Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-08
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

treasurer of the Albuquerque Athletic
club.
Encouraging reports concerning th'
Deming Mexican railroad continue tt
come in right along.
The work of surveying the route fol
the Durango, Flagstaff g. San Diego rail
| road has been commenced.
The baby boy twins of Mr.. and Mrs
W. f. Butler, just two weeks old, died al
White Oaks on the 29th of March.
Charles Bishop, of Silver City, had q
bullet extracted from his face last week
that had been there for thirty-two years
The earning of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad for February showed
the first increase that has been recorded
for several years.
The present board of town trustees OF
Cerrlllos will turn the business of the
town over to their successors on Wednes
day evening, April II.
In the election at Socorro the Republi.
cans elected the mayor and treasurer
while the people got the councilmen and
clerk. The school board is divided.
Ben Martin, Benigno Ortiz and Fran
cisco Apodaca were sent up for one year
each at Las Cruces for burlarizing the
store of Demetrio Chaves, at Mesilla, last
Friday. This is justice swift and sure.
Cal Green was insured for $4,000 in an
accident company in favor of his mother.
Papers for filing proof of death were
sent on from Denver, aud will be com
pleted and forwarded within a few days
R. j. Buckley, Santa Fe brakeman,
well known on the Rio Grande division,
was killed at Winslow, A. T., on the Sd
inst. The deceased was member in
good standing of the Cerrillos lodge, X.
of p.
new railroad is reported to have
been chartered to connect Ell Paso with
Roswell, and there hook on to the Wash
burne extension, giving it Santa Fe
connection with the north and east, when
the Washburne extension is uilt.--White
Oaks Eagle.
Julian Gonzales, who was arrested on
Friday at Las Vegas by Sheriff Romero
for completely in the killing of Mrs vi
cente Silva, was released by Daniel G. de
Baca, justice Of the peace, but was subse-
quentlY re-arrested by the sheriff on a
bench warrant and safely landed behind
the bars.
Tramps broke into Mrs. A. e. Sanders
hotel, at Enge, last Friday night and
among other things stole the album. The
pictures we're identified on the album be-
ing offered for sale and the two thieves
arrested They got sixty days in the
Socorro county jail.
In the election for town officers at
Gallup on the Cd, 234 votes were polled
and the following gentlemen elected:
Marshal, j. W. Green; treasurer, j. Allen
johnson; trustees, G. N. Cotton, George
Kraker and Palmer Ketner; school trus,
tee, John J. Keegan.
The people of Gallup are agitating the
question of building mammoth reser-
voir, three miles above the town. It is
claimed that the construction of the res
ervoir would give the town splendid
water system and furnish water sufficient
to irrigate all the valley for miles below
the town, thus furnishing homes for
thousands of people.
There has been greater number of
fruit trees set out in this vicinity this
year than ever before. The enormo mous
yield of the fruit trees and the ready sale
of the fruit at good prices is the cause.
New Mexico fruits are the finest in the
world, and the parties who set out or
chards now are laying foundations for
future benefits.-San Marcial Bee.
Attorney S. R. Chestnut has brought
suit against the p. v. R. r. Co. for j. W.
Mcfarland, to recover $4,000 damages
for the accident which occurred couple
of weeks ago when Mr.. Mcfarland was
injured by falling from car which was
suddenly set in motion by one of the
railroad men. This is the first suit of
this kind against the Pecos Valley rail-
road.-Roswell Register.
DR.. Lawrence NJ. Bullock, one of the
m ost highly esteemed physicians and re-
spected citizens of the entire southwest,
died at his home in Deming on Wednes-
day morning at a few minutes after 5
o'clock, of bronchi interstitial nephritis,
after an illness of three years, he having
been confined to his home since early in
December last.
The election in Eddy was the quietest
ever held in that town. Lucius Anderson,
mayor; 7. j. Blackmore and j. N. Brad
ford, trustees Arthur O'Quinn, recorder;
j. j. Roscoe, marshal, and R. H. Pierce,
member of the board of education, were
elected. The proposition to issue $4,000
school bonds was defeated by a vote of
1O4 against, to n for the issue.
The Headlight draws particular atten-
tion to its section as an advantageous
location for fibre culture and the manu-
facture of textile fabrics from the fibre of
plants that grow in profusion in wild
state in the country surrounding Deming.
The Santa Fe system has con tracts al
ready for an enormous business during
the coming summer. One thousand, FIVE
hundred cars of stock will be shipped
from Magdalena, while Deming demands
about.5, 900 cars for the handling of tho
cattle from that point.
On Thursday evening the Socorro hose
company elected the following officers:
Chief, @. Cortinas; foreman, E. M. Kealer;
first assistant foreman, A. Emig; second
assistant, E. Kalzenstein; secretary, J. F.
Towle; treasurer, M. Loewenstein; stand
ing committee, G. T. Brown, A. Cortesy,
j. H. McCutcheon.
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