Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-12-27

issue an immense holiday edition.
Some $4,000 have been raisedai
White Oaksto aid the independent
railroad project
Nellie Whitaker, only daughter
Of a widowed mother, died of diph-
liberia, at Hermosa.
Tho Socorro school Of mines has
incurred an indebtedness of 3d.
1901 inthe construction Of its lab
oratory.
The C%hautauqua Of Socorro
will give a course Of lectures,
through the months of January
and February.
The United States senate We'd
nesday confirmed the appointment
of Miss MaryJ j. CunIfe as postmis-
tress at Las Cruces.
Alfalfa is quoted from Sl2 to
S14 per ton at Las Cruces. 1t
looks as thought it would be worth
fully SIG the coming spring.
With a complete modern irriga-
ton system, the Rio Grande val
ley in Bernalillo county, will
sustain a population Of 100000
farmers and fruit growers.
T.. @. Bell, of Roswell, sold one
half Of his interest in the Evening
Star mining claim, in the Jicarilla
mountains, to L. L. and A.. j.
Ozanne, Of White Oaks, for So
600.
Theoutlook now for the organi-
zation of the ball league is very fiat
tering and it will no doubt be
organized with Ell Paso, Albuquer-
que, Las Vegas, Silver City and
Tucson composing the league, and
it is probable that Santa Fe and
Trinidad will be added.
Among the late filings of articles
of incorporation in the Office of the
secretary of the territory is the
following: Echo Mining & Smelt-
ing company; incorporators, James
Moore Collier, Millersberg, KY.
Nathaniel Harrison and Henry
Brown, Ell Paso; Lewis Lorion
and Elwood G. Wade, Las Cruces;
capital stock 100000, divided into
$4,000 shares of $40 each, principal
Office, Las Cruces. Object, to ac-
quire mines and. mineral lands
and develop same, treat ores, etc.
The old Solitaire mining claim
at White Oaks about which there
has been so much litigation in the
past, was sold under an execution
on the Sth inst, and was purchased
by Prof. B.. II. Dye for the sum
of $4,000. 1t was in the south
end of this property tlat the
North Homestake bonanza was
developed. The balance of the
property, although undeveloped,
is equally promising. All inter
ests now being consolidated in MIR.
Dye, it is to be hoped that the
development of this valGble prop
erty will be commenced at an
early date.
The excavations for the mill at
the Old Abe mine at White Oaks
are almost completed and the com
pany is now getting out the tim
bers for the building. The walls
of the immense reservoir are all
up and ready for cementing. The
company received word last week
from the Colorado Iron Works, of
Denver, that one car load of the
mill machinery has been shipped
and the rest would soon follow.
The whole shipment will weigh
about $4,000 pounds.
From Gallup comes the infor-
nation that Deputy Marshal Green
has gone to Zuni accompanied by
a troop Of cavalry to arrest a num-
Der Of that tribe for the terrible
crime of torturing and killing two
Indians whom they charged with
witchcraft. 1t appears that Dep
uty Marshal Green and Mayor
Kuchenbecker received the first
information Of the horrible out
rage from an old Zuni Indian, who
came to Gallup and implored for
help for his tortured son. They
at once wired Gen. McCook, COM
handing the department, giving
the particulars and requesting
that a body Of troops be sent with
the deputy marshal to make ar
rests. Gen. McCook granted the