Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-10
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
weaieFn Newspaper Union News Service.

The Union County Teachers Insti'
tute will be held in Clayton, July 10
to 81.
A. c. Heyman has begun his work
at county agricultural agent for Luna
county.
Many counties in New Mexico went
"over the top" for bonds before Lib
erty day.
The foundation for the building to
be occupied as a postoffice in Taos
has been completed.
d. F. Laubmann, county agent for
Guadalupe county, is carrying on a
successful fight against prairie dogs.
State Treasurer Hall has invested
$4,000 Of the states permanent
school fund i'm Third Liberty Loan
bonds.
Feeding Of bear grass to cattle has
been found to be a successful way OF
combating high prices Of feed in Tor
county.
William Mexican Of Taos has been
named county highway superintendent
Of Taos county to succeed p. V. Dick
man, resigned.
Frederick Burkner Golding Of Silver
City was among the 293 passengers on
the naval collier Cyclops, overdue
since March Is.
Albuquerque Lodge, No. 461, B. P.
o. E., voted its officers authority to
invest $1,000 of the lodge funds in the
third Liberty Bond issue.
The total of tax levies for all pur-
poses in New Mexico last veal was
$3.50, 27S.62, according to figures Of
the State Tax Commission.
The p~ostoffice at Cuba was entered
and a number of parcel post packages
and a quantity of state seed SEM in
for use Of farmers taken.
The Sunday school of the Baptist
church in Portales is to adopt a
French family and gave a musical to
raise money for the purpose.
State land sales we're held at Silver
City, for Grant county, and at Deming
for Luna county. About 10000 acres
were auctioned, mostly in small tracts.
The bean division of the U. s. Food
Administration has a lot of pinto
beans for seed, stored at Clayton, Las
Vegas and Willard that are offered at
SO per cwt.
For the second time in a year the
sawmill of Raymundo Romero, above
Manzano in the Manzano mountains,
burned to the ground, the loss being
$4,000.
The new state mounted police force
began its duties on May l, according
TO announcement made by Secretary
T. d. Allen Of the cattle sanitary
board.
Odd Fellows from all over the Pc.
o valley gathered in Clovis to cele-
brate the ninty-ninth anniversary of
the founding Of the order In the Unit
ed States.
Among new coke prices announced
by the fuel administration were New
Mexico coke, $3.50 for furnace and
smelling, and $3.50 for seventy-two-
hour selected foundry.
What is said to have been one OF
the most complicated cases ever de-
cided in District Court at Albuquerque,
vas brought to a close when Judge H.
F. Reynolds of the second judicial dis
trict Of the county, awarded a judg-
ment Of $685. 900 to Grover w. Harrl-
son in a suit against DR.. George w.
Harrison. his father and guardian. DR..
Harrison formerly lived in Albuquer-
que but now is a resident of Los An
geles.
F. Tapia, charged with stealing three
horses from Amador Montoya OF
Springer, was arrested at L~ordsburg.
John T. Wolfe, 1t Is alleged, broke
into the p~ostoffice at LaMadera and
stole R386.97 worth Of War Savings
stamps. He was captured by W. H.
Bates Of the mounted police.
Mrs. George w. Prichard has been
appointed chairman Of the woman's
committee OF the State Council OF De-
tense, succeeding Miss Jessie Massie,
resigned because of i'll health.
Dionicio Gonzales, a rancher of the
Salazar district near Albuquerque,
who shot himself, died without ex-
planning whether the wound was acct
dental or with suicidal intent.
Total valuation of the net output OF
mines in New Mexico for 1917, as
fixed by the State Tax Commission,
is S17,251s9O, or $4,000 greater than
that Of 1916, which was $~17.24S.63O.
The record for an auto trip from
Las Cruces to Albuquerque, a distance
of $50 miles, is claimed by State Engi.
neer James A. French, who made the
trip in eight hours and twenty min
utes.
Governor w. E. Lindsey pardoned
Joseph Harzurger, aged IS, and Sam
uel Sandoval, aged II, who were serv-
ing a sentence Of eighteen to twenty
| four monfha in the reform sehOoI aimee