Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-10-16
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

Roast pig on toast was the principa
"delicacy" at birthday party in Lat
Vegas.
Frank E. Prewitt, of the San Juan
Times, makes oath that his paper has 35t
subscribers.
The board of trustees of the town o.
Gallup are investigating the subject of 6
water supply for the town.
Thirty thousand pounds of ore was un'
loaded at Deming during last week fol
shipment to the Pueblo works.
The Colorado press has great deal to
say about the assassination Of d. P.
Wooten at San Lorenzo springs.
Burglars 60 about in wagon at Las
Vegas and haul off all kinds of articles.
An attempt was made to steal a station.
ary engine from the foundry.
The Ration Reporter says that a handful
of New Mexico towns are going wild over
the prospects Of having new railroads.
Ration ought to join the procession.
W. Hoskins, mining engineer and
metallurgist from Chicago, has been to
Grant county and has made an examina-
ton of the Alhambra mine at Black
Hawk.
Mr.. G. H. McHeHry, Of San Juan, is
filling an order for 5000 pounds OF
peaches, for Sllverton parties, to be de-
Iivered at the depot at Durango, at 4
cents per pound.
There are eighteen prisoners in the
Grant county jail. Thirteen awaiting
trial charged with crime as follows
Murder, five; cattle stealing, 4 perjury,
2; United Statesi prisoners, 2. Five are
serving sentences imposed in justice of
the peace courts.
Silver City note: T. w. Holson, of
Lone Mountain, has three men at work
cutting corn, OF which he has crop of
sixty acres. 1t was planted and is cut
mainly for fodder, every leaf and stalk
being saved, but it will, also, yield about
thirty-live bushels OF corn to the acre.
At the recent sale at Ft. Lewis, Mr.. T.
G. Bryan, of Fruitlands, bought thirteen
miles of telegraph line, extending from
the post to Durango, which he contem-
plates removing and setting up AGAIN as q
telephone line between Junction City,
Farmingotn and Fruitlands. Junction
City Times.
San Juan note: Rev. Hugh Griffin is
preparing to sub-divide into five acre
tracts l60 acres of land Immediately ad-
joining the Pennington townsite, on the
mesa, that with water right will be sold
on terms 80 favorable their speedy pur-
chase and improvement will be assured.
Those wanting as much as ten acres will
be sold two Of these lots.
On the east bound train from California
to-day were three grey hounds, going to
Great Bend, Kas., to take part in great
dog race. They were the Examiner, the
Chronicle and the Call, named for the
three leading papers of San Francisco.
Chronicle was said to be the champion
courser OF the Pacific coast. They were
beauties. Optic.
In conjunction with Frank. &. Raible,
OF the Trinidad Advertiser, who is now
east purchasing the plant, H. L. Ross, of
Trinidad will soon start a sew en- -colum II
weekly paper at White Oaks, to be known
as the Old Abe Eagle, very appropriate
name considering that White Oaks is in
Lincoln county and that the "Old Abe''
mine is the chief producer in the cam o.
1t is also understood that the material
and good will Of the Interpreter will be
absorbed by the new publishers.
A Mexican hunter has recently brought
the carcasses of several antelope to this
city for sale. His method of hunting them
is to place the frame OF the head and neck
of an antelope buck on his shoulders,
over his head, and then stalk upon the
range, rifle in hand. The curiosity Of the
antelope, which is not exceeded by that
of any other animal, causes them to ap.
proach too closely, when they are shot
Says the San Marcial Reporter: $50.
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