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"WESTERN LIBERAL. WESTERN LIBERAL LORDSBTJRQ NEW MEXICO Frl V. Bueh, Editor and Owner. Published IJrery Friday. Foregone conclusions nro never exciting. Mind your business If you want business to be good. Has anybody thought to mobilize the efficient Missouri mule? He who fights and runs away will lire to boast he won the day. People who Uve In glass houses must not throw money nt the birds. We'ro willing to bcllevo ho is an In telligent man If he thinks our way. Sometimes one can follow a crowd without getting anywhere In particular. Nature has done much for man, It lias mado It Impossible to water the gasoline. The safe rule for parents Is to dress their daughter as If they were her friends. Why should anyone want to see him nelf as others see him? They might bo prejudiced. A riso In diamonds Is predicted. Which means more suffering and pri vation for the masses. Europe has quite generally set Its clock ahead, hoping the sooner to get through with its woes. Married men have to be patient. It takes a good deal to make them mad enough to beut the rugs. Take It frcm one day to the next, thoro are more occasions for keeping quiet than for saying something. Will a fly census prove that early swatting accomplished anything? Or wasn't It kept up long enough? Glowing nccounts of the 1017 motor cars nre said to bo Increasing the dis content In boarding houso circles. Aerial travel across the Alantlc will not Involve seasickness; only frequent periods of one's hair standing on end. Buckles for women's shoes nt $40 a pair bring a fancy price. However, it is assumed that they nro fancy . buckles. A Cleveland preacher says a girl should never walk with n cigarette smoker. This may bo good advice, but It won't be taken. A magazine writer declares that the Russians hnve kicked out the grafters. However, grafting Is by no means a lost art In Russia. Putting up the clock an hour appar ently hns no effect upon the birds, for they still begin their mntln songs at .the customary time. A German newspnper reports that the crown prince Is suffering from overwork. This Is a new mnlady In the roynl family, anyhow. Second only to that of the captain at the head of a military company Is the pride of the amateur gnrdener when he picks his first ripe tomatoes. The New York banker who snys, "Money was never so plentiful ns at present," Is, of course, speaking from a banker's point of view. As Tom Edison soys there'll bo no poverty n hundred years hence, there's no apparent reason why wo should continue to save up for posterity. Statisticians cstlmnlo that the total cost of the first year of tho war was 518,000,000,000, and that tho cost of tho second year will bo $33,000,000, 000. Philanthropy Is far less expen sive than dcvlllshness. It Is said that Lord Kitchener did not like married officers on his staff. Perhaps he was llko tho commander who declared he would hnve no one under him who acknowledged two commanding officers. A dlnosaurus with a neck moro than C3 feet long hns been dug up in Utah. Prehistoric man must hnve had "the dlckons of timo putting a collnr on that beast An eastern doctor used a column of paco to tell why we do not eat In sects, nut, of course, he wrote It be fore tho strawberry shortenko and blueberry pie season set In. Speaking of automobile dangers. It Is to be hoped that when the time of aeroplane passenger sorvlce comes thoro will bo no such thing as aerial mal do in or. Those recalcitrant Hnltlons seem to bo mighty slow about learning that marinea are not to bo trifled with. A course In undertaking and em balming ha been added to the currlc lum of one collego, "Hitch your wag on to u star" or to a team of black homos. Slippery elm bark Is still being used for medicinal purpows. hut sassafras ten, except In old-fnshloned families, is believed to havo tost Us primitive "punch." NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OP WIRE8 ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTO ' CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. W.X.rn Nw.jipr Union Tt.wi Barf Ice. ABOUT THE WAR A