Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-23
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
LAS VEGAS LOCALS.

LAS VEGAS LOCALS.
Mrs. Turner, daughter of Rev. s. B.
Barker, died of consumption at Rociada,
on Saturday night. She leaves three
children.
Arthur +. B. Portman, of White Oaks,
this territory, and Miss Adeline Elwel Met
calf, of Iowa City, Iowa, met here by ap-
pointment and were married.
Amelio Cordova was arrested, last night
by the depot police officers, for the theft
of two grips from the trains. Judge
Wooster bound him over to the grand
jury in the sum of $500 for each offense
and not being able to furnish bonds he
was re tmanded to Jail.
Miss Valeria Romero, daughter of Don
Trinidad Romero, was bitten by blood
hound at tho Romero ranch, near Wagon
Mound last week, though not severely.
The brute was killed and his skin is on ex-
hibition at the Romero butcher shop, old
town. It measures eight feet from nose
to tail. The live weight of the dog was
18O pounds.
The county commissioners were i'll ses-
sion and passed an order for the Atchison
Railway company to pillow fire guards on
each side of the railroad track through
San Miguel county, from the Mora county
line to the Santa Fe county line, by the
1st day of October, proximo, to protect
the grass along the line of road.
ROSWELL ETCnINGs.
Cattle will be fat in a few weeks and
grass will be plentiful for yoar.
Chief Nutcilli, at one time head butcher
of the Mescalero Apaches, accompanied
by several of his tribe, is in the city.
Col. Milne and wife left Saturday for
Chicago, New York and other quiet, coun
try villages, and will be absent two
months.
Frank Evans and family and R. H.
Egner, of Magdalena, passed through
town to-day en- route to the Cherokee
strip, where they will locate.
Travellers will remember rude, stone
house at stage station two miles below
Seven Rivers. In 1878 the Pecos had a
memorable rise and its waves Tapped the
step in front of the house. Since then
"old timers" have had this as a high water
story, but during the late food the river
swept away the stone house and left a
mark on the hill fifteen feet higher than
the former high water mark, according TO
level run by Chief Engineer Blauvelt
after the flood subsidized.
EDDY ECHOES.
G. Moscato, of the Italian settlement,
has beautiful field of ten acres of water
melons on which he ia making lots of
money.
All the farmers in the valley have reduced
the wages of Mexican laborers from $1.40
to $1.25 per day. Contractors will
probably soon do SO, who are now pay
ing S1.5o.
Engineer Reed is about to depart on
trip up the Pecos to take observations as
to high water marks of the recent flood,
and of former high water records.
Hugh Freeman, son of Judge Freeman,
is studying law in the Office of ]. O..
Cameron. He is bright boy and will
succeed in the profession n.-Argus.
The P. 1. & I. company has recovered
about $4,000 feet of bridge and Aume
timbers that we're stranded near the
Nymeyer place, few miles below town.
The county commissioners met Tues
day, to consider petition of over 200
citizens for the calling of an election to
vote $4,000 in bonds to build bridges.
The election occurs September -.
The presence of deputy United States
marshal in Eddy, last week, seems to have
created matrimonial epidemic in
Phoenix, as five couples there came to
Eddy on Saturday and were married
Chief Engineer Blauvelt has been very
busy this week making estimates of the
earthwork necessary to rebuild the dam
and provide additional splll-ways. He
finds that there is much less deposit of
sediment than he expected, in the reser-
voir. 1t is the opinion of the engineer
that by using 100 teams the dam can be
rebuilt in five months.
VIM. II. Mullane, editor of the Eddy
Daily Current, is in trouble. He referred
to Conductor Moore, of the Pecos Valley
road, as "Pomposity Moore," and while
the editor was standing on the depot
platform Mr.. Moore felled him TO the
earth. The editor makes no bones of
saying: "The cuts and bruises received
from this murderously inclined individual
are OF life duration"