Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-08-03

Sept. 26-2S.-Farmers' Fair at Las
Cruces.
Sept. 2s-29.-Dona Ana County Fair
A hail storm damaged gardens at
East Las Vegas.
Fort Sumner is to have a fine new
school building.
The w. R. c. Mining Company filed
incorporation papers.
The cowboys ball was held in the
State Armory in Santa Fe.
The home OF D. H. Tullcock at Dem
ing was struck by lightning.
Federal officers will nip any attempt
OF slackers who have registered to es-
cape the draft.
Two thousand sheep in one flock
we're pounded to death by a hail storm
in the Estancia valley.
Daniel Martinez, accused of stab
bling Emilio Trujillo almost to death,
at Chapelle, denies that he is guilty.
Jacob Troesch, well known to many
people throughout Union county, shot
himself accidentally at his home one
mile south of Clayton.
The city of Clovis, realizing the in
adequacy of its present horse-drawn
fire fighting apparatus, is about to
purchase standard motor equipment.
Roscoe X. Hill has been elected by
the board of regents of the Spanish
American Normal at FL Rito superin-
tendent of that institution for the en-
suing year.
Roscoe X. Hill has been elected by
the board of regents of the Spanish
American Normal at FL Rito superin-
tendent of that institution for the en-
suing year.
The organizations of county coun-
ellis of defense, in the various counties
of the state is being planned by Gov
Lindsey and the state council
of defense.
Emelio Trujillo, who was badly cut
by a knife at Chapelle, presumably
by Daniel Martinez, is said to'have as
serted to officials that Martinez is the
guilty man.
The fund contributed by Las Vegas
to the Red Cross amounted to So
1881, all of which has been paid in tn
the finance committee and deposited
in local banks.
When DR.. Lucas stork visited a
Mexican family in the south part of
Carrizozo and left twin boys, there
were just nineteen names to grace the
family record.
A ~12-yearold girl living in Martinez
town reported to her parents hat a
Standardization member of the Ma
tional Guard had criminally mistreated
her at Albuquerque.
A hail storm that swept over a
strip two miles wide and twelve miles
long in the Roy district destroyed hUn
dreds of acres Of wheat and damaged
a number of homes.
A number of the members of Bat
terry A, now encamped at the state
camp at Albuquerque, in writing home
tn Roswell tell in glowing terms of
the progress made so far.
Fred Overmatt and S. A. Reid, both
OF Tucson, Ariz., were killed when an
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a freight train at Carne,
twelve miles east of Deming.
People are flocking to New Mexico's
state banks with money for deposit.
In the fifty days from May ? to June
20, both inclusive, they increased the
deposits of the state banking institu-
lions by $414,932.S3, an average of
nearly $4,000 a day.
The residents of Claude school dis
trict, twelve miles north of Clovis,
have voted bonds in the sum of $4,000
for the purpose of erecting a new
school building.
That more han $50 young men, for
mer students of the New Mexico Mill
tary Institute at Roswell, are now ac-
lively engaged in the work of helping
Uncle Sam carry OF the war against
Germany. is the official announcement
made by the officers Of the institute.
In May the Chino Copper Company
produced 6,9S4,470 pounds of copper.
This compares with 6,36S,S74 pounds
in April, 6,572,1 LOG pounds in Febru-
airy and 6,452, 1854 pounds in January.
In May last year the output amount
ed to 6,359,294 pounds. and in the
same month Of 1915 It was 6,442,9 77
pounds.
While New Mexico's quota for the
second series, officers reserve corps
at Fort Leon Springs, Texas, is sixty
four, scores of New Mexicans who
pass the physical and mental exami-
nations now conducted at the armory
in Santa F6 may be accepted by the
government for training schools else
where.
Governor Lindsey issued a requisi-
ton, directed to the secretary of the
navy, for the return to New Mexico
Of George Woodruff Lavender, alleged
murderer of Frank Brownell, a Lords.