Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-02


The funeral Of Gen. B. j. Viljoen
o. place at Las Cruces.
The Porter ranch at Tularosa, con-
tanning 377 acres. was sold for 2 5000.
Already this year three new banks
have been organized in New Mexico
towns.
Oil development work in the Ros-
well district is boosting the price of
real estate.
Seventeen New Mexico companies
incorporated during the first sixteen
days of January.
Eight inches of snow we're reported
from the Rito de los Friioles and sur
rounding country.
Eight individuals we're arrested on
the charge of participating in a poker
game at Tucumcari.
One man was killed and another In
Jured when two Santa Fe railway
handcars crashed together in Albu-
querque.
Curry county, with other plains
country, has recently had a fall of six
inches of snow which will prove very
beneficial.
An election will be held in Lincoln
county on March Z t o vote on a prop
osition to issue $4,000 in bonds for
road building.
State Engineer James A. French has
approved the plans for the Eagles
Nest dam, to be built near Cimarron
for irrigation purposes.
The coal famine which other COM
munities of the state are experiencing
is not worrying the people of Noun
tainair to any great extent.
According to a report Of Director
Ladd, Of the State College, $4,000 in
profits were made the past year as a
result of the colleges work.
A resolution for a $4,000 bond is
sue to purchase sites and erect school
buildings was introduced at the Board
of Education meeting at Albuquerque.
Six hours after getting her decree
of divorce from Judge Colin Neblett,
Mrs. Moude H. Saenza returned to
Santa Fe to remarry her husband, an
employee of the United States Indian
school.
Rafael Gallegos, a member of the
New Mexico State Legislature several
years ago, and who was a Baptist
minister and later an attorney, died
at East Las Vegas after a protracted
illness.
In an attempt to stop a quarrel be-
tween a young Mexican, Cruz Barba,
and another Mexican manner Chavez,
Francisco Dominguez was shot and
killed in front of Carillo's saloon in
Santa Rita.
Miss Gertrude Watkins of Little
Rock, Ark, is nov in New Mexico to
complete the work begun by DR.. Rus
sell during the last campaign, in or
ganizing womer's suffrage clubs in
the state.
Probably eighteen persons were
killed in the collapse of the Sonora no.
tel, a two-story structure in Cananea,
seventy miles southeast of here, &C
cording to a telegram received at
Douglas, Ariz.
The ov~ercrowded condition of the
capitol, which for the past few Legis-
latures has led to the introduction Of
bills for the building of an addition
is reported even more annoying at
this session.
The stealing of a Santa Fe rail-
way freight locomotive in Lamy a few
days ago has now become an interna-
tional affair.
Charles Campbell, a retired ranch.
man and one of the pioneers IN the
cattle industry in Grant county, died
at the Mimbres Hot Springs after an
illness Of several months. He was
II years Of age.
Governor De Baca has appointed L.
B. Prince and Col. r. e. Twitchell of
Santa Fe and H. B. Hernandez to serve
as delegates to the American Good
Roads Association convention which
meets in Boston Feb. 5 to 8.
E. r. Paradis of Colorado Springs,
Colo, attempted to commit suicide in
the city jail at Albuquerque by taking
a poisonous powder given him by e.
NJ. Clayton, city physician, to treat a
wounded wrist. He will recover.
Pueblo Indians are to be employed
on the highway construction in Blue
canon, between socorro and Magda-
lena, just as they had been on La,
Bojada hill. More than a score of
them from Isleta, accompanied by the
governor, are already at work.
DR.. J. c. Slack Of Clayton, who
stood very high in Masonic circles,
died this week as the result Of ex-
posture in an automobile trip from
Ration to Clayton.
Both the United States commission
er and the county clerk at Silver City
have been rushed with applications
for filing under the provisions Of the
new 64O-acre homestead act.