The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-09
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

March 2o-s2 = Meeting New Mexico
Wool Growers Association AZ Aibu-
quUrquc
July a.b-Annuai Reunion Of Cowboys
association at Las Vegas
A new state bank has been organ
ized al Captain.
Alamogordo named March ist, and
and Ord az clean up days.
Tueumcari citizens subscribed o.,
500 70 build a fiber factory. =
over forty hogs have succumbed TO
cholera in Bernalillo county.
The Kascman blue sky" law was
passed by the Senate and reported to
the House.
Governor Lindsey formally APP
pointed r. c; Reid. OF Roswell. his
legal adviser.
The House passed the two liquor
election bills by practically unani
nous vote.
The House took up a new bill on
The Texas boundary dispute and
passed Il by a vote OF % to ~.
The taxpayers OF Chaves county de-
featod the proposed issue OF $1,000
road bonds by a vote OF close to 500.
Governor Lindsey has signed the
bill which creates the county Of de
Baea In the eastern part OF the state
Considerable prospecting h bolng
done south OF White Water some
good assays are COMBS into Mogollon
A suffrage league has been started
In Albuquerque TO carry on q drive
for equal suffrage for the women OF
New Mexico.
A joint resolution directing the
State Corporation Commission 20 liz
a three-cent passenger rate In New
Mexico was introduced In the Senate
c. J. Neis. who has been In charge
Of the legal work OF the Santa ~ q
s lind office for more than eight
years, rendered his resignation and
left for Roswell.
The New Mexico electors. n. Up
ton, Jose @. Chavez aud Felix Garcia
were In Washington and %wltucssel
the Inauguration Of President wilson
for a second term.
The thiri new county bill OF the
present session. which seeks 10 create
the county OF 'Alyarado" out OF a por
ton Of Mora. Union and Colfax. made
It's appearance In the House.
Rev. Robt y Browning Of Mans
field. ore. has been called TO Silver
City TO take the post OF rector lett
vacant by Rev 4 T. Vincent, when
the latter Joined the New Mexico In.
fantry a. chaplain
A new bill calling for the %eSpendi.
turc OF 100000 for an addition Ia the
state capitol was introduced In the
House. The Senate BILLS on the same
subject called for an expense OF 500,
900 and u2i.uco respectively
Judge Ncblett appointed j. ~
MCGhee OF Roswell as court stenog
rapher and reporter NJ McGhcc as
sumcd the duties OF HE new position
and with his wife has gone 10 santa
Fe to reside.
The part that New Mexico could
play In time OF war In supplying
United state armies with arms AMI
munitions, b. told In the report made
TO the Secretary OF War by q board
OF officers, headed by Col Francis j.
Herman. TWenty.eighth infantry.
The first step toward military train.
ing in tho public schools Of New Mex
leo was taken when the House By a
vote OF 20 10 rs passed the Gonzales.
Llewellyn bill providing for military
instruction In the fundamentals Of
military science and training
The City Council Of Clovis has de
cided TO abolish pool and billiard
halls after June T.
. Twenty-on" Meyicans, charged with
being members OF the band which
made the attack on Columbus about
q year ago that resulted In the calling
out OF the entire National guard OF
the United States and the dispatch OF
Gen John ! Pershing into Mexico, are
nov In Silver city safely locked In
the Grant county jail
A R~einburg resolution providing for
a constitutional amendment permit,
ting members Of the state militia "a
vote wherever they may be- on rlcc.
lion day. and one by Senator Sanchez
proposing IN amendment 10 transfer
Taos county from the Eighth TO tho
First judicial district, were passed by
The Senate.
Capt hen = Ristine, Tinted States
army who for the past year has been
instructor inspector OF the New Mex.
leo National Guard and has been with
them on the border for the past nine
months, has been ordered by the War
Department to proceed To Bismarck.
as instructorinspecto OF the North
Dakota National Guard,
State Bank Examiner Rufus u Car.
Ter has rendered his resignation 10
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