Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-14

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Jake Hulse Of Magdalena was fined
S2O7.5O for killing two antelopes.
Work has been commenced on a
$4,000 refrigerating plant at Camp
Cody.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Portales
report that they are losing cattle from
fever.
Fruit crop prospects are much bet
ter in the Pecos valley than had been
anticipated.
Large shipments of livestock have
been leaving the Peeos valley during
the past week.
Texico recently passed a city ordi-
nance which will bar all pool halls
from that city.
The Portales City Council has voted
to purchase a 100 horsepower engine
and a large dynamo.
w. o. Biggerstaff Of Pelen has been
appointed a member Of the mounted
police by Governor Lindsey.
Lieutenant Gregory reports that Tu.
cumcari has come clean 100 per cent.
for the Food Administration.
Las Vegas City Council passed an
ordinance placing all city officers and
employees on a salary and wage basis.
Donald ]. McKeen, OF Santa Rita,
and Fred Golding, Of Silver City, were
on the missing Collier Cyclops.
Sinking Lake. the duck breeding
ground in northern New Mexico, will
hereafter be known as Lake Burford.
Ben Buttner, conductor on the San
ia Fe coast lines between Gallup and
Winslow, died at his home in Wins.
low.
Clarence Hardy, colored, the trusty
who escaped from the state peniten-
tiary at Santa Fe was captured at Es-
pamela.
Geraldo Sandoval and Francisco
Sandoval were arrested in the Daw-
son Canon, near T%ucumcari, accused
Of being slackers.
X. Bahia, a Japanese of Gallup.
killed a Navajo Indian by striking him
over the head with a rifle barrel and
fracturing his skull.
Cattlemen from the lower mesas,
near Las Vegas, state that the ranges
are in very bad condition, and cattle
are very poor owing to drouth.
bad" horses and good riders form
one Of the combinations which will put
thrills into the fourth annual roundup
of the New Mexico Cowboys Reunion
Association, to be held at Las Vegas
July 3, 4 and 8.
The Santa Fe and the Southern Pa.
cific intend to consolidate their pas
senger station and freight depot
forces at Deming, according to a re.
port. One force of employees will work
for both railways.
That a small slip on a fault line
caused the earthquake felt over cen.
trail New Mexico recently is the theory
Of Prof. Fayette A. Jones, well known
mineralogist, %geologist, former presi-
dent of the State School of Mines.
U. s. District Judge Colin Neblett
at Santa Fe sentenced F. c. Blumlein,
Of Clovis, formerly captain in the New
Mexico national guard, to serve three
years in the penitentiary It Fort Lea
wentworth, Kan, for violation of the
espionage act.
Four Albuquerque women, dressed
in mems clothes were fined $40 and
costs each In the Justice of the Peace
Court at Socorro after pleading guilty
10 a charge of vagrancy. Immediate
ly after paying the $3.50 each of the
women left for Albuquerque.
Five hundred more men from New
Mexico are called to war soon after
June "a. This is the information in 4
telegram sent to Governor Lindsey by
General Crowder and transmitted i'm
mediately to all Of the local boards by
Captain r. C. Reid, federal disbursing
officer.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell, one of Amer
ica's most noted writer's and workers.
has promised to attend the mother
daughter congress and patriotic food
show at Albuquerque June 24-29, held
under the auspices OF the Food Admin.
istration with the cooperation and as
sistance Of the extension division of
the state college.
A fire in the offices of County
Treasurer G. E. Strong's office in NO
ra destroyed practically all of the
Mora county tax records. A duplicate
set on file at the offices of the state
tax commission vas rushed to him by
State Travelling Auditor A. G. Whit.
tier.
Governor Lindsey has received a let.
ter which travelled Through the air
from New York to Washington. bring.
ing a message from President Alan r..
Hawley. Of the Aero Club Of America.
who predicts that transatlantic aeriai
mail lines will soon be a reality.