Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-07-13

Is Vegas gave $4,000 for the Red
Cross wal fund.
The New Mexico National Guard
has 1,342 men, Of whom SO are Off
GERS.
The Dona Ana Country Club was
incorporated by five Las Cruces resi-
dents.
The total of Red Cross contributions
in Santa re was reported as close to
$4,000.
A barbecue was a feature of the
Fourth of July celebration at Hot
Springs.
Grant county's quota was $4,000
for the Red Cross fund, and $4,000
was subscribed.
The cowboy reunion at East Las
Vegas vas largely attended and a sue
cess in every way.
Sixty.two candidates from all over
the state took the Scottish Rite de-
grees at Santa Fe.
U. s.. District Judge Colin Neblett
appointed Don w. Lusk, U. S. COM
missioner at Silver City.
Several farmers and ranchmen Of
San Miguel county have lost valuable
hogs during the past few weeks from
cholera.
The archaeological expedition that is
%excavating the Hawaiku ruins at Zuni
has uneartheG ninety-eight skeletons
inside a months digging.
Jose Mendoza, a native of Old Mex
leo, died at the county hospital at
Ration from the effects of a gunshot
wound received at Koehler.
Club women in the state will be in
terested to know that the date of the
next State Federation Convention has
been set for Oct. 2nd to 5th.
Five men have been put to work
on the prospects of the Guadalupe
Copper Company, Guadalupe county,
twenty miles south of Santa Rosa.
Bernabel Duran, aged 10. was run
over by a Santa F6 freight train near
Bernal and suffered injuries from
which he died in the Las Vegas hos
pital.
The automobile license record for
the first six months of 1917 has been
closed at the office Of the secretary
of state, with 1926 automobiles H.
censed.
There is q strong probability that
within the next few weeks two more
batteries of 3-inch guns will be organ,
lied as units of the New Mexico Ma
tional Guard.
There is a strong probability that
within the next few weeks two more
batteries of 3-inch guns will be or
ganized as units of the New Mexico
National Guard.
The body of Guadalupe Munoz, a
laborer in the employ of the Chino
Copper Company at Hurley, was
found dead on a road leading north
east from that town.
A fire which caused a loss of up
wards of $4,000, destroyed the laun
dry, garage, wood bins and pump
house at the New Mexico Cottage
%Sanatorium at Silver City.
Joseph Evans, aged 20, who acct
dentally shot himself in the foo
while hunting about a month ago
died at Hillsboro following the am
putation of the injured member.
1t is stated that the Wilson Com
pany, of Mills, has a 1,700-acre bear
patch. A fair yield on this acreage
will produce enough to give 100, 00l
soldiers a feed of beans every day 70,
, a year.
A ella monster was found near thu
/, institute for the blind by c.. G. Nc
Matt of Albuquerque. The monste
was captured and is now on exhibit
ton in the window of the Commercial
p Club rooms.
A flying squadron of speakers
which toured Sierra county at tn
suggestion of the State Council o
Defense, moved the county to create
efforts to comply with demands 70
agricultural and economic prepared
ness.
The picture of the late U. S. Dis
trict Judge William II. Pope, at on
r time chief justice of New Mexico
which was sent from Atlanta, Ga, I
+ be placed in the capitol, has arrived
Judge Pope died last summer in A.
j. lanta, after a long illness. He Is bul
led in Fairyiew cemetery at SAINT
3 Fe.
All saloons in the mining camp
of the Gallup American Coal Compan
: were closed following the strike {
1 miners at Gallup under the leade.
. ship of an Austrian now under indie
. ment for refusing to register, Recol
0 milton of the union Is demanded. TIL
company has refused to grant recoi
milton.
Adjutant General James Baca, VIII
has returned to Santa re from an II
i spection of the militia camp at A
buquerque, reports that the 1900 me
are in the best of health and spirit
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