French sub-lieutenant has brought down his tenth Gorman war plane. Rome reports successful Infantry and artillery movements against Austrlans in Northern Italy. Germans withdraw troops from Ver dun front to strengthen resistance to allies In northern France. Russians report capture of C,250 German soldiers In battle at the ex treme western point of the Russian front. Delvllle wood again captured by the British, a stroke which Is expected to go far toward facilitating the ad vance of the allied armies. Probability that the war will end in autumn denied by Russian author ity, who admits it will bo Impossible to overcome the Germans by that time. French expert claims that as a re sult of the occupation of Pozleres, the British now hold the entire sec ond line of German trenches In the Somme river sector. All of the Longueval now Is In pos session of the British us the result of a day's fighting In the course of which London reports they improved their line along the entire Somme front. Col. Joseph A. Gaston, commanding the American border patrol in the Big Bend district of Texas, is confi dent that his force Is so disposed as to be ample to cope with any basdlt band which might attempt a raid across tho border. Brody, an important strategical point, has been captured by Russians. This exploit places the Austrian city of Lemberg In Jeopardy. The Rus sian advance upon Kovel has been halted temporarily to permit the prin cipal offensive, against Lemberg, to make more progress. WESTERN Charles Darling, a Republican can didate for governor, Is dead at his home at Rimini, Mont Seven grades of crude oils in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were slashed 10 cents a barrel by the Ohio Oil Com pany. Poor and almost forgotten Phillip Deldeshelmer, 84 years old, a mining engineer once worth millions died at San Francisco. I. I. Boak of Denver was re-elected head council of the Woodmen of tho World of the Pacific Jurisdiction at the convention in Denver. Two Denver business men are un der arrest In Sydney, Neh., charged with the holdup Friday of tho Farmers State Bank nt Sunol, Nob., which re sulted In two farmers being killed after $4,000 had been taken from the bank vaults. The convention of tho United Mine Workers of America, district 22, con vened at Cheyenne to consider tho re port of its scalo committee, which is said to recommend a demand for an Increase of wages for approximately C.OOO miners in Wyoming. WASHINGTON Panama canal tolls were $4,280,551 less than expenses in the year which ended May 31. Representative Ben C. . Hllllard of Colorado announced that he Is a can didate for a second term In Congress. Receipts from the national forosts for tho fiscal year 191C reached the high-water mark of approximately J2, 820,000. Nearly $700.000,000 for national de fenso in the fiscal year 1917 Is the ag gregate of proposed appropriations in the Senate. Foreign trade of the United States closed Its greatest year in history on June 30, with a balance of $2,136,000, 000 in favor of American exporters. Yielding to an urgent request from President Wilson, Democrats of tho Senate, in caucus, determined to pass tho child labor bill at this session of Congress. President Wilson signed tho rivers and harbors appropriation bill carry ing approximately $42,000,000. Most of tho money Is to bo spent on exist ing Improvement projects. Ambassador Pago in London has boon instructed to Inquire of tho British government the cause of de tention at Liverpool of Eugeno Hughos Kolly of Now York, trensuror of the Irish rellof fund; Mrs. Kolly and Joseph Smith. Informal assurances that Austria Hungary is disposed to respond favor ably to President Wilson's appeal for permission for shipment oí American relief supplies to Poles In territory held by Austrian forces have been given personally by Farolgn Minister Burlan to Ambassador Penfleld. IJORBION The Italians have captured Monto Clmont from the Austrlans,- Santiago Ramirez, a former gover nor of the Mexican staff of Coahulla, and later a Vllllsta general, was pub licly executed on the plaza at Saltillo, Méx. British authorities