Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-07-26

Charles q. Webb, cashier First Ma
tional bank, Stafford, kas., has just closed
a $4,000 cattle deal with Engle, N. NJ,
parties.
1t is reported that the line of telegraph
from Deming to Palomas is to be erected
at once, and that active construction on
the railroad will soon follow.
A petition to congress, asking that the
land court bill be passed, is being circulat-
ed about Las Vegas and receiving good
many signatures from the best and most
useful of her citizens.
The delay in starting up samplng
works at Deming, Mr.. Bauman says, is
manly due to the two railroads, which
up to date have not yet given their con-
sent to sampling in transit.
The old salt sea sailors resident in this
community predict, from the appearance
of the moon, that this lunar month will
be productive OF heavy rainfall all over
this country.-Optic.
The following beautiful lines are con
trlnuted as appropriate to the season
Jim Aiker Ginger is my name, | have q
way that's takin' Pm oft reclining in the
lap, of Dear Miss Belle A. Aiken. Ger
rillos Rustler.
Prizes to the amount of $5lj will be Of
fered in the tireman's tournament during
the territorial fair. Professional runners
will be barred, no one but the actual
members Of the hose teams will be al
lowed to participate.
Ration note: The fence company ship
ped this morning two sample logs Of pine
back east to ascertain the kind OF cutting
machinery required to work them. They
are as fine timber as you ever looked at,
and are said to be only average specimens.
A fair estimate of sheep sold in New
Mexico and Arizona during the last thirty
days reaches the enormous number Of
100000 head. They were sold at an
average of $2 per head, therefore the sum
of money realized for mutton and put into
circulation is 100000.
Julio Urtado, living at San Miguel, was
on Saturday visited by parties who cut
his fences and forced his son to assist in
the destruction. The next night the
ranch of Julian Sandoval was visited by
unknown parties who cut down his fruit
trees and fences and destroyed his garden
truck.
Kingston Shaft: More capitalists ar
rived; plenty OF rain, water works re-
paired; eleven carloads of ore awaiting
transportation to the railroad 18th of July
has gone over for q year; next excitement,
the election; baby crop holds its own
mines producing regularly, and every
body employed. Eow kick, you kickers,
kick
Last Sunday the iiossbu,g and Stark
vile foot ball clubs played match game
at Trinidad, in which the Blossu1rg boys
defeated the Starkvilles by 2 to /. The
game was for 500 side and 90 per cent
of the gate receipts to the winners. A
large crowd witnessed the game and con-
siderable betting was done, the Blossburg
boys scooping in about 81 l,000 Ration
Reporter.
Chas. Kitchen, of Omaha, Neb one OF
the proprietors of the old Exchange hotel,
Kitchen Bros years ago, is in town.
He expects to have the body of his
brother, John Kitchen, who died in the
early sixties, exhumed and taken to
Omaha for reinterment. The Kitchen
Bros. were the life OF this country in the
early days and did much toward its ad-
vancement and progress. Optic.
Monday, J. j. Arlington, OF Durango,
commenced carrying the mail between
Durango and Jewett as sub contractor
under Pease. Mr.. Arlington was at Aztec
Monday and informed the Index that he
will Immediately put on a fine line of
stages and good stock, with which, and
cheap fares and fast time, he is confident
he can work up paying business, even
if the mail contract is at very low figure.
San Juan Index.