Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-23
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper linton News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July 3-5-Annual Reunion OF Cowboys
association at Las Vegas.

New Mexico this year will get 1857,
425.62 for post roads from the federal
appropriation.
The Sandoval county grand jury re-
turned six more indictments, making
a total of eleven.
Mrs. Myrtle Kicker Of Quay, Quay
county, has been committed to the
state hospital for the insane by Judge
David j.. Leahy.
Frank ortiz, who was sent to the
New Mexico penitentiary from Berna-
lilo county. escaped from the clay
pits at Santa F6.
DIR. J. j. Walker and c. e. Thomas
Of Roswell were seriously injured in
an automobile accident neal the Hes
calero Indian agency.
Incorporation papers we're filed
with the state corporation commission
by the School of American Research
with headquarters at Santa Fe.
A distribution Of S45,4SS collected
in fees for motor vehicleslicenses dur
ing the month Of January was made
by Assistant Secretary of state Adofph
p. Hill.
The sum of $4,000 a year is asked
for maintenance and $4,000 for
buildings and repairs by the State
Normal School of Silver City, in the
annual report.
County Agricultural Agent M. r.
Gonzalez of Las Vegas is planning a
series of demonstrations and lectures
throughout the county to instruct the
farmers in planting their crops
Virgil L. Snyder, special officer of
the Santa Fe railway, was held by
Justice Jose Ignacio Aragon, at Belen,
to await action of the Valencia county
grand jury for killing Jose Antonio
Pine at Bosque.
The Las Vegas Carpenters Union
has notified contractors that it will
demand an increase in wages after
April 8. Wages at present paid car
penters are As cents an hour. They
ask So cents.
The voters of Chaves county, or
rather the taxpayers entitled to vote
on a bond issue, do not care for $780,,
600 with which to build good roads, &C
cording to incomplete returns from
the special election.
The mill and superintendent house
at the camp of the M~eerschaum Com
pany of America on the Sapello in
western Grant county, have been des-
troyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
The buildings were not occupied.
The question as to who is entitled
to the $1,000 reward for the discov-
cry of the body of Armour has evil
IDENTIFY been settled, as far as Attor-
ney Dunlavy is concerned, for he has
paid over to Antonio Sandoval y Grie-
so, the old native near Glorieta, the
sum Of $1,000.
Death claimed two of the oldest
pioneers of Grant county. They were
Judge r. o. Barrett, the oldest mem
Der of the Grant county bar, who died
at his home at Pinos Altos, and Henry
Miller, who passed away at the home
of his s%on-in-law, T. w. Holland,
county clerk, near Cliff on the ella
river.
The members of the Red Cross
chapter crowded the Supreme Court
room at Santa Fe at a special meet
ing called by the president, Chief
Justice r. H. Hanna, who read a long
telegram from headquarters in Wash
ington, urging the New Mexico chap
ter to get busy preparing for event
ualities. First aid classes will be or
ganized Immediately.
Chief Clerk e. E. Coard of the state
corporation commission is in Los
Angeles as a witness in the Federal
Court. He will testify in the case
against the healers Schlatter and
Schrader who were in Santa F6 years
ago and who founded a colony at New
Jerusalem nea San Acacio, Socorro
county.
The federal government has pur.
chased from Congregation Montefiore
the site occupied by the Jewish syna.
gogue at East Las Vegas. The ground
will be used for the erection of the
new postoffice building, for which an
appropriation of $3.50 was made
, several years ago. The lots are 16C
by $50 feet.
Father Gerey. Catholic parish priest
at Santa Rita, and Father Bertram, par
ish priest at Hurley, were victims OF
an automobile accident which came
near costing both Of them their lives
The q in which they were riding
from Silver City to Santa Rita over
turned on a sharp curve in the road
r and both we're thrown under the ma
, chine. Each suffered painful cuts anC
bruises, but an examination by a ply
! stefan disclosed neither was seriously
hurt.
. The Inauguration committee wal
[ called together by Chief Justice r. H
A Hanna. The condition of Gov. e.. G
de Baca was declared to be so mucl
better that the evening of Feb. 10 wal