Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-15
TERRITORIAL TIPS.
oHAMA sIFTINGs.

oHAMA sIFTINGs.
Senator Burns will in the spring see
his Cananois ranches to alfalfa.
T.. J. Thomson is up from his Ell Puer
, 70 ranch He reports grass coming VI
Fleek. & Henderson left yesterday fo
the new placers near the mouth of tn
Cebolla.
Ed. vorhang will prove up on his home
stead at Amargo on the 18th at TIER,
Amarilla.
! Mrs. Flora Ellice Stevens has com
menced a womans department in tn.
Durango Herald.
| Messrs. Young & Miller are at Monere
erecting store room for the Monert
Coal d Coke company.
| GRANT COUNTY CRUMBS.
| Col. P. r. Smith is erecting handsom.
residence in the western portion of Dem
ing.
! Ex-Sheriff Lockhart returned Sunday
from q trip to Rocky Ford, Colo, where
! he has several thousand head of cattle
| ready for market.
Bert @. Gilbert, Of Silver City, has passed
the final examinations for entrance tc
West Point and will shortly begin his
studies at that institution.
The estate of Classen brothers, who
failed some years since, has finally been
wound up. The creditors received some.
thing like 6 cents on the dollar.
Silver City is pushing merrily ahead
! with her arrangements for the coming sill.
YER convention. Large sums of money
have already been raised for entertain.
ment of the guests.
The Tanning Extract company at Dem.
ing is receiving something like twenty
Ave tons of canaigre root per day. Over
100 laborers are employed in the digging
and shipment of the same.
A colored soldier named Graham, who
has filled the position of telegraph opera.
tor at Fort Bayard for some time past
shot himself in the breast with revolver
last week with suicidal intent. He will
die from the effects of the wound. He
says that he is tired of life; hence tho at
tempt to end his career.
The residence OF W. F.. .Aith, in Dem
ing, was totally destroyed by fire about
o'clock Monday morning. The struc-
ture was frame, and the flames spread
with such rapidity that the inmates had
barely time to escape with their lives, and
did not even save their personal clothing.
The furniture and household effects are Q
complete loss. There is a doubt as to
the origin of the FIRE. The family are Of
the opinion that it was set on fire. When
they were awakened BY the smoke, the fire
was on the south side of the building,
distant from any stove or fue. The loss
will be over $4,000, on which there is
partial insurance. Several neighboring
buildings had narrow escape from de-
struction.
ALBUQUERQUE ATOMS.
The Duke City now has two female doc
tors of medicine.
Tho Citizen is pleased to state that AL
buquerque is to have riding school and
an athletic club, as Capt. E. N. Jennings,
the we'll known riding master and athletic
instructor, has made up his mind to re-
main here.
A fellow, named Chas. johnson, ap-
preached Zuni Nick, Zuni Indian, on
1st street and asked for the loan of so
cents. The Indian refused to let the vag
have the money, when johnson, who 10
one of those common vagrants, attempt
ed to assault tho Indian. The fellow was
arrested, and Justice Lockhart sent him
to tho chain gang for fifteen days.
The artesian we'll company is receiving
bids for the location of the we'll, propo-
sails to be sent to John A. Leo at any time
before 8 O'Clock this evening. The bids
must state how much the bidders will pay
for flowing water, or how much without.
The we'll will be 600 feet deep at least,
and even if the water does not fow over
the surface, it will be valuable az an ordi-
nary we'll. This is in accordance with
the plans agreed upon by the stockhold-
ers in order to prevent any favoritism in
the location Of the we'll.
The Jury in the case of the United
States "a Feliz Apodaca, returned ver-
dict of guilty. This case seems to have
been the outgrowth of family row, and
charged the defendant with undue inti-
macy with his wife's sister, the wife of
Guadalupe Sarracino. From the evidence
IL appeared that while Guadalupe was in
the mountains hard at work, and sending
his earnings to the object Of his affec
items, she and the defendant appropriated
them tntheir joint use-a way of doing
which the jury discountenanced. 9a
Judge Lice was occupied yesterday
hearing,sthe petition of Marie Haltzer,
asking the. return of her infant child,
Anna, to her. Some time ago she put the
child in the possession of OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Burrows, to take care of, and now
seeksto regain possession in order that
she may give the child to George Blake
for adoption. The Burrows family have
become attached to the child and ask that
IL be left in their care.