refused permis sion to Thomas Kelly and his wife and Joseph Smith, all Americans, to land from the American liner Phila delphia at Liverpool, and ordered them back to America. CapL Charles Fryatt bf the Great Eastern railway steamship Brussels, which vessel was captured' by German destroyers last month and taken Into Zcebrugge, has been executed by shooting after trial before a German naval court martial. When the Court of Criminal Ap peal met in London to hoar "a possi ble application" in behalf of Roger Casement, who was sentenced to death for treason in connection with the recent Dublin uprising, it was found that the defense had aban doned any contemplated action. The "unspeakable Turk," that "as sassin of Europe," has been driven from Armenia. The most recent and reliable dispatches from Petrograd an nounce that the Russian forces under Gen. Udenltchln took Erzlngan, the most formidable of tho armed strong holds of the Turk in Armenia. SPORTING NEWS Standing: or YVrxtern i.eaRUe Clubs. Clubs Won. Lost. Pet. Omaha f6 3i .636 Lincoln 51 38 .573 Des .Moines 45 43 .511 Hloux City 46 46 .500 Denver 44 47 .484 Wichita 41 48 .461 Topekit 39 50 .438 Ht. Joseph 34 53 .391 City Draughtsman .Charles James Is completing plans for tho military disappearing targets to be installed at the Pueblo Rifle Range six blocks east of the Pueblo Golf Club. Barney Old.'feld will try his hand at racing up into the clouds at Colo rado Springs. He has agreed to ride for the Delage car folks, foreigners who are Interested In the Pikes Peak climb. "Bill" Wright, Cheyenne speed king again showed up. in the lead at Fron tier Park at Cheyenne when he won first honors in the fifty-mile motor cycle race of the Capital City Motor cycle Club. Mabel Trask, owned and driven by Walter Cox of Dover, N. M., had lit tle trouble winning the historic Mer chants and Manufacturers' $10,000 stake for 2:08 trotters at tho Grand circuit meeting at Detroit. Twice within five minutes the world's steer-roping record was broken at Frontier Park, at Chey enne, Wyo., first by Bert Weir of Monument, N. M., who reduced it from 30 seconds to 27 seconds; then by Fred Lowery of Oklahoma, who cut it to 24 seconds. Yellow Fever, champion bucking horse, made good his repueation at Frontier Park at Cheyenne, when he threw Eddie McCarty in the cham pionship rough riding contest, to the uproariously expressed delight of 18, 000 people. McCarty rode well, but Yellow Fever Is in a clas3 by him self and the cowboy from Bear Creek could not keep tho saddle. In the cowgirls' rough riding contest Maude Tarr fainted in the saddle, but her horse was caught before she fell. GENERAL The widow of Lieut. Col. M. C. But ler, slain by Harry Spannell, In Al pine, Tex., will receive a pension. The bodies of six persons drowned In a flood resulting from a cloudburst near Sunrise, Wyo., were recovered. Meat cutters employed at the pack ing houses at East St. Louis, 111., of Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Mor- rls & Co., struck. Tho death toll in tho Middle West ern states, as a result of the most terrific heat wave In Its history mounted to sixty at noon Friday. Permanent organization of tho Na tional Parks Highway Association stands perfected at Cody with tho election of Gus Holms of Cody, Wyo., as president, and L. L. Newton, also of Cody, as secretary. Three men were fatally injured when a street car crashed into an elevated railroad pillar in the Bronx in New York. One of them was a policeman serving as guard. Tho ac cident was the most serious which had occurred since tho beginning of (he strike of motormen nnd conduc tors on the surface car linos In the Bronx and Westchester county. Villa, with about thirty men, Is in the Cafion de las Huertas, near El Paso ro Penóles, Durungo, according to dispatches from Gsn. Ramos sent by courier to Mapami and tele graphed to Gen. Trevlno at Chihuahua City. Calexlto Contreras, his chief lieutenant, whose death recently was roported from Mexico City, deserted immediately after Parral and made his way southeast with one-half of tho men who attacked that city ac cording to the dispatches. Second Lieut S. H. Wheeler of tho Army Aviation School at North Is land lost control of hla aeroplane at Ontario, Cal., and crashed Into a line of automobiles, overturning four, kill ing Harold Stoebo, 4 years old, nnd seriously Injuring Mrs. C. A. Stoebe, the boy"s mother. Ltoutonant Wheel er was not injured although his ma chino was wrecked. Thomas J. Mooney, a labor agitator sought by tho police in connection with tho preparedness parade bomb explosion case, was In custody at San Francisco, as was also his wife. NEW MEXICO STATE NEWS Weatcrn Newipepar Union Narra Bartlea. con tun EVENTS. Aug-. 