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Show HICH LICENSE FOR NEW MEXICO. Iloth Houm. of the L.gi.lature Pan. the Hill to that Ktr.ct. Ai.nt'QrEiiot e, N. M., Feb. 3. Tho high license bill has finally passed, the legislature and only awaits the signature signa-ture of the governor to become a law. Saloons are the curse of New Mexico, aud there is not a town in the territory of a thousand inhabitnuts but what has from twenty-live to lif'y saloons. Almost Al-most all the murders since the advent of the railroad have had their inception in saloon joints, and the people have been crying for some kind of reform. The license is rated according to popik lalion, from $-100010 1000. this being independent of municipal and United States license, aud it will cause the closing of more than half the saloons of the territory. |