Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-26
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Mrs. William Bowie died at Gallup last
week in her 72d year.
The expenses of the territorial fair this
year amounted to about $4,000.
The Blggs Lumber Co.'s stock at Lum-
berton will consume 900 tons Of hay
during the winter.
John Ranchler shipped twenty i've car
loads of stock from Silver City last Fri
day to eastern markets.
The W. s. ranch will make a shipment
of 1000 head of steers from the range
near Magdalena on October 3.
! James Morris last week drove 5000
sheep from the range at Pine Cienega to
pasture in the Pecos valley near Eddy.
Three wild dogs are reported on the
range west of Chama and numerous losses
have been sustained by sheep men from
their raids.
Judge Bantz has appointed james s.
Fielder United States commissioner for
Silver City, and better selection could
not have been made, says the Silver City
Eagle.
Col. Broad came in from the Navajo
| yobboTudy. ho Ic pOluo oONOIdl iAoh Splihoo
in that neighborhood and that a large
force of men will soon be put on.-Chama
Northwest.
Joe Gray, ex-deputy marshal in East
Las Vegas, writes Judge Wooster from
Idaho Springs, Colo, under date of Sep
tember 90, that snow is foot deep at
that place.
Sperling Bros, merchants doing busi-
ness at Socorro, N. NJ, and Ell Paso, Tex,
failed to open for business yesterday, hav-
ing made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors. They are heavily involved.
Shannon & Jones sold 539 head of cat
tla during their recent trip to Oklahoma
at the top of the market. They say that
country is in hourishing condition and
that stock never looked better.-Silver
City Sentinel.
George Smith, appointed receiver of
the 'Y" Cattle company's property in
Arizona, to qualify as receiver for the
property in that territory. There are in
all about $4,000 head of cattle.
Ex-senator Stephen W. Dorsey, and his
private secretary, H. H. Officer, of Dem
YER, are Keeley graduates and Alonzo
Hastings, formerly of Trinidad, also now
of Denver, took the gold cure, up there,
and hasn't touched, tasted, nor handle the
unclean thing since.-Las Vegas Optic.
1t has gone broadcast through this sec
tion of the county that the Sayre Bros.
of Denver, had leased the stamp mill at
Bland. This is not fact. The mill is
now laboring with several attachment
suits on account of unpaid bills, and un-
til these are settled nothing will be done.
Albuquerque Citizen.
Geo. McDevitt, one of the old-timers of
Albuquerque, died at an early hour this
morning of dropsy. He came to Albu-
querque thirteen years ago-1SS2-with
a team and wagon. During tho great
booming days of the town he acquired
considerable real estate, on North I'd
street, and still owned the property at the
time of his acknowledgements Citizen.
Once more, the medical fraternity is
graphing with the question, "Are cats re-
sponsible for the spread of diphtheria!" 7"
The answer has been in the affirmative.
A recent epidemic in foreign parts was
traced to a domestic tabby. Analysis of
the milk used by the stricken families
failed to reveal the presence of any germs
of DEATH while every household afflicted
claimed feline pet.--Optic.
W. w. Ridson, town clerk of Gallup,
came in on Sunday night with Mexican
who was sent to the county Jail by Judge
Hugh Quinn. The charge is committing
rape on the daughters of James Leahy, in
the Gibson mining district. The accused
was secretly hurried away, as threats had
been made to lynch him. He will be
tried at the October term if the grand