Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-09-19
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
LAS VEGAS LOCALS.

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attend tho territorial fair.
Born to Mrs Richard Dunn at Trim
idad, girl. Mother and babe are doing
we'll.
Joo Gray has bought n restaurant at
Denver and will not return here to re-
side.
The people at the springs, and beyond,
are greatly incommoded by the closing Of
the springs postoifice. An effert will be
made to have it opened again.
Judge S. L. Booth received telegram
from Chicago Saturday, stating that the
Las Vegas Pinocle club was represented
at the exposition on New Mexico day
by the following members: w. L. Gort-
ner. NJ. A. Otero, II. II. Pierce, K. F.
Hardy, Albert Lawrence, d. Winternitz,
Louis Sulzbacher and L. G. Murphey.
Six or seven boys, aged from about 7
to 10 years, gathered in the yard of an
unoccupied building on Eighth street,
where they spent the afternoon breaking
out the glass in the windows of the house,
and in playing in the yard, stark naked.
boys jumping into Il barrel of stagnant
water, which happened to be there.
TAOS TOPICS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beaubirn C!outhier arc up
from Fort Sumner, on visit to relatives
and friends at their old home.
Alloys Scheurch is managing John
Pearson's store at Elizabethtown, in the
parents in Sweden.
Hardly had Mcssrs. Lowman and Sala-
zar reached Taos, before they had pulled
out for the Rio Grande and a location
was made and water secured. To give
proof that they were not idle they came
up with fine lot of gold dust in a
phial.
W. D. Fraser narrowly escaped having
his house washed away by cloudburst
on the Hondo. As it was, the food broke
in at the back doors and covered the
floors with mud and debris, doing about
$50 worth in damages.
Capt. Frank d. Baldwin, manager of
tho Taos Mountain Mining company, will
return to his duties about the first prox-
imo. The solid treasury of this active and
pushing company has been we'll supported
by an active demand for shares.
SAN JUAN NOTES.
The Olio School district intends to
build school independently of voting
bonds. They will build by subscription
and will try and have it completed and
ready for school late this fall.
A large number of those philosophical
miIlionaires (vulgarly dubbed prospect
ors) from the mountains have been pass
ing through our county en- route south,
where thoir hopes and expectations will
keep them warm this winter.
! A small tree of the dwarf Bartlett pear
variety 9yoars old in the Sunnyside
orchard has been bearer for eight years.
This year it produced 1l5 pounds which
we're sold at cents II pound. Tho Sunny
side orchard shipped 5000 pounds of ap-
Piles last week to tho G. G. Leibhart Com
mission company of Denver.
LAS CRUCES CRUMBS.
Mrs. Autonia G. Castaneda died at her
home, aged G3 years.
The case of the territory VS.. John A.
Roper have been sent to Sierra county on
change of venue.
The lands of the valley are now start
ing on the upward grade again, home
people as we'll as strangers are purchas-
ing.
The ranch of Davis & Lesinsky has
been sold to w. W. Cox who formerly
lived on his ranch in the Organ noun
tains. The price paid was $4,000.
Mr.. Chas. W. Ward, principal of the
public schools, informs local paper that
there were TO pupils present on the first
day of schools. Since that time the nun
Der has increased to $50. The attendance
heretofore has bcen about 100.
The death of Mrs. Cockerell, wife OF
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of the Agricul
tural college, occurred very unexpectedly al
their home, Thursday afternoon last.
Prof. and Mrs. Cockerell came here but a
few weeks ago from Jamaica. Mrs
Cockerell was an English lady and a
writer of charming serial stories, and
! stories for children.