Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-02-11
TERRI rORIAL TIPS.
LAS CRUCES LOCALS.

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at work on the Dona Ana ditch.
James Crenshaw has created large
steam -four mill near Piue Springs.
] CLas. Keyxer, of Earlhsm, was held uI
by one Lorenzo Telles, constable, ano
another man named Dslan, and turnec
over his wallet to them.
Fred Piontkowsky is now assistant
chief engineer for the Pecos Valley De
velopment company of which G. B. Eddy
is president and W. A. Hawkins and A
B. Fall attorneys.
Herman Greenwald, of Bosque Seco, is
now in charge of the timber lands of the
Barela estate and has also charge of the
Casad estate lands in that section, having
the sale of all timber out from these>two
estates.
DzMrNa DOTS. fA;g
The season of wind storms and sand is
once more with = residents of southern
New Mexico.
The Tres Hermanas promises to come
to the front very shortly as first-class
mining camp. Some good finds are being
made there. The ore is high grade silver
The large merchandise store of NJ. w
McGrath q Co., at Lordsburg, has been
attached by the sheriff. The amount of
the liabilities is said to be about 81 900.
Some Ell Paso merchants are interested.
The preliminary hearing in the case OF
Robert Milliken, treasurer of the American
Silver and Lead Mining company, on the
charge of embezzlement, was postponed
until February 20, on account of the ILL
ness of Judge Field, who is suffering from
an attack of erysipelas.
The seven Cinnamon recently taken in
to custody by the custom officials at this
point, for trying to enter the United
States through Old Mexico, have been re-
manded back to China by United States
Commissioner McKeyes. A United States
marshal has taken them to San Francisco
for shipment
Harper Bros, two of the owners of the
famous Dos Cabezos mine, 200 miles south
west of this point in Sonora, Mexico, have
just arrived with another shipment of
forty-one tons of rich ore, which runs
over 500 per ton. One specimen lump
weighs nearly 300 pounds, and is on e1hi-
bition here. 1t averages very nearly 81
a pound.
ROSWELL RRCOBDs.
The railroad is coming sure 80 ''they"
say.
NJ. Whiteman has fine artesian we'll on
his lot on Pecos street. This makes the
eleventh we'll in Roswell.
The stockmen of Chaves county will
hold their annual meeting at the court
house on the 18th of this month.
L. NJ. Long has sold his property, con-
sisting OF land and water-rights, eight
miles southwest Of Roswell, to the P. /. &
I. Co. Consideration, $4,000.
Messrs. vettsr Bildner have partially
developed, on their place, five. miles from
this city, an inexhaustible quarry of as
flne onyx ~ can be found anywhere.
The face of the quarry Is over 1900 feet
in length and over ten feet in depth.
How far down the lodges extend they
do not know, but enough has been as
certained tc convince the most sceptical
that the ',."~"s, il of almost priceless
value.
Ash Epson, so we'll known in Roswell,
is supposed to be dead. The old man
loft Uvalde, Texas, last October, to visit
his mother so years old, who resided at
Bristol, Conn. He found her upon her
death bed. Ash longed to return to his
Texas friends, and though in feeble
health, started for Uvalde on the 9th of
January. Since that time nothing has
been heard of him, and it is feared that
he now lies in an unknown grave, in
strange land, and that his fate may never
hA known.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
Tho Colored Peoples Worlds Fair club
is doing active work.
Thos. R. Gabel, general superintendent
of the Atlantic q Pacific, has gone to
Denver.
The Democrat says members of the city
police are "hold-ups" and play their
tricks on tho public streets.
There is pending now before the exam
liners of the district court, resulting in the
court house being crowded daily by hun
dreds of our native citizens, contests for
the Offices of mayordomos of the Atrisco
and Los Duranes acequias, Justice Of the
peace. of old town and also Justice of
Ranches do Atrisco.. ..-..-
EDDY zoHozs.
The artesian we'll lost its tools in the
well Saturday, but they were promptly
fished out and work is now progressing
again. The hole is now down 100 feet.
John Starkey, the horse thief, was
bound over last Saturday to appear be-
fore the grand jury. His bond was fixed
at $500. He will 60 into retirement until
court sets.
Sheriff Kemp is after the delinquent tax
payers, and after the Goth of February, he
Is going to seize on tho personal property
Of all those who have not paid up, without
deviation or discrimination.
David B. Merry came down from Penas-
CO country, having been engaged there for
the past month in laying out work for the
reservoirs and canals to be constructed
there in the near future.
Donald Allen, general manager Of the
p. V. railway, ntendsred his resignation
last week, and Ieff N. Miller, formerly
connected wiahathe Texas d Pacific rail
way ct Dallssy Texas, has been appointed.
Mr.. Miller 10 rsilroad man of experience
and khowt xi Laiout tho business from
spikesto locum motiyes.
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