Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-20
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
LAS CRUCES NOTES.


On Friday night good many people
wore e,rpecting hanging bee but it did
| not come off.
The visit of the Las Cruces whist play.
era to Ell Paso has given great impetus
to tho culture of the game.
Harry Bennett will probably receive
the position of official secretary of the
silver convention which is to meet at Sill.
yer City on July and 5.
Miss Sue Mead and her sister are start,
ing chicken ranch between San Miguel
and La Mesa. They have purchased one
of Judge Woods incubators.
The cold weather is good for the fruit
proved variety of peaches, many of the
buds of which have not yet opened.
In Judge Woods orchard very few of
the peaches are injured, as most of the
buds have not yet opened. His 1000
tomato plants under glass are coming on
nicely.
The first car load of ore from the
Modock mine was shipped last week, and
about 500 or 600 tons are already on the
dumps and will be hauled down by Mr..
Z. II. Alton at the rate of ten tons per
day. The mine is looking first tate and
there is solid body of ore nine feet and
eleven inches wide.
Mr.. G. H. Maxwell, of Tularosa, was in
Las Cruces this week making purchases
of bee hives and fruit trees for his ranch.
He will have twenty-four acres set out to
fruit trees this year, which will be IN
creased to forty acres during the next
twelve months.
The Lawn Tennis club, of Las Cruces,
is now playing nearly every day on the
courts near the depot. DR.. Blanc, resi-
dent of Las Cruces and himself a tennis
player, says that tennis gives the best
exercise of any game. 1t is not so vio-
lent as foot ball or base ball, but it is
more continuous; moreover, it exercises
every muscle of the body.
ROSWELL REGIsTERINGs
Roswell is infected with gang of petty
thieves who will steal anything.
The high wind, last Wednesday, caught
the frame work of G. G. Perry's house and
razed it to the ground.
Ward 4 Courtney are the sole contract
ors on the Seven Rivers dam now. They
have r-rchased al the NJ ,4les OF the P. i.
& I. Co., and are hurrying the work
along.
W. R. Curtis, of the firm of Curtis &
Lathers, wealthy stock growers of Mem
phis, Texas, who was in Roswell last week,
roho I'd nf t1a
city the other day.
The impression has somewhat gone
abroad that the Pecos valley would have
no exhibit at the Worlds faif. This is
mistake. Chaves county will have over
1000 pounds of the choicest fruit on
exhibition there.
A new law firm is to be established in
Roswell under the style of Hinkle g. Keith.
They are young men from Missouri and
will establish themselves here in short
time. Mr.. Hinkle is brother of Hon. J.
F. Hinkle,a popular citizen of Lincoln
county.
Col. W. 7. Holt, president of the Holt
Live Stock company, of Colorado and
New Mexico, is now on the ranch of the
company at Holtswold, Eddy county.
This company is making arrang
to purchase steers, aud will drive them
north this spring.
Rev. Maule announces that he will give
an appropriate prize to the lady or gen
tleman who produces the best essay on
the subject of "Flowers," at the May-day
picnic. He also states that he will marry
any of the young people who get
themselves ready on that date free of
charge.
GRANT COUNTY CRUMBS.
G. P. Crawford has been appointed re-
ceiver of the estates of Meredith & ALL
man, vice W. A. Leonard, resigned.
The county commissioners at special
meeting brought suit against ex-Treasurer
Berg and his bondsmen for moneys due
the county.
Forty men and a number of large
teams have been taken out by Troutman,
Smith and Jackson, to go to work on the
Confidence road and mill site.
A fortune of $15O,OOO has been left to
Harry Thompson, whose real name is
supposed to be Jams Jurgeson, who for
many years was we'll known prospector
in this section,
Judge W. G. Holman, one of the land
marks of this section, left last week to be-
come an inmate of the Soldiers Home
near Los Angeles. Mr.. Holman came to
this country with the California column.
Mr.. Alba Mason, of Pinos Altos, was in
the city on Monday. He reports the
camp as lively and prospects exceedingly
bright; every mill in the camp is running
to its fullest capacity and more ore piled