Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-08

been stocked with fish which were sup
piled by the fish commission. Ponds
which were stocked some years ago have
been regularly supplying good sized fish.
Silver City Sentinel.
Gamble & Sheek have moved their well
machinery to Sheriff Csrson's ranch,
where they have a contract to sink a
l00-foot well. The well they sunk on
VIM. Locke's ranch is down 205 feet Of
the surface. The company is also nego-
tiating with Joseph Crouch, OF Flora
Vista, toward the sinking of well.-San
Juan Times.
The cages and other material for the
new county Jail are now in Durango,
where they have been some time await
ing the supreme court decision in the
county seat case. Now that the decision
has been rendered, as soon as the order Of
the court establishing the county seat at
Aztec is received and executed the cages
will be brought down and the jail erected
here.-Aztec Index.
Last Saturday, Johnny Carr, who was
a resident Of Black Hawk, made an at
tempt to lariat a bronco horse and in
doing so, got close enough to receive q
vicious kick in the stomach from the
heels OF the wild animal. He was brought
to town and placed in the hospital where
everything possible was done to aid his
recovery, bnt without avail He died
Monday night. City Enterprise.
Mr.. William Jaeger, civil engineer of
Las Vegas, has been in the city several
days waiting the arrival OF Mr.. Horace
Ropes, the chief engineer Of the Iudepen-
dent Short Line railway, which it is pro.
posed to build from Denver, via Las Vegas
to Deming. The latest plan for this road
is TO leave El raso out in the cod and
make connection ut Demiug with the
Mexican Northern Pacific Albuquerque
Times.
Mysterious waf in the Las Vegas
Optic: There was woman parading the
streets in the neighborhood OF the depot, |
at about O'Clock last night. Her face and |
clothing represented colored woman, OF
the poorer classes but she accidentally
exposed her hands, on one occasion,
generally keeping them wrapped up in
shawl, and they showed her to be a white
woman. The generally accepted theory
is that she was probably some wife spying
upon the actions OF her husband.
IT, Clark, of G,la, has received his
patent (No. 430, ,997), for double acting
indestructable buckle. 1t is especially
adapted for harness and saddle use, or
any purpose where unusual strain is likely
to occur The inventor has been receiv-
ing letters by the score since the issue of
the patent, and some handsome offers
have already been made for its purchase.
Mr.. Clark is no hurry to dispose of his
buckle. as he realizes he has good thing
and that it will keep for while. The
patent runs for seventeen years and is
worth small fortune.-Silver City Enter
prise.
Hillsboro dots The erection of the
new court house, church and other build
lngs of public and private character
emphasize the fact that this town is i'm
proving. Mining matters may he said
Bonanza always has been, and is now, q
paying property. Operations on it go
right ahead with entire satisfaction to all
The Standard company is
making satisfactory progress at both
mills and mines. The yield OF the
gardens, orchards and vineyards of the
Percha valley and other tributary streams
ia very prolific and will be sufficient, it
IS thought, to supply the home de-
nand.
Eddy Argus: L. G. Shields met q
nan on the cars the other day when re-
.urning from Dallas, who had lived in
he Pecos valley many years ago, when
It was often overrun by Indians, and
generally infested by "rus:lers." After
some conversation, he asked "What
kind of machines do they use there now?"
Shields thinking he referred to mowers,
answered: Principally" McCormick's
and Buckeyes" The man appeared to
20 in deep thought for few moments,
hen said: "Well, when | was there,
hey principally used Colts and Smith &
Wessons."
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