Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-03-07
Pithy News Items
Gathered From An OUer
MeW Mexico

The Baptist church Is planning TO
establish a sanntorlum somewhere In
New Mexico this year.
The fourth annual convention Of tho
New Mexico Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association will be held in Albu.
querquc, March 20, 20 and ~.
s. s. Miller, swltchman, was shot
and seriously injured, II TX alleged, by
w. Delaney, an engineer, In the yards
nj Gallup, The shots were fired from
a locomotive.
Charles A. Spless, n resident OF New
Mexico since 1883, member OF the Re.
publican national committee, both In
territorial days and since New Mexico
became o state, is dead at Las Vegas.
The epidemic Of Influenza Is sub
siding and many OF the sufferers are
back mt their place of business again,
according to reports from Pennington.
The nurses from the outside are being
released and but few new cuses are
reported.
The well now going down at Column
bus and the n at Bowie seem to
have gotten nolscd about considerably,
for capital fr " n considerable dis
tance Is now I arently interested In
the posslbllltle Of southern New Mex
leo as the next big oil field.
p. J.. Vidal Is preparing to open n
candy and ice rea manufacturing
shop at Gallup at once and work has
| aIrauIg gtuFtnI an el.a htlIIIpu .uhlnh
Is TO house the enterprise. Mr.. Vida!
has had six years experience pre-
v%lously In the snme line Of business.
The body of a young man Identified
MS William Miller OF Pueblo was found
In the tender of train No. Z when It
reached Ration. Another young man,
calling himself Victor Caldwell, who
was his companion in stealing the
ride, notified the tralnmen of the acct
dent.
The Modoc mine, one OF the best
known properties In the southern sec
ton Of New Mexico, and located In the
Organ mountains, Is to be n producer
no more. When the Organ, district was
Mt Its height, the MOdoc was one of
the best known and paying Of them
MI. The mine Is now being dIsman-
tied, and the machinery removed.
The first session OF the District
Court In Grant county which has been
held for II year VIII he convened ON
March 3 at Silver City. The grand
jury Is expected to be In session only
three or four days. Two murder trials
are expected to be disposed of during
the term, that of s. Il. Bailey, charged
with killing J. NJ. Bodoro at Vnnndlum
last hummer and Of Manuel Lopez,
charged with Staying Doe Cntlln, n
former snloonkceper In Stems.
4 contract hns bccn awarded to Ten
Eyck, representing II bridge company,
to build n pile trestle 200 feet long
with a Z per rent grade as an APP
pronch 10 the bridge spanning the riv-
cr near Pennington, n. NJ. In addition
10 this a contract also was let 10 the
,ridge contractors to build n lO0-foOt
dirt "cmbnnkment. This win form Il
connection with the steel work Of the
new bridge twenty feet higher thnn
The old bridge, which was washed out
ny high waters.
Indictments, It IL said, have been re
turned by the grand Jury against sew
erul prominent citizens of Clovis,
charging them with assault In connec-
ion with a tar and feather Incident
HAT took place here last April. The
action of the grand jury rs understood
10 have been taken In connection with
he cusc OF Il. Smith, Of Molrose, n. NJ,
Who alleges that just prior to the
Third Liberty Loan campaign, last
April, he received Il coat Of tar and
feathers at the hands OF certain cit
izcns of Clovis.
Charles A. Spless. n resident Of New
Mexico since 1855, member Of the Re
publican national committee, both In
territorial days ana since New Mexico
became II state, died at East Las We
gus after an Illness of several years.
tbs death, however, was FASTENED by
an attack Of pneumonia which he con-
tracted n few days ngo.
Local officials at Columbus have
been notified by Senator FAN that the
War Department has formally mp.
proved the proposal to make Columbus
u permanent landing station for air.
planes. As nlrendy a good deal Of
equipment Inns been removed from
Camp Cody 20 that place this move X
Thought 10 precede n general military
establishment there.