Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-09
THE NEWS ROUNDUP.
Crisp News Items Freshly Gathered
from Every Part of New
Mexico.

Bob Inge,scli is at Chama. He's
sheep buyer from Iowa.
There is not a single prospector at
work on the TERRA Amarillo grant.
The San Luis Coal company of Monero
have all the orders that they can con-
veniently handle.
The board of directors of the Pecos
Valley Fair association have decided not
to hold fair this fall.
The Republicans of Rio Arriba county
will probably not nominate ticket be-
fore the latter part of September.
The Chama market is we'll supplied
with apples, plums, pears and peaches,
grown at Espanola and Pennington.
Archuleta county and T. B. Catron have
settled their suit and Mr.. Catron gets a
large reduction on his taxes.--Chama
Northwest.
Jim Flynn, the Cerrillos prize fighter,
will meet California professional at the
old Albuquerque fair grounds, on Satur-
day, August II.
Quite number of the men recently
discharged from the A. g. =. shops have
left Albuquerque in search of employ
ment elsewhere.
The Wood Orchard company, at Las
Cruces, has realized 8 cents per pound for
peaches shipped by refrigerator car to
New Orleans this season.
Col j. u. Anderson, special agent of
the U. S: land office, is in the Tuarosa
country to look after government inter
ests in that section.
Tom Gleason's little daughter, Agnes,
of Navajo station, had her finger chopped
off by her little brother last week. She
was taken to Alamosa to have the hand
treated.
The Argus states that G. A. Richard
son is a candidate for legislative honors.
Mr.. Richardson authorizes us to state
that he is in no sense candidate for any
otlice.-Register.
Last week hay was cut in the Wagon
Mound section the first time in years that
this could be done SO early in the season.
Cattle and sheep are looking better than
at the same season for many years.
Harry p. Brown, who has been the
cashier of the First National bank of
Eddy since the opening of that institu-
ton, has resigned and gone to Chicago to
accept business offer in that city.
The old firm of Sammis & Staiiim, AL
buquerque, has been dissolved by mutual
consent, Mr.. Sammis retiring. Mr. Stamm
will now be too busy to longer pose as a
Populist Moses for New Mexico.
The Mesilla valley is shipping large
quantity of fruit to all points north of
Las Cruces. The express company is
handling a carload of fruit on the passen-
ger train from the south every night.
Through the instrumentality of Charles
W. Green, Stark Bros. will plant 10000
acre apple orchard in Chaves county
within three years. Two thousand acres
will be planted this fall, and the balance
just as soon as the ground can be pre-
pared.
Ration note: Henry Smith, an Arizona
catteman, on his way home from Kansas,
where he has large cattle interests,
stopped off yesterday. Mr.. Smith says
that grass is burned up in bleeding Kan
sas, and that stockmen have already be-
gun feeding corn.
The Lincoln county Mexican who re-
is in durance vile. The pair showed up
on the Berrando the other day. The
woman diked out in male attire, and they
were arrested by Marshal G. G. Perry
Roswell Register
Some specimens of gramma grass vera
brought to town to-day which must have
been over two feetSin length. This has
been long acknowledged as the most nu.
trtious grass in New Mexico. Last
season and this have shown what it will
do with plenty of water. The crops of
hay last year have demonstrated that
with plenty of water the crop is increased
in quantity and the quality is not abated.
Gramma grass is doubtless destined to
prove a very profitable domestic crop in
this section.-Optic.
According to the Citizen Victor l..
Ochoa, the Mexican revolutionist, has
been in hiding in Albuquerque for several
days. Remembering that there is re-
ward of $4,000 for his capture and de-
livery to the Mexican government the de-
tectives and minions of the law are ifle
out of sorts to think they should learn of
his presence only after he had departed
for more congenial cllmes.-Optic corre-
spondence.
The Maxwell grant people embarked in
growing hogs two years ago and now
pronounce that item of industry on their
thousand acre farm as the most profitable
of all. They have several hundred pork
ers now. The animals nre grown on
alfalfa and finished off with corn.--Trin-
idad News.