Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-03
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

VIM. Shupp is dangerously i'll at Las
Vegas.
Sing Lee, a laundry man, was mysteri-
ou>ly murdered and robbed in his house
at Springer last Saturday niLilt His mead
vas mashed in With shovel. No clue to
the criminals.
Ration is Boosting of the fact that she
is Illuminated with incandescent lights.
In that respect that village is ahead of
this city. We are bding our time, but
there seems to be hitch in the arrange
meLt.-Optic.
The late warm weather has brought
vegetation along very rapidly in southern
New Mexico. At San Augustine Madeira
vines have grown over foot lately, and
peaches and roses are coming out, while
at Mesllla the llacs are beginning to bud.
Monday night Peter Kuhns, of San Pc
dro, and Miss Jennings were married at
the residence of Lou Kuhns, brother
of the groom. The happy couple left
this afternoon for San Pedro, where Mr..
kuhns is employed in the smelter
zen.
Irrigation will make any man who ir-
rigates wealthy. Of course the farmer
who is too lazy to turn on the wafer at
the proper time and in sufficient quantity
will remain as poor as the western Kan
sas farmer who depends Oh the rain
Elk.
Judge Sulzbacher has in his office a
curiosity in the shape of new adomiter,
by which column of figures, any length
can he added up in the twinkling of an
eye. 1t is the only one in the territory,
and has attracted considerable attention.
Optic.
If judge Whiteman can not be con.
tirmed the Republicans of this city will
urge the appointment of Col. j. Franco
Chavez to the position. He would give
the Democrats abundant opportunities to
howl and rear and swear.-Albuquerque
Citizen.
Our friend Doc Greene dropped in on
us from Eddy, N. NJ, to-day. Doc is
hail fellow we'll met, and is always vel
come to the Tribune sanctum. He comes
to Ell Paso to attend the marriage of his
sister, Miss Fannie, and to spend the
holidays with his mother. He says Eddy
is booming and he is going to grow up
with the country.-El Paso Tribune.
Ditch work in the Mesila valley: cal
ready many of our people are beginning
to feel the immediate good effects of the
progress of this enterprise i'll our midst.
Merchants are selling groceries to the con-
tractors, butchers are delivering them
beef, farmers are hauling them in hay,
aborers are getting work and money is
beginning to be distributed by them. And
the large amount of money TO be dis
tributed by them in this valley in the
next six months will make very decided
difference in the business of the COM
munity and put money into the pockets
OF people who have had hard work to pay
their bills for many long day past"
The Las Vegas health officer makes
report for 1889 conhning himself strictly
to the american population" which he
places at $500. He says: During the
year just ended there died here thirty
nine (39) Americans. Of these twenty
two (22) were strictly nonresident, all
but the one accidentally killed having
come here from the hope of staying dis
eases already too far advanced. The dis
eases were as follows: Consumption, II;
abscess kidney, |; diphtheria, L; acute
diarrhoea, | chronic diarrhoea |,
and killed by cars, l. Among resi-
dents, persons living here who had
not come here on account of the
diseases OF which they died, there were
seventeen Q7) deaths, distributed as fol-
lows: Pneumonia, Il consumption, 2;
dlphtheria, 3; commissions, 3; chronic
alcoholism, i typhoid fever, 1; acute
diarrho,a, q pert nit l; cirrhosis
liver, l ; Old aye, /, and puerperal fever, l."
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