Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-24
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Col. Stapleton, of Socorro, is danger
ously i'll.
The Las Vegas Optic will enlarge at an
early day.
Albuquerqueans will play ball for 800
next Sunday.
Chicken cholera is raging in the lower
Rio Grande valley poultry yards.
Chicago parties, it is said, have pur-
chased the Armendaris grants near San
Marcial
Department Commander Mills, C. A.
r., is in Las Cruces to organize new
post there.
The SILVER City and FL Paso accomoda-
ton train will hereafter carry mails be-
tween Ell Paso and RnCon.
Lots at Roswell are selling rapidly, and
a. D. Wright has refused to sell block
at good figures to eastern parties.
Pat Garrett has bought the Briscol
herd OF Holstein cattle at Las Vegas and
will send them to his Pecos valley ranch.
Inquiries come to the Stock Grower OF
Las Vegas this week for $4,000 head OF
steers, which are wanted by maturers.
Prices are fully 50 per head higher than
when the market opened in February.
Geo. II. Miles has stepped down and
out as the proprietor of the Plaza hotel,
Las Vegas, being succeeded by the com
pany that owns the property, with Char
les +. Rudolph, Of Rociada, as manager.
Samuel Bland, OF the firm OF Ruby,
Bland & Co., brick makers at Albuquer-
que, committed suicide by shooting
Wednesday night. He was 80 years old
and came from Paris, Mo-, seven years
ago.
The management and ownership of the
Albuquerque brewery will pass into new
hands in a few days. 1t is understood
that a party from st. Louis will lift the
mortgage and resume business atan early
day and manufacture a superior quality OF
beer.-Citizen,
Within the last thirty days large min
ing sale has been consummated at
Cooney, in the Mogollons. Capt. NJ.
Cooney, Ben Holmes and Mr.. Howard
have sold some of their mines on Silver
creek to q st. Louis syndicate for large
amount of money. 1t is reported that the
mine will be vigorously worked.
The adobe home and business block
are sacred institutions here as well as
elsewhere in New Mexico, and the Daily
News appreciates them to their full worth.
Yet, be it known, this paper halls with
delight the erection of so many stone and
brick structures now going on throughout
the valley. This progress. LAS Cruces
News.
Bob Collins and Jumbo are sinking q
we'll on the mesa near the race track.
They are down forty feet, and we under
stand it is their intention to sink until q
good flow Of water is obtained. This is
an important move, for ii an abundant
supply OF water can be obtained it will
not be long until all of the beautiful mesa
west of town will be dotted with houses.
-Socorro Chieftain.
Prof +. Lyman Hood, superintendent
of Congregational schools and churches
for Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona,
who is here to attend business meeting
of the New West educational association,
says that greater appropriations are to be
made for the Las Vegas academy than
ever and that fully twenty applications
have been made for the vacancy in the
princjpalship caused by the voluntary res
ignation Of Prof. W. II. Ashley, who saw
the need for rest and recuperation. OPP
tic.
Last night John Rooney, in the employ
of the government, raised q disturbance
and was arrested by Constable McNichols.
There was no empty box car and so the
constable locked him up in the stable
back of the Owney house. Between II
and l O'Clock Rooney tried to break out
with an iron bar he had found. McNichols
says Rooney struck at him with the bar
and he shut the door on him. Rooney
jabbed the bar through the door and Nc
Nichols fired. The ball struck Rooney
above the heart, ranged upward and
through the body Simpson dressed the
wound and does not consider it neces-
sarily fatal. Rooney is resting easy
Silver CITY Enterprise.