Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-17
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.


october-Annual.meeting New Mexico
Public Health Association.
Fire destroyed the Douglas hotel at
Mills.
Patriotic Day at Roy was the biggest
event in the history of the town.
The May 10 call takes ga men
from New Mexico for service "over
there"
The foundation for the building to
be occupied as a p%ostoffice in Taos
has been completed.
w. T. Burgess, aged ~, and Mrs.
M. Z. Ketton, aged 20. we're united in
marriage at Melrose.
The organization Of a company to
put into operation the lumber mills in
Albuquerque is under way.
New Mexico's quota OF the 233, 900
men called on May 25 is 9S5, and they
will go to Camp Cody for training.
Recently the Oaks company entered
a face of ore on the third level west
Of the Deep Down mine at Mogollon.
Thomas ]. Hunt Of Philadelphia has
been reappointed commissioner Of
deeds for New Mexico by Governor w.
E. Lindsey.
The appointment Of B. H. Wixon of
Greenfield to the State Tax Commits
sion was announced. Mr.. Wixon win
succeed Francis c. Wilson OF Santa
Fe.
School district No. s, in Torrance
county will hold an election on May
% for the purpose of voting 10000
in bonds to erect a modern school
building.
The State Corporation Commission
has RENTED to the state treasurer
the following receipts for April: Cor
poration fees, $547.SO; insurance fees,
1922.
The monthly distribution of, state
land funds for April was placed in the
hands Of State Treasurer H. L. Hall
by r. p. Ervien, commissioner of pub
lie lands. 1t totals $1O2, 127.S4.
A youth was arrested at Dawson
and confined in the Ration Jail until
the sheriff Of McAlester, Okla, ar
rived and took him in custody. He
was charged with a statutory crime
in the Oklahoma town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cortez of San
ia Fe received a telegram stating that
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Adelaide
Cortez and her little child were run
over by a locomotive in Trinidad,
Colo, and were killed instantly.
One man has beer asked for from
New Mexico in the special INDUCTION
call for experienced mechanics and
engineers, and a tariffman from Sill
yer City will be sent to Camp Ben
jamin Harrison, indianapolis, Ind.
P. M. A. Lienau, assistant state SUI
p~erintendent of insurance, has turned
over to the state treasurer 81, 1O7. 80,
receipts of the insurance department
for April. So far this year the de-
partment has collected $51,418.8 80.
Andres Espinoza, Etiliano Lara and
Francisco Dueno, who are accused of
abandoning sheep herds belonging to
K. e. Turner of near Roswell, have
bNNh Jun ONNA " int AAGNNb COunNy
grand jury under 5000 bond each.
On account of the demand for con
Wet labor on work already under way
and in Socorro county, where opera
lions are to begin soon, the state will
be unable to send prisoners this year
to work on the Colfax county roads.
John r: Turner. who left Albuquer-
que last July after a short residence,
has been decorated for bravery in
France with the croix de guerre. Tur-
ner is in the Rainbow division, with
what formerly was the Ohio National
Guard.
The Albuquerque Chapter Of the
Red Cross, in response to a call from
Denver, sent in the largest shipment
of knitted goods it has ever made.
1t is reported from Las Vegas that
Charles Shope, who recently shot and
fatally wounded Edward Smelling, a
young boy, attempted to leave town.
His bondsmen had him arrested, the
bail was forfeited and Shope was
locked up in Jail.
A legislative committee to be
named soon, by the president OF the
New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association, will look after the
interests Of the livestock men in
recommending legislation to the law
making body Of the state.
Judge H. d. Terrell of Silver City
has just received word that his son,
Lieut., Alex w. Terrell, Jr., Of the
142nd Field Artillery. who was Sc
verely wounded on the French front,
several weeks ago, lost a leg by ampu-
tation, and is now In a base hospital.
Lieutenant Terrell received both the
French war cross and the American
medal for gallantry INT conspicuous
bravery in action.
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