Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-09

O. E. Smith, of Clayton, has the con-
tract O.. compiling the Union county rec
ords, ana is at work at Springer.
Mrs. N. F. Thompson, wife. of a Las
Vegas railroad man, gave birth to tif-
teen pound baby the other night.
Amado G. de Baca, we'll and favorably
known in Santa Fe, is now the editor of
that sterling sheet the Clayton Democrat.
A. L. Shelly, the postmaster at Silver
City vice Lucas, skipped, is the efficient
chief of the famous Silver City fire de-
partment.
Col Fletcher A. Blake says he has re-
tired from politics for the present, and
will give his attention hereafter to rails
ing potatoes on his farm near Rociada.
County Commissioner J. L. Abreu, of
Colfax county, recently appointed, is
spending month at Mineral City, Okla
homa, looking after his extensive flocks
grazing whereabouts.
Testimony is now being taken in Albu-
querque before Mr.. R. W. D. Bryan, mas
ter in chancery, in the case of E. j. Post
& Co. vs.. George H. Miles ct al. The suit
is lien on the Armijo hotel property.
The machinery at the Abiquiu placers
will not be fired up until warmer weather
approaches, when the company will run
it night and day. We understand that
two additional machines have been or
dered.-Chama Northwest.
The widow of Ed. Moore, who died re-
Gently at Silao, Mexico, is keeping the
Harvey eating house at that place. Ed.
was brother of Scott and George Moore,
of Albuquerque, and was very popular
railroad and hotel man while he resided
in New Mexico.
Mrs. Phoebe O'Keefe has brought suit
in the district court against the K. Of P.
supreme lodge of the world for $4,000
the amount of the insurance on her late
husbands life, payment being withheld
for the reason that he met death by his
own hands.-Las Vegas Optic.
Fred. Cooper, of Magdalena, N. NJ,
writes the sporting editor of the Denver
Times that he would liketo make match
for ten-mile walk with W. w. Hager-
man, the amateur pedestrian whose chal-
lenge appeared in recent issue of that
paper. Mr.. Cooper says he will walk for
any stakes Mr.. Hagerman may name.
Letters of administration on the estate
of the late L. P. Browne, of Las Vegas
have been granted to the sons of the de-
ceased, Willard w. and Cecil W. Browne,
they having furnished bond in the sum OF
$15O,OOO, with F. A. Manzanares, Marcus
Brunswick, j. s. Duncan and O. L. Hough-
ton as sureties. G. G. Gise and Felix
Martinez have been designated as ap.
praisers of the Browne estate.
In speaking of the Frank Chavez case
the Roswell Record says: From the
report of the testimony the right men are
under arrest, and, IN the entire life of
New Mexico, there has never been more
dastardly murder committed than that OF
Frank Chavez. The spell is broken now,
and it is the hope of all good citizens of
this territory that these Williams will meet
their just reward at the end of rope.
There are eight mining districts in the
Badly range, in Colfax county, according
to the official surveys of L. 8. Preston, G.
E., engineer of the Maxwell Grant COM
pany. They are named as follows:
Moreno, Ute Greek, South Ponil, Willow
Creek, Touch North and South
Cimarron and North Ponil. Regulations
for acquiring titles to claims in these
districts are furnished on application to
the Maxwell Land Grant company, Ration,
N. M.-Raton Range.