Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-14
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

Albuquerque has cOlOred knights OF
Labor organization.
A son was born to Neill B. Field and
wife at Albuquerque.
Miss Elizabeth Doran, OF St. Paul, died
of consumption at Silver City.
The Rio Grande shows much more
water than is usual at this season.
The Lordsburg Liberal suggests that
few thieves be hanged without having
jury trial.
A rumor is on at Las Vegas that the
Street Car company will cease business
Hardly probable.
The Sentinel cOrrects its statement
that small pox was raging at Georgetown.
1t now claims that it was only measles. 1"
In the Rio Grande valley peach trees
are in blossom, while the people of the
east are wearing listers and overshoes
with which to keep from freezing.
The average annual sunshine of New
Mexico exceeds that of the Central Park
obs rvalory, New York, 1900 hours, and
that OF Greenwich observatory, nearly
200 hours.
1t is safe to predict that in four years
Socorro will be shipping immense guam
titles of fruit. Hundreds of fruit trees
are being set out this year by our citi'
zens.-Socorro Advertiser.
Worth Keene and party will start for
the famous Adams digglngs next month.
They are very reticent about the matter
and should they be successful in locating
the bonanza, look out for boom, boys.
Gallup Elk.
Rev. DR.. Cameron, of Denver, who is
connected with the Baptist mission and
school work in the west, is daily expected
in Roswell to make the final arrange
ments for the erection of three-story
stone school building.
According to the assessors returns
Colax county has SAG head of horses,
valued at $l40, 7O5; $3.50 head of mules,
valued at $l7 ,o7S; 1868 head of cattle,
valued at 81 ,646 $40; 81 1891 head of sheep,
valued at $Sl 1881 627 head Of goats, val
ued at $685. III head Of burros, valued at
81 ,OOg, and 469 head of hogs, valued a
$l,5ll,
The butter and poultry industry will
pay handsomely if properly managed.
At present New Mexico imports at least
nine.tenths Of its eggs, butter and poultry
principally from Kansas. 1t is very
wrong that our golden wealth should be
sent away to enrich other states when q
superior article can be produced right
here at home.
Long range item from the Optic: A
gentleman who is In position to know,
and who has considerable to do with the
building of railroads., says that the Fort
Worth & Albuquerque road. on which
work was commenced last week, will be
compelled to lay their line within at least
twelve miles of Las Vegas to make it pos.
sible to reach Albuquerque.
The Black Range suggests that the
counties of Lincoln, Eddy and Chavez
get up q petition asking for an additional
judicial district made up by the territory
which they compose. 1t is a good sug-
gestion, and one which should be imme-
diately adopted and carried out. The
whole of southern New Mexico should
help the scheme along.-Enterprise.
Gilbert Moran, proprietor of the Allan.
tic beer hall at Albuquerque, blew o ut
his brain with Al calber revolver yes
tesday morning The evening before he
called on his sweetheart, Miss Carolina
Heisch, and declared his love, saying if
she did not consent to marriage he would
suicide. She told HIM he was drunk and
sent him away. His will leaves his
worldly effects to Miss Heisch.