Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

"NNA AtV"eAS eV"'
During the year 1917, 1906 auto
licenses were issued.
The residence Of Guy A. Reed, in
Artesia. was burned to the ground.
A new M. e. church will be erected
at Deming. It will be of the Mission
style and cost $1,000.
P. w. Turner has offered = large
sum If Worlds Champion Jess VIII
lard would fight at Deming.
Rev. ]. B. Bell. of Deming, per
formed nine wedding ceremonies
Christmas week-six in one day.
James Dickinson, deputy sheriff at
Hanover, was shot in the back and
almost instantly killed at Hanover.
A contract has been awarded for
the erection Of a new $4,000 Seventh
Day Adventist church at Albuquerque.
Governor w. e. Lindsey accepted
appointment as a member of the Ad-
visory Board of the All-American AS
ISOLATION.
County %treasurers are not required
to renew their bonds annually, &C
cording to an opinion by Assistant At
torney General C.. A. Hatch, given at
the request of State Travelling Auditor
A. @. Whittier.
Stockholders Of the Phelps-Dodge
Corporation last year received 30
cents per share less in dividends than
the previous year, the total dividends
amounting to S32 per share, as against
$685. per share in 1916.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing
has sent to Governor Lindsey for pre-
sentation to the Legislature a copy OF
the resolution recently adopted by
Congress providing for the submission
Of nationwide prohibition.
The abolition as far as possible Of
red tape and technicality is urged
upon the local exemption boards in a
telegram to Adjutant General James
Baca by Provost Marshal General
Crowder.
Silver. City Lodge No. Alb installed
q beautiful service flag in the Elks'
Club rooms. The flag contains fifty
stars, one for each member Of the To-
cal lodge who Is now engaged in mil
itary service.
Charles Thacker, Jr., of RaNpn, af-
ter slightly more than a months serv-
ice in the U. s.. Army, died at Fort
Leavenworth. Thacker Joined the En-
cheering Department on Nov. 20. He
had been employed in the Ration and
Denver pOstoffices.
Claims and appeals are pouring in
to the exemption board for District
No. / from all parts of the state. The
board is making every effort to give
proper consideration to each, so that
all men registered for military serv-
ice will be given the fairest possible
treatment.
New Mexico has 1894 men serving
as volunteers In the Regular Army,
the National Army and the Navy, &C
cording to Major Webb. assistant ad-
jutant general, who has just returned
from Ell Paso where he went some
time ago for the purpose Of securing
enlistment data.
In the death of William H. Kerr,
Santa Fe lost one of its pioneers, New
Mexico one of it's most prominent col
ored men, and the racing circles a
race horse man who enjoyed the
unique distinction Of putting the
worlds greatest jockey. Tod Sloane,
on his first ace horse.
The State Bank Of Springer has re-
ceived the approval of the corpora
ton commission for the increasing of
It's capital from $4,000 to $4,000.
The government has granted a pen
sion Of $35 a month to Mrs. David
NJ. White, Of Santa Fe, and an add
tional allowance of $40 a month for
each Of her two children, because Of
the death Of Mr.. White from infec'
ton while sanitary inspector for the
u. s. Health Service at Ell Paso.
Officials and others in Santa Fe are
much interested in the report that
Lieut.. ]. w. Spalding, alleged to have
been mixed upwith a German spy.
Baroness Iona Wilhelma Sutton Zoll.
ner, is a New Mexico boy. designated
two and a half years ago to Annapolis
and asked to resign from the Naval
Academy in February of last year.
Approval has been given by State
Engineer James A. French to the ap
~plication of Alphonse Dockweiler. Levi
A. Hughes and Arthur Seligman for
the use OF 2.745 acre feet of water
from the Rio Galisteo, delivered on
land near Kennedy. It is proposed tc
irrigate 915 acres, and to construct
a somewhat elaborate irrigation sys
tenn.
That a Frontier Day, or Round Up
matching in attractions and in attend
ance the annual Wild West gatherings
at Cheyenne, Tucumcari. Las Vegas
and other points, could be held in
Clayton each year, is the opinion Of
II II Errett and A McCune.