23 Republican State Convention at Santa Vé. Ausr. 30 Dcmlcratlo State Convention at Santa FA. .. Ausr. 31 Progressive State Convention at Santa F?. . . Sept. 4-7 Stats Tennis Tournament at Rostral). . . Sept. 18-JS Live Stock and Products Exposition at Itoiwell. . , Oct, 3-6 New Mexico Hankers Associ ation Convention nt Grand Canon, Arls. The Las Vegas Normal school is to have a men's dormitory. Silver City people are planning tho building of a country club. A now hotel is being built at Grants, in Valencia county. Chiropractors cannot practico in New Mexico with a license. Tho Demlng Red Cross Society held a tag day, clearing n neat sum. Mountaineer has gained a hundred settlers in the past seven months. There were seventy-two graduates at the Las Vegas Normal school. It is announced that Mountaineer will soon have a water and light plant. Over a thousand Indians nttended the annual feast day celebration at Raman. Twenty-two teachers were awarded diplomas at the Sliver City Normal school. Tho 450-horsepower crude oil burn ing engine at the 85 mine was blown to pieces by an explosion. The price of alfalfa hay was never so high as now in July, says a Carls bad report, $13.50 being offered. A new rural delivery route is to run from Las Cruces to Dona Ana and Mesilla, the service to begin Aug. 2. A Sliver City landmark, tho old Centennial building, is to bo torn down soon to make room for a mod ern business block. The Mountain States Telephone Company is reconstructing Its toll Unes in Grant county and from Sil ver City to border points. The rate on hay between Gallup and Socorro will be reduced to 2G cents July 31. A month later it will be lowered a half cent more. Silver City residents are raising a fund for the purchase of food "ex tras" for the Silver City boys now at Columbus with the New Mexico regi ment, t Practically every farmer In the Mountaineer section has some of his land planted to beans, and this year's crop is expected to be much larger than ever before. McKlnley Jones, tho 8-year-old son of David Jones of Las Vegas, was painfully injured when a dynamite cap with which he was playing ex ploded, blowing a hole in bis thigh. W. B. Shipley, of Clovis, -was do clared by the Judges to be the best all around cowboy who attended the reunion at Las Vegas, and was pre sented with a handsome pair of chaps. Fred Nelderman, a resident of Mc Comb, had his left leg mangled and his right foot crushed under the wheels of a Santa Fé train at Vaughn. He is now In St. Joseph's hospital at Albuquerque. Wharton A. Moore, district inspec tor for a fire underwriters' associa tion, committed splcldo at Albuquer que by taking poison. Moore was de fendant in a divorce suit filed a week ago. He was a graduate of the Geor gia School of Technology at Atlanta, and nn Elk. Mountaineer's new $12,000 school building will be completed In a few days. What Is declarod to be the finest piece of roadway anywhere in New Mexico was completed by State Engi neer James A. French, between Santa Fo and La Bajada bill, on tho road to Albuquerque. Santa Rita and Hurley aro New Mexico towns that reflect the pros perity of the times and the high price of copper. The Chino Copper Com pany has the largest force of men em ployed In its history. Tho Progressive State Central Com mittee, decided at Santa Fé to call for a state convention of Progressives and independent voters In Santa Fé, Aug. 31, to nominate a state ticket "it it Is deemed advisable at that time." Albert Turner, the IS-year-old