Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-08-10
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

Cruces.
Sept. 26-29.-Dona Ana County Fair
at Las Cruces.
San Jon county will raise $S.4O0 for
highways by levy.
Several new buildings are being
erected in P%ortales.
At a dance in Cutler, $106 was raised
for the Red Cross fund.
Pedro Monies was hanged at Silver
City for killing Rufina Villenueva.
There will be a big acreage sown to
wheat and rye in Quay county this
fall.
Santa F6 business men will make a
trade excursion to Estancia Valley
towns.
The Albuquerque Chamber of Com
merce has admitted to mem
bership.
The second experimental oil we'll OF
the Toltec Oil Company at Roswell is
now down 425 feet.
w. T. Ellison, state College 1915.
has succeeded w. A. Gardner as cou
ty agent for Grant county.
The San Miguel county assessment
roll shows an increase of 1888, 026,
showing a total of $2O,999,S9
Ten more applicants for the Off
GERS reserve corps passed the medi-
cal examination at Santa Fe.
To have or not to have a state fair
this fall is the question which is being
put up to the people of Albuquerque. .
G. A. Hatch of Clovis has been APP
yointed an assistant attorney general
by Attorney General Harry L. Patton.
Incorporation papers were filed by
the Citizens Oil Development Com.
pany Of Roswell, capitalized at $1,000
600.
It may be Sept. 1 before New Mexico
troops will go into camp at Linda
Vista, according to reports from Cali
fornia.
The Beal Mining Company of Silver
City, authorized capital $1,000, 900, has
incorporated under the laws of New
Mexico.
w. E. Kelly, aged 81 years, n of
the oldest attorneys in New Mexico,
was found dead in bed at his home in
Socorro.
A movement has been started In
Clovis to erect a Y. M. C. A. building
to contain q gymnasium, reading room
and library.
The license of the Arizona Fire In
surance Company to do business in
New Mexico was revoked by the State
Insurance Department.
Ray Walters, a Roswell sheepman,
was shot and killed by Jas. e. Alvey
when he went to collect the rent for a
garage occupied by the latter.
Nathan Salmon has announced that
he will give a reward of 800 for the
J recovery of a lot of valuable jewelry
which was stolen from his home in
Santa F6.
OF the half million bushels of wheat
a conservative estimate of Curry coun
tvs crop this year, less than $4,000
: bushels have as yet been placed upon
the market.
About eighty young women of Las
Vegas, under the leadership of Mrs
Charles w. G.. Ward, have begun the
I task of making and eQuipping kits fol
: soldiers.
If a recommendation that Gov. Lind
sey will make to the War Department
Q at Washington is carried out, the New
Mexico regiment will be composed al
most entirely of Spanish-Americans.
The Santa F6 Dredging Compan!
L commenced hauling from Stanley OF
their quarter of a million dolla
d Gredge and for the next six months eX
pect Golden to be a very busy camp.
y Kenneth White, aged 10. who n
" Gently enlisted at East Las Vegas 1
. the Colorado cavalry troop, has bee
" promoted to the rank OF corporal, az
" cording to reports received from Der
yer.
70 The Luna county tax roll for 1911
" was received by Secretary Asplund {
= the State Tax Commission. 1t show
a total assessment Of $11.Ss9. 71O. con
- pared with 81. 4 1858 in 1915. an II
d. crease Of $431,447.
!. William Edwards, the Denver g. RI
- Grande engineer who was killed
jumping from the cab in a wreck net
:, Caracas, Colo, was a resident
Chama, and had been in the service
the d. & r. G. for nearly thirty year
Lorenzo Otero, convicted of rape
gocorro county several years ago ar
sentenced to serve from 10 to 20 yea.
10 in the penitentiary, was granted a pa
na don by Gov. Lindsey. The pardon wi
recommended by the p%enitential
board.
a. . The high cost of living may resi-
~. IN the deportation to Mexico of near
n. 100 natives OF that country now co
fined in the state ~penitentiary at Sa
Ia BE. It has already resulted in Il