Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-05-16
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

during April Silver Clty Snlppeu Hllb,-
$40 worth Of gold and silver bullion.
Don Oakley, formerly OF Las Vegas, is
now post trader at Fort Logan, Colo.
The First National bank of Deming Is
erecting n two story building, which will
be one of the finest in the southwest,
The Sentinel says that two more stamp
mills for Silver City and railroad to Pinos
Altos are now among the certainties.
C. O'Conor Roberts, Billy Sanguinette
and Jacob Rudolph comprised party of
tourists from this city TO San Pedro this
morning. Citizen.
1t is learned IRON q private dispatch
that Pinos Altos. a mining campin Grant
county, was visited by large fire, and
W. Nef & Co., general merchandise mer-
chants, burnt out, Fully insured.
Stock Grower: Irrigation enterprises
now have the lead in New Mexico and the
southwest generally as lavorite invest
ment. Many cattle men are utilizing the
the construction OF bitches.
Socorro Advertiser: DO not drop the
public school question. 1t is matter Of
the greatest importance to the people Of
this territory. Good schools will bring
more immigration to this territory than q
speculation boom would to Oklahoma.
Work has been resumed at the Gallup
Coal company's mine. The mine has
been closed down for the past month,
but work was resumed yesterday with
forty miners. The company expects to
add fifty more miners in the next two
days.
Las Vegas will celebrate Memorial day
with a game OF base ball. The Albuquer-
que Democrat says: 'The Shamrocks
are asked to visit Las Vegas and play a
match game of base ball for s75. The
boys are expected to 60 there May 80 to
help draw decoration crowd"
Grant county note The rate OF taxa
ton in this county for school purposes was
2l3 mills last year. If the board of coun-
ty commissioners increase the rate for
this year to mills, all additional school
fund of $4,000 will be secured. No tax
is more cheerfully paid than the school
tax, and the additional fund OF $4,000 is
badly needed.
Silver City Waif: Mr., G. II. Utter re-
turned from the east and reports that
the efforts which have been made lately
to induce the Santa Fe road to adopt q
liberal policy toward Silver City in the
matter OF freight charges have been quite
successful, and that the company's officers
have given assurance that any smelling
company desiring to locate plant in Sill
yer City will not encounter any difficulties
in the way Of freight charges from the
Santa Fe.
At l2 80 this morning William Seider,
q German who has been in the employ Of
the Phoenix hotel as second cook, met
his untmely death by being run over in
the yard of the Santa Fe road by cars.
As near as could be learned from the tes-
timony at the coroner's inquest this morn
ing-for nobody witnessed the accident
he went to sleep on the side track under
some box cars standing there, and when
the switch engine pulled the cars out he
was caught in the brake beam and dragged
distance OF some sixty-five yards and
caught in the frog OF the track and the
back part of his head cut completely off.
His right hand was split open and the
body generally bruised. His brain, which
was but little torn, was picked up and
placed by the body in the freight depot.
S. A. Kean & Co., Chicago, have writ
ten the Grant county commissioners
"We offer you for all the bonds you may
issue under and by virtue of the refund
ing act Of the last legislature par and a
premium of l5-l00 of l per cent. Said
bonds are to be what are commonly
known as ten-thirty coupon bonds, to
bear interest at the rate of per cent per
annum, interest payable half yearly, and
both interest and principal to be payable
in the city of New York, and said bonds
are to be delivered by you at said New
York city at any time after the 30th day
of June, 1889, and are to bear interest
from the 1st of July, 1889, and are to be
regular in form and legal in issue. And
we agree to pay expenses of shipment Of
bonds to New York, and to place money
in the hands OF tho treasurer of sale
Grant county"
Right Rev. j. NJ. kendrick, Episcopa
bishop for New Mexico and Arizona, ar
rived in Globe on Thursday evening. The
bishop met with most unpleasant mis-
hap at Riverside, where in attempting t.
cross the Gila river, the buck oard strucl
Quicksand and was submerged, precipita
ting the reverend gentleman, the drive
and mail sack in the water. Bishop Ken
drick was so fortunate as to aight il
shallow water and where the bottom wa
firm, and having extrlcated his sachel
he waded to the nearest land, which har
pened to be an island, and was rescue
by kindly individual who took hors
to him to fetch him ashore. After bufiet
ing the waters for few minutas the drive
and horses, with the blackboard, reache
u, terra firma and the paper mail sack alon
q was lost The ride to Globe, in wet clotl
=. ing, was an unpleasant experience for tn
I h;shon hut hanDilv he suffered no i'll q