Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-15
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

| oheaR thieves are working at AlDu'
querque.
Idus L. Fielder, of Silver City, is in
New York on big mine deal.
D. Bauman, of Pueblo, Colo, will
operate sampling works at Deming.
A Winchester was used to settle a
water rights quarrel in Tijeras canon be-
tween H. G. Whitcomb and Henry Car
penter. No blood split, however.
Adna Lamson and wife, of Socorro,
have gone to Garden City, Kas. he will
be there some time attending to business
with w. H. Moore, his father-in-law.
The Southern Methodist church, at Al
buquerque, purchased 100 trees from E.
H. DuDbar, and they are being placed
about the church building and parsonage,
in the Highlands.
Albuquerque food note: "The river
is slowly rising, and the western approach
to the toll bridge across the Rio Grande
has been washed away until crossing is
impracticable."
Neil B. Field, Of Albuquerque, has re-
ceived from Lexington, KY, a thorough
bred registered 4-year-old mare which
will be at once put in training for the
spring meeting. The new animal is a
beauty, trots evenly and gives promise of
becoming speedy horse.
D. B. Bronson, president of the FL
Paso National bank E. B. Van Keuck
and another gentleman from Denver, the
latter two eastern capitalists interested
With French syndicate in an irrigation
gnh
bound for the south night before last.
E. 7. Wriggleworth finds, by two years.
experience, that this climate is well
adapted to the raising Of wheat, and that
with ordinary care an enormous crop can
be raised, almost twice as much per acre
as in any of the "crack" wheat states.
He has made a speciality of the White
Siberian spring wheat, and is more than
pleased with it.-Roswell Register.
At meeting of the Northeastern New
Mexico Stock Growers association, held
at Folsom, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: f. D.
Wright, president; j. q. Johnson, vice
president; Henry Law, secretary; F. B.
Drew, John Hill, Ed. Mitchell, J.C.
Johnson, Jas. Lumpkins, J. Hutson and
ii. Law, directors. Among other bust.
ness transacted the association purchased
sixteen hounds which they will use for
the destruction of wolves in the eastern
part of the county.
Las Vegas note: Manuel Blsarriage,
OF Mora county, WAS sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for murder in Mora
county by the San Miguel court Monday
morning. He had previously received
sentence of three years for cattle stealing,
being brought over from Santa Fe to be
tried for murder, and on receiving the
latter sentence he boldly inquired OF
Judge OBrien: "What he intended d..
ing with the three years, now that he
goes up for life-will the three years fall
to his estate after death ?" The judge in
formed him that both sentences would %
together. He was ably defended by Ma
jor j. d. Sena, while Prosecuting Attor- !,
ney Fort represented the territory.
Silver City Sentinel: A dance was
given by number of woodchoppers at
Frank Silver's ranch on Sunday night.
Among those present were Juan Rodri-
guez and his pretty, little, II year old
wife. Rodriguez has always been insane
ly and unreasonably jealous of his wife.
and the attention she received on Sunday
night so aroused the demon of jealousy in
him that about midnight he called her
out from the house, and made her walk
with him down to the spring, about $50
yards off. There he drew knife and
telling her that life hung on the point of
it, he drove the blade clean through her
body above the left breast. Throwing
himself on her in an ecstasy of rage he
stabbed her five times. Then, thinking
she was dead, he jumped the fence and
made off on foot over the mountains to-
ward Hanover. The woman is still alive
and is being cared for at the Sisters hos.
pital at Silver City. Officers are after
Rodriguez.