Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-16
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The Rincon Shaft has been revived by
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| George j. Ford.
Springer boasts the only artesian we'll
in northern New Mexico.
San Miguel county is about twice the
size of the state of Massachusetts,.
Geo. W. Gregg has leased the Kinsey
gardens and orchards above Kingston,
La Belle mining camp, in Colfax coun.
ty, is having rush of prospectors and
! capitalists.
Alfred Julius Buchoz, an old and re-
spected resident of Las Cruces, died on
Tuesday.
The order of Knights of Pythias of the
grand domain of New Mexico now num-
bers about 1000.
Frank Garrett the engineer, who has
been on the Ration division for the past
year, returned to Albuquerque.
The damage done to fruit by late
frosts in the vicinity of Las Cruces is
less than was supposed few days ago.
Bert. Hubbard, the contractor and
builder, has just completed a thorough
overhauling of the Springer house.
I. Madison, employed in the North
Homestake mine at White Oaks, fell
down a shaft and was seriously hurt.
The students of the New Mexico mi.
versity, at Albuquerque, planted forty
trees ON the university grounds on Satur-
day.
The lower Rio Grande river is reported
to be filling up with flood water from the
mountains in the northern part of the
territory.
The Nicotine club has been organized
at Deming presumably for smoking pur-
poses chiefly. Doubtless the gum chewer
will be barred.
L.. II. $. Williamson, formerly in the
hotel business at Engle, is in Jail at De-
troit, Mich on the charge of smuggling
opium from Canada.
The dealers in wet hardware at Spring
er have entered into combine whereby
the price of 'smiles' has been raised from
10 cents to two for quarter.
The United States branch of the dis
trict court at Albuquerque has adjourned,
but the territorial branch will remain in
session for several weeks.
Lieut.. c. G. Smith started from Fort
Wingate for Texas on horseback on the
llth. He expects to ride all the way so
as to get acquainted with the country.
The report that the Mescalero Apaches
had attacked the agent seems to be found
ed on the fact that the agent put an In
dian in the guard house against the will
of the Indian.
During these panicy times it is a source
of congratulation to the people of Colfax
county to have so reliable a depository
as the First National bank of RATION
Springer Stockman.
The Optic: "That bawllng cow on
halfway hill is probably to be more
pitied than censured for raising the
racket she does, every spring, over the
killing of her calf, sold to the butcher"
The Las Vegas Optic alleges that:
some town people who drove out to see
the penitentes castigating themselves,
yesterday, were in some instances held at
bay with drawn Winchesters and revol-
vers."
The New Mexico Congregational asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting in
the Congregational church of Albuqner
que, Wednesday and Thursday, April II
and IS. Rev. Frank T. Bayley, of Dem
yer, and Rev. j. B. Clark, D. D., of New
York, will be In attendance and deliver
addresses.
The teachers and pupils of the East
Las Vegas scools held appropriate Ar
Dor day exercises on Friday. Trees,
dedicated to the memory of George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Henry
W. Longfellow and other prominent peo-
pie, were planted in the beautiful lawn in
front of the school building.
The Black Range mentions: "Billy
Dawson has turned his bevy of quails
loose upon the freckled face of mother
earth. While these birds are wild and
hard to curry they return regularly to
their coop for food and water. Twenty
five dollars reward for the detection and
conviction of any person or persons
molesting or Filling said Birds"
The White Oaks Eagle observes: "The
Pecos valley has had an epidemic of re-
ligion, and the papers publish long lists
of names of those who have climbed
aboard the ark of safety. The scribe
didn't notice whether the names of any
of the editors down there we're written in
the lists of the redeemed or not"
BERTHE, the l2-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Anderson, died at White
Oaks on Thursday of diphtherla. In this
connection the Eagle notes that "Drs.
Paden and Shedloski will inoculate the
children of parents so desiring with anti
toxine, to prevent or moderate the ma
lignancy of diphtheria. The fee will be
49," These doctors are the first to in
troduce anti-toxine in New Mexico.
The Albuquerque Citizen notes: Alex.
Bowie, one of Gallup's leading citizens,
came in yesterday on important business
touching the question of water storage,
covering an immense acreage three miles
east of the Coal city. The consumma.
tion of the scheme will entail an expendi-
ture of considerably over 100000. Sew
eral citizens of Gallup have subscribed
liberelly toward detraying the cost of
surveying the mesa and other reservoir
sites.