Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-14

w. j. Stephenson, aged about 43 years,
committed suicide at Hermosa Fast week,
February q. No cause is known for the
rash act.
Mr. N. GALES, the general manager of
the Standard Sold company's mines and
smelter at Hillsboro, has procured the
necessary fluxes and amount of ores to
guarantee long and prosperous run.
Sheriff Sanders and Deputy Sheriff
Houston were IN town Tuesday and sold
the remains of the first Kingston sampling
works for taxes due thereon, about 300.
Hon. N. Gales bought the old iron and
what was left of the shed that once pro-
tected the machinery that used to be there
for $50. Another old Kingston landmark
gone.
waterjacket for the Kingston smelter
has been ordered, and is now in course of
construction and will be shipped in a few
days, and as all preparations have been
made there Is not the least shadow of a
doubt but that the smeter will prove a
grand success, and will utilize all low
grade ores that have heretofore been value
| less for the reason of our great distance
| from the railroad.
DEMING DOTS.
The mountains surrounding Deming
are again covered with snow.
Considerable alfalfa is being shipped
to this market from the Mesilla valley.
Strawberries have been on the local
market for some time past. They are
shipped from California.
Deming is enjoying the novelty of a
bread war. The price has been cut to
thirty loaves of bread for 81.
Miners at Cooks Peak are looking for
a fairly busy season. although the output
of the mines there has not been so large
recently as it was last summer.
Israel II. King of this city, has, within
the past week, purchased over 800 head of
cattle belonging to the Hart Brothers
Cattle company. Consideration nominal.
T. H. Booz, who has charge of the en-
gineers of the Dsming Mexico road south,
came up from Las Paomas, Mexico. He
expects to be ordered into the field any
day. =.
Rain fell for several hours Friday night,
and still further improved the cattle stu
alton in this section. 1t is feared, how
ever, that the cold weather of the past
few days has injured the fruit trees, many
of them being in bloom.
Frank W. Smith, of Las Cruces, who
has charge of the construction of the large
irrigation bitches in the Mimbres valley,
was in the city Friday afternoon and Sat
urday morning on matters connected with
preliminary operations on the same.
An attempt was made to rob the store
of Max Heyman e. Co., but the thieves |
were discovered while endeavoring to |
force open the rear door. Several shots
were fired at them by Chas. Kluasman
and L. Mayfield, but they escaped in the
darkness. 1t is not thought they were
hit.
EDDY ECHOES.
District court opened at Eddy yester-
day.
Henry D. Golding, late of the Argus,
has taken the local editorship p of the Daily
Current. "ris we'll.
Fifty men are now employed on the
lower Greene farm, setting out fruit trees
and sowing alfalfa.
Th >mas Dougal has taken contract to
break eighty acres of land for Mr.. McMul-
len, who expects to put forty acres in al
falfa and forty acres in cana-aigre root.
The Daily Current hoists the following
city ticket: For mayor, Charles G. Blod
gett; for trustees, 1st ward Lucius Ander
son, James l.. Warren; for trustees, I'd
ward, George G. Stamford, Charles F.
McDonough; for recorder, Charles L.
Martin.
S. w. Russell has sold the following |
property within the past few days: On
Black River 100 acres improved land, to
L. F. Andrews, of Milford, Mich; south of
the Feliz, 100 acres unimproved land, to
". W. Caldwell, of Americus, Kas.; lot 8,
block II, town, to F. E. Downs.
Josephs' saloon sells all kinds of the
best California wines at cents glass or
20 cents pint, also the genuine Hennes-