Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-21
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

a Demlng was Butteu ny
Cire.
Over 1000 men are now at Camp
Cody.
Cloudcroft will celebrate on the
Fourth.
A studio at Deming was destroyed
by fire.
A four-room residence in Clovis was
destroyed by fire.
A high wind unroofed the school
building at Socorro.
A garage and hay barn at Estancia
was destroyed by fire.
The state raised $4,000 900 for the
public schools in 1917.
Corona, in Lincoln county, will cele-
brate on July 3 and 4.
It is said $4,000 has been spent on
the Gallup-Shiprock mail route.
The Toltec Oil Company struck gas
about thirty miles from Roswell.
The Methodist Navajo Mission, near
Pennington, was badly damaged by
fire.
The American company, Of French,
will install a large flour and meal
mill.
A sawmiIl in East Canon, fifteen
miles from Mimbres, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
Throughout Colfax, Mora and Union
counties the lamb crop this season has
averaged 95 per cent.
Forty heifer calves were sold at
Springer for the Red Cross fund,
bringing $50 per head.
Mrs. Louisa Metzger Of Silver City
received word from her son saying he
has sailed for France.
Quite a large acreage in Mesilla
valley will be devoted to growing GU
cumber seeds this year.
The long drouth was broken in
Roosevelt county. and grass is doing
well and cattle are looking fine.
Up to the present time the ship
ments of wool from the Aztec have
amounted to over 100000 pounds.
The Alamogordo Mexican residents
held a bazaar at the park for the
benefit of the Red Cross and realized
$1S5.
The appeal Of Ebert w. Blapcett,
convicted Of the murder of Clyde Ar
mour, will be argued in the Supreme
Court.
Tyrone, near Silver City, had a fire
which destroyed a large boarding
house. The loss is estimated at more
than $4,000.
The San Miguel county road super.
intendent has started a large crew Of
men at work on the scenic highway
hear Hot Springs.
Harry Eaton, a state prisoner who
escaped from a road gang near San
Marcial on September 8, 1914, was ar
rested at Globe, AriE.
W. L. Buel, who had been drafted
and was expecting to leave for a ma
tional army camp in a short time, was
killed by lightning at his farm, three
miles from Artesia.
Governor Lindsey issued a procla.
nation announcing Friday, June 28,
as War Savings Day. and appealing
to the people of New Mexico to give
pledges for war savings stamps.
The finding Of several calves, still
alive but with their headquarters part
ly eaten out, indicates that wolves
with pups to feed are taking heavy
toll from the cattle in southern Otero
and Eddy counties.
The ". H. Hsrroun farm on the
east side Of the Pecos river, near Lo-
gan was sold for $4,000.
Warden Hughes Of the state peni-
Tertiary stated that $3.50 of the $50
reward given for the capture of the
escaped negro convict, Hardy, at Es>
pamela recently, was paid over by
Frank Bond of Espanola to the Red
Cross fund.
J. w. Stevenson went to his den
fist in Carlsbad with a gun in his
hip pocket. When he stretched out
in the chair the gun fell to the floor,
and a bullet went through and the
dentist got a bullet in his leg. The
limb may have to be amputated.
Capt. R. C. Reid, federal disbursing
officer, issued statistics showing that
more than 5000 New Mexicans are In
the military service Of the United
States. Many New Mexicans are in
the navy, but Capt. Reid gave out no
figures on naval enlistments.
Two outbreaks of hog cholera have
been discovered in Luna county, in one
case the disease being responsible for
the death Of twenty-seven hogs and in
the other for at least twenty-five, with
a prospect that he losses in the lat
ter case will run wen higher.
Ernest F. Bennett. OF Silver City,
received notice that he had been
awarded the contract for carrying the
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