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NEW MEXICO IN BRIEF Western Newspaper Union News Service. Dates for Coming Events. Nov. 23-26.-Meeting New Mexico Educational Association at Albuquerque. Howard Mielenz of Dexter has been appointed a notary public by Governor McDonald. The Federation of Women's clubs held a pleasant and profitable meeting at Santa Fé. It will require fifty stock cars to ship the 15,000 sheep acquired by E. C. Chambers, a buyer at Gallup. Albert Kauzlowski, a miner, employed at the Heaton mine, near Gallup, was killed by a powder blast. Governor McDonald has disposed of a large number of cattle, owing, it is said, to short feed on his Carrizozo ranch. Judge Pope of Santa Fé, sentenced Nez, a Navajo Indian, to four months in jail for opening a mail sack and taking out a letter. The Rev. George Splinters, rector and dean of the parish of Bernalillo, and well known in Santa Fé, died after an illness of eleven days. The Savings bank of Taiban was closed by the state banking department, and L. B. Waters placed in charge pending further developments. Judge Pope, at Santa Fé, sentenced several prisoners who had been convicted in U. S. District Court, among them being some for selling liquor to Indians. Attorney General F. W. Clancy went to El Paso to be present during the taking of testimony in the boundary suit between the state of Texas and the state of New Mexico. Clovis was so eager for silos, that the Chamber of Commerce offered a premium of $25 for each one constructed in that section; twenty have resulted from the crusade to date. James Lynch of Roswell, on trial at Clovis a second time for the murder of City Marshal Roy Woofter at Roswell two years ago, entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree. Ira Brown, colored, who in November, 1909, was sentenced from Luna county to the state reform school for from five to six years, has been pardoned conditionally by Governor McDonald. Paroles were signed by Governor McDonald in the cases of W. P. Kookeen and Frank Rice, both of Chaves county, who had served their minimum sentence. Both men have work offered them. The Hope Community Irrigation Company filed a dissolution notice with the State Corporation Commission. This company organized about two years ago it is said, but never commenced business. "Sweet Potato" Charley of near Hagerman claims he can raise on portions of his farm 59,820 pounds of sweet potatoes per acre, which, at two cents per pound, should increase his bank account $1,196.40. The body of Ben Reddinger, who disappeared from camp in the Manzano mountains foothills near Albuquerque, was found by a searching party. It is believed that his death was. caused by heart failure. Two convicts at the state penitentiary made their escape by sawing their way out through the roof of the ice house. Del Rexford, one of the prisoners, was overtaken and taken back to prison within a few hours. Governor McDonald signed a requisition to the governor of Oklahoma, asking for the return to New Mexico of L. C. West, president of the American Bank and Trust Company of Clovis, which was closed several months ago. A sale of 16,076 acres of state lands in Luna county will be held Dec. 8. Chadwick and Deyo, contractors for the grading on the new branch line of railroad running from near Whitewater to the Burro Mountains, have practically finished the job and tracklaying has been in progress for several days. Ninety-five cars of cantaloupes were shipped from Roswell and South Springs this season off of 450 acres; 600 were planted. Portales has shipped this season forty-four cars; Artesia and Lakewood, 3; Fort Sumner, thirty-six cars. Agua Nergra grant, in Guadalupe county, recently changed hands at a price said to be in the neighborhood