Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-05-24
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
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A new ordinance requires Santa re
saloons TO close al 6 p. m.
A garage at House was robbed Of
seven auto castings and five tubes.
The government crop report for
May l shows New Mexico crops In
good condition.
Dexter had a gala day when over
sixty boys and girls we're graduated
from the eighth grade.
Two hundred u OF a total of 461
convicts are engaged on highways or
other work outside the ~penltentiary.
The P%ortales City Council at a spe-
cial session purchased a 10O-horsepow-
err oil engine and dynamo for the light
plant.
Lieut.. Joseph Quesenberry Of Las
Cruces died from wounds, according
to the casualty list issued at Wash
ington.
George Curran, a patient from Fort
Stanton, dropped dead at the Carri-
Eozo eating house as the result of a
hemorrhage.
The Willard Salt Lake Refining
Company filed an amendment chang
ing the name to The New Mexico Salt
Refining Company.
The beer bottle was superseded in
Albuquerque when Ignacio Norlega, a
barber, beat up another barber, Jose
Tanes, with a pitcher.
Harvesting and shipping bear grass
to fiber factories has developed into
an important industry in eastern New
Mexico the last few months.
F~orty-eight men, strapping speci-
mems Of young manhood all eager to
do their bit" left Silver City for Fort
Mcdowell to enter military service.
At Las Vegas, Walter Hall and his
brother, r. d. Hall, were arrested by
Deputy Sheriff PHILIPPE Lopez, charged
with poisoning sheep belonging to
margarine Garcia.
The longest steel span of any bridge
in the state has been completed
across the Canadian or Red river near
Roy, Mora county. 1t is 800 feet long
and costs $4,000.
Governor Lindsey prevented the
prize fight between Mexican Pete Ev-
erett of Colorado Springs and Mike
Baca of Santa Fe on the ground it was
assault and battery.
The appointment of r. M. Johnston
of Albuquerque as executive secretary
of the Food Administration for New
Mexico was announced by Ralph G.
Ely, food administrator.
The final summary of subscriptions
for bonds of the Third Liberty Loan
show that a total of 5000, 800 were
bought in Grant county which is con-
siderably over three times the coun-
TVS quota.
The county of De Baca, the newest
county in the state, has ninety-six
men in the service, according to the
list just compiled by Secretary Ian
sing Bloom Of the State Beard Of His
toricaI Research.
The first officials for the village of
Magdalena took the oath OF office rs
follows: Mayor: Jose Y. Aragon;
trustees, ]. 8. M~actavish, Milo Bur
lingame, Justiniano Baca, Jose Garcia
y Ortega; clerk, c. B. Sedillo.
James M. Baird Of Otaro county, sen
ator in the Third State Legislature,
and his son, Walter M. Baird, have
been indicted by the federal grand
jury on the charge of conspiring to
make a false claim to get a deferred
classification for Walter M. Baird in
the draft, on the ground that young
Baird was foreman of a cattle ranch.
That a golden era faces New Mexico
as a flour-producing state, was the
prediction made by Ralph c. Ely, state
food administrator.
An indication Of the activity at Daw-
son, where s~eventy-five houses are be-
ing erected for the miners, was
cleaned when the State Corporation
Commission received Order 252 from
the Santa F@ railway authorizing the
rate Of 20 cents per 100 pounds from
Santa Fe TO Dawson on timber by car
loads, the minimum weight to be 30
900 pounds.
Two ranchmen are dead and three
persons seriously wounded as the re-
suit of a pistol duel eighty miles west
Of Magdalena. Forest Rangers Sim
mons and Carajo, who are also deputy
United States marshals, went to the
ranch Of c. c. Cooper to serve a war
rant on his son Bruce, an alleged
Stacker. Young Cooper resisted arrest
and fired at Simmons, wounding him.
The father came to his sons assist
ance and at that %juncture Carajo shot
and killed the elder Cooper and his
son. Homer Cooper. a younger son.
then came out Of the house. and he
was shot and severely wounded.
A memorial service for Capt. Joseph
Q%uesenberry. who was killed I'm
France, was held at the Las Cruces ar
mOry Captain OuesenberrV's hou,a