Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-15
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

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The Silver City Gun club boasts of ths
finest grounds and most improved traps
in the territory.
It is said that there were about 1000
people at the Fourth of July celebration
down on the Mimbres.
John R. DeMier, agent of the Santa Fe
at Whitewater, went to Las Cruces for a
few days on account Of illness.
Mrs. John l.. Zimmerman was installed
noble grand of the Daughters of Rebekah
Thursday evening at Las Vegas.
who drive horses and those who bestride
wheels at Silver City over right of way.
The Silver City Sentinel says there are,
in round mum bers, $4,000 due the city on
taxes as against $500 one year ago.
Heavy shipments of fruit are being
made daily from Las Cruces. The ship
ments this year are heavier than ever be-
fore.
1t has been considerably more than a
year since the depositors in the defunct
national banks of Deming and Silver
City have received anything.
M. j. Kennedy has resigned his place
as surgeon at the Mescalero agency, and
Agent Stottler has appointed DR.. j. V.
Cowan, of Las Cruces, to the post tenn
porarily.
Last week Sheriff Bursum, of Socorro
county, sold the mercantile stock of
Philip Bach at Mogolon, under an ex-
ecution in favor of Montgomery Ward Il
Co., of Chicago.
Col s. P. Carpenter, of Silver City, lost
about $1,000 by the flood of Tuesday
evening. His slaughter house and corral
on Whisky creek, seventeen hogs and
several tons of baled hay we're carried
down by the food.
The New Mexico Il Arizona Smelling
company's copper furnace, at Ivanhoe, is
running in full blast on copper ores from
the camp and gold and silver ores from
Pinos Altos, the Burro mountains and
other camps in the county.
Exceptions to the report of the master
IN chancery have been filed in the case of
Willie II. Peacock VS.. VIM. T. Peacock,
for divorce. The number of exceptions
was thirteen, an unlucky number.-Las
Vegas Optic.
Transcript for appeal has been prepared
in the district clerks Office at Las Vegas
in the case of Julian Trujillo, who is
now serving a life sentence for the mur-
der of Gabriel Sandoval, whose body was
found in vault in old town.
On Friday afternoon there was cloud
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the country. It is reported that in three
different places, on the railroad, sheets Of
water nearly mile long completely
covered the track. The trains were de-
layed some.
Silver City Enterprise: The rain Mon
day night and Tuesday morning was the
best that has fallen in this region for the
past three years. 1t fell over large
area of country, extending to, and be-
yond the Black Range. 1t covered over
three square miles In area. The rain fell
in torrents in the mountains north of
Hanover. The Silver City & Northern
railroad track was washed out in two
places. The breaks were about 100 yards
in length, each.
The extensive mill of the Santa Rita
Copper company at Santa Rita, on the
night of July 4, burned down. The fire
broke out few minutes after 10 O'Clock
and burned so fiercely that all efforts to
subdue it were fruitless. The loss will
amount to something like 100000. So
far as the Silver City Sentinel was able to
learn there was no insurance upon the
property and the loss s considered total.
The Silver City Enterprise makes the
following modest announcement of the
marriage of its editor: Wednesday, July
on Walnut creek, Edith, daughter of Pres
colt Allen, to Joe E. Sheridan. The mar
riage was performed by Rev. Edward S.
Cross, pastor of the Episcopal church of
this city. Miss Maggie Allen, sister of
the bride, acted as bridesmaid and Hon.
7. F. Conway as best man.
Independent Democrat: The shipments
of fruit from Las Cruces up to date ex-
ceed by 300 per cent the best previous
record, and there has not been enough
fruit TO fill all the orders received. More
than twenty tons of peaches were shipped
during the last five days OF the month of
June. F. G. Barker reports that he has
sold more fruit to buyers within the ter
r,tory than he ever shipped to all points
before, and he has also shipped large
quantities to Colorado, Texas and even
to California.
Last week Collector Laird returned
from the east and on Saturday an order
to show cause why he should continue to
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bonds was served on him. The hearing
is set for tomorrow when another point
in reference to the bond question will be
determined. On Monday morning tenn
porary INJUNCTION was served on the clerk
of the board of county commissioners
restraining them from making levy of
taxes to pay either interest or principal
on the issue of railroad bonds of this
county.--Silver City Eagle.
new commandery of Knights Tenn
par was organized at Roswell on last
Saturday, with ten charter members. It
will be known rs Rio Hondo Command
cry, No. 6, and it's officers under the dis
pensation are w. s. Prayer, eminent
commander; James F. Hinkle, generals
simo; Willard H. Clark, captain general;
Jason W. James, prelate; W. H. Cosgrove,
recorder; Henry Hamberg, treasurer;
John W. Poe, senior warden; E. r. Ca
hoon, junior warden; j. B. Mathews,
sword bearer; Smith Lea, standard
bearer; A. Pruit, warden.
On June 6, the commissioners of Dona
Ana county decided to bring suit against
Demetrio Chavez to force him to turn
over to Acting Treasurer Freudenthal
1000 of the sinking fund that he holds,
pending the decision Of the contested