Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,

The Daily Times, Las Cruces, has thrown
up the sponge.
Col. Crawford, Of Sierra county, is in
London on big mining deal.
/. L. Strong, auditor of the Harvey
eating house system, has gone out to
Hermosa to inspect the Pelican Eagle
group of mines, in which he is interested.
The hearing OF the case between Sierra
and Dona Ana counties, as to the payment
or not OF $4,000 by this county to Dona
Ana, has been set for the first day of the
special term in Silver City, next Monday.
Whether the city shall control the cor
porations or the corporations the city is a
question that should be decided at once.
The city has given the water company q
valuable franchise and it should be COM
~-Ar6,tIuGfYue thnt1t."- It ~" ""-t--~ 4
J. J. Taylor, formerly blacksmith of
Silver City, who was sentenced to be shot
for robbing train in Sonora, is still alive.
He is being held as witness against two
others who were implicated. Taylor's
partner, Rohling, has been sentenced to
ten years in the salt mines.
The proposition is made for the estab-
lishment of an "Arbor day" in New
Mexico, like there is in many Of the states
and territories. The idea is good one,
and the territory would be greatly bene-
fited by its adoption if the people would
back it up.-Hillsboro Advocate.
The Las Vegas commandery of Knights
Templar, No. 2, will celebrate Ascension
day with their devotional services at one
of the churches OF this city, and will
march in uniform from their hall to the
church. Sir Knight l.. Bradford Prince
has been invited to deliver lecture on
that occasion.-Optic.
Among the new industries lately started
in Hillsboro is the manufacture, on quite
an extensive scale, OF Fest's alfalfa btters.
Messrs. w. S. Hopewell and Quinby
Vance have been appointed agents for
southern New Mexico. The bitters prom
ise to be very tonic and exhilarating in
their influence. e.-Advocate.
At Hawks tank on the A. & p. road,
Wednesday, the wind drifted the sand
into cut and freight train ran into the
obstruction. Brakeman Ben Dixon was
killed, Fireman Walters had one hand
smashed, and two stockmen in charge Of
stock are very badly injured. Train No,
also met with an accident from another
sand drift that caused the ditching OF the
engine. The two casualties delayed all
trains several hours.
Albuquerque note: The distance from
this city to San Pedro is about forty miles
by the way of Tijeras canon. A party of
gentlemen of this city have examined the
pass over the Sandia mountains by the
way of Pine canon, and think road can
be made through that canon which will
shorten the distance to San Pedro at least
fourteen miles. A party will 90 over this
route next Saturday, and report on its
practicability as a wagon road.
W. G. Sanders arrived in this city this
morning by overland route with six Mes
calero Apache Indian boys, four of whom
he will convey to Meridian, Miss, where
he proposes to put them in school. These
BOYS understand little English and ap-
pear bright and intelligent. Mr.. Sanders
states that there are about $50 Indians
still on the Mescalero reservation, distant
about l25 miles from here. The old buck
and one boy started back to-day, after dis
posing of few trinkets, buckskins, ETC.
FL Paso Herald.
Great quantities of steers are being
shipped from Engle. 1t is estimated that
in the months of April, May and June,
20 900 head of cattle will be shipped from
that point Grayson & Co. expect to make
their fourth shipment of steers to their
Kansas pastures in day or two, and
Baldwin q Co. will land about 400 head
for shipment to Montana on the Goth.
Numbers of cattle from Dona Ana and
Lincoln counties are being shipped from
that point. Several herds are now on the
trail from different points in these coun.
ties to Engle.