Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-10-04
Pithy News Items
Gathered From Al Quar-
NeW Mexico

auoraue.
A Boy Scouts Council has been or
Sanized at Albuquerque.
The Canadian casualty list included
q. 70. McGill OF Roosevelt.
Fire did $500 damage to the Fort
Sumner high school building.
The Pihon nut crop Is reported ex-
cellent and will be ready TO gather
shortly.
The Democratic state convention
will be held In Santa F6 on Thursday,
Sept. 20.
On Oct. Til, New Mexico will send
SS6 mon TO Camp Cody, as her quota
Of the $4,000 called.
Roy Hamilton OF Carrizozo was
killed In action. and Leo 10. Scott OF
House ia missing In action.
The state land office ls sending out
notices to lessees Of state lands whose
four.year lease terms end ON Oct. /.
Mckinley county is fortunate In be-
ing one OF the few counties In the state
that has had a material increase In
the number OF live stock raised during
the past two years.
The Methodist state conference In
session at Santa F6 sent a telegram
to President Wilson urging the prose
cution OF the war ITO the point OF I'M
conditional surrender OF the Germans"
The Pershing birthday cake auo
toned at the state fair at Douglas for
the benefit Of the Red Cross, brought
S540, which with 500 donated as comp
limentary bids, brought the total TO
an even 5000 for the Red Cross fund.
A large number of designs are being
received by the Albuquerque Chamber
OF Commerce for the proposed trade
mark for New Mexico pinto beans, &C
cording to an announcement made at
the offices Of the Albuquerque Cham
Der OF Commerce.
Justice G. ]. Roberts Of the state Su.
preme Court Is exhibiting a mammoth
seventeen-ounce six-inch potato which
he and Governor Lindsey excnvated
from the Roberts-Lindsey potato patch
on the Labadie ranch in Labadle canon
a few miles from Monument Rock. The
farmers report a good sized crop OF
good sized spuds.
Word has been received at the office
Of the state land commissioner that
the federal government has ruled that
two tracts OF land In Grant county,
hitherto included in the school sec
lions OF the state, have been with.
drawn as mineral bearing. The gov;
eminent says that they were so known
at the time the act was passed. Both
tracts are small. The metals are said
TO be silver and copper.
r. II. Case, found dead in the Case
apartments In Santa re on Feb. 20
last, with his brains blown out, was
shot from behind by Mrs. Case as he
lay prone on the bed and never knew
what hit him." according to the allie
cation OF District Attorney j. II. Crist
who opened the trial Of Mrs. Case on
the charge OF murder In the District
Court with an hours statement to the
Jury OF what the state intended Il
prove.
A. b. Smith, alias Dashley. has
been granted an additional reprievS
by Governor Lindsey. The first wal
granted to the nth OF September
In order that the District Court NIGH
make an examination OF his sanity
II now developes that Judge Hollo
man will be so engaged for some day
that he will be unable TO take are o
the matter until after the trial OF Mrs
Case. and the governor has extended
Smiths term OF life to the 9th OF thii
month.
City Assessor Howard II. Bettl
presented the tax rolls OF Silver Cit!
70 the council at the regular meetinl
showing an assessed valuation OF 81,
$50, 244.00.
Felix Jones, convicted at El Pasc
Tex, OF the murder OF Thomas Lyons
wealthy New Mexican cattleman, ant
sentenced to twenty-five years Il
prison. was released Sept. 10 on $40
900 bail, awaiting action on his cas-
which Is now pending In the Court O
Criminal Appeals at Austin. Jones wa
At once rearrested and taken TO Da'
las, whore he 10 under indictment Il
connection with alleged trainwrockin.
and the killing OF a young woman.
Mrs. Maud r. Cases story Of tn
life she led with her late husband. Ra
Harlan Case, from 1914, when the
were married, to 1918, when death SCI
aratsd them, might have been entitled
"Not My Four Years In Germany" bu
my Four Years IN He'll" II was a life q