New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-05

taro1 COST 1hlNi DSDuly EllCSo bdAd mat
athhars ore a trip last Friday to FL Paso, wher
-, 10 ofE- he took IA. slackcrs and placed thel
Il of which in the hands of the government al
y N thorities.-Socorro Chieftain.
= TORRANCE
Bob Adams on Tuesday reporte
the arrival of another car of materis
u va, az" am for the rigging OF the oil well der
~. II nn, tha ricks. Work at the camp is progress
81 4" .. " ing nicely, and everything will be i
! aooI ~. readiness upon the arrival of tn
h'"5 "t big rills.-Mountai1air Independent
~ Mail Carrier Wood of Estanci
ia ro;,, had the misfortune to have his ca
y. " lam damaged recently by fire start
d. M ian,m ing in the woodwork near the ex
s'o ond he haust. With nothing but dry dust t
: II IT, s use as an extinguisher he could no
=! "ras' control it. He saved the mail an
III ~ iou' let the gasoline out of the tank.
.merican. p n R,cb;cb, renor,s f;,e r,;
..- at his ranch last week and says tina
~ a ,.s. a large tank on his place which ha
nJ 80 been dry for about a year was file,
III ~ and water stood all around. He in
WIN - tends next week to plant 200 pound
of Pinto Beans and 100 pounds o
y Irish MISUNDERSTANDING Enterprise.
Roy has 50 train ,o.d 80 .h;r.v =. On.
- Wv" "NN tie at one shipment passed through
here going east from points west o
O, ,.,. us this week.-Encino Enterprise.
la'l6wnng Crops Doing Well
Jim Payne recently returned
'"o :" from a trip over the territory sur
rounding Mountainair. visiting /.
for,;,,, nj different farms and reports that II
.ha;r f,rm, almost all the places visited, he founc
- waItar the crops doing we'll, most of thu
Mills. '' "a'"s "au S"''N'e"' ram
- $50, ,,., W. T. Newland has bought l,6li
I -, ny vsoas acres of land in the Torreon Grant
I'd over the :. III. wv w LnpIo,'
the finan- IT, " NV pau " "o' "aue pup
drill for oil "
y John H. Guyer OF the Herzsteir
tod nv o,e Seed Co., came in the first of the
49, sonn week to ship out a car of beans and
:. 49, clean up the business for the season
He will volunteer and go into the
y s00 army for special service very short
ly.
J. J. White, of Mountainair, has
leased several homesteads near Gran
nv a Sc Quivira and has moved his stock
Tuesday. In there.
e TO nrop- 1t has been reasonably rainy the
any one past week in the Estancia Valley
and a number of localities have re-
ceived considerable benefit.
1amogordo, UNION
Sunday in
. y hr;d 10. w. M. Newkirk and son Will of
,;,,red hsH" Folsom, branded los head of cattle
q fract,rse and vacinated 20 recently.
a h. NO. O.. C.. McCuistion, of Cimarron
u Valley has lost 10 fine pigs recently
.;ved , 60. by coyotes.
n.;n 81 The oil project at Cimarron Valley
'o,rs H. is moving along. The derrick is up
rm hrot,er and all the material is on the ground
we're scain and drilling will begin next week.
\ ,',;.h ~ Chris Otto, of Mt. Dora, shipped
Ieft arm 3 carloads of wool last week, aver
up. s"s '''' wv p ou"us ~ ~ eN'N'
Several good rains have fallen in
the vicinity around Des Moines and
crop prospects are splendid all the
way around.
;. Branson, -.
destroved J. P. Hyden, one of the progressive
rning. The farmers south of Dedman, has $50
I been as acres of spring crops, 60 acres of fine
e was car looking corn. jack feacock, OF Des
Or the fur Moines, has the finest potato crop in
that section.
Tucumcari, Terrible Tradsedy
net repres- "a man Dy the name OF bTanoie
Division of snot ana kiiled MRS. bile bowles
ration for at Hayden the past week.
1t seems that Mrs. Brandle had
left her husband and sought refuge
ument has at the Bowles home, where her
econd and husband went for her and in
reinforced sisted that she go home with him.
yhite. The Mr.. Bowies prostested against her
A beautiful accompanying him at which he be-
ed on ton came enraged and shot at Bowles
carl News with a 81 winchester, the bullet struck
his check bone and glanced penetra-
,rteen Sec ting the neck of Mrs. Bowles who
. land on ran out of the house and fell dead.
d of stocI STATE LAND BRINGS
GOOD PRICES IN THE
COUNTY OF DE BACA
Robert P. Ervien, state commits
sioner of public lands, and Fritz
urner and Mueller, of the state land office, ar
right, the rived from Santa Fe Tuesday to con-
Friday for duct a sale ofs state lands advertised
conduct for Fort Sumner on that day, Two
tracts were disposed of. The first,
rs. BraMe containing 8y572 acres, was purchased
ID in Red by r.. E. Mckenzie at the appraised
valuation-$5 per acre, to which was
added the value of the improvements
listed at $2.48l. The other tract was
$50 acres went at the appraised
value, which was $40 per acre. A
gentleman named Rowley from
4 Stacker, T,;h,n Was the ,urcb,s.r Eror
near the here the states land men went to
nd brought Clovis. where thew were to hold a
ed in the sale next dav.
He was on
re he ex- ---7
ling a So -|y srcy.ss
he would e.,hs 49, =
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