Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-14
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

The lat of July will see Collar count.
warrants current at par.
T. B. Mills will soon re.engage in tht
real estate business at Las Vegas.
The election of teachers for the public
schools of Silver City will not be held
until August.
DR.. j. M. Cunningham and family are
now occupying their recently purchased
residence on the hill at Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is preparing to do herself
proud during the two great events in hel
midst during the latter part of June.
Up at the Springer court, Judge Smith
made the ruling that in assignment cases
the assignee will not be allowed over lC
per cent.
The telephone line from Ell Paso to Las
Cruces has been constructed to a point
two miles below Mesilla park, and work
has stopped for the present.
Quite number of enterprising stock.
men of Colfax county have leased and are
fencing ranges for the purpose of raising
cattle in sensible business way.
The stories from Nebraska and Kansas
concerning bursting dams and damage
from irrigating plants should remind ex-
perimenters in hydraulics that water is a
force to be very carefully dealt with.
Ration Range: Hon. James Dwyer, of
Nebraska, has been spending the past
week at the home of his brother, Col. j
ntr,, tel DoNo Lol =,
California on business ard was taken
sick on his way home add stopped
here to visit as we'll az recnperate his
health.
Springer Stockman: The district court
closed Saturday night after session of
four weeks, the longest term ever held in
Colfax county and it was also productive
of greater results than any previous term.
Fourteen persons were convicted of peni-
tentiary offenses and sixteen of minor
offenses.
Jose Mestes, we'll known and respect
ed citizen of Cabezon, committed suicide
on Monday, in peculiar manner and for
mysterious reasons. Mr.. Mestes was out
driving with his wife, when all at once
he jumped out of the buggy, and drawing
revolver shot himself to death. There
was no reason assigned for the rash act.
Albuquerque Citizens: Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
W. Flournoy and daughter, Nell, and Miss
Flournoy left for the California beach on
last nights express. Mr.. Flournoy will
return in about ten days, but the other
members of the family will remain at
the western beach resorts for six or eight
weeks.
The grand crops that will be produced
in this section of New Mexico this year
will be the best advertisement we have
ever received. The yield in grass, cereals
and vegetables will be unprecedented.
The fruit crop will be quite large regard
less of the heavy May freeze Ration Range.
Albuquerque Citizen: On a warrant
sent here by Sheriff Cunningham, of San
ia Fe county, Deputy Sheriff Hubbell ar
rested Elias Chavez and turned him over
to Deputy Sheriff Tucker to be taken to
Santa Fe last night. The warrant charges
young Chavez with horse stealing. He is
son of Don Melquiades Chavez, the old
town lawyer who has served in the legis-
lature Of the territory. The arrest has
created great sensation among the Mex
lean people.
The Rio Grande river seems to be an
uncertain "land mark" After the in
ternational boundary commission made
their survey last September, the bound
ary, the Rio Grande, got on rampage
and as if in sheer perversity cut its way
about 1900 yards into Mexican soil op-
posite the Rio Grande City, thus leaving
several hundred acres of good American
accrued land fronting that town.-El
Paso Tribune.
Silver City Eagle: Receiver Foster has
gone to Vermont to look after the inter
ests of the depositors in the broken
banks here and at Deming. Tt has been
many moons since the depositors received
anything in the shape of dividends and
from present indications it will be many
more moons before another dividend is
declared. 1t is very doubtful whethe II
the receiver will be able to get enough
money while back in the state of Yer
mont to pay his expenses there and
back, to say nothing of getting anything
to pay the depositors in the shape OF divi
dends.
Las Vegas Optic: During the round
up down the country, over 100 head ol
cattle were found with the brands burned
out and defaced, forty-tive of them sc
badly that they could not be recognized
These cattle were started across the
country from Roswell for Amarillo, Tex.
fin charge of the cattle inspector, under
orders from the sanitary board, to sci
the stock and cover the money into tn.
boards treasury, till such time, if ever
as the owners could identify the stock BY
bill of sale, or otherwise. However, tn,
entire bunch of cattle WAS stopped by {
writ of replevin granted by a Justice o
the peace named McRose to one Wm
Barber, the cattle having been delayed OF
the trail by the scarcity OF water.