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ltorium.
Fire destroyed eight buildings in
Lovington.
Covers will be laid for 300 at the
Teachers banquet in Santa Fe.
The Santa Re Red Cross chapter
has raised $~5,124.s2 as a war fund.
The Cannonball Motor Company,
capitalized at $40, OOO, 900, has located
at Texieo, N. M.
The Wesner brothers. ranch on the
upper Gallinas has been sold to T. G.
Anthony, a Texas capitalist.
Eighty men subject to service in the
army were certified to the Albuquer-
cue Board by the District Board.
DR.. w. r.. Upton began his duties
as superintendent of the New Mexico
hospital for the insane at East Las
Vegas.
Three trainloads of members of the
New Mexico regiment left for Linda
Vista, Cal. They were given 5000
oranges and apples.
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veyors adjourned from its first meet
ing after licensing thirty-four engi-
neers and surveyors.
The body of Jacob Harden, a well
known mining man, was found in the
Animas river in Sierra county. He
had been missing for some time.
The grand jury at Santa Fe has
recommended new safes and vaults
for the county officers and a new
heating plant for the jail at Santa Fe.
At its regular meeting the Albu-
querque lodge of the Moose instructed
It's trustees to invest 5000 of the sur
plus of the beneficiary fund in Liberty
bonds.
The New Mexico battery, which
has been at Charlotte, N. c., for three
weeks, was on the move again, posi-
bly, to a point of embarkation for
France.
The Sheriffs' and Peace Officers
Association of New Mexico was
formed at Albuquerque, Sheriff C. A.
Rector of Chaves county being elected
president.
The district headquarters of the
forest service will begin sending out
notices to their field forces with a
view of aiding the Hoover program
of food conservation.
Bail in the sum of $4,000 was fixed
by the Court of Criminal Appeals in
the case of Felix r. Jones, charged
with the murder of Thomas Lyons, a
wealthy cattleman of Silver City.
This has been what the apiarists
call an uncommonly good year for
honey, and $4,000 pounds nave already
been shipped from the Artesia sta
ton to points in New Mexico and
Texas.
The New Mexico campaign to Sc
cure pledges to the food saving pro-
gram is now mapped out and it Is the
Intention of those in charge to secure
the signatures of at least $4,000 to
the cards.
Isaac Martinez, who is suspected Of
having shot and killed Mrs. Matilde
Bustos de Ortiz near Cebolla on June
18th, last, has been captured and is
being held to await a preliminary
hearing in LeDoux.
Judge Colin Neblett sentenced
James Pandell, II. G.. Norris, and
Cleve Mayfield to ninety days in Jail
for ~peddling liquor to soldiers at Camp
Cody. Mayfield also was fined the
costs of the case and 5000.
Over 400 have enrolled at the New
Mexico Normal at East Las Vegas.
According to word received by the
San Miguel county exemption board
from the commander at Camp Funs-
ton all the men sent from San Miguel
county in the first two contingents
have been found physically sound.
]. c.. Shaffer was shot and instantly
killed by C. S. Crosby near Rock Val
ley school, north Of Roswell. The kill
ing is said to have been the outgrowth
of factional fight over some school
matters which have been in court.
At Clayton, a new auto struck a
sleeping dog in the road and turned
turtle. Jed Scott's back was broken.
His wife was only bruised. His broth
err also escaped serious injury. His
brothers wife received an injury to
the knee.
Ramon Salazar, charged with cruelty
to his wife, was found guilty in the
District Court at Albuquerque, the
jury recommending clemency. Salazar
jabbed his wife with a knife in the
arms and right side. They had sep
arated and Salazar, encountering her
on a road in Barelas, used the knife
on her.
Reports from county agents to the
State Council of Defense show that
New Mexico will have a total bean
crop this year of over seventy million
pounds. Final reports are expected to
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