Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-07-14
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.

ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
band of Mexican gypsies are camped
near here.
An attempt was made to rob the post
Office yesterday morning.
Several new buildings are being erected
Notwithstanding hard times.
Albuquerque is preparing to send ad-
vertising matter to the Worlds fair.
The pension committee was in Alameda
yesterday to investigate pension cases.
The Barslas bridge is in bad condition
and swings before the wind. It should
be repaired.
The new hook and ladder outfit will
not arrive for sixty days. The old ap-
paratus has been repaired.
Misses Martha Taylor and Harriet Jeu-
ness, university teachers, leave for the
east to spend their vacation.
President Saint has called meeting of
the fair directors for Friday afternoon at
O'Clock, to appoint subscription COM
mittees.
The University normal closed yester-
day. Supt. Whiting and assistants are
to-day examining applicants for teachers
certificates.
Mrs. Chas. W. Kennedy and Mrs. Reid,
friend visiting from California, we're
the heroines of runaway scare. No one
was hurt. The dash board was bent,
which covers about all the damage.
F. Frank & Co., wholesale and retail
liquor and cigar dealers, say that their
receipts during the month of June we're
greatly in excess of the same month last
year. This don't look like hard times
Citizen.
LAS VEGAS WAITS.
Starr, the train robber, spent his
honeymoon in Las Vegas last week.
The Optic scelds the insane asylum re-
gents for their slow methods of furnish
ing news.
There has been collected $697 so for the
location of the agricultural experiment
station here.
George II. Marshall has succeeded in
getting water at twenty feet in neigh
borhood where there was supposed to be
none.
Mrs. l.. c. Fort and family have gone
to the mountain ranch of Margarito Ro-
nero, near Badly. The owner left some
days before for the same cool spot.
1t is noticeable, particularly in these
distressingly hard times, that proprietors
usually walk between the towns, while
the clerks take street cars in the day time
and expensive hacks in the night time
Optic.
H. Hart and George Shay, who did up
Albuquerque on the bogus order scheme,
got short shift in Las Vegas. The
Optic exposed them and they were re-
quested to pay their bills and leave town,
which they did.
Louis Ransom, the we'll known colored
man, walking along Sixth street, with a
watermelon under one arm and collec-
| ticn of cucumbers under the other, sing
ing, "Nearer, my God, to Thoe," was GER
tainly amusing, but the combination
would hardly be appropriate as green
grocer's sign.-Optic.
| Geronimo Chaves, arrested on suspi-
cion of petty robbery on the east side,
made confession involving himself and
six or eight others in an organized at
tempt to commit small robberies. Ton1ns
Armijo, under arrest fer an attempt to
kill Rufus H. Wentworth, was the leader.
Warrants are out for the others.
LAS CRUCES LOCALS.
No rain of consequence yet here.
The grape crop will be unusually large.
The Gypsum lake is being surveyed by
Mr.. Stafford.
The Dummie B mine is sending in some
fine specimens.
Mr.. E. r. Stafford has resigned a. road
supervisor of precinct 20.
Mr.. J. M. Gurley, business man OF
Georgia, is looking for location in the
Mesilla.
The valley shows what irrigation will
do. Alfalfa, fruit and grain are in splen-
did condition.
County Assessor V. B. May is back
from four weeks health sojourn in San
Rosalia much improved.
This ia destined to become one of the
greatest health resorts in the world. No
malaria, no northers, no cyclones-ex-
emptions which but few places can claim.
Independent Democrat. s. ~. {.
,GsG@s. San JUAN RAKIN0s. i'"''@
There is roundup at Bloomfield.
The county commissioners we're in ses-
sion last week.
Allen T. Bird, late editor of the Index,
is very i'll in Arizona.
The taxes against the Echo Ditch COM
pany have been abated.
BENZ. franklin Coe, pioneer of this
county, died recently. & =? -