Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-12
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NEW MEXICO NEWS.

There are nineteen crews on the La
Junta division and twenty-five on the
Ration division.
General Superintendent A. G. Wells, of
the Atlantic & Pacific, has returned to
Albuquerque from the east.
A. A. Freeman is here from Eddy to at
tend the institution of the Knight Temp
lar commandery.- Register
The Clayton water tank burst on the
3rd of July and thirty Thousand gallons
of water fell from an eighty foot tower.
No one hurt.
JAS. E. Cree, of Ft. Stanton, secretary
of the Southeastern New Mexico Stock
association, is at Roswell to attend the
stock meeting.
H. G. Coors, Las Vegas, has turned
over to the Santa Fe 3,700 pieces of 2x4
lumber, which will be used in the Albu-
querque stock yards.
Nearly all the COW outfits in the coun-
try are now in the vicinity of Roswell
branding calves. The range has not
been as good in several years as it is at
this time.
Roswell Record: A big crowd of pleas
ure-seeking fishermen headed by Con-
ductor Garrett of the Texas & Pacific
railroad are expected here about the 1lth
to go to the lakes for a weeks fish.
The board of commissioners of Colfax
county very sensibly appropriated $500
to make passable the road between here
and Blossburg. Cold. W. Dwyer do
mates his services to superintend the
work. ..
W. E. Symons, master mechanic of the
A., 7. q s. F., with headquarters at Ration,
and Thos. Smith, foreman of the shops
here, have received two valuable patents.
One variable exhaust nozzle and one
metallic packing.
Our esteemed pioneer, Ami Young, was
in town this week. Mr.. Young says his
crop is looking fine. He has in twenty
acres of sorghum and 5000 heads of cab
bage besides other garden truck till
you can't rest.-Clayton Enterprise.
Las Vegas Examiner: An. effort is
being made to the end of securing the
adoption of the ordinance by the city
council compelling all vendors of milk to
secure certificate from competent
veterinarian, testifylng as to the health
fulness of their herds.
The Citizen has positive information
that certain big firm in this city sent
for and has received. by Wells-Fago ex-
press an order of postage stamps and
stamped envelopes from Santa Fe
amounting to $40. What is j. that eqin-
pels people to send ngnyt from New
castle for coal?-Albuquez4ue Citizen.
Conductor Jas. Carney has n curious
hen. She wanted to set and not being
permitted that pleasure, she adopted a
family of small kittens, to which she is
acting IS stepmother. She permits the
real mother to suckle them but ut other
times she broods over them, and gathers
them under her wing, as though they were
chickens.-Optic.
The Optic is confident that the affairs
of Contractor W. F. Kean will come out
all right. He had been unfortunate in
that he had done too good work on the
temple, for the price he agreed on, and
he is no doubt somewhat behind in his
accounts; but his losses are not as heavy
as reported, and he has number of
friends both here and at Pueblo, who will
stand by him and see him out of his
present embarrassment.
The new medical society has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
DR.. F. Marion y Alonzo, of Las Vegas,
president; H. M. Smith, of Las Vegas,
secretary; Dr.. J. P. Kaster, of Albuquer-
que, treasurer; DIR. H. ?. Alternately, of
Socorro, first vice-president; DR.. E. B.
Shaw, of Las Vegas, second ce-president;
DR.. w. 7. Williams, of Silver City, third
vice. presi dent. The next meeting of the
society will be held in Socorro, N. NJ,
second Thursday of August, 1896.
Albuquerque Citizen: For the past
few days great preparations have been in
progress at the residence of Santiago |
Baca, in the old town, for the wedding
this evening of his daughter, Miss Aurelia,
to Flavlo Sandoval. damper to the
joyous excitement that usually attends a
big wedding among the native people,
took place this morning, when Mrs.
Melton Chavez, sister of the bride and
wife of faithful officer of the First Ma
tional bank, fell and dislocated the knee
joint, possibly fracturing parts of the
bone.
Las Vegas Optic: Postmaster Gould,
of the East Las Vegas office, having been
shown the statement Of Postmaster
Grunsfeld, of Albuquerque, that the
families of firm members could not get
their mail in firm boxes, said he did not
intend himself to go to that extreme,
unless compelled by special instructions
from the department; but that in his
opinion great laxity had sprung up and
much direct violation of law was prac-
ticed in the postoffices of New Mexico, in
the matter of renting boxes. He con-
fessed to having gone long way out of
the required path, himself, and that his
attention had been called to the matter
by the department.
Las Vegas Examiner: Jesus Maria
Prada, coroner and chief of police, was
exhibiting beautiful jag last evening,
and made himself very obnoxious aud
abusive at the dance in the Plaza hotel.
It is getting high time for action when the
society people of Las Vegas can not give
dance, without being bothered by
drunken police, urged on by the justice
of the peace. Macario G. de Baco, justice
of the peace, was present at the Plaza at
the time Prada was disturbing the
dancers, and when asked to have him
taken away and sober officers attend to
his duty, it is said he replied: "The more
intox xicated he is the better, as he will
cause more trouble" Several other
policemen were called and they removed
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