Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-03
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
LAS CRUCES LOCALS.

LAS CRUCES LOCALS.
The Lawn Tennis team of Ell Paso will
play the Las Cruces team of Las Cruces q
week from Saturday.
The 5th regular meeting of the New
| Mexico society for the advancement OF
science was held on Thursday evening
Feb. 2.
Capt. Brazel made a shipment yester.
day of some silver bullion from the Nor
mon. The machinery of this mine is now
working satisfactory.
Manuel Telles, who was arrested for
stealing beef and hogs from Riley's
slaughter house, was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
The Barela estate and Freudenthal have
fenced in with wire their large tracts of
land at Bosque Seco, much to the dis
comfort of our hunters.
Miss Grace Grigg of Mesilla was suffi-
ciently improved yesterday to be carried
out of her bed room into the front yard
to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. r.
Frank W. Smith and wife and Lafayette
Clapp left on the morning train for the
Mimbres. 1t is expected that contracts
will soon be let and work commenced on
the dam.
DR.. Kennedy, colored physician, left
for the Mescalero agency last Saturday,
having received the appointment as
agency physician. He is from South
Carolina and said to be a very intelligent
man.
A big strike has been made about two
and half from miles Oregan of a rich
silver bearing ore possessing no lead.
The proprietors of the mine are keeping
1t a secret in order to let the mine speak
for itself.
Catarino and Isidoro Armijo, Willie
Rynerson, and, it is said, Harry Bennett,
will leave for the City of Mexico to take
positions with the Wells-Fargo Express
company. They having been recon-
men1ed to the company by Agent Miles.
Paul F. Thornton, president of the
Nevada, Mo-, National bank, is here
visiting his brother, Col W. L. Thornton,
whom he has not seen for many years.
Mr.. Thornton will go to the mountains to
recuperate his health and will perhaps re-
main some time with US.
A little 5-year old girl of Francisco
Gomez, was fatally burned last Friday, at
Tortugas. Mr.. Gomez, was burning
brush and weeds on his place, and the
little child was playing with the blaze,
when its clothes caught on fire and before
badly burned, SO much SO, that death
ended her sufferings on Saturday morn
ing.
LAS VEGAS NOTES.
Snow covers the ground at Las Vegas
ana toward the east,
The Meadow City minstrels has been
organized with about fifty members.
A telephone message from Mora an
nounces that Rafael Romero is quite sick
with pneumonia, at his mothers. DR..
Upton was called to his bedside.
At the residence of D. W. Wean, by Rev.
A. Hoffman, James Winslow, of Califor-
MIA, was married to Miss Loie, the beau
tiful and accomplished daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Wean.
RATION RAKINGs.
Manager Snow has concluded to abolish
roller skating in the Opera House and
will hereafter substitute soirees once
week.
Hon. W. F. Cody Buffalo Billy accom-
panied by II party of capitalists visited
the Maxwell grant last week with a view
of purchasing large tract of land. He
thinks of wintering his great show in this
section of New Mexico.
Trinidad Chapter R. A. NJ, was visited
by G. N. Blackwell, j. B. Schroeder, G. W.
Rickar, Thos. Schwachheim, and Hon. j.
H. Walker, of Ration, to witness the work
ing of the Royal Arch degree by their
Trinidad brethren. The Ration gentle
men were accompanied by their wives
who we're elegantly entertained by the
Trinidad ladies.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
CIV. Kennedy was taken quite ill last
Saturday, and his attending physician,
DR.. Wroth, reports him very sick man.
He has-the pneumonia.
DR.. Lund leaves on next Saturday for
Washington, D. c., where he will study
under DR.. Nevin B. Shade, of that city, the
eminent specialist in diseases of the lungs
and air passages.
The officials of the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad company are wrestling with the
question of increases in employees wages,
and have 80 far met all demands or rather
made satisfactory settlements. The car
penters and painters are contented, their
schedule being accepted yesterday by the
master mechanic, Richard English. They
will receive from now on, standard first
class, $500 per day, and second-class, SO.
The helpers of the skilled mechanics are
now to be treated, they having also pre-
sented schedules for increase in their
wages.
GRANT COUNTY NOTES.
The company of New York capitalists
who have been developing the turquoise
mines in the Burro mountains, have met
with magnificent success. The capital
stock is $1,OO0,OOO, and on this a per
cent dividend has been declared from the
earnings of the mines for the past nine
months. 'a
The dwelling house, windmill and
minor buildings at Fort Cummings, this
county, owned by j. P. Stanley we're
totally destroyed by fire Saturday after
noon, together with all the household
goods and other contents. The fire is