Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-10-21
SOUTHWESTERN NEWS.

| Inc territorial educational convention
will meet in Albuquerque, December
27 to 29.
Gross, Blackwell & Co., have finished
shearing 10000 head Of sheep in San Mi
guel county.
Joe Eaton, Of Socorro, has one Of the
most lucrative positions in Ms1ico, work
ing over 1000 men.
The Mandolin club at Las Vegas gives
nightly serenades, and yet people wonder
at the increase Of crime.
The farmers in the Rio Grande valley
are all in funds, owing to good crops
although the markets are slow.
Judge Rogers, of Roswell, without
special care, raised fifty onions which
weighed 1O4 pounds.
Frank Dobbs, of Arizona, is getting up
an Indian village for the midwinter fair
at San Francisco-a la Ro1 Hardy.
Officers of the fire clay works at So.
zorro, have been there making prepara
tions for opening up in the near future,
Las Vegas is to have fair. This is
assured. The right men have taken hold
of the matter. No street-corner talk, this
time.
Rev. J. D. Bush and family left Socorro
for San Marcial, at which point he has
been located by the Southern Methodist
conference.
The Navajo Indian who murdered
Trader Walsh, last April, escaped from
Jail at Aztec, N. NJ, Sunday evening, and
is yet at large.
The New Mexico Poultry association
will hold its first poultry and pet stock
show in Albuquerque, January 23, 1894,
and continue four days.
Precincts so and 60 have been cut off
from San Miguel county and attached to
the new county of Union. At the last
election they cast sixty-four votes for
Delegate Joseph.
Charles Evans, for several years keeper
of the famous Santa Rosalia hot springs,
Mexico, is dying. He is we'll known
throughout the southwest, having lived
in New Mexico for twenty years.
Carlos Gabaldon and E. Gonzales, of
Rowe, have shipped their wool direct to
Philadelphia, through the Browne & Man
zanares company, in the hope of better
price than the local market affords.
The lands of A. L. Mckee and Miguel
Padilla, in Socorro county, have been
benefited hundreds of dollars by the
late foods, as they left a. deposit from
three to five feet, completely leveling the
ground.
The sheriff of San Miguel county will,
by order Of the commissioners, prepare a
list of delinquent tax payers, now belong
ing to the new county of Guadalupe, and
send the same down to the sheriff at
Puerto de Luna.
The Maxwell grant company proposes
to lease the exclusive right to mine coal
on their lands, tributary to Ration and
only for the Ration market, the lease to
run for three years after February 13,
1894. Proposals. will be opened at Ration,
at II a. M, November l.
Several rumors have reached the city
from Chicago, where Clark D. Frost is
now spending few weeks, as to the pur-
chase of the Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas
hot springs, bya syndicate of wealthy
people. Some of these rumors connect
the name Of Wilson Waddingham with
the big deal, but he says it is news to
him.
President Diaz has declared lapsed the
contract entered into between the gov
ernment and Compania del Ferrocarril
Mexicano del Norte, for the construction
of railroads in the states of Sonora, Siua-
loa and Chihuahua, and forfeited the de-
posit Of $4,000 in bonds of the public
debt, made in guarantee of said contract.
This was the concession granted to Mr..
John W. Young, of Mormon fame, to build
road south from Deming.
At Ell Paso the grand jury has indicted
Collector Webb Flanagan on the charge
of "conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment" by passing lot of sheep over the
river south of Ell Paso. w. H. Austin,
mayor of Ell Paso and cashier of the de-
funct Ell Paso National bank, and E. B.
Bronson, of the same bank, were also in
dicted on the charge of "misappropriation
OF national bank funds" they having
loaned their wives $1,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively.