Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-18
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.

| ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
An extraordinary rain fell on Wednes-
day night
Deputy U. 8. Collector Burns is now
| located in the secoied story of the N. Z.
Armijo building.
The public schools of the city will
open September /, and the school houses
are being put in excellent condition for
that occasion.
DR.. Ames, who is at present in the
employ of Solon K. Rose & Bro, has been
up to Golden lately, testing new gold
washer which he pronounces to be COM
plete success.
1t was reported at the depot that there
are three feet of water over the Santa Fe
track just south of A. & P. junction,
caused by the heavy rain there Wednes-
day afternoon.
j. Z. Saint returned from his ranch.
He reports fine rains and cattle looking
b better than for years. He left yesterday
for Kansas City on stock business and
will return in few days.
The territorial bureau of immigration
has asked President Mcclellan of the Al
buquerque school board to furnish photo
graphs and detailed descriptions of our
public school buildings to be embodied
in the next immigration pamphlet to be
issued by tho board.
cloud burst Wednesday afternoon
about 2:30 covered the ranch of Charles
Zeiger with water. The damage was light,
although the water in places reached two
or three feet. Fourth street was flooded
out about three rail lengths. The road
was soon repaired
LAS VEGAS LOCALS.
Mrs. Felipita Martinez, wife of Donaci-
ano Martinez, of Los Alamos, died in old
town.
The Catholic exercises, including the
west side patronal feast of the Blessed
Virgin and the conservation of the new
east side bell, WAS attended by 1000 per-
sons or more.
A correspondent calls the attention of
the public to the gross cruelty to animals
practiced on certain Of the mail routes
out of Las Vegas, moro especially the
route to Fort Summer.
A big delegation of distinguished Mex
ican physicians will pass through this
city about the end of the month, en- route
to Washington, D. c., to the Pan-Ameri-
can me ,ical congress.
The rainfall Wednesday afternoon was
undoubtedly the heaviest of the season,
shade under two and a half inches having
fallen in an hour, by actual measurement.
There have been years In New Mexico
when the rainfall scarcely amounted to
that.
On Wednesday a flash of lightning
burnt out the telephone at G., B. 4 Co.'s,
tore up some of the plank walk at Clark
& Forsythe's, ran up the water pipe and
bored hole in the wall at Goodall's,
came down the electric light wire at Es-
senger & Judells, and in the Optic Office
made report on an electric light wire
like the explosion of whole box of par
lor n PATCHES.
LAS CRUCES CRUMBS.
The house of Mr.. H. F. Stephenson was
SO injured by the heavy rain part Of the
roof falling in.
Francisco Balenzuela, a prisoner at the
jail, worked his rabbit foot on the guard
and escaped last Saturday night.
Black smoke pouring out Of the stack
at the Bennett-Stephenson concentration
can be seen at distance of sixteen miles.
Ranchmen in the valley inform the In
dependent Democrat that large bevies of
quail are to be seen in the stubble fields.
Mr.. r. L. Young and Henry Terrell re-
turned from White Oaks Tuesday. They
encountered sea of water on the plains
west of La Luz.
While repairs we're being made at the
Academy of the Visitation the late rains
began to fall. Unfortunately section of
the roof had been removed and the un-
covered interior Of the building was con-
siderably damaged.
Sesario Duran, the officer who shot
Silvas and Bernal while resisting arrest,
was tried and cleared by the magistrate
at Tularosa. Subsequently sympathizers
with Bernal an6 Silvas had Duran arrested
on warrant issued by Pinto Pine.
Duran readily gave bond.