Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-10
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

| over two hundred men have gone to
work in the Blossburg mines near Ration.
The Albuq querque physicians will ban
quet the visiting physicians Tuesday
evening.
There is an attendance of 369 in the
Ration public schools this year. They
opened last Tuesday.
Bears are very numerous in Grant
county. Four have been killed near Sill
yer City during the last few days.
The Albuquerque Odd Fellows will
give a banquet and dance Wednes-
day night in honor of visiting brethren.
Elias G. Garcia, whose attempted assas-
slnation at Albuquerque was mentioned
in these columns few days ago, is i'm
proving.
Mayor W. E. Symons, of Ration, is ex-
pected back in few days from Calves
ton, Texas. His friends will be pleased
to learn of his improved health.
Postal Clerk Baldridge, who was in
jured at Dillon in the Santa Fe wreck
mentioned in these columns Saturday,
has been carried to his brothers home in
Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Citizen is already
making constitution for the new state
of New Mexico. That paper wishes a
provision limiting the power to punish
for contempt.
E1-Supt. W. B. Creager, of the govern
ment Indian school at Albuquerque, hns
accepted a position with the Indiana
State University. He left for that place
a day or two ago.
The miners of Mojave county, A. T.,
will have fine exhibit at the Albuquer-
que fair. The Democrat suggests that it
will have to be fine one to surpass the
Cochiti display.
The bids for the Masonic temple at
Las Vegas were opened last week. The
contract was awarded to M. 7. Keen, of
Pueblo, the building to be of native stone
at cost of $4,000.
Mr.. o. N. Marion has received six
handsome and excellent oil paintings
from Mrs. Anthony Joseph, wife of the
delegate to congress, and they will be put
on exhibition at the fair.
Gideon Bourgonuon, an old citizen of
Albuquerque, died in that city Saturday
morning at the age of 61. He left no
relatives in America except wife, to
whom all his large estate will fall.
The following delegates have been
elected by st. Johns Episcopal church.
of Albuquerque, to attend the territorial
convocation at Las Vegas: Z. R. Gabel
Floyd Bone, w. p. Fox and George EN-
merson.
The Deming Headlight announces that
Geronimo and his band of Apaches are to
be removed from Mount Vernon barracks,
Ala, to their old reservation at San Car
los, in the mountains of eastern Arizona.
The preliminary examination of Nestor
Gomez for attempt at rape was held at
Silver City few days ago. Upon the
evidence of Miss Flora Fleuri, the young
lady assaulted, and others he was commit
ted in default of $4,000 bail.
Mr.. Jesse M. Wheelock, superintendent
of the Albuquerque street railway, has
been sued for divorce by his wife, Mrs.
Nancy w. Wheelock. The causes alleged
are desertion and the fact that said
Wheelock is "wholly regardless of his
marriage covenants and duties"
An important strike has been made in
the Copper Queen mine on the Queen
lead in the Mogollons; work has been
going on in this mine for some time and,
of late, the ore has been rapidly improv-
ing in quality. At depth of LOG feet
ore was struck which ran eighty five
ounces in gold and 2,354R ounces in sill
yer per ton, or total value of $3,112.5O
per ton.-Silver City Eagle.
The city council of Las Vegas has
passed an ordinance taking from the
marshal the appointment of members of
the pslice force. The council will in the
future both nominate and confirm its
police officers. The reason of this change
is that in the past the marshal has per.
sistently named the same police officers
and the council would as constantly refuse
to confirm them.
Mr.. George F. Chatfield, better known
as Ferdie Chattield, of the Sacramentos
was killed Sunday night, the 26th ultimo
while travelling from his home tos.Badger