Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-11
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NEW MEXICO NEWS.


Maxwell City on Monday.
Judge Thomas Smith has appointed
Francis Buchanan United States com
missioner at Socorro.
The people of Black river, near Eddy
are preparing for a grand 4th of Jul!
picnic and barbecue.
The Hillsboro mines have produced
nearly $1,OO0,OOO worth of gold and silve
bullion in the past four years.
II. j. Ramer, the we'll known cattle
buyer Of Holbrook, A. T., has shipped
10000 head of cattle to Montana since
May IS.
Miss Belle T.. Eckles, Silver City
young lady of 18, has the honor of being
the first graduate of the New Mexico nor
NAL school.
Bat Masterson, we'll known in New
Mexico, says an eastern dispatch, is now
employed In the capacity of body guard
to George Gould.
On Sunday Mrs. Sarah S. Lyons, wife
of VS.. Lyons, the cattle man, died of
childbirth fever at Las Vegas. The de-
ceased was born on the 9th of March,
1859.
Las Vegas Optic: 'Tis said that an AL
buquerque newspaper man will attend
the Masonic exercises in this city on the
oath inst, accom- panied by blushing
bride of few days.
Col. A. W. Harris, manager of the Illi-
nois mine at Kingston, made powerful
nlea before the county commissioners on
Monday against taxing patented mines,
but the commissioners stood by their
ruling.
July will be duly celebrated at the
mill, on the Ruidoso. A large portion of
the citizens of White Oaks will celebrate
the 4th at the Block ranch, where grand
time will be had. The White Oaks base
ball club has challenged the Lincoln
nine to play at the Block ranch on the
4th.
Prof. M. R. Gaines, of the Territorial
university, accompanied by his wife, left
Albuquerque on Monday evening to spend
the vacation in the eastern and New Eng
land states. At Oberlin, Ohio, their
daughter, Miss Ruth l.. Gaines, will join
them.
The grand chancellor of the Knights of
Pyrhias of New Mexico, Hon. Wm. +.
Kuchenbecker, of Gallup, will, during this
month, visit all the lodges of the order in
the territory. His first visit will be to
Mineral lodge, Albuquerque.
La Belle Cressett: Tom Miller went to
feed his COW the other night and by mis-.
take gave her saw dust instead of bran.
He lja0nvara1 hia oh ;,,,,
at milking time when she gave down
bundle of shingles, bunch Of lath and
bucket of shoe pegs.
On Saturday night the hardware store
of Post & Co. was robbed at Abuauer-
que of forty Colts revolvers and lot of
fine razors and pocket cutlery. The pro-
prietors offer reward of $50 for infor-
nation leading to detection of thieves,
and 5000 for arrest and conviction of
thieves.
Eddy Independent: The jovial farmer
and cattle king of Black river, Wm..Pad-
dleford, was in the city this week. He
Informed US that crops looked lovely; and
furthermore he stated that there would
be an overwhelming crop of peaches
raised in his section of the valley this
year.
La Belle Cressett: Agentlemen who has
had life experience with mines and
mills visited the Wonder mine yesterday
one quarter of mile from La Belle. and
claims that the general formation is de-
composed quartz, carrying an abundance
of free gold to justify the putting in of
machinery to treat the entire mountain.
This from the Taos Monitor may be
one of Smith Simpsons original jokes:
"Mr. Bear, side partner of Edgecumbe
and Roberts, of the battery guards of this
place, committed suicide the latter part
of the week by drinking pint and half
of gin, and after that drank wine with
arsenic, by mistake"
Some Kingston people are again out
north of North Percha in search of the
"N,gger" diggings or the Adams diggings.
There seems to be something to go on in
the present search. A prospector recent
ly came into Las Cruces with $4,000 in
gold, which he said he had found at the
Adams diggings, which he had rediscov-
cred. He was very much elated over his
find, so much SO that he took sick and
died. He gave directions where to 20,
and under these directions, the Las Cruces
men have gone to the headwaters of the
Animas.
Says the Ration Reporter: The present
special term of the district court has been
fruitful of results. Up to this morning
twelve convictions for criminal offenses,
all of whom will receive penitentiary sen-
tences, have been had. What stronger
commentary could be made on the eff
ciency and devotion to duty of the court
and oflciass The conviction of law
breakers is decided novelty in this
county and one that is appreciated by all
law-ab,ding citizens. TO Chief Justice
Smith our people feel under special
obligations, not that he deserves praise
for merely doing his duty, but he certain
ly does for the highly satisfactory manner
in which he has performed it. Certain it
is his administration has resulted in a
wholesome respect for law in this district
by the would-be law-breakers.
when to Cut Alfalfa.
The time to cut alfalfa is Just at the
right time. This is when the plant has
stored up the greatest amount Of nutr,-