yquth of Yankee, near Raton, who fired a revolver at his father and mother, missing both, and later seri ously wounding Louis Barbot, a neighbor, was taken to Las Vegas and lodged in the New Mexico hos pital for the insane. The Santa Fé Railway Company, through General Tax Commissioner George P. Tunell, asked the Stato Tax Commission to reduce its 191G valuation by $8,347,615. Tho request followed the reduction of the assess ment of the El Paso & Southwestern by $1,502,131. All doubts as to tho suitability of tb.8 Silver City maganese ore to an swer tho requirements of the eastern iron smelters has been removed by the continued acceptance of tho Sil ver City ores and demands that the supply be kept up. GUARDS ARE PROMOTED GEN. HERRINQ ELEVATES 8EV ERAL DESERVING SOLDIER8. Men Are Becoming Hardened to Camp Life and There Is Little Sick ness at Columbus Camp. Wailarn Navripaptr Union Naws Sarvlce. Columbus, N. M. A number of of ficers of the First infantry regiment, Now Mexico National guard, wore promoted by orders from Adjutant General H. T. Horring. Most proml nont among the changes was the pro motion of Capt. Normal L. King, of Santa Fé, who has been acting as regimental adjutant, to the post of major. Major King has been a mom ber of the New Mexico guard for a number of years, being formerly In command of F company of Santa Fé. He -was assignod to the command of the third battalion, which includes the companies from Clovis, Portales, Demlng and L company of Albuquerque. First Lieutenant Watson, of the Demlng company, was promoted to a captaincy and assigned to tho com mand of H company of Silver City, and Lieutenant McHughcs was pro moted to first lieutenant, and as signed as adjutant of the first bat talion, Major Arthur Ball command ing. Major Ball was but lately as signed to tho command of this bat talion, which includes the two com panies from Las Cruces and the Ar tesia and Carlsbad companies. Sec ond Lieut. M. E. DeBord of Santa Fé was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned as battalion adjutant of the second battalion, now commanded by Major B. Ruppe. Sergeant M. Otero of Santa Fé was promoted to a lieu tenacy and assigned to F company. Capt. L. R. Forney, formerly com mander of L company, was assigned to the post of regimental adjutant. Captain Tenny, who a few years ago was commander of II company, when it was a Silver City organization, has been brought back to the guard and given a position as commander of L company. Sergeant John Lassater of C company was promoted to the post of regimental sergeant major. Bank Offers Money to Pay Guards. Santa Fé The governor has accepted an offer of a bank at Santa Fé to advance money to reimburse rejected national guardsmen of this state for their ex penses In going to the border and to pay recruiting officers for their transportation expenses. The gov ernment has refused to stand the ex pense and tho state has no funds available. The Legislature is expect ed to make an appropriation to cover, bpt If it does not, the bank stands the expense. Bacon Back From Mystery Mission. Columbus. Robert Bacon, former secretary of state and former ambas sador to France, and Dr. R. P. Strong of the Harvard Medical school, ar rived here from Gen. J. J. Pershing's field headquarters and planned to de part immediately for the cast. After inspecting border militia camps, Mr. Bacon and Dr. Strong left here sev eral days ago for the front. They relteratod their former refusal to ex plain their mission. Says Bondholders Want to Sell Steel. Santa Fé In a statement concern In the attempt to have him removed as receiver of the New Mexico Cen tral railway, Ralph ,C. Ely declared it was based on the desire of tho bond holders to dismantle the road and sell the material while steel brings a high price, and that its wrecking would depopulate tho Estancia val ley of thousands of farmers. State Fair Department Heads. Albuquerque. The following heads of departments for the state fair this year havo been named: Horses and mules, A. L. Martin; sheep, wool and goats, George Arnt; dairy cattle, R. W. Latta; State College; range