Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-09-07
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
r Union News Service.

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Sept. 2s-29-Dona Ana County Fair
at Las Cruces.
Oct 2-5-conyention OF women's
oct. 11-I2-Woodmen Of the World
rally at Santa Fe.
Peter spitzley, So. died at Silver
City.
The Dona Ana Council Of Defense
celebrated the 9th as army day.
Two convicts escaped from the pris-
on camp near Moriarty in an auto.
New Mexico produced $~1.S5O,OOO in
gold in 1916, and S1,13S,O 900 In silver.
A new postoffice. to be called Los
Vigilis, is to be established in San
Miguel county.
There is a cheese factory with a
daily capacity of 5000 gallons Of milk
in the little town of Dedman.
Governor Lindsey is sending out re-
peated arguments to farmers of New
Mexico urging the sowing of winter
wheat. G
Mrs. E. l.. Bradford will be heard
in solo numbers at the Women's State
Federation convention at Gallup, Oct.
2nd to 9Th.
John Rains, who was in charge Of
the Santa Fe pumping station at
Chavez, near Thoreau, was killed By
train No. 81.
Two club houses for men and wo-
men employees of the Chino Copper
Company will be constructed at a cost
Of ST. 900 each.
w. II. Emmons, state geOlogist of
Minnesota, arrived in Artesia to look
over the PecOs Valley oil field for a
northern oil syndicate.
Mai. E. p. Bujac has been named
as the ranking major of the New Mex
leo regiment, according to a decision
made by Col. Il. c. Abbott.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
n. b. Pickle who reside on the ]. NJ.
Love ranch ten miles north of Clovis.
died as the result OF a rattlesnake
bite.
Wool growers have started a cam
paign to exterminate the dog. They
assert that he consumes 100, 900, 900
pounds of food a year-sufficient to
feed 100000 human beings.
The tax roll of the new county OF
Lea reached Secretary Asplund of tie
State Tax Commission, and shows \
total property valuation of IS, 463 ,191
Of which cattle supply $3,S4O.9 1886.
Because of financial stringency the
plan OF turning over the old building
Of the state reform school at Spring
er to an industrial school for girls,
has been abandoned for the present.
Two coach loads of miners arrived
at Gallup to take the place of strik-
ing miners at the Gallup-American
Coal Company's mines, and more min
ers are on the way, it was announced
by the company.
Patrick Dugan, lately cashier OF a
Mckinley county bank in Gallup. has
been appointed assistant superinten
dent of the penitentiary to succeed
Barney Spears, who intends to return
TO Gallup.
Examinations have been made on
the Bearup properties in the western
side of the Mogollon district. The
owners have shipped some of the high
est grade ore yet taken out of the Mo
COLON district.
Pablo Baca, sheriff of Union coun-
ty from 1904 to 1906, and f. r. Gen
try, a pioneer in that section, both
deputy sheriffs, are dead, and Ernest
Long is probably fatally wounded as
the result of a pistol duel at Mos
quero.
Women members Of the County
Boards of Education have been named
n twenty counties.
Mrs. Susie H. Davidson. who had
Thomas S. Mitchell arrested on a
charge of assault, has started suit
against him in the District Court at
albuquerque, for $4,000 damages. The
charge grew out of a clash over a
hotel bill.
Mrs. II. T. Bowie, member of the
National War Council of the Young
Woman's Christian Association, in
charge Of northern Texas and New
Mexico, announces that the work Of
the association in Deming has already
been started.
Ex-Governor L. Bradford Prince,
who has returned to Santa Fs from
a trip to East Tennessee, says that
the whole line of travel from the Col
orado line to the Cumberland noun
tains was one immense cornfield OF
the highest quality.
A proclamation urging the parents
and guardians of the state to exert
every effort to cause all children of
school age to continue their education.
regardless of any circumstance re,
sulting from the war, has been issued
by Governor Lindsey.
Miss Helen Temple. a graduate OF
che civil service department OF the
Albuquerque College. received a call
from the War Department to report