Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

coming EYENrs.
March 20s22-Meeting New Mexico Cat
tie ana Horse Growers Association
March 2O-22- Meeting New Mexico
Wool Growers Association AZ Albu-
querQue.
July s-b-Annual Reunion Of Cowboys
association at Las Vegas.
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Curry county is soon to have 4
county agent.
Citizens Of Captain are organizing
a state bank.
Two cases of typhoid fever were re-
ported at socorrO.
Gen. Pershing Was voted a medal
by the Legislature.
Grow more beans this year is the
slogan Of county agents.
Clayton Methodists are planning to
erect a new church building.
Wagon Mound is to have a new
state bank, with $4,000 capital.
Judge Alexander l.. Morrison, SO, Of
Santa Fe died at Prescott, Ariz.
Santa Rosa in Guadalupe county is
having a building boom at present.
The recent outbreak Of smallpox at
Silver City has been brought under
control by the health officers.
The New Mexico prairie dog is once
more in danger. Apolonio A. Sena Of
San Miguel county is again on his
trail.
A. P. Peterson, Burton Jensen and
Hugh Accord, killed by Mexicans. were
buried at Campbell's Ranch, near Ha-
chita.
Lincoln county will hold an election
on March 9TH to decide on the Issuing
Of $4,000 worth of bonds for road i'm
provement.
Total appropriations Of $2,457.00O
are asked for the next two fiscal years
by the fourteen state institutions Of
New Mexico.
The Wa Department has selected
Las Vegas for the place of the annual
summer encampment under the ma
tional defense act.
The sugar factory tax exemption bill
is ready for the consideration Of the
governor, the House having concurred
In the Senate amendment.
Henry Rachel Of the Rogers com.
munity, near Portales, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the breast
with a 12-gauge shotgun.
The Clovis water and light depart
ment has brought in another munich
pal well, which will deliver 200 gal
Ions of water per minute.
Present indications point to the re-
vival of the Copper League, and teams
from Silver City, Santa Rita, Hurley
and Tyrone will compose It.
President Fayette A. Jones Of the
New Mexico School Of Mines. located
at Socorro, urges the creation Of a
state bureau of geology and mines.
According to Senator John Clark,
chairman of the Senate finance com
mittee, the present session of the
State Legislature will cost approx
mately $4,000.
The governor has signed the prohi-
bition submission resolution, and Sen
ate substitute for House bill No. 60,
relating to the management Of COM
munity land grants.
The convention of the New Mexico
Electrical Association closed at Al
buquerque with the election of Off
GERS and an address by the new pres
ldent, M. r. Buchanan Of Silver City.
Santa F6 Officer Louis Melvin, fol
lowing a "hunch" walked down the
railway tracks at East Las Vegas, to
the old tie-pickler, where he found
David Holloway, an escaped convict,
who he arrested and returned to the
state ~penitentiary.
An eight-hour law for women and
children, which was introduced by
Representative diversion at the request
Of the State Federation Of Labor, was
passed by the House by a vote Of 20
to IA.
Mrs. Ruth c. Miller, state director
of Industrial education, has under
taken to extend the work among more
Of the schools of the state, and to
widen its scope where It is already be-
ing taught.
Alexandra Branch, the man who is
alleged to have attempted to burn the
Cassidy store at Cleveland, Mora
county, is being held in the Mora
county jail awaiting the action Of the
grand jury.
The state Game Association has
presented the names Of Elliott s.
Barker of Taos, Fred Lambert of
Cimarron and ID. M. Jackson Of Carls-
bad to the governor from which to Sc.
lect a game warden.
The recent plans Of the executive
board Of the New Mexico Cattle &
Horse Growers Association outline
for the meeting in Albuquerque on
March 20, 81 and %. something more
khan a mere cowman's convention.
The snowfall Of January averaged
considerably above the normal, and