Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-23
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
Las Vegas thermometers register s. in

Las Vegas thermometers register IS in
the shade.
Thomas Anderson, Of Albuquerque, %
years old, was in love with pretty Ger
man girl named Kitty Augura. She re.
fused to marry him and he killed himself
with six-shooter.
W. Behrendt & Co., of Albuquerque,
doing business in the handsome Yrisarri
building and carrying mammoth stock,
went to the wall yesterday-failed. Leo
pold We'll is the assignee.
Sabine Lujan and Esperdeon Lujan
were brought before Justice Rogers, at
Roswell, for preliminary trial on charge
of carving up one Gallegos. Sabine
bond was fixed at $500 and Esperideon' g
at 5000, but they have not yet secured
bondsmen.
Personal mention in the Las Vegas
Optic: 1.-The friends of Prof. Allen say
that he has not skipped the town, but
that he has gone to Albuquerque to do
some work there and that he will yet
make good his bills here"
f. D. Mathews, of Little Rock, Ark,
was in the city yesterday. Mr.. Mathews
has his family with him, and comes to
New Mexico for reasons of health. He
has not yet determined where he will
locate.-Las Vegas Optic.
Judge Wood, of the firm of G. W. Wood
& Son, wholesale fruit dealers, of Las
Cruces, informs the Republican that his
firm expects to commence shipping apples
at once, and that before the last of this
week he will begin shipping peaches.
Miss Eva Crawford, of San Marcial, N
NJ, who has been guest of Mrs. ]. +
McHugh, will leave for home in few
days, and will be accompanied by Mist
Minnie Cullen, of Ottumwa, Iowa, who
has also been visiting Mrs. McHugh
Miss Crawford is daughter of Capt
Jack Crawford, the poet scout.--El Pasc
Tribune.
The Lyons & Campbell Ranch and Cat
tie company has shipped over 10000
head of cattle this year from this place
and will keep on shipping until abou
$4,000 head have been shipped. Ship
ments IRON this county up to this TINT
have aggregated more than 10000 head
and the total shipments are expected tt
reach $4,000 this year.-Silver City
Sentinel.
Announcement is made of the wedding
to take place Monday next at Los Lunas
of John l.. Stephens, of La Cronica d.
Valencia. to Miss Emma Luna, daughter
of Don Federico Luna, the popular mer
chant of that town. The church cere
mony will take place in the town chape
and the witnesses will be Solomon Lun,
and wife and Max. Lima and Miss T
Jaramillo.
News has reached Las Vegas Of an &C
cident which happened at Louis Lutz
ranch the other day, by which Davi'
Howell, lately of Emporia, Kas., lost hi
life. Mr.. Lutz, whose ranch is 125 mile
southeast of this city, was having som,
experiments made in rain making. Quit
a number of shots of giant powder hat
been exploded, when one went of pre-
maturely. Howell was leaning over thu
charge at the time, and was LITERAL,
blown to pieces.
| A 13-horse power traction engine wa
received by Chas. W. Greene from Dial
las, last Sundy. Connected with it was
grain separator, the two weighing 81 ,00
pounds, and of sufficient capacity to d
about all the threshing that will be nee
, essary, in the Pecos valley, this fall. TIL
engine will also be used for other pun
poses. 1t has sufficient power to pu
two graders and roller, and will prov
cheap power to be used in clearing an
leveling land, and other heavy work.
EDDY Argus.
Two gentlemen, Brewster Cameron an,
H. L. Manning, now have crew 0
about fifty men at work, near Eddy
gathering canaigre roots, species @
vegetable resembling the sweet-potato
which has been found to be very valuabl
, for tanning purposes, and which grows il
abundance in all the valleys of southern
New Mexico. These gentlemen have re
Gently patented the best process know
, for the extraction of tannic acid from
canaigre roots, and expect to erect work
, in this valley soon. They will also begil
the cultivation of the roots, after tn
manner of sugar-cane, and demonstrate
) on large scale, the adaptability of tn
roots when they are irrigated and prop
erly cared for.-Roswell Record.
The condition Of affairs with referenc
to Albuquerque water service is accord
ing to the Citizens information of
, thoroughly serious and critical character
Statements Of prominent citizens of bot
the western and Highland quarters q
well as Of leading representatives of tn
I fire department are to the effect ths
there is no water either in the reservoir
the wells or the plpes of the water CON
pany, the water famine being 80 seriou
. that the residents Of the Highlands hav
for several days been without sufficier
water for ordinary domestic purposes
Should fire break out under the cond
tions at present existing the most disal
trous consequences would inevitably n
sult,-Albuquerque Citizen.