Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-18
TERRITORIAL TIPS.

Ration will organize Republican league
club.
Swarms of young grssshoppers are in
the Rio Grande valley near Albuquer-
que.
Recent rains are telling to advantage
on grass and growing crops throughout
northern New Mexico.
High water in the Pecos upset the Fort
Sumner mail carriers blackboard and the
mail was lost
All unlicensed dogs at Las Vegas are to
be impounded and, if not licensed, will
be killed. Big job that.
The prosecution failed to make out q
case against Mrs. Luke, Silver City
woman charged with attempting to poison
her husband.
Work on the university building at Al.
buquerque is being pushed as speedily as
possible and this slightly edifce will soon
be under cover.
Albuquerque note: Mr. M. B. Stand
lee, the dairyman and wheat grower, re-
ceived yesterday the first threshing ma
chine ever brought into the valley.
Ration has an assessed valuation OF
1896, 400. This would give the town if it
should mortgage itself to the extreme
limit, for all purposes, $23, 5000.
Experts were busy yesterday at Albu-
uueroue going through the books OF
Cashier Lutz, OF the Santa Fe freight Of
fee, to discover an alleged shortage. Lutz
has been let out of office.
Ration Range: Mr.. M. Z. Dane, on
the Vermejo, lost two of the finest draft
stations in this county last week. One
died and the other was accidentally
killed by being thrown into ditch by a
mule hitched with him in hauling away
the dead horse.
The cattle industry in New Mexico is of
such important proportions that whatever
affects that, favorably or unfavorably,
makes itself felt upon all other interests
of the territory, hence the present favor
able condition of things on the range is
good news for all of us, and means better
times for the whole Of New Mexico.
The explosion Of coal oil lamp at
Pinos Altos caused the destruction of
Rivers & Co.'S general store on Monday.
LOSS, 10000; insurance $1,000, in the
following companies: Union, Cal. Pro-
violence, Providence. R. l. Ins. Co. North
America, Phila.; Fireman's Fund, Cali
fornia; German America, New York;
Spring feld, Springfield, Mass.
w. A. Kennon, ex-purser Of the ship
Neptune" OF London England, writes
from Capetown, Africa, to his fathor, DR.,
Kennon, of Silver City: 81 was wrecked
off this coast, five surviving out of fifty
nine on the wrecked ship, and then the
other three were massacreed by hostile
Zulus. We we're rescued by some friend
ly Beers. The other three were beaten
to death by the SHAMROCK, and then
persisted with an assagai through their
hearts,"
The publishers who received the con-
tract for publishing the text books to be
used in the schools Of New Mexico, are
now preparing special edition OF their
geography containing more full and accu-
rate information in regard to this territory
than is to be obtained from the regular
edition. This work will be used in all
the territorial schools, and will give the
children of New Mexico good opportuni-
ty to learn something about their own
section Ct the country. But the use of
the special edition will not be confined
to this territory. 1t will be placed on
sale all over the country.-Albuquerque
Citizen.