Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-06
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The Oak Grove Cattle company shipped
700 head of stock from Silver City to
Colfax county last Saturday for pastur-
age.
| The Albuquerque Browns returned
| home from Prescott, a. t., with all the
prizes given for the base ball tournament
down there.
| j. B. Dawson has remarkably fine
apiary at Ration. He now has seventy
one hives WI .sh will produce an immense
amount of honey this year.
| Las Cruces Democrat Surveyor staff
ord says the Selden dam is an assured
thing, and that large force of men will
| be put at work before August l.
Agent Miles, at Las Cruces, reports
that shipments of fruit 80 far this year
exceed all previous records. Mesila
valley peaches are being shipped to Los
Angeles.
Colfax county, New Mexico, is the ban
ner grazing county in the big southwest.
Sheep are shipped here in large quanti-
ties from California to be grazed and fed.
Ration Range.
Silver City Eagle: A. B. Laird, who
has been east on an extended trip, re-
turned yesterday. Mrs. Laird's mother
came with him and will remain here for
several weeks visiting her daughter.
G. H. Herrick, superintendent of the
Pecos Valley railroad, with headquarters
at Pecos, has resigned, j. p. Dargiz being
appointed to the position. Mr.. Herrick
will visit Galveston and Los Angeles be-
on, n
EDDY Argus.
At Prescott, Phoenix won the wet test
in 27 2-5 seconds. Prescott was second
in 28 2.5 and Fort Whipple third in
5s 40. The Prescott people lost lot of
money on their team.
AT Gallup Jim Flynn, and Billy Lewis,
middeweight champion Of Colorado,
fought yesterday for purse of $i00 and
gate receipts. Lewis had the best of the
fighting, but the decision was given in
favor of Flynn on foul after nineteen
rounds.
Recent hail storms have damaged grow
ing crops on the Pecos stream to an
alarming extent. Out in the vicinity of
Antonchlco, even the chill, which is
largely used and exchanged in immense
quantities for Mora county wheat, is said
to be almost totally ruined.-Las Vegas
Optic.
The assistants in the district clerks
office, at Las Vegas, are at work on trans
cripts for appeals to the supreme court
In the cases of Sostenes Lucero and Juan
B. Romero, convicted of completely in
the murder of Juan Antonio Rael, in
Mora county, and now serving out SEN
tences in the penitentiary.
At Hanover, Grant county, the stamp
mill and machine shop of the Santa Rita
Copper company burned Thursday night.
The loss will probably reach 100000. The
property has not been 10 operation for
some fifteen years and belongs to J.
Parker Whitney, of Boston. I. b. Catron
is also interested in it. The insurance
is small.
Fl. D. Train has sold his Romeroville
ranch to James Carr, for $4,000; MIR.
Carr having sold his Grant county ranch.
Possession will be taken on the first of
next month. Mr.. Carr went east to-day,
his family being at Westport, Mo-, though
he himself has been in New Mexico and
Arizona for the last twenty-eight years.
Last Saturday evening two masked
men attacked a 16.year-old girl near
Glorieta and committed rape on her per-
son. Great excitement ensued when the
fact became known, a few days after
wards, the father foolishly attempting to
keep the outrage a secret. Searching
parties were organized and it was
thought that traces of the scoundrels had
been gained. If they are caught there
will be a necktie party with fire accom-
paniments.