Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-30
NEW MEXICO IN BRIEF.
Cream Of General Territorial News
Extracted from Vigilant
Home Papers.


Hermosa is now without peace officers.
Strawberries are getting ripe at Ros-
we'll.
Improvements are all the go in Las
Cruces at present.
Corn planting is in progress in the
lower Pecos valley.
There are thirty-three members of the
Albuquerque guards.
Miss Jennie Lea and Mr.. Bert Rowland
we're married at Roswell.
Several family pet dogs have recently
been poisoned at Dolores.
A 67O-ponnd bell for the Baptist church
at Roswell will be in this week.
A storm of hail swept off the fruit in
La Huerta orchards last Tuesday.
The Roswell Land & Water company
has the most elegant Office quarters in
town.
At Cedar Hill this year the raising OF
coffee will be thoroughly tested.-Ros-
we'll Register.
The financial exhibit of Ration exposes
to view the reckless expenditures of the
last board of town trustees.
Scott Truxton has had a new United
States signal service tower erected to the
rear of the Roswell bank block.
EXP Postmaster ]. l.. jerks, of Cerrilos,
was obliged to have one of his toes am
putated, the result of stone bruise.
Several carloads of brick have arrived
story of the Kitchen Kennedy building.
The closing exercises of the Cerrilos
public school, on Friday evening, we're
creditable alike to teachers and pupils.
Heavy loss of sheep is reported
throughout the eastern end of San Miguel
county, owing to the absence of water.
There are very few towns in the south
west that present so attractive an ap-
pearanoe as San Marcial does at present.
Prof. Ramsay will soon leave for Cali
querque academy has not been selected.
Judge Williams has forty acres of his
ranch near Roswell nnder perfect cult
vation and will raise variety of crops.
Thomas Boles, an attorney from Fort
Smith, Ark, accompanied by Senator
Rice, was in Silver City few days last
week.
Frank Coe, of the Rio Ruidoso, was in
Roswell the first of the week to receive
large lot of fruit trees for planting on his
place.
The frequent showers of late at Chlo-
ride have been very welcome, but rain
and more of 1t would be most beneficial
to the country.
Reports say that the Pecos Irrigation
d Investment company has sold eighteen
forty-acre tracts of land near Malaga in
the past ten days.
DR.. D. F. Rogers, having completed
postgraduate course at Rush Medical col
lege, Chicago, has returned to his prac-
tice at Cerrillos and Madrid.
Chas. O'Conner Roberts, late of the Al
buqerque Democrat, is purchasing cop
per ores on the dump for Boston, Chi
cago and Colorado company, whose head
quarters are Boston.
One Of the most pleasing sights that
strikes the eye of visitor at the court
house at Socorro is the cleanliness of the
place. Sheriff Bursom has also had the
Jail thoroughly renovated.
Eddy Argus: The first swarm of bees
of the season was hived by L. F. Hoag on
Wednesday, and it was large one. Bees
pay big in the Pecos Valley, and every
farmer should have few stands.
Judge George W. Baker died at Wilcox
last Friday, aged II years. Judge Baker
was we'll known at Lordsburg and Gold
Hill, having put the Cannon ball mill in
at that camp some years ago.
The Rustler announces that ex-Mayor
Austin Goodall, of Cerrilos, was married
at Engle last week, but does not give the
maiden name of the fair bride. Mr.. and
Mrs. Goodall are spending their honey
moon in southern California.
Lieut.. Smith, of the Second cavalry,
passed through Thursday en- route from
Fort Wingate to San Antonio. He was
sent to test the merits of native horse
on 1000 mile trip. The horse weighs
about 1000 pounds and the trip is to be
made in thirty days.-Eddy Current.
The Ration Reporter: About 2 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon Roman Sanchez, while
attempting to cross the railroad tracks
at the lower end of the incline coming
from the coal chute, was struck in the
head by the oars, sustaining in juries from
which he died this morning at o'clock.
Black Range: Knowing ones predict a
genuine rainy season this summer. No
doubt this prediction is founded on the
alleged fact that the existence of mouse
colored pig, six months old. with white
snout, yellow dot over each eye, and a
tail that kinks nine times to the left is a
sure rain indicator.
The Albuquerque Democrat: B. B..
Borden returned yesterday from Gallup,
where he is experimenting for the con-
tractors, the building Of a new public
school house, which will cost $4,000 and
an Episcopal church to cost $2,50O. The
school building will be handsome struc-
ture containing six school rooms and a
large auditorium, and the Episcopal
church will be neat, creditable building
for the town.
Any person convicted of carrying a
deadly weapon in Cerrilos shall be pun.
ished by fiue of not less than $50 or
more than $500, orby imprisonment of
not lees than sixty days nor more than
six months, or by both such fine and I'M
prisonment, in the discretion of the
court.
The Optic: Henry Hill and Chas.
Rose we're before Judge Wooster to-day,
on the charge of gun play last night. and