cat tle, J. B. Jacobson; hogs and swine, A. B. Stroup; poultry and pet stock, J. D. Not grass; horticulture, Fabian Garcia, Stato College; apiary, R. E. Peffley; Indian educational exhibit, Reuben Perry; fine arts and domestic science, Mrs. J. H, Toulouse; boys' and girls' Industrial club, J. H. Tou louse; educational, John Milne; In dian crafts and manufactures, C, A. Wright. Corn Dance Rates Announced. Santa Fé. Tho Santa Fé announced special trains and service to the corn danoe at Santo Domingo on Aug. 4, as well as special rates. Hundred New Red. Cross Members Silver City. The Silver City chap ter of tho American Red Cross added over 100 members in a soliciting cam paign at Hurley. Man Probably Fatally Shot ' Albuquerque, N. M. The "unwrlt- ton law" will bo tho defense of Harry Woodward if the bullet ho put through the left lung of Everett Jones proves fatal. Tho men wero partners in the concrete block business. Woodward told officers that his wifo confessed to intimacy with Jones, who is a cou sin of Mrs. Woodward. Jones' wound is probably fatal. Woodward was taken from Roy, N. M., the sceno of the shooting, to Mora for safety. WWfl tS "Women a well as If U u men are made miser, npffc able by kidney and bladder trouble. Thou Y1 T A 711 I?. eands recommend Dr. IT A II Kilmer's Bwamp rtoot the great kidney remedy. At drug Slits In ntty-cent and dollar sizes. Ton may receive a sample slzo bottle by Par cel Post, also pamphlet telling- about It. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Blnghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper. 1916 CATALOG of BEST CAMERAS and SUPPLIES Auk Foe Frmé Ompy COnnHCT DEVELOPING 10o FEB ROLL. CAREFUL PRINTING) So TO Sc. PHOT o hj COLORADO DAISYFLY KILLER fóSfiiñ Sita, Kaat.laaa,ar. Bauaatal, ooaraoJaat. tteap. Lasts all aaaon Madaot nalal, eaa'taplllof Up orari will Sot aoll or Injur a anrthlns. Oaaraataal affaotlra. AlldaalsraarinBi atpraao paid far 11.0a. nraflssB&saH W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 32-1916. Just a Hint Mayor Smith of Utlcu was urging a municipal reform. "It will best be put through by gen tle methods, by hints and suggestions," he said. "Hints nnd suggestions are often more efllcnclous than heroic measures. "A man In a barber's chair had a big claw on his watchchnln." "'Bear claw?' said the barber. " 'Yep.' "'I suppose you killed it yourself. sir?' " 'Yep. " 'Was It n big bear?' "'About ns big as a two-year-old steer.' " 'My goodness, sir, how mauy bul lets did It take to kill htm?' " 'None.' " 'My goodness, did you kill him with n knife?' " 'No.' " 'Then then, or' "'I tnlked him to death,' said the man In the chair significantly." . Ten smiles for a nickel. Always buy Red Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful, clear white clothes. Adr. BEAT AT THEIR OWN GAME Tenderfoot Turned Neat Trick on Card "Sharks" Who Had Considered Him Easy Picking. t Senator Fall of Three Rivers was talking at tho Republican convention in Chicago about political tricks. "Tho trouble with nil tricks," he said, "Is that they nre opt to be called. The tenderest political tenderfoot Is apt to cnll the slickest trickster. "It's like the tenderfoot In the Tin Can poker game. He was very very tender, and they denlt him four aces; then, when he turned his back to or der a sandwich, the dealer slipped a sixth card on to his pile, thus nullify ing his good hnnd. "The tenderfoot said nothing, ap parently. He munched his sandwich nnd bet, and bet, nnd bet. An enor mous .sum soon lay on the table. The dealer and his pals were more than plensed, but they could not understand tho bartender, who kept making the queerest fnces nt them from the bar. "The tenderfoot flnlshed his sand wich at last, called the betting, nnd laid down his cardn. There were only Ave of them; the sixth had disap peared. "Ho gathered up his winnings, nod ded a cool good-night and walked out. Tho dealer, cursing and swearing, roared : '"What did he do with that sixth enrd?" "What did he do with It?' howled the bartender. . 'Didn't you see me signaling? 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