Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-11-30

at Zuni.
March, isis-wool convention
at Roswell.
Taos county voted wet" by A ma
iority.
New Mexico gave the army Y. Nj
G.. A. $4,000 In excess of the quota
Of $4,000.
J. o. Seth of Albuquerque succeeds
Mr.. Easley as assistant United States
district attorney.
The Santa Fe has started work OF
the extension of It's terminal office
facilities in Clovis.
Spanish-American recruits may be
organized into a separate command,
with Major Bujac In charge.
Earl Meier, OF San Marcial, may
lose his foot as the result Of the acct,
dental discharge Of a shotgun.
All mines are crowding in their win
ter's freight, and both teams and
trucks are working to capacity.
Approximately 100000, it is re-
ported, will be the total paid Quay
county farmers for this years crop OF
broom corn.
George F. Utter, we'll known mining
man of southern New Mexico, was
seriously injured at steeplerock, sus-
tanning two broken ribs.
James e. Alvey, charged with the
murder Of Ray Walters, a well known
sheep man, was convicted of murder
In tho uonond 1onran % DAovuc1I
Miss Margaret Larkin represented
the Las Vegas normal university in
the state declamatory contest at
Santa Fe during the teachers conven
ton.
Two women were severely injured
and a man and a woman less serious
ly hurt in a collision between an au-
tomobile and a street car at Albu-
querQue.
Governor Lindsey appointed Tomas
r. Duran county commissioners for the
Second district in Bernalillo county.
He succeeds the late Manuel r.
Springer.
County Agricultural Agent ]. M.
~ Cd pAdNGh lldl Tic dPplG GAOP VI
Santa Fe county is a bumper one, and
greatly surpasses the crop of the past
few years.
Between thirty and forty thousand
head of sheep are to be shipped out
over the Rio Grande this fall, from
the great territory surrounding the
Pennington section.
Cattlemen of New Mexico and Texas
have been advised by railroad officials
that they will be provided with suf-
ficient cars to do their late fall ship
ping to northern or eastern points.
Discussion of the grazing fees for
cattlemen was the chief order of BUSH
ness at the meeting OF the state ad-
visory board of the New Mexico Cat
tie and Horse Growers Association at
Albuquerque.
The State Tax Commission has COM
pleted the assessment roll of private
car companies for 1917, the total val
uation being placed at $1,4S9,517
which is to produce taxes in the
amount of $2S,752.O3.
Word has been received at East Las
Vegas from Tres Piedras to the eff.
feet that Mrs. Virginia Gutierrez de
Giron has eloped with Lazaro Padila.
I Both have families. The woman is
% years of age and the man 80.
Two more Santa F6 county liquor
dealers have been enjoined by Judge
HoIlOman from further sale Of liquor
on account Of alleged violations of
! the law. They are Battirto Costa of
, Madrid and Joe Cratic of Cerrilos.
Ut Is estimated that 700 acres were
D planted to potatoes in the ClomdcrOft
district, which, at an average between
5000 and 10000 pounds per acre,
would bring around five million
? pounds of potatoes from this one dis
arict alone.
Governor Lindsey has honored the
. reQuisition of Governor Keith Neville,
, of Nebraska, for the %extradition of
, Algot G.. Sandahl, on the charge of
rapiRg Hazel F. Furby, whose age is
r given under IS years and who resides
at Dawson. Neb.
The United States weather bureau
in its October report for New Mexico
dweus upon the drouth which is al
most unprecedented. Fully one-half
OF the state had not a drop of pre-
c~ipftation and such showers as oc-
cured in some sections, were widely
scattered and insufficient.
Following a lingering illness. due to
tuberculosis, Miles w. BurfOrd, well
known eattleman and p~ublic-spirited
citizen Of Silver City, died at his
suburban home a few hours following
the arrival from Indianapolis, Ind, Of
bis father, who made a record trip
half way across the continent to see
his son before he passed away.
Word was received in Santa Fe that
Edward Springer, son Of Frank
Springer. and Waldo Twitchell, son Of
Col Ralph II. TWitchell. who bava