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Pithy News Items Gathered From All Over New Mexico Western Newspaper Union News Service. Hubert Bell, 12, while swimming with two playmates at Cloris, was drowned in a lake at the edge of town. After an extended and sensational trial, a jury at Roswell found Steve Edins and Aubrey Calley guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of Thomas Thurman, in Lea county, January 16. The Val Verde hotel, the long discussed and now assured hostelry for Socorro, will be opened about the first of June. Manager Snider has purchased the hotel furniture and equipment which is to be shipped at once. During April, 586 persons from outside of the state registered at the museum at Santa Fé, representing almost every state in the union and a number of foreign countries including England, France, Japan and Scotland. The state highway engineer at Santa Fe received a deferred draft for $6,500 from the commissioners of Mora county, which is to be applied on three projects, the roads between Roy and Wagon Mound, between Mora and Las Vegas, and between Colmor and Watrous. Ichiji Hirano, 68 years of age, hung himself in the cellar of a hotel at Gallup. Ill health is supposed to have been the reason for his act. He tied a small cord around his neck, stood on a lard can and kicked It from underneath him. He had worked for various people in Gallup for a number of years. Fifty-six new and handsome street lights will be in use in Las Vegas by the middle of the month, according to city officials. They are to be installed at once in the district around the loop. There will be three globes on each standard, one at the top. Four lights will be at each ner and two half way down the block. Assets of the First State bank of Las Cruces were sold at public auction and yielded $6,006.05 in parcels after which they were offered for sale as a whole and brought $6,100. The matter of stockholders' liability is still to be settled. About $75,000 has been paid by the receivér to secured creditors and on preferred claims. State Highway Engineer Leslie Gillett at Santa Fé received from the commissioners of Rio Arriba county a draft for $3,000 which is to be practically all applied as that county's proportion of the expense of building a bridge across the Santa Cruz river. A small portion of the remittance is to be applied to some local road work in that county. Riding on the running board of his father's car cost the life of Cayetano Lucero, aged 5, in Las Vegas. The child with his parents and a party of friends had gone for a ride, when the lad instited on riomg on the running board of the auto. Between Wagon Mound and Vegas he fell into the road and was run over by the rear wheels, being fatally injured and dying in a few hours. The first meeting of the new Girls' Welfare Board, appointed on the creation of the departinent by the Fourth State Legislature, was held in Albuquerque. Mrs. Felix Baca was elected permanent chairman, Mrs. Ruper F. Asplund of Santa Fé, vice chairman, and Miss Isabel Eckles of Silver City, secretary. Albuquerque was unanimously agreed upon as the most advisable site for the location of the industrial home which it is understood is eventually to grow out of the activities of the board. Two local men made an offer to the board of a free site donation for the home. I The Red Cross Pharmacy was entered at Raton and about $850 in merchandise and cash was taken by the thief or thleves. Entrance was made by foreing the front door. A committee has been appointed to represent the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers' Association in *Salt Lake City, July 25, when the stock in terests of the West will hold a meeting to devise a plan for the future disposition and control of the remaining public lands. The state's representatives will be Col. W. S. Hopwell, Ray Morley, Joe Evans, Clark M Carr and T. E. Mitchell. Victor Culberson, president of the state association, may