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Western Newspaper Union Newer Service. COMING EVENTS. June 21.—Reunion of Scottish Rite Ma sone at Santa Fé. June 16-25.—Red Cross Week. July 4.—Races at Albuquerque Speed way. July 3-5—Annual Reunion of Cowboys association at Las Vegas. Auea Association meeting at one —— 25-28—Seventh Annual Northern on Mexico Fair at Haton. Hatch, in Dona Ana county, is to have a new depot. A heavy windstorm did considerable damage at Belen. Clovis Lodge B. P. O. E. bought $500 worth of Liberty bonds. Fifty-four teachers attended the Santa Fé County Normal Institute. The Palace of the Governors was the registration place at Santa Fe. There is a large enrollment for the State Normal School at Silver City. The Santa Fé branch of the Wom an’s County Auxiliary has been organ ized. The State Corporation Commission has asked shippers to load all cars to capacity. J. W. Pollard was given a $3,000 judgment for damages against the city of Raton. Prof. Alexis Xavier Illinski has been elected president of the school of mines at Socorro. Julio Mares of Wagon Mound, is dead as a result of handling a re volver while lying in bed. Frank Curry, son of ex-Governor George Curry, was appointed bailiff of the state Supreme Court. A class of thirty candidates took the first to the third degrees of the Knights of Columbus at Santa Fe. Work was started at Albuquerque on the ditches for water supply con nections at the National Guard camp on the mesa. Senator Fall's bill amending home stead act, as passed by the Senate, would open over 40,000 square miles in New Mexico. A new ordinance at Santa Fe re quires saloons to be closed at 9:30 p. m. and remain closed until 6 o'clock the following morning. The yield of beans in Torrance county this year will be nearly three times as great as last year and al most ten times as large as in 1915. Governor Lindsey has appointed Ove E. Overson of Gallup and Felipe J. Hubbell of Albuquerque, captains in the New Mexico National guard. The State Supreme Court issued an order permanently disbarring Attorn ey Hilario A. Ortiz of Santa Fé from practice in the courts of New Mexico. Only once since 1871 did Santa Fe experience a day so cold as the month jest past, according to the re port of the United States weather bureau. William Babers, of Babers Bros., sheep and cattle men, of the tornado, 18 miles east of Carthage, Socorro county, committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. News has been received of the death of James K. Proudfit at Kan sas City, Kaw, in his eighty-sixth year. He was surveyor general of New Mexico in 1873. Preparations were completed for shipping to camp at Albuquerque the 150,000 rounds of ammunition and other equipment stored in the Na tional guard armory at Santa Fe. Accidental death was the verdict of the coroner's jury after investigat ing the killing of Private Henry Ro mero of Company E at the National guard armory in Santa Fe. _ Kenneth M. Oliver has leased the 35,000 acre Ramon Vigil grant, west of Santa Fe, from five Detroit auto mobile manufacturers, and will stock it with cattle, making it one of the largest cattle ranches in New Mexico. Reports received by the state coun cil of defense from field agents, who have visited counties of southern and southwestern New Mexico, show that that part of the state will play its part in increasing the state’s produc tion. An additional carload of seed po tatoes and cate for ranches within the Zuni division of the Manzano Na tional Forest was arranged in a con ference between B. C. Hernandez of the State Council for Defense, and Paul G. Redington and J. F. Mullen of the Forest Service. Mrs. Washington E. Lindsey, who was unanimously elected president of the State Women’s Auxiliary of the Council of Defense, has been further honored by being designated as the New Mexico representative of the Na tional Women’s Auxiliary of the Na tional Council of Defense. The desig nation was made by Dr. Anna How ard Shaw. W. E. Carroon, formerly chief clerk in the state department of education, and recently employed in the U. S. land office at Santa Fe, has been ap pointed deputy state treasurer by State Treasurer H. L. Hall, to suc ceed R. W. Heflin, who resigned to accept the position of land appraiser for the Federal Farm Loan bank at Wichita, Kans. The mining interests of Magdalena and its vicinity are experiencing a lively boom which is apt to continue at an increased rate owing to present conditions.
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Fort Sumner Review
Fort Sumner, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jun 16, 1917
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