Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-04-05
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

the 21st.
Deming expects soon to have an
Elks lodge.
Las Cruces will cultivate all vacant
lots this year.
The New Mexico Central railway IS
rehabilitating its road.
Much mining activity is being
shown in the Stems district.
The lamb crop in Rio Arriba coun
ty is reported as 80 per cent.
The sum of $4,000 was expended on
Grant county roads during 1917.
The Keno mines at Victoria are
making shipments Of lead-silver ore.
A new Red Cross house is being
built at Camp Cody, near Deming.
New Mexico's 1877 men for the sec.
ond draft leave for training camps
March 80.
Citizens of the state will help to
popularize the pinto bean by means
of postcards.
The oil company drilling a well near
Aztec has good prospects of finding
oil at 1000 feet.
M-anslaughter was the verdict re-
turned against Taylor in the Lincoln
county wife killing case.
The Burro Springs district again
shows mining activity, after lying dor
mant for many years.
The Socorro Mining & Milling Com
pany is making good Roadway with its
new mill at Mogollon.
Collections of taxes for state pur-
poses in all the counties Of New Mex
leo last year were $1,102, 619.71.
A stabbing affray at Ration cost the
life of Luis Montoya and resulted in
serious wounds for Rafael Pena.
United States Food Administrator
Herbert Hoover, in a recent article,
sings the praises of the pinto bean.
Upwards of 100000 acres of state
lands in Luna, Grant and Sierra u
ties are under lease to stockmen.
A price for the 1918 wheat crop of
at least $3.50 a bushel was urged in
the Senate by Senator Fall of New
Mexico.
State aid on highway projects of a
total value of $57,32O has been asked
by Grant county from the state high
way commission.
Six hundred and seventy thousand
acres of state lane have been leased
for oil purposes and over 500, 900 in
cash bonds are up.
The trial of Mrs. Maud r. Case,
charged with numbering her husband,
r. H. Case, OF February 81, at Santa
Fe, was changed to March p.
Fifty per cent increase in teachers
wages and longer school terms was
the slogan OF the Guadalupe County
Teachers convention at Santa Rosa.
The Vera Cruz Mining Company is
overhauling old milling and cyanide
plant at the Nogal mine, and will in
stall new and up-to-date machinery.
Two thousand dollars has been
raised by the people of Hot Springs
for the construction Of a road from
that place to the Elephant Butte dam.
The Eghty-five Mining Company
will lessen mining operations at
Lordsburg for a month to install new
hosting machinery prior to opening
the new mill.
w. ]. Starks and his son Robert, of
Isadore, are in the county Jail at East
Las Vegas, charged with resisting an
officer and with stabbing a neighbor,
after an argument over land bounda.
ries.
Chicken, garden and rabbit clubs
have been formed at Loving.
After an exciting chase, during
which a Gun fight occurred, and in
which 100 or more men in automobiles
took part, James Sawyer, alleged to
be a Texas horse thief was captured in
Quay county.
Friendship for a school teacher
whom A. c. Rucker, a member of the
Tucumcari board of education. had
caused to resign, is said to have been
the motive for the alleged shooting Of
Rucker by George March, a n%eighbor.
Secretary Of State Antonio Lucero
has sent to Washington the names of
ten persons in this state who are p
BILE Of filling positions in South Amer
lea where stenographers and typists
who can speak, read and write Eng
lish and Spanish are needed on gov
eminent work.
It is reported that a movement is
under way in Las Vegas to secure a
Communication of the death sentence OF
Julian Romero, recently affirmed by
the Supreme Court. Romero is to die
on April IL on the gallows in the San
Miguel county Jail yard, unless ex-
ecutiye clemency is extended.
Jerry Bowen, a resident of Fruit
land vas arrested in Cripple Creek,
Colo, charged with stealing 900 head
of sheen from A. II. George OF Faiit-