Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-26
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
LAS VEGAS LOCALS.

LAS VEGAS LOCALS.
| Rufus Cox will return to Las Vega!
from New Decatur, Alabama, and make
his home here.
| John Skinner, colored, of this city, has
accepted the place as head cook at the
Claire hotel, over at Santa Fe, under the
new management.
L. Fischer, dealer in curiositles, up at
the hot springs, seems to have lost none
of his persuasive powers as he succeeded
in talking Manager Frey out of a pass to
and from the Worlds fair.
Mrs. H. B. Winston has arrived from
Hanover, Indiana, with her daughter, Miss
Annie, and was taken over to Mora to-day
by Rev. j. j. Gilchrist, where she will
have charge of the Presbyterian mission
school.
CoLFAx COUNTY CRUMBS.
The Gate City minstrels home talent,
will show at the opera house, Friday
night, September l.
very heavy rain occurred Sunday last
and for six hours there was a steady pour
ing down over the whole prairie from
Grow Creek to the Rayado mesa.
DR.. Shuler, assignee of the c. II. Clark
business, has paid the creditors 25 per
cent of their claims. Considering the
times this is making good showing.
The Sir Knights of Ration division No.
8, U. R. K. of p, will celebrate the ami
versary of the U. R. by giving grand
ball at the opera house Wednesday night
August 30.
On Friday afternoon the 18th inst, on
j. Van Houten's ranch at Maxwell City
the second son of D. Ungersma, lad
about 13 years old, was killed by light
ming, while at work plowing.
The DOUGH outfit finished the spring
calf hunt last week and are now taking a
few days lay off. Their calf hunt was
excellent and branded 1,140 calves, or
about 80 per cent, the best branding for
years.. Folsom Metropolitan.
The new gold discovery known as the
"Gold King" in the Rio Hondo district,
and which assays 5000 free gold to the
ton, is sly miles west Of the boundary
line of the Maxwell land grant and about
twelve miles west of Elizabethtown.-
Ration Reporter.
Rick Smith returned MONDAY from a
horse hunt in the southeastern part of
the county. He reports grass looking
better and moro of it than for number
of years past. Between Kingman, Vega
and the foot of the Sierra Grande, and on
Wright's range, grasshoppers are thick
and doing much damage. He also re-
ported that some focks of sheep are
being afflicted with new disease which
none of the old sheepmen can account
for. The sheep get stiff by degrees and
finally swell up and die.
LAS CRUCES INDEPENDENTS.
Of the twenty-four persons now in jail,
twelve are United States prisoners.
Alfalfa is selling slowly at $3.50. Many
farmers refuse to sell, justly feeling con-
fident of a better price.
Prof. R. F. Hare, of Alabama, elected
assistant chemist at Las Cruces agricul-
tural college, arrived last week.
Sheriff Lohman and John H. Riley
have the contract for furnishing beef and
-four to the Mescalero Indians.
Las Cruces stands in need of a public
building, for the accommodation of the
United States land office and postoffice
officials.
The addition to the jail has been com.
pleted, and the female prisoners who
have been incarcerated in the court house
are behind the bars.
A cat at T. j. Bull & Cos store, showed
its agility in the capture of six inch
centipede. Now Tab knows of a sore
nose, and is partially paralyzed.
DR.. J. V. Cowan sent monster speci-
mems of popcorn to the Worlds fair.
The stalks are about fourteen feet, with
from five to seven years thereon.
U. s. Inspectors Chalmers and Easily
Smith do not hesitate to say: "The Dona
Ana county Jail is cleanerthan any one
in the territory, yet inspected by u.s."
Present indications justify the belief
that the Sisters of Loretto will have an
unusually fourishing school during the
next session. Already pupils are arriving
while many others from Mexico have en-
gagged accommodations, at this popular
Institution.
Heavy rains fell to the northwest, west
and east of the valley on the evening of
the 10th inst. Water which fell in the
foot hills and on the east of town, col
lected in arroyos, again partially sub
merged the agricultural college, and other
groun1 in its vicinity.