Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-15
NEWS ROUNDUP.
Lively Items on Territorial Topics
Gathered from Sundry
Sources.

SOuICtS.
Troops at Ration and Las Vegas have
received one months pay.
East Las Vegas Populists have called
public meeting for the 18th instant.
The wool except a few small lots is
about all shipped out of Rio Arriba
county.
Arrangements are on looking to the
organization of an electric light plant
company at Gallup.
Messrs. Groves and Henderson have a
ten-acre patch of potatoes near Chama
that is doing nicely.
j. P. Connors, of Tres Piedras, says a
$40 gold nugget was found at the Good
Hope placers last week.
The "Ticket of Leave Man" will be
presented on August "a at the Las Vegas
opera house, by local talent.
Native hay in Rio Arriba and Taos
counties is being harvested in large
quantities and at Chama the price is $l2
per ton.
The Bucyrus Placer company is pre-
pairing to fire up its works on the Rio
Chama near Abiquiu, SO says the Chama
paper.
Rufina Chavez de Otero has instituted
suit in the district court at Las Vegas for
a divorce from her husband, Vicente
Otero.
Clark D. Frost is now manager of the
Wellington, at Chicago, which doesn't
look as though he would reopen the Las
Vegas hot springs hotel.
Last week the rainfall at Bloomfield
was the heaviest that it has been for
some years. The water ran on the ground
at a depth of from two to six inches.
Jas. s. Duncan has purchased the fix
lures in the Tamme store room, Railroad
avenue, lately occupied by Nat Jacob, and
will ship the same to Ration, where he will
have charge of the company's store.-Las
Vegas Optic.
Speaking of Ration, the Albuquerque
Democrat states it as fact that: "a part
of the shops will be transferred to Trini-
dad and the remainder to Las Vegas"
Citizens of Ration declare there is no
truth in the statement.
The eight cars of placer machinery
shipped month ago from Denver to
Espanola and destined for the Abiquiu
placers is still on the cars at Espanola.
There seems to be dispute about the
title to the placer grounds.
Hill Bros. are raising Angora goats a
few miles west of Silver City. Last year
the Angora wool of half-breeds brought
them II cents per pound. Seven-eights
blood wool would bring 30 or IS cents.
When free wool ruins our sheep men,
here is an avenue for them.
Floyd w. Pierce has been awarded the
contract for building the new public
school building at Clayton. 1t will be a
two-story brick structure with eight
rooms, hall ways and corridors, neat por-
tico entrance and bell tower, and will,
when completed, cost $500.
On last Friday evening Mrs. A. M. Berg
ere, of Los Lunas, presented her husband
with fine baby boy, and everybody in
and around Los Lunas is congratulating
Mr.. and Mrs. Bergere. The Citizen learns
that the little fellow will be christened at
the Los Lunas Catholic church next Sun
day morning. Citizen.
Mr.. W. H. Millikin, representing
Shakespeare & Swoop, of New Orleans,
has secured from Col. p. R. Smith an or
der for large pump to take the place of
the Menge pump now at the pumping
station of the Deming Land & Water
company. The new pump is said to have
a capacity of 100000 gallons per hour.
A. E. Brown, who located here last fall
and bought the Weeks' ranch at Flora
J Vista, selling it later to Mr.. Crane after
which he rented the W. G. Mccoy place.
: reports six families, among them that OF
: his father ready to move from Kansas
J to this county where they expect to locate.
San Juan Index.
The South Side canal across the San
: Juan river from Bloomfield, broke last
: Friday near the head not being able to
carry the volume of water that poured
into it from the hills after the heavy
rains. The Porter ditch that runs past
Bloomfield gave way to the torrent and it
will take the biggest part of week to
put it in shape.-Index.
Sheriff Jacobo Yrisarri and family left
8 on the afternoon train for Chicago, where
he is taking his daughter, Miss Elosia, to
have an operation performed on one OF
hoi " oo' IHoy Will 10 dUooAb dUOuU u
month. X ~ H. V. Harris, probate
8 clerk, who has been taking needed va
cation at the Jemez hot springs, returned
to his duties at the court house this
= morning. Mrs. Harris and the children
5 will not return home until some time in
Observation-Disclosures Citizen.
: W. II. Alexander, who was agent for
the Wells-Eargo company at East Las
Vegas since October last, was found short
in his accounts upon an investigation
and, of course, was let out. He is under
arrest, and, if he can't make good his
shortage in given time, will be subject
to trial. The officials state that they
will have very strong case against Mr.
Alexander. He is one of the Oldest EN-.
/; ployes of the company on the Santa Fe
: road, for long time running as mes
: senger between Kansas City and Ell Paso