Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-24
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Eddyites are proud of their publi
schools.
The school house at Hagerman is near
ing completion.
The Atlantic & Pacific paid off its EN-
ployes at Albuquerque on Tuesday.
Prices of city lots in Las Vegas ant
East Las Vegas are stiffening decidedly
Decoration day will be appropriated.
observed at Flora Vista, San Juan county
Judge Collier has determined to cleal
the territorial court docket at Albuquer
que.
Ell Paso papers are devoting great
deal of space to the proposed White Oaks
railroad.
The Presbyterians at Eddy have already
raised 800 for their proposed new ST.
500 church.
The Santa Fe is moving many empty
refrigerator cars to California. New
business in sight.
The Rio Grande valley is in full bloom,
and never looked more beautiful than at
the present time.
| Bees are making money for ther keep.
ers this fine weather near Eddy by
sucking the sweet from alfalfa.
j. E. Cockrell is having plans drawn
for substantial residence to be erected
on North Richardson avenue at Roswell.
Mr. Ames. the dairyman, has purchased
from G. P. Owens we'll improved ranch
in Alameda, the consideration being
$1,000.
Data is being gathered by a Chicago
publishing house for work to be en-
titled, "New Mexico, Her Resources and
People,"
San Juan Times r. G. Prewitt has a
large force of men on the South Side
canal, and will have water below Gallegos
by May 1.
Capt. A.. j. Armstrong, charged with
obstructing the United States mail at the
Cochiti pueblo ferry, was discharged at
Albuquerque.
Rev. Il. G. Parsons, the new rector of
St. Paul's Episcopal church at Las Vegas,
is expected to arrive from Washington,
D. e., on Friday afternoon.
With the stage line to Catskill, which
starts up Monday, Ration merchants will
be put in direct communication with the
new gold camp of La Belle.
Last Saturday Deputy U. s. Marshal
M. Phillips arrested, at Phoenix, Ed. Col
Inns and Pearl Smith, charged with violat-
ing the Edmunds act at Eddy.
Scott Truxton, having all the work he
can do as draughtsman for the Roswell
Land & Water Co., has turned his insur-
ance business over to 7. II. Long.
Mr.. Rush reports that things are bright
ening up around Gallegos, San Juan
county. The grass is growing and the
stock will have good feed in week or so.
The Roswell Record: J.A. Rawles is
planting twenty-five-acre apple orchard,
and in addition thereto he is planting
l,1oO prune trees on his place near Green
field.
Joe Whiteman has presented the Ros.
we'll Record with clean Office towel.
What emblem of deep mourning will the
Record use in case the "devil" should
shuttle off?
The Optic: 1t is said that Judge Ma
nuel @. de Baca, of Las Vegas, will soon
be gladdened with an appointment that
will net him at least $4,000 per annum for
a number of years.
The valley below Eddy with its waving
chards is becoming lovely for the eye to
behold. Yet this valley was Il barren
waste few years ago.
The San Juan Times. temporary
injunction Issued by Judge Laughlin was
served on r. II. Woods, restraining him
from filling up or obstructing the ditch
belonging to A. Stevenson where it
crosses Mr.. Woods land.
The Eddy Independent: Abe Mulkey
preached his farewell sermons to the peo-
pie of Eddy last Sunday and Sunday night,
which We learn were well attended, and |
we also learn that subscription of }19O
was taken up for Evangelist Mulkey.
Sheriff Walker, of Eddy county, depart
ed Thursday night for Cuidad Juarez,
where Martin M'rose and Vic Queen are
held in durance vile awaiting an order
from the governor of chihuahua to the |
sheriff of Juarez to accompany Walker to |
Eddy.
The Lordsburg Sentinel. A party of
engineers arrived in town the first OF the
week and Immediately left for Carlisle. |
They gave it out that they had come to
look the country over to see ii it was
feasible to build an electric road from
Carlisle to this point.
The large insects resembling big millers
now found upon the shade trees should
be destroyed. They are the progenitors
of millions of worms which denude the
trees of leaves in the summer. Killing
one of these now means the destruction
of thousands later on.
John F. Crawford, one of the three
gentlemen who came to Pennington from
Pomona, CAL, for the purpose Of locating
on the South Side canal, bought forty
acres from R. @. Prewitt and will soon be
at work putting his land in condition to |
add its mite to the wealth and prosperity
of San Juan county.
The Optic: Wilson waddingham, at
present residing and having bis main
Office in New York City, has purchased !
from Judge Louis Sulzbacher and wife,
residents of Kansas City till they and the |
broken family circle return to New Mexi-
60, their interest in the Antonio Ortiz
grant, for the stated consideration of
$4,000.
The Albuquerque Citizen: Harry
Woods, prize fighter, who arrived here
from Arizona with his trainer, varnell,
Sunday night, is in the city, and both will
do their training on the chain gang for
the nextten days, at the instructions of
Justice Crawford. They appeared as
hobos and the police ran
them in.
The Roswell Record states that an un-
confirmed rumor is current down there,
that word has been received by company
officials from J. ). Hagerman, at Colo |