Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-14
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Mr.. F. M. Estes is dangerously sick at
Cerrillos.
Miss Mintie Rogers opened private
school at Cerrlllos yesterday.
The farmers at Las Cruces are busy
cutting the first crop of alfalfa.
Hillsboro Advocate: Cattle are re-
ported to be dying from the drought and
scarcity of grass.
The sail boats on Eddy lake are very
much in demand now on Sunday and
moonlight evenings.
John H. Riley, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, shipped from Las Cruces 200 steers
to Fowler, Colo.
revolution in placer mining will be
effected this year by the introduction of
large machinery to work low grade dirt.
J. F. Williams will probably put on a
daily passenger and express line between
Cerrillos and San Pedro within few
days.
The peach crop of New Mexico num-
erioally will be light but in quantity
and quality it promises to be nearly up
to the average.
dynamited along the entire route, de-
stroying many fish. Burned fuse is found
at many places on the bank.
Charles W. Beeman, an enterprlsing
Black River farmer, has leased George
W. Lanes eighty-acre tract near Eddy
and will grow Egyptian corn upon it.
Observes the Optic: The dog raid, up
to noon, had resulted in twenty-one dogs
killed and nine licenses issued. This is
the proper proportion to be maintained.
Eddy Argus The Eddy club has written
to W. K. Thurber inviting him to deliver
an address on "Free Silver" The ad-
dress will probably be at the court
house.
With iuexhaustible coal beds in the
Cabello mountains, within thirty to
forty miles of her mines, the future of
Hillsboro as smelling center is fully
assured.
Hillsboro Advocate: Grant county
newspapers are fearful Fort Bayard will
be abandoned by the government troops,
and are again endeavoring to start an In
dian scare.
The Baptists of the Pecos valley are
the pioneers on bells. They were the
first to put in Il bell at Pecos; the first at
Eddy, and now they have an elegant new
bell for their church in Roswell.
Mr.. R. W. Tansill was recently in Ros-
we'll from Eddy looking about the Ros-
well country for stock. MIR. Tansill in
tends to purchase lot of fine cattle
and other blooded stock for his farm at
Florence.
Says the Citizen: The county of Ber-
nalillo is capable of supporting 100000
farmers, and will do so when the water
now going to waste is stored in reservoirs
and used for irrigation purposes.
Roswell Record: On Wednesday even
ing, Day and Carpsr struck the strongest
flow Of artesian water yet found In Ros-
we'll in the we'll they have been boring
for John w. Poe. TIE water was found
at the depth of 227 feet.
The Kim Ki Rogers smelter is said by
experts to be the most complete plant
ever put up in the west. Its removal to
hailed with delight by several mine
querque Citizen.
Springer Stockman: The first day of
last week news reached here of the very
sudden death of Miss Tony Simmons, at
her home in Maxwell City From in.
formation it is learned that death was
caused by poisoning, she having taken
an overdose of strychnine, from the effects
of which she died in less than an hour.
Cerrillos Rustler: Martin Cameloti, an
Italian working in the White Ash mine,
was killed yesterday afternoon bya fall
ing rock. He was about to replace
prop which had been blown out by
shot, when the rock, weighing several
tons, fell upon him with crushing force,
killing him instantly.
Eddy Argus: Mtssrs. Otis and Carbon
write that the largest party that has yet
visited the valley will start on May 81,
when a cheap rate will be in effect. At
ona town in Wisconsin they held meeting
attended by $50 people, whom they ad-
dressed in regard to this portion of New
Mexico.