Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-20
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way, has been promoted and will in the
future fill the position of auditor and
cashier Of that company, filling the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr..
q. s. Ludlam.
Bike riders who will enter for the hicy-
Gle races at the territorial fair have COM
menced putting themselye2 ], trim.
Fred Lewis, Tom Insiey, Ar Uodington
and Tommie Scott are in training at Al
buquercue.
At the meeting of the school direc-
tors Thursday morning, the board elect
ed Mr.. G. w. Ward, principal,
and the Misses Mead, Lynch, Montgomery
and Doughty as assistants for the ensu
ing year.-Las Cruces Republican.
There will be meeting of the society
of American Irrigation Engineers in AL
buquerque during the session of the irrl-
CATION congress. They number fifty, and
represent nearly every state in the Union.
Their meeting will result in benefit to the
irrigation interests of the southwest
Citizen.
Don Jose Il. Archuleta and wife and
Don Jose j. Romero and wife have sent
out invitations to the marriage of Dona-
ciano Romero and Virginia Archuleta,
which event will take place in the church
of st. Gertrude, at Mora, September 4,
1896, at 8 p. m. The newly married cou-
| pie will be at home on and after the 7th.
Las Vegas Optic.
| The United States court for the 3rd
| judicial district Of New Mexico will open
its next term in this city on Monday,
September 2. A special term of district
court for Grant county will be opened in
this city on the third Monday in Septem-
ber, the l6th.-Silver City Enterprise.
Lee Long, of Roswell, who came down
Tuesday, reports that Phelps White,
manager of big cattle company on the
plains eighty miles east Of Roswell, has
| bought the Milne alfalfa crop ana will
| drive in from 500 to 1000 head of cattle
to feed, for shipment to market. Several
Lincoln county cattlemen, also, will feed.
EDDY Argus.
j. L. Sheridan, of the Silver City En-
| terprise, is going to work his lead prop
osition in the Big Hachita's, near the
Mexican line, and will put a force of
twenty five men to work sometime next
month. The Demng Headlight says:
The camp is livelier than since the de-
preston in silver and preparations are
being made to work many of the claims
which have been idle for years.
AT the meeting of the board of county
commissioners held in Silver City on
Monday, no action was taken concerning
the tax levy tor the present year for the
reason that the matter of the mandamus
proceedings brougtt by Collector Laird
to compel a special levy is still before
| the court and nothing can be done until
that is determined.
According to the Deming Headlight the
hotel, which is being constructed at Hud-
sons hot springs, will be 100 feet square,
in the form of hollow square. Forty
acres of land around the hotel will be
made into beautiful park. Shade and
fruit trees, vines, strawberries and flowers
are now being planted by Joseph Merk,
| who is an ideal landscape gardener, and
the entire park arrangement will be un-
der his supervision.
Rincon Weekly: Cattle stealing in a
picayunish way is still carried on in
Dona Ana county. In going around the
| county, it is seldom that we can not see
fresh or dried beef, hanging up at the
small houses in the various bosques,
| while it is we'll known to all the people
in the vicinity of these houses that the
parties there do not own hoof of cattle.
T. B. Mills, Chas. Russell and G. G..
Hughes, part of the new gold mining
company recently organized here, left
to-day, fully equipped for placer mining,
for the mouth of Red river. The outlook
for this company is said to be very
bright, the assay made shows that the
dirt runs from 81, the lowest, up to 50 a
yard. The gold is very fine, but plenty
of water is at hand. Sluces are to be put
in at once.-Las Vegas Optic.