Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-07
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS


Ration school children have sold $s,-
COO worth OF Thrift Stamps.
Prospects for a big fruit crop were
never better in the Taos valley than
now.
New Mexico people contributed
S126,S99 to the Second Red Cross war
fund.
Large shipments of livestock have
beer leaving the Pecos valley during
the past week.
over 500 acres OF pinto beans have
been planted on the Barth farm near
Albuquerque.
Mayor Davies of Santa Fe Issued a
proclamation ordering the. saloons to
close at 8 p. m.
Governor Lindsey received a bid Of
1925 for the two pounds Of wool from
the White House.
A class OF 30 candidates was init
lated by the Santa Fe council Of the
Knights of Columbus.
Forest fires in the country in the vi
cinity of Mora are reported to have
done considerable damage.
C%loudcroft is to have a Baby Sana-
forum this season, with Miss Emily
Green in charge as head nurse.
Donald J. McKeen, of Santa Rita,
and Fred Golding, of Silver City, we're
on the missing Collier Cyclops.
Sinking Lake, the duck breeding
ground in northern New Mexico, will
hereafter be known as Lake Burford.
Columbus P. Lyon of Deming was
accidentally shot by his wife as she
handed a rifle to him which she had
been cleaning.
Geraldo Sandoval and Francisco
Sandoval were arrested in the Daw-
son Canon, near Tucumcari, accused
of being slackers.
Expenditure OF $4,000 in vicinity of
Santa Fe opens the auto road system
to new and attractive drives along the
upper Pecos river.
The 1861 newly drafted soldiers
from New Mexico. Arizona, Texas and
Colorado have been arriving at Camp
Cody according to schedule.
Statement comes that Artesia is to
have a canning factory. Also that a
deep well is to be drilled at the fac
tory site, likely to tap oil or water or
both.
Search for oil in sections of New
Mexico is persistent and increasing.
Oil %prospectors are now busy in Glen
Rio. Endree and Cocorro districts
and in Quay county.
The governor has appointed the fol
lowing members Of the state mounted
police force: c. E. Hunter, Tucum-
carl; James Sierra. Las Cruces;
Charles Adams, Magdalena.
OF the quarter million dollar gift to
the Red Cross by the Phelps-Dodge
Company, the mining camp of Dawson,
Colfax county, is credited with $12,-
900 and the mining camp of Tyrone, in
Grant county, with $4,000.
Orrin Staples with AZ points won
the silver medal offered the individ-
ual pOlnt-winner in the Boy Scouts
track meet at Santa Fe, in which some
rs Scouts were entered and all did
well.
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 3.
Monday. June 20, has been selected
as the date for a statewide meeting
of pinto bean growers at Albuquerque
to consider the question of organizing
for the protection and promotion OF
the bean industry in New Mexico.
Governor Lindsey appointed State
Treasurer Hall, of Choma; Levi A
Hughes, OF Santa Fe; Frank Springer
Of Las Vegas; Nathan Jaffa, of RIOS
well, and Isaac Barth, of Albuquerque
delegates to the National Conference
of War Economy to meet in New Yorh
City, June 5 and 6.
U. s. District Judge Colin Neblett
At Santa Fe fined Emilio Romero, o.
Las Cruces, 500 n costs which hi
paid. Romero was indicted on the
charge of violating the white slav,
traffic act by transporting Antonio Ri
vera, under the age OF IS years. from
Las Cruces In a motor truck acrosi
the line to Ell Paso. and there having
immoral relations with her.
Persons were thrown off their feet
chimneys fell, some windows broken
plaster was knocked off walls and
large crack vas opened in the eartl
close to town at Cerrillos, twenty-fiv,
miles south Of here, by the earthquak,
at $50 Tuesday morning, May rs
which was felt throughout centra
New Mexico, II is believed the dis
turbance was local and centered neaI
Cerrillos.
Victor Budessich was caught in H.,
machinery at the McGaffey lumbe.