Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-30
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

The Albuquerque city council is adopt
ing heroic measures to protect the banks
of the Rio Grande from overflow.
Indian signs are reported from the Black
Range, and boy named Theodore Phil
lips is said to have been shot at.
The loss of cattle in Rio Arriba county,
owing to the deep snow, the past winter,
will be at least SO per cent, 80 it is said.
Pierce Murphy, the old base ball war
horse Of Las Vegas, will endeavor to re-
organize clever team among the tossers
of the Meadow city.
At Silver City Bishop Kendrick
confirmed the following persons: W.
George Waring, esq.,, Miss Maud Miller,
Miss Mable Miller, and Miss Edith Casey.
Major Maynadier, paymaster, U. s.
army, expects soon to be transferred to
California, and Paymasters Wham and
Tower have been ordered to take station
at Albuquerque.
Mrs. Ambrosio Armijo, Mrs. John Bar
rodaile and children, and Miss Lea and
Josefa Armijo have left Albuquerque
for an extended visit in southern Cali
fornia.
A side track and Y are being put in at
Whitewater by the Santa Fe and S. G. &
N. railroads. The grade on the latter is
being pushed forward as rapidly as pos
sible.-Silver City Sentinel.
The Southern Pacific railroad is trying
to develop sufficient supply of water at
Lordsburg. At present they are sinking
a we'll three miles to the south of the town.
So far they have gained depth of lao
feet without finding water.
H. H. Whitehill, former sheriff of
Grant county, after turning over all his
property to his bondsmen to protect them
against the amounts claimed to be due
from him, has now quietly gone to work,
running the engine at the Aztec mine at
night.
The wool growers of New Mexico are
organizing local associations all over the
territory, looking to the enforcement of
the new scab law. They propose build
ing dips and corrals in order to comply
with the provisions of the law in regard
to dipping, and they thus hope to have
the cost reduced to minimum.
The Democratic club at Las Vegas has
elected the following officers to serve for
the next three months: E. V. Long,
president; G. B. Eads, first vice-presi-
dent; Chris. Sellman, second vice-presi-
dent; F. B. January, secretary; John
Pace, treasurer.
The great usury case ofW. H. McBroom
vs. the Scottish Mortgage, Land & Invest
ment company, is on trial in the Las
Vegas district court Some surprising
revelations were made on the witness
stand, in open court, yesterday, says the
Optic.
The Albuquerque fair directors have APP
pointed the following committees: Com
mittee on transportation, Andrew Smith.
Committee on stock exhibits. G. L. Brooks
and w. P. Metcalf. Committee on agri-
culture, M. p. Stamm. The president also
announced that he would appoint all of
the travelling men out of Albuquerque as
travelling secretaries, to talk up the fair
and solicit exhibits, attendance, etc.
Judge Murat Masterson, of Deming,
welded Miss Mary L. Postgate in New
York. The bride is we'll known in Chi
cago, where she was associated with her
father, j. W. Postgate, in taking the
stenographic report of the great Cronin
murder trial for the Chicago Herald, the
young woman acquiring considerable
reputation for her celebrity and accuracy.
1t is reported that E. g. Shields, for
merly land register at Las Cruces, and
now in the real estate business at Eddy,
will be one of the judges in the new land
court commission. Clayton Enterprise.
Well, hardly. Probably it's his brother,
the assistant attorney general at Wash
ington.
Las Vegas boast: "The number of car
loads of merchandise, of every character,
delivered in Las Vegas, yearly, will more
than double the number of similar car
loads delivered at any other town in New
Mexico. Of course, this means only car
loads, the destination of which is Las
Vegas-not those which are merely
handled here, as they pass through. The
reason of this is that Las Vegas is the
largest distributing point in all the terri
tory"
S. M. Rowe, chief engineer for the
Mitchell Bros, the Michigan men who
bought some 100000 acres of the timber
lands from the A. & P, in western Ber-
nallllo county, in writing to Las Vegas
for his surveying outfit, of teams, etc.,
says that he will have to locate 100 miles
of railroad line, and that they hope to
begin construction during the presen
year. He thinks they will be ready for
propositions by the middle OF the summer.
This is large movement in the direction
Of developing New Mexico.
To Trade.
$75 900 worth of unincumbered real "a.