Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-10-17
Territorial Items.


is to be converted into a stamp
mill
r G.. G. Davis, the colored school
teacher, is instructing an evening
class.of Chinese at Eddy.
On November 9th the Episcopal
will be held in Soccoro
Kendrick presiding. 1t
will be the first time Soccorro was
ever thus honored.
The Rio Grande was out OF its
banks in several places near this
city yesterday, and the gates had
to be closed and the pumps started
on our main discharge-sewer.-El
Paso Times.
Taos valley this year boasts of
250,000 bushels of wheat to grind
and good mills to -four it; plen-
ty of oats and fat stock, gramma
grass, alfalfa, timothy, red top and
blue grass hay in abundance.
Cassius Blenden, the Chicago
crank who fired into the crowd in
the board of trade building recent
ly formerly lived in Las Vegas,
where he is remembered as an ex-
traordinary good carriage painter,
employed by Potter & Co., from
1880 to 1892.
Mine owners at Cooks Peak are
preparing to resume work. The
advance in the price of lead has
made it possible to operate the
mines there at a fair profit and if
there be no serious break in the
lead market the mines at Cooks
Peak can be operated steadily.
A Golden young lady waved hel
handkerchief at a stranger and il
three days they were married
After three days of welded bliss
she waved a fiat iron at her hus
bands head, and three days latei
he waived a divorce at her, and tht
Knight of the Faber wants to know
what the wild waves are saying
San Marcial Bee.
The public schools of this cit.
are fast becoming known abroad
and the effect is good. GooC
schools will bring a desirable class
of residents into the city, and grad
ually build it up with fine residen
ces. The latest addition to Socco
ro's population is the family of w
I. McGrath, VINO is a prominen
citizen IN the western portion o
the county.-Advertiser.
Yesterday afternoon, Will
Bride street was astir, a thief stalk
ed into j, N. Furlong's photograp
gallery and appropriated ever
stitch of that gentleman's proven
bially fine clothing; also a pair c
costly opera glasses. Last nigh
the Office of Geo. w. Bell, in tn
railroad yard, was broken into an
a quantity of clothing stolen; alsC
the clothing of the men employe
at the coal chutes, and their well
filed dinner pals, were made ava
with by the night hrowlers.
The Eagle is in receipt of
communication from the Whit
mountains, under date Oct. Is
stating that during the four day
previous, that the Bonita river ha
carried off into the lower countr,
approximately 17,588,8OO cub
feet of water, doing great damag
all along for seventy miles. Th
irrigation scheme mentioned j
this paper a few weeks ago woul
remedy this frequently recurin
evil and be lasting and great ber
eft all around old Abe Eagle.
Until recently, for nearly a yea
no Cerrillos soft coal could be ha
in this town, consumers being con
PEELED to burn Ration coal. Th
latter was very poor, requirin
nearly as much wood as coal j
order to burn it and then hay
in a refuse of cinders nearly equI
IN quantity to the coal original
used. The Cerrillos coal is not s,
1t burns up readily and satisfactor
leaving a small residue of but
small quantity of ashes. 1t has n
slate or rock Jumps, and is cheap'
than the Ration coal at half I'll
price. It is to be hoped the CO..
company at Cerrillos will keep Il
Las Vegas dealers supplied. LII
Vaoas Ootic