Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-12
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Several hundred Thousand sheep are to
be dipped at Wagon Mound this year.
Miss Lulu, daughter of Judge Hamilton,
has returned to Socorro from California.
Florida fat, at the foot of Cooks Peak
range, is covered with grass over a foot
high.
DIR. s. w. Swope has been appointed
Santa Fe physician and surgeon at Dem
ing.
W. S. Prayer has bought the Evening
Star mine in the J1carillas. The shalf is
100 feet deep.
Filadelfo Baca, secretary of the Amer
lean legation in Mexico, is now at Agnas
Calientes, Mexico.
number of swarms Of bees have re-
Gently passed over Socorro, evidently
bound for the mountains.
+, Col. Cockrell copgressman-e elect from
Texas, and his daughter, have been visit
ing j. H. Cockrell, at Roswell.
number of linemen have been busy
for several days past replacing the poles
and wires on the Magdalena branch.
| VIM. E. O'Eeary, ex-business manager
of the Optic, has returned to Las Vegas
from visit to his home In Chicago.
Trains on the Silver City branch got
into the county seat Monday evening for
the first time since the flood Of July 81.
Mrs. w. I. McCreight will leave Albu-
querque tonight for the east to purchase
fine line of fall and winter millinery.
Vol l, No. l of the Irrigator, published
at Hagerman, Chaves county, is at hand.
The paper presents a neat appearance.
d. P. Carr, representative of the Albu-
querque Citizen, is seriously i'll at his
residence in Silver City, of typhoid fever.
W. G. Davenport, who killed Sig Wei
sci, ut Carlisle mining camp, is still in
jail at Silver City in default of $1,000
bond
The normal school at Silver City will
open for the term on September g Prof
Selby, formerly Of the Deming public
schools, is principal.
The contract for the carpenter work on
Veeder Bros two-story building, on the
west side of the plaza at Las Vegas, has
been let to John Hill at $1,000.
Mrs. Martin M'rose, who fled from New
Mexico with the rustler, contributed $50
to Ell Paso's Golfers, few days ago, for
drawing a revolver upon an officer.
Arrangements have already been made
for the shipment of over 10000 head of
Mexican cattle from Deming after the
quarantine is raised on November /.
A petition is being circulated asking
the government TO cancel the star route
mail contract between Eddy and Roswell
so the mail may be carried by railway.
The farmer who locates in this dry re-
gion does not know of the evils of "mud-
bound crops" He can drive on the
roads of New Mexico every day in the
year.
G. H. McLenthan, whose home is in La
Huerta, beautiful addition to Eddy, re-
ports that of the 400 young fruit trees he
had when the season opened, b1t one has
given up the ghost.
Messrs. Lindauer and Carpenter, of the
Sapello Cattle company, will make di-
vision of their cattle shortly, each taking
half and continuing the business re-
spectively. Deming Headlight.
Col. Goss, of the military school, in
forms the Citizen that the school will
open on September 2 in the building
known as the Albuquerque sanitarium.
Lon Honeywell, of Water Canon, re-
ports the country looking beautiful. The
cattle have all left the mountains, and
are fattening very fast on the luxuriant
grass of the mesa.
Rev. j. A. Menaul, the Presbyterian
synodical missionary, who left Albuquer-
Que on the 7th of May for a trip through
England, Scotland and Ireland, returned
home on Friday night.