Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-04-12
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS

ton declaring Carlsbad a city.
About $1,000 in poll tax in Albuquer.
que is reported as delinquent.
Frederick A. Bush, Of Silver City,
passed away after a long illness.
The contract for the erection of the
new Luna county jail has been let.
Governor Lindsey, in a proclama-
ton, designated April 8 as Arbor and
Bird day.
The Young Women's Christian As.
ISOLATION has erected a new building
at Deming.
Workmen are erecting new coal
chutes at Carrizozo to replace those
recently burned.
Five thousand pounds of spring
wheat seed was received by the De
Baca county agent.
Alvin M. White of Silver City has
been appointed a director of the U.
s. employment service.
The Oaks Company is getting good
mill ore from the third level of the
Deep Down Mine at Mogollon.
The State Council Of Defense has be-
gun the work Of organizing community
councils in ell sections of the state.
The Roswell District Methodist Con-
ference will onven at Hope, April
"a, and will be in session three days.
The United States forest ~headquar-
tiers at Albuquerque gets an annual
budget of 5000, 900 for carrying on it's
work.
j. w. Stewart has been engaged as
physical director for the University Of
New Mexico. He also will coach the
athletic teams.
The monthly apportionment Of state
funds from 1917 taxes, amounting to
1924, S96.75, has been made by Deputy
State Treasurer w. e. Carroon.
The knights Templar of Clayton
have received about $500 worth of
new uniforms in addition to those al
ready on hand, worth about $1,000.
The office of the secretary of state
has issued this year 1904 automobile
licenses. The total number issued all
last year was something over $4,000.
A gun battle between Undersheriff
r. L. Wootten and his deputies and
a gang of men believed to have been
cattle r~ustlers was fought at the Bar
elias bridge.
LeopOldo Macon, who vas acquitted
recently of the murder of Patrico Con
zales in Albuquerque, has been arrest
ed there for firing a revolver through
the top of a taxicab.
A second well has been struck on
Sunshine Hill in the Electra field near
Carrizozo. The first well is pumping
rs barrels per day and the second is
said 10 be equally as good.
DR.. S. j. Crumbine, secretary of the
Kansas State Board of Health, was
the chief speaker at a meeting of the
New Mexico Public Health Associa-
ton held in Albuquerque.
Governor Lindsey granted a condi-
tional pardon to Luis Cortez, an alien,
who had been sentenced in Bernalillo
county in 1917 to serve three to five
years in the state penitentiary.
The sheep sanitary board has or
dered that all sheep in the state and
all sheep which may enter the state
after July l, 1918, shall be dipped UNI
der the supervision Of federal or state
inspectors.
The remains of Sergeant Robert j.
Harvey of Company A, 115th head
quarters and military police, drowned
at La Jolla, Cal, a Santa Fe boy, ar
rived at Santa Fe, where the body was
buried with military honors.
District Judge Reed Holloman has
granted Mrs. r. H. Case a continuance
to the September term of her trial for
the killing Of her husband ~ Santa Fe,
Mrs. T. J.. Griffith has the distinc-
tion of being the only woman in Gal
up in the draft, and subject to call to
service at any time. Mrs. Griffith is
a professional nurse and served in
Cuba in the Spanish-American war.
Leon Chester Breaux Of Silver City
was accidentally killed March IS at
Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaiian Is
lands. At the time of his death the
young man was a member of the Unit
ed States marines, being a first ser
geant.
Charged with disloyalty to America,
and with the writing of editorials that
were held to be pro-German, Edward
d. Tittman, United States attorney
for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico,
has been expelled from the New Mex.
leo Bar Association.
DR., Seiche E. Ikomoto, the famous
Japanese savant, addressed the New
Mexico Public Health Association
upon the subject OF "Occupational
Therapy." This subject is engaging
the attention of the foremost tuber
culosis specialists of the country.
The first military funeral and the
first interment in the National GENE.
terry from the forces of the present