Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-28
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS


Aug. T-il-Round-up and Sports Car
oetobsr-AnnSSi NESTING New Mexico
Public Health Association.
Roswell gets the 1919 Ozark TRAN
convention.
Fire destroyed about 1000 cords Of
wood at Willard.
Il is stated that Senator A. B. Fall
will be a candidate for reelection.
A Bean Growers Association was
formed at a meeting in Albuquerque.
The Twin Buttes Oil Company has
its test well In Otero county down
over 900 feet.
Fred Melton, a young blacksmith,
was drowned at Clovis in the Santa
Fe supply tank.
The new Salvation Army building at
Camp Cody, Deming, has been com
pleted and opened.
The New Mexico State Press Asso-
citation win hold its annual meeting at
Albuquerque, June 24-25.
The summer school term Of the New
Mexico Normal opened at Silver City
with an enrolment Of $50.
Arrangements are being made to
build a concrete dam across the river
at Tularosa for irrigating purposes.
Preparations are well under way for
the big Roundup and Contest OF
Western Sports to be held at Magda-
lena, August Z to IL.
Enrique Hernandez of Blossburg
was burned to death at Ration when
the house in which he was living
caught fire and burned.
Mrs. Eulogia Chaves, 1O2 years old,
died at her home in Albuquerque.
Senility was the cause of death. As
far as is known Mrs. Chaves was the
oldest woman in the state.
Bernalillo county's tax valuation
will be increased by about $1,000,0 0O
for 1918, according to a preliminary
statement made by Assessor Stephen
e. Roehl to the State Tax Commission
Because of the need of beef for
Uncle Sans fighting men in France
and the soldiers of his allies, Socorro
will not have a barbecue on the Fourth
Of July. Instead the town will have q
watermelon feast.
The city council of Roswell at its
regular monthly meeting passed an
ordinance requiring every male inhab.
liant of the city between the age Of
15 and So years, except students in
schools, to engage at once in some
useful occupation. The penalty fol
idlers will be a fine of from $40 tC
100 or confinement in the county jail
for not more than ninety days, or both
The second registration during the
war, which occurred June 5, has en-
rolled 1914 men in twenty-three coun
ties, as follows: Bernalillo, 1871; Cha
yes, SO; Colfax, 109; Curry, So; DC
Baca, IL; Dona Ana, 81; Eddy, 81
Lincoln, 80; Luna, 81; Mora, SO.
Otero, 62; Rio Arriba, 1870; SaI
Miguel, 100; Torrance, 4S; Union
"A; Guadalupe, H. Quay, 46; Roose
welt, 20; San Juan, "a: Taos, AZ; Val
encia, SO; Sandoval, 10; Santa Fe, 60
New Mexico's cowmen who now ar,
walking the deck Of a warship, kick
ing up dust on the parade ground Of
training camp or hurting lead anC
steel at the Hun are to be honored a
the fourth annual Cowboys reunion
to be held at Las Vegas, July 3, 4 ant
5. A monster service flag, bearing
stars for all the cattle handlers IL
New Mexico who have gone into thu
army or the navy is to be unfurled Il
the breeze and dedicated on the after
noon of independence Day.
Cut worms damaged the 100 acre
Of beans on the C. E. Anderson farm
near Roy so badly that replanting wal
necessary.
The thirty-fifth annual encampmeni
of the New Mexico department of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Albu
querque, ended with the election o
John w. Terry Of Las Vegas, depart
ment commander; S. W. Sherfey O
Las Cruces, senior vice commander
o. L. Gregory Of Las Vegas, junior
vice commander; John Greenwald o.
Socorro, assistant adjutant genera
and assistant quartermaster general.
8. X. Sydes of Las Vegas, chaplain
and e. s. Slower, medical director.
Two incendiary fires were discov
cred at Las Vegas, one destroying I
drug store, the other damaging {
tailor shop. Fremen fighting tn,
blazes discovered what is believed L
be an Internal machine. The machine
which resembles a bomb, was fash
toned from a tin box 10 which a car
and fuse had been attached. The fire
bug" used highly inflammable oil com
bined with some mysterious explosive
the combination forming q blaze whicl
spread rapidly and rendered the fire
men almost helpless.
The Sheep Sanitary Board has pro
mulgated an order i~nstructing al
sheep growers Of New Mexico tina.