Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-06-02

once. 1t will cover about 10 900 acres o
land with water taken from the Navajo
river.
At the last meeting of the Grant County
Commercial club eighteen new members
joined. They were all substantial bust
ness men. The club now has member
ship of forty-three When the number
shall have reached fifty the initiation fee
will be doubled. Many Of the members
have paid their dues seven or eight
months in advance and from present In
dications the club will be permanent
success. Silver City Enterprise.
The way they do it down at Eddy
"Percv, son of Dr.. Thomas J. Kissner, OF
Van Vert, Ohio, arrived last Sunday with
car containing some fine stock, a house
and barn, the buildings being framed in
the east, can he easily put up and will be
located opposite that OF J. F. Van Valken'
burg in the "Californla colony" The
doctor and son own two fine forty acre
tracts which are partially under cultiya
ton, they also have number of vines
and fruit trees set out and doing finely.
Their alfalfa and millet shows well, one
will make good stand and the other a
fair crop"
1t is reported on good authority that
Receiver Smith, of the First National
banks of Deming and Silver City, has
recommended to the comptroller of the
currency at Washington that an assess
ment of the stockholders be made and it
is probable that the com ptroler will act
on the suggestion and levy an assessment.
If the assessment is paid it will material.
ly hasten the settling up OF the affairs OF
the banks. 1t has now been nearly four
months since the failure, and the depos-
itors are naturally looking for dividend
in the near future.-Siver City Sentinel.
La Plata, San Juan, echoes: Henry
Norman likewise took out bunch Of
forty fat steers that he took to Denver
where they realized SAL head.
Four thousand eight hundred tons Of al
falfa hay were raised by our ranchmen
last season and OF that quantity not
pound is left. At one time it was thought
1900 tons would 60 oyer. Mr..
Southard, of Durango, visited this valley
last week and collected l20 dozen eggs.
He paid twenty cents a dozen, barter,
fifteen cents cash. Mr.. U. Cato
has recently hauled a load of lumber
from Virden's mill, on Cherry Creek. lie
will use some of it in construction OF a
large number oil beehlves. Mr.. Cato is
negotiating for eighty acres Of mesa land,
and in the fall will erect frame dwell
ling.
san Juan Times: What threatens to
be serious stabbng alray occurred
Monday afternoon at Flora Vista be-
tween q. NJ. letters and son and Dave
and Ben Bragg. During the progress of
the trial in Justice Pages court, in which
letters was the plaintiff and p. G. Weeks
the defendant, and which finally resulted
IN a verdict for the latter, letters became
much incensed at Dave Bragg, who, as
witness for Weeks, gave i'll testimony
damaging to the plaintiffs cause, and
after the conclusion Of the trial Teters
called Bragg out of the court room and
said something that caused the two to
come to blows. VIM. Teters stabbed
Bragg in the right side, the blade enter
ing between the fourth and fifth ribs and
penetrating the lung, making an ugly
wound which hled profusely. At this
juncture Ben Bragg, a brother OF the
wounded man. came up and took hand
in the scrimmage, giving young Teters
blow on the neck, la Sullivan, that
knocked him out, and for over five min
utes he remained in an unconscious state
and for the balance of the day in dazed
The Teters were Immediately
placed under arrest, the elder pleading
guilty to assault and paying lis fine.
William Teters has since been placed
under bonds to the amount of $500 to
await the action of the grand jury.