Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-19
NEW MEXICO NEWS.
La Belle is on a boom.

The Albuquerque Citizen has been en-.
larged and sports new head.
The Eddy Argus: A great many cot.
tonwood cuttings are being planted by
farmers about Malaga for wind
and shade.
The San MarcIal Bee atfirms that f. O.
Blood last week shipped two thorough
bred Leghorn cocks to A. f. Harrison at
Socorro.
Las Vegas has set the good example of
lnaugurating street tree planting on a
largo scale. 1t is time and money we'll
in vested.
The Aqua Pura company Of Las Vegas
has brought suit against the board of
county commissioners for water rent for
one year, amounting to $4,000.
The Argus says there are miles of
shaded walks at Eddy, and that, where
one tree missed here and there, substi-
tute is to be planted this month.
The Roswell Register is authority for
the statement that "Mr. A. w. Pruett has
orders for carload of New Mexico horned
toads." For what purpose they are to be
used is not disclosed.
The Eddy board of school trustees has
requested that an eltcaion be called to
vote $4,000 additional" bonds to pay for
work already contracted on school build
ings and for further Improvements.
The Eddy Argus mentions: j. H. Hamp-
son, the railroad contractor, has Just sold
to the Scheidly Cattle company for $685.
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steers, for which he has received the
highest price paid for cattle in three
years.
The wife of George Lall, he formerly
residing at Trinidad, defunct town of
Otero, up the country, Las Vegas and
Albuquerque, has instituted a $25,0o0
damage suit against the Salt Lake, Utah,
Herald, for the publication OF an alleged
libeous article, in which Mrs. Lail was
charged with prostituting her two little
nieces.
The Optic notes: Smoking has been
positively forbidden in the district clerks
office in tho temple of justice across the
river. The walls of the room will be
neatly papered and the floor covered with
linoleum, under the order of Judge Smith,
who has been cleaning up things gem
orally about the court house."
The funeral of Frank Schumacher, killed
at VIM. Farr's slaughter house on last
Friday morning by Fl. Ernest Fox, who
was handling the deadly weapon when it
went off, took place at Albuquerque on
Sunday. Rev. Atkinson preached most
powerful sermon, dwelling principally
upon intemperance and the sorrow and
distress caused by drink. Fox is at
large on $4,000 bail bonds.
The Cerrillos Rustler records: "Mr. G
G. Fitzgerald, of Golden, has purchased
100 tons of ore from Cullen & Co., of that
camp, and is shipping it to Ell Paso. 1t
is understood that his object is to make
a smelter test to demonstrate the success
of his mill run test o. this same ore for
gold, and to ascertain the true value of
said ore in the other metals as we'll as
in gold"
The Old Abe Eagle touchinglY OBJ
serves: "The past week has been the sad
aest in the history of the quiet town of
White Oaks, hitherto spared any great
calamity. 1t has been blessed with good
and orderly people and with good for
tune. The fire on Saturday morning was
the second of the kind that has occurred,
the South Homestake having burned
nearly four years ago; but in that only
two men persisted and they painlessy.
But in this case six of the men at least
knew of their danger and heroically
strove to reach the surface. They fell by
the way in the sleep that knows no wax
ing"
The White Oaks Eagle says: "Repairs
on the Old Abe mine will be pushed as
rapidly as possible, and work will prob
ably be resumed within the month unless
the hoist should prove to be entirely
ruined, in which case more time will be
required. The new shaft house will be of
iron, except the frame work, which will
be of wood covered with the iron of the
former structure. The timbers of the
shaft are burned badly in the lower 800
feet and near the top. In these sections
much work will have to be replaced.
None of the timbers in the drifts or other
working parts of the mine were injured"
The following is reproduced from the
Silver City Enterprise: "The STEMS Pass
train robbers stopped at the l.. @. ranch
on the lower Gila the day after the rob-
berry. They shaved off their boards and
disguised themselves, they then struck
out in the direction of Blue Creek. The
men are known to many peopls in this
country; their names are Grant Wheeler
and Joe George. One of the horses rid
den by the robbers is branded quarter
circle P on the left side and hip, the
other is branded DILL connected on the
left shoulder. Sheriff Baylor Shannon
and Deputy McAfes have put in several
days in tho saddle trying to overtake
them and gain the $1,000 reward which is
offered for their apprehension"