Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-05-07
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

| DR.. John Fraser has hepn appointed
h alth officer of Dona Ana county.
The new Conversational church at
| White Oaks IVES dedicated sunday.
Cristobal Candelaria, aged "A years,
died in Albuquerque Saturday night,
Several of the students OF the Indian
school at Albuquerque have skipped.
NJ. Whitman and family have gone
from Roswell to Waite Oaks to reside.
Las Cruces new PRESBYTERIAN church
will have a seating capacity to accomino-
date 400 persons.
The Milkmaids' convention at Albn'
querQue vas decided success. The net
proceeds amounted to $3.50.
Several Of Albuquerque's sportsmen
will meet Saturday evening Tor the pur'
pose of organizing a gun club.
Mrs. Vanwey, who has otfi'iated for
the past eight months rs matron OF the
Ladies Home at Las Vegas, has resigned
her position, and will be succeeded by
Mrs. James, of kingman, kas.
Mrs. T. J. Stevenson and Miss Mary d.
Clark, of Washington, are in New Mex
ladies' are connected with the Smithsonian
institute.
Mr.. Rolla Wells, of White Oaks, &C.
companied by his wife, has gone to San
Diego, Cal, in response to telegram an
nouncing the serions sickness OF his
| father, Hon. Erastus Wells, now in that
city.
The Gallinas Canal & Water Storage &
Irrigation company's ditch is now com
peted to the Mora road from the starting
point near Las Vegas hot springs. The
reservoir covers about thirty acres and Is
nov being filled with water.
Two negroes from the Fort Selden res
ervation killed COW belonging to the
Detroit 4 Rio Grande Cattle company.
They were apprehended in the act of try
ing to get away with the hind quarters,
arrested and brought to trial.
Lucero Ascension, an aged Mexican,
supposed to he over 100 years old, was
killed by the cars near Mesquite station
lie was drying horse on the track and
in trying to save the horse caught his
foot and fell, the train then being SO near
the engineer could not stop it.
Toe reward offered for the capture Of
the horse thief who killed Fusseman III
southern New Mexico has been increased.
The different amounts now are $542 by
the citizens of Ell Paso, $500 by the sher-
if of Preside county and his deputies and
$3.50 H. TIE state OF Texas, amounting III
all to 1892.
His many friends will be glad to learn
Al, E,,ll b,, t,,n
pardon from the president, and was re-
leased from the Columbus, Ohio, prison
on the 23d of April, after confinement
of little over year. His sentence Gov
cred period of four years.-kingston
Shaft.
Two miners, Hamilton and Flanagan,
working near Hillsboro, met with seri-
Gus accident last Sunday, which came
near being fatal to both men. AS ii
was, their eyes are badly injured if not
totally destroyed. The cause OF the acct
dent was the explosion OF u stick OF giant
powder which, being frozen, they had laid
near the fire to soften it.-Shaft.
Substantial improvements are being
made in San MarCial, which will add
greatly to the attractiveness OF the city
The Reporter has summed upa list Of
the good work inauyurated there this sea-
son and finds that about ~ 900 have been
expended in this direction; iii addition to
this, contract has been let lor the build
ing OF 81 700 school house.
A further investigation in the murder
case at Apache Springs develops the TACT
that the killing was not justttable, and
the murdered mans name to be Felix
Aragon, instead of Sanchez, as first re-
ported. AT the coroner's inquest all the
evidence, circumstantial and verbal,
showed that deceased was killed when
unarmed, drunk and helpless. Chaves,
the murderer, was bound over.
Capt. J. G. Lea and wife, of Roswell,
n. M, are in the city on their return trip
from the south and east. Capt. Lea is
one of the wealthiest cattle owners i'll
southern New Mexico. In his opinion
the Pecos valley will become the best
fruit raising country i'll the west, and the
railroads will be forced to build along the
valley rs the rich soil is certain to pro.
duce all immense quantity OF fruit
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