Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-10-11
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Chicken raising is becoming quite al
industry in and around Ration.
Fred Harvey has charge of the nev
dining cars on the Santa Fe system.
There will be more new residences bull
in Ration within the next twelve monthl
than in any former year of the towns ex
istence, says the Range.
Owing to the recent heavy rains, grass
will be plentiful for stock during the
winter all over the territory.
H. s. Church has gone from Eddy to
White Oaks to take charge of the Office re-
Gently established their by Eddy
Brothers.
Robert P. Thompson, an industrious
stockmnn on the Mimbres, has received
his commission as sheep inspector for
Grant county.
1t is probable that the merchants of AL
buquerque will soon arrive at an agree
ment whereby all will close their places
of business at p. m.
Quail hunting has begun and every
lover of the gun is now happy. Quail
are said to be plentiful this season and SO
are hunters. s.--Eddy Independent.
Ths Westover boys put up this year for
j. P. White, 327 tons of alfalfa, which is
only small part of the immense amount
he intends feeding to steers this winter
Roswell Irrigator.
DR.. Bowyer is trying the serum treat
ment, discovered by DR.. Pequin, of St.
Louis, upon enc of the consum ptive Wis
itors in Las Cruces. Both patient and
physician are thus far satisfied with the
effect.
John R. Shannon, son of Mrs. Alice
Shannon and clerk in the local freight
office of the Santa Fe railroad, and Miss
Grace Maud Mcdonald, of Denver, were
united in marriage at Albuquerque, on
Monday evening.
l. s. Osborne is having his place at
Hagerman, which adjoins the townsite on
the north, fenced. It comprises 200 acres
of fine land, which was sown to alfalfa
this year in order to get the land in good
condition for an orchard.
Word is received from Los Lunas to
the effect that Solomon Luna finished
shearing $4,000 sheep there the other day
and that it took ffty-two men quite
time to complete the job. Eleven thons.
and lambs out of the focks were sold to
eastern buyers.
New Mexico is gradually but surely be-
coming self-supporting. There will be
less flour, grain, hay, fruit, butter and
eggs shipped into this territory in 1896
than has been received formerly IN one
month.-Raton Range.
The little 3-year-old child of Carlos
Sais, who lives above Carbonier's mill,
was accidentally drowned Monday by
falling into we'll. The child was play
ing in the yard and getting too near the
curb fell into the yawning depths and be-
fore its mother, who saw it fall, could
rescue it, life was extinct.-Las Cruces
Independent.
Sabinal, N. M, down the country, on Fri
nay night, the frs. at 7:44 o'clock in the
evening and the last at 7:44 o'clock in the
just twelve hours apart to the
minute. The second and third occurred
at 1925 O'Clock in the evening and at 3:15
O'Clock in the morning, respectively,
M. W. Neff has the contract for supply
ing wood to the Confidence mill at Gra-
ham. He is now engaged in building a
chute 1900 feet long down the mountain
side leading to the mill, through which
the wood will be run to the mill, thus
saving great deal of hauling. The chute
will be ready for use in few days.-Sil-
YER City Sentinel.
There was lively scramble in the
sonntv commisaioners'r room in the cOurt !
house this morning over the disposition
Of about $437, the amount yet due N. Sc
yura for services as county assessor, and