Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-12
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

A. J. Bnchoz, an old resident of Mesilla
valley, is dead.
Fifteen hobos were landed in the Albu-
querque Jail on Tuesday night.
The Michigan Editorial ASSOCIATION will
visit Las Vegas hot springs in the near
future.
Judge Bantz is making extensive i'm
provements on his residence property at
Silver City.
The fixed app opriations of Albuquer-
que for the ensuing year aggregate the
sum of $4,000.
MP. Swan will commence the erection
of brick kiln at Pennington in June.
He will burn 10000.
The municipal affairs of Ration have
passed into the hands of the new Demo-
cratic city government.
The small arms practice will commence
at Fort Bayard the 1st of June and will
continue two months.
The Blossburg band consists of twenty
one pieces; they can also furnish an or
chestra of from three to seven pieces.
The Southern Pacific pay car arrived
at Deming on Sunday and gladdened the
hearts of the "boys" on that division.
The Silver City Eagle reports that j.
M. Harper brought in hog from the
lower Gila last week that weighed dressed
All pounds.
M. H. Mills is erecting large store
room in the east part of Springer, and
will stock it with large line of general
merchandise.
No more Mexican cattle can be brought
across the border until December I, the
quarantine not having been extended
after the 1st.
White Oaks contributes two murder
cases, a $4,000 gold brick theft case and
one burglary to the grist of the Justice
mill at Lincoln.
The New Mexico Lumber company is
getting out material for new mill Oh
the TERRA Amarillo grant seven miles
northwest of Lumberton.
G. A. Rothgeb and Capt. Mike Slattery,
of Las Vegas, are interested in one Of
the most valuable gold properties in
Water canon, near Socorro.
J.A. Kooatz will put out ten acre
orchard on his ranch near Aztec, San
Juan county, this spring. His ranch ad-
joins the experimental station.
An Englshman who lately visited New
Mexico has sent 10000 copies of Coins
Financial School to England in order to
enlighten Englishmen on the silver ques-
tion.
Hon. s. M. Ashenfelter lett on the Santa
Fe train Sunday for Colorado Springs,
Colo, where he will engage in the prac-
tice of his profession. He still retains
his law Office at Deming.
The school board and teachers of the
Lincoln graded schools have issued in a
reat pamphlet form prospectus of the
course of studies of their schools.
Says the Bee: "a brighter day is
dawning for San Marcial and Socorro.
This year there is more planting and
sowing being done than ever before"
H. E. Fox, the we'll known Albuquer-
que jeweler, and wife will leave in a few
days for San Diego, Cal. Mr.. Fox will
return, and Mrs. Fox will remain in order
to recuperate under the sea breeze.
A report is to the effect that a first
class article of fagstone, in exhaustless
quantities, and of any dimension desired,
is to be found at the foot of the hill near
the Valley of Eden, about thirteen miles
north of Roswell.
The Optic deposes and says that the
following is true: W. P. Strong, of
Ocate, caught seven wolves in a trap at
one and the same time the other evening,
and it wasn't very good evening for
wolves either!
In the matter of the death of Cal Green,
OF Cerrillos, in the Stephenson-B Bennett
mine at Orgon, the verdict of the coron-
er's jury was that death was caused by an
explosion of giant powder. The cause OF
the explosion is unknown.
III. Brown, of Nogal, has added an
other industry to those already flourish
ing in Lincoln county. He has an orchard
of 400 soft maple trees in Nogal gulch
from which he is now manufacturing
the simon pure article of maple sugar and
syrup.
The San Jua1 Times reports: Tues
day Times reporter called on Orange
Phelps and found him busily engaged In
fixing up large water wheel which he
will use for grinding cana agria for use
in his tannery. Mr.. Phelps says that by
July he will have hourishing mill in
operation, and will also be prepared tc
grind grain of any description.
Mesilla valley note: The damage dont
to fruit by late frosts in this vicinity il
less than was supposed few days ago
An examination Of peach trees in the
large orchards show that the crop o
fruit will be large, and only in spots has
any serious damage been done. Prof
Cockerel has been examining the or
chards of the valley, and he reports that
the fruit trees in many of the smaller
orchards within the town limits of Las
Cruces are infested by San Jose scale te
an extent that makes them menace tt
the whole valley. There is very little, il
any, San Jose scale in Mesilla, the or
chardists there having acted promptly IN
destroying infested trees.-IIas Cruces
Independent Democrat.