Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-24
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NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Col. Newton, inspector of U. s. lant
Offices, is at Roswell.
A new school house will soon be put uI
at the Mescalero Indian agency.
Remarks the Black Range: When il
does rain in New Mexico it makes big
job of it.
| The rains which have fallen almost
daily are making the grass grow so that
fat cattle will be easily found this fall
Black Range.
Late reports from Monticello say that
the late food ruined the grape, corn,
wheat and alfalfa crops. The grist mill
was also badly damaged.
About twenty persons have left Ration
since the Santa Fe pay cheeks arrived,
forgetting to settle numerous little bills
with boarding house keepers and mer-
chants.
The very fact that Mr.. Schattler left
Denver to begin opera tions as Jesus
Christ in New Mexico tends to discredit
the sincerity of his professions Denver
Times.
The question, "Resolved that bloomers
are the more appropriate street dress for
ladies'" was debated in Ration literary
society. The judges decided in the
affirmative.
Rio Arriba note: r. L. Splain this
week sold 200 Apache baskets to Pat
Hurst Mr.. Splain has also sold large
number this summer to a Colorado
Springs firm.
San Juan county has as many induce
ments to offer homeseekers as any por-
tion of the territory. Large rivers, as
suring plenty of water for irrigating pur-
poses, and rich, productive land.
The first peaches to reach the Denver
market this season came from Las Cru
ces, N. M and sold at 10 cents pound,
40 cents basket of $1.25 crate. They
were grown on the Woodland fruit farm.
W. W. Towner, who recently arrived in
Springer from Chicago, has certainly
snap in the way of a tobacco cure. He
has the exclusive agency for New Mexico
and Colorado, and guarantees cure or
no pay.
Pat Higgins, of the Frisco, has his
mill ready for work. He will grind all
the wheat in western Socorro county, this
fall, and there will be enough to bread
the country and thus cut off an expense
from the east.
San Juan Echo: E. W. Iliff has resigned
as editor and manager of the La Belle
Cresset Holt has quit the Times and en-
tered into partnership with Chas. Day, of
the Cortez Journal. V. r. N. Greaves is
now in control of the Times
La Plata comes to the front with the
largest yield of alfalfa thus far reported
this year. From twenty acres John Nc
Dermott has put up seventy tons, first
cutting, and this excellent yield was pro-
duced without surface irrigation. Send
in your report.-1ndex.
At 225 feet, Day & Carper have struck
the finest flow of aftesian water yet found
in or around Roswell in the we'll for E. A.
Cahoon, just west of the public school
square. Actual measurement places the
flow at fifty-two gallons per minute.
Roswell Record: A pleasant fishing
party, consisting of Chief Justice B. D.
Tarleton, Of the I'd appellate district of
Texas, g. W. Armstrong, county Judge Of
Tarrant county, Samuel Butler, deputy
county clerk, and VIM. Hanger, of Fort
Worth, and Mr.. McCannon, of Corsicana,
came in yesterday and have gone to the
lakes for ten days. fish.
News from Fort Worth, in the Gazette,
states that party of Texans had just re-
turned from the east, where they had been
to consult capitalists in regard to the
construction Of the Fort Worth and Albu-
querque road. It is stated that there is
good prospect for the road going through,
and if it does we want it to go through
Roswell.-Roswell Record.
Col. ]. L. Morris, of Wallace, is the re
cipient of government medal for dis
services in the Apache war,
twenty years ago, when the blood-thirsty |
Winneka fell victim to his unerring aim.
He is also to receive pension. The
friends of Col. Jim congratulate him up
on this tardy recognition of his gallant
--Cerrillos Rustler.
Gov. Hughes has appointed eight COM
missioners from Arizona to the National
congress at Albuquerque in
September. They are James A. Fleming,
Of Phoenix; DR.. D. j. Brannen, of Flag
staff; Col. VIM. Herring, of Tombstone;
James H. McClintock, of Phoenix; j. L.
Fisher, of Prescott; A. J. Doran, of Flor
ence; Jesse M. Smith, of Apache county,
and Christopher Layton, of Graham.