Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-04-13
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS


A new gymnasium is to be built at
Ration.
Punch boards sre under the ban in
Silver City.
A Mormon colony is to be founded
near Tularosa.
Three Clovis boys we're held on
forgery charges.
The Security State Bank of Por-
tales has been incorporated.
A loyalty parade and rally win be
held at Albuquerque April 9th.
A crew Of twenty men is employed
at the Pacific mine at Mogollon.
Carlsbad stockmen are marketing a
large number of fed lambs and steers.
Another new office building is going
up in the business section at Magda-
lena.
One thousand pounds of beans, corn
and coffee we're stolen from a Socorro
store.
A civilian training camp will be
held at East Las Vegas from July 81
to Aug. 20.
The initial shipment Of ore from the
M. and s. mine in the Mogollon dis
trict has been made.
The Silver Key Mining Company,
authorized capital S250,000, has filed
articles of incorporation.
A. A. Thomas, %, of Ration, was
married to Mrs. Mary M. Crane, ",
of GAINESVILLE, Wis, in Denver.
The State Corporation Commission
granted a charter to the Amistad Gem
etery Association of Amistad.
According to the orchard men at
Roswell, conditions were never better
there for a bumper fruit crop.
George Watson's ~11-year-old son was
shot and killed while out hunting with
his brother near White Signal.
The Honduras Mining and Develop
ment Company filed incorporation pa
pers, the capitalization being 100000.
The Masonic lodge of Tucumcari
has closed a contract for the erection
of a Masonic home to cost $4,000.
A track-laying gang, numbering $50
Mexican laborers, is now located at
the stockyards south Of Silver City.
The Santa Fe forestry officials are
overwhelmed with applications for
grazing permits for sheep this season.
Governor w. E. Lindsey has asked
Captain c. E. De Bremond to econ
slider his declination Of the adjutant
g~eneralship.
United States District Judge Colin
Neblett Of Santa Fe appointed George
; c. Lebeck, United States commission
or at Ramah.
Voters of Eddy county defeated the
proposed issue of $1,000 0 in interest
bearing bonds for new roads and their
! maintenance.
Col. e. C. Abbott will raise a bri-
gade of cavalry IN New Mexico. in
case there is a call for volunteers from
the President.
Phelps, Dodge & Company declared
; an extra dividend of $3.50 a share in
addition 10 the quarterly dividend of
, $3.50 a share.
, Not for many years have so many
: fires occurred in New Mexico as the
past few weeks, according to reports
to underwriters.
I Ernest Boardman is drilling a well
4 on the Baker ranch, eighteen miles
, northeast of Gallup, and at a depth OF
] 100 feet struck a quantity of oil and
gas.
Z Carlsbad farmers are arranging &c
= plant more cotton.
h Full payment for the site for the
o Holly sugar factory at Las Cruces has
Q been made, and the deeds filed will
the county clerk.
9 John Cunico, a ranchman of the
Kiowa valley, was killed and two otheI
o men were seriously injured in an auto
d mobile accident at Brilliant.
y A shooting ARRAY at the MogollOr
" Mines, nea Silver City, resulted in thu
deash OF Cosme zapata and the fata
d wounding OF Pedro Almarez.
! Silver City will hold a Fourth o
July celebration. according to actor
take by the Fourth of July commit
: tee Of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Fort Sumner Water Users AS
+, ISOLATION has taken charge of the irrl
cation system, the owners havinl
made no effort to repair the dam.
s. Federico Sanchez of Peralta, Va
T. lencia county, was appointed by Gov
8. ernor Lindsey to succeed Eugene Ken
y penich of the same place as count
s, commissioner, Mr.. Kempenich havinI
ID resigned TO become a member of tn
u State Highway Commission.
Langdon b. Gregg at Clovis ha
y been offered the position Of deput
" bank examiner by George H. Va
o Stone, who filed his oath of office a
% bank examiner.
The Ease Of nineteen OF the twenty