Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-31
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
extern Newspaper unlon News Service.

N0&AMG ENENAla
July 4-6-cowboys' Reunion at las
oetober-Annual meeting New Mexico
Public Health Association.
Clayton is to have a large troop Of
Boy Scouts.
Seven buildings at Emzy were des-
troyed by fire.
The population Of Deming has dou-
bled the past year.
Two prisoners escaped from the
road camp at Deming.
Mosollon purchased over $4,000
worth Of Liberty Bonds.
twenty-five men left Socorro for
service in the national army.
Northern New Mexico more than
doubled its Liberty Loan quota Of 81
O7S,OOO.
The 6-year-old daughter of ]. b.. Mar
row, of'Dawson, hanged herself in a
trapeze swing.
Fire, said 70 have originated from a
carelessly dropped cigarette, did $780,
900 damage at Watrous.
Juan l. Trujillo, OF Logan, is the first
boy from Union county to be wounded
severely in battle in France.
The silver service to be presented
to the u. s. S. New Mexico is nearing
completion. 1t is composed Of sixty
five pieces.
E. w. Brown was burned to a crisp
when lightning struck him and set his
auto on fire, when near his ranch at
Carrizozo.
No painting is being done at Las We
gas because the painters have quit
work, asking 50 cents instead Of 40
cents an hour.
Fort Bayard, near Silver City, will
soon have a new $4,000 hospital,
which win be a Red Cross military
sanatorium for tuberculosis patients,
In a period of less than six weeks,
to end June l, New Mexico will have
furnished no less than 1858 men for
the military service of the United
States.
The mines in the Mogollon district,
ninety miles north of Silver City, pro-
duced in 1917, 1880 ounces of gold,
and 1913. 5S1 ounces of silver; all worth
5000, 900.
James Wright, a ranchman, living in
the Mule Creek section of Western
Grant county, was taken to Silver City
suffering from two bullet wounds in
his leg. A man named Wise is charged
with the shooting.
The 5000 acre w. II. Harrom farm
opposite Malaga, OF the asst side OF
the Pecos river, was sold at auction
to representatives of Mrs. George H,
Harroun Of Kansas City, a sister-in.
law of Mr.. Harroun, for $4,000.
John b.. Middleton, who shot and
killed Francisco Serna, a deputy sher.
iff Of Guadalupe county, was sentenced
by Judge Leahy at Las Vegas to hang
May 20. A stay of execution was
granted pending appeal to the Su.
preme Court.
Grant county of all Of New Mexico's
2S counties heads the list on assessed
value for 1917 with over $4,000, 900
which is over -four times that of SAINTS
Fe county. Grant county also appears
as the richest county in the output OF
mines, which is nearly $4,000, 900.
Assistant Attorney General Milton ].
Helmick in a lengthy opinion to Gov.
ernor Lindsey held that prize fighting
Is not forbidden by New Mexico stat.
ute and the specific offense of prize
fighting was unknown to the common
law, but that such o~ffenses as assault
and battery, breach of the peace, OF
riot, were and if a prize fight be re.
garded as such, of course, there is am,
pie law to punish 1t.
The number of automobile licenses
issued for this year at the office OF
the secretary Of state passed $4,000.
Last year the total number of auto
licenses issued was 14.OS5.
Five children of Thomas Pinson, a
ranchman living five miles east OF
Silver City, we're burned to death in
a fire which destroyed the Pinsou
home. OF six children alone in the
house. Levi, aged 9, who had gone to
the well for a drink, was the only one
to survive. Those who persisted were
Bertha, aged 13; Eva, 10; George, 6;
and Alice and Mary. 3-year-old twins.
An exploding lamp is believed to have
caused the fire.
The car driven by George w. Cot
fey Of Dedman. Union county, leaped
out into space on the second turn de-
scending the precipitous La Bajada
Hin road lei Santa Re. Coffey was
instantly killed and the car demol-
ished. Coffey's wife and grandson
had gotten out to walk down the hill
and say that he was nervous about
making the descent for the first time.
coffey originally came from Oklahoma
and was en- route to San Juan county
} settle there.
President Ceorge R~oelinVton hoe In.