
beginning Aug, 18th. The principa
object of the meeting will be a dis
cussion of rural life subjects, especial
ly the problem of making farm life IN
teresting for boys.
Ruby Graham, the girl whom
Charles Mitchell called up on the telC
phone at Albuquerque to hear tn
shot with which he ended his life, wa
; too much overcome by nervous prot
tration to attend the cOroner's Inquest
. but the jury got enough evidence o
. which to base a suicide verdict an
~ closed the case.
Mark e. Musgrave, animal inspe'
. tor for the United States ~biolcsicl
Q survey, returned to Albuquerque frol
Cowles, on the Pecos national fores
y He reports that wild animals though
y to be grizzly bears, have killed b
~ tween thirty and forty head Of cattl
" In that region.
The Santa Fe Women's Auxiliary
the Council Of Defense is now maxim
= plans for a public market, where We
!. etables and other products from gar
4 ems cultivated by the school childrs
and other volunteer gardeners win !
sold C