Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-20
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.

''social purity" work is on boom.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Zim
mer died Saturday night after an illness
Of only few days.
The base ball club at the freight Office
is practicing daily, and under the severe
coaching of Capt. John Bell, are rapidly
getting into condition.
There is talk OF forming another lodge
OF Odd Fellows in Albuquerque, as the
membership of the pr sent lodge is sc
arge as to be unwieldly. 1t will be ot
considerable benefit to all concerned, the
members state, to have another lodge
chartered.
While nothing definite has been accom-.
plished, Mr.. Ferguson states that his in
teryiews with the capitalists interested
we're of such nature as to convince him
that the Albuquerq ue- Durango road
wossfd be built. just when work will be-
gin is problematic. ~
EDDY ECHoEs.
The Eddy club have lately placed an
elegant upright rosewood piano in theil
parlor.
Workmen are engaged in laying the
pipe that !. is to connect the Hagerman
Heights water service with the reservoir
Sheriff Kemp departed last night fol-
San Marcial alter one Bill johnson, who
stole span of mules, new harness and q
new Schuttler wagon from widow lady
named Mrs. Cloud. resident of Eddy.
The new Golfer dam is completed at the
new Hagerman dam and Supt. Harry Hart
has force of men at work excavating
preparatory to laying stone in the wing
walls. Water is now flowing through the
gates in The center of the main portion OF
the dam. Mr.. Hart says the dam will be
completed by March 1.
DoNA ANA DOTS.
Pinto Pine will hold the office of JUS
tice of the peace at the Commercial hotel
in Las Cruces.
Father Pedro Lassaigne, who has re-
sided in America since 1854, took out his
final papers of citizenship at Las Cruces.
Father Lassajgne is Frenchman by
birth.
! Chas. Robins ard a man named Cofflet
were killed at Hueco Tanks, twelve miles
from Ell Paso by a posse. The offense
was cattle stealing in the Sacramento
valley. Both men were killed by Oliver
Lee, who headed the pursuit.
The cattle thieves of Dona Ana have
adopted the method of killing the stolen
beef and shipping it to Juarez. A few
sheep have also been missed and as their
hides and refuse were found it is supposed
they we're sold for mutton.
ROSWELL BAK1Nas.
Warm weather has caused the many
alfalfa fields in Chaves county to assume
a verdant appearance.
Dick Barnett and Billy Mathews have
purchased Charley Perry's valuable farm
two miles west of town.
It is said the citizens of Roswell will
hear the whistle of the iron horse ere the
dawning ofthe autamnal days.
Water will he turned in all the canals
and bitches IN this neighborhood within a
few days, the work of cleaning them being
about completed.
The telephone and telegraph poles
were distributed to Roswell Friday, and
the wire will be put up in few days.
The Office will be established in the Hotel
Pauly.
The Masonic order have received their
new charter and will begin the erection Of
their new temple in the spring. In the
meantime they will hold their meetings in
the Odd Fellows hall.
LAS VEGAS LOCALS.
Union county is causing some excite
ment here.
Wilson Waddingham arrived from Kan
sas City accompanied by 7. J. Hill, a
noted geologist. They are en- route to
San Warcial.
The brewery was damaged to the e1-
tent of $50, by the unusual wind storm,
the other night.
Mora county now wishes to wipe her
self from the face of the earth, giving
San Miguel county the Watrous and
Cherry valley territory, and attaching the
remainder to Colfax county.-Las Vegas
Optic.