Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-06
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

1t is very difficult matter to find I
vacant house in Albuquerque just now.
The territorial convention of the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union is il
session at Socorro.
The Optic at Las Vegas is now taking
the United Press kilograms, which very
much improve its first page.
The Roswell Record suggests the or
ganization at Albuquerque during the
fair of territorial press association.
The First National bank of Las Vegas
has filed suit on assumpslt against the
commissioners of Mora county. The
amount involved is $608.
Wm. Green and D. E. Young, two gen
tlemen from Colorado, have purchased
10000 head of sheep from near Las Vegas,
and will drive them to Colorado.
! We understand that j. T. Mcfarland
has been in the valley for the past week
gathering data for history that exGov.
Prince is to write of and concerning New
Mexico.-Roswell Record.
The Postal Telegraph company has
placed a telegraph instrument in the
Citizen editorial rooms for the use OF
visiting newspaper men during the ses
sion of the national irrigation congress.
Judge l.. S. Trimble, the venerable and
respected Dem ocrat, formerly repre-
sentative in congress from Kentucky, has
returned to his home in albuquerque
from southern California in much I'M
proved health.
New Mexico needs few canning fac
tories. Several hundred thousand pounds
of choice fruit are rotting in the orchards
of the territory for lack of canning facili-
ties, remarks the Albuquerque Citizen.
Sheriff Perry returned from business
trip Saturday. While away he had his
eyes operated upon for cataracts, and,
while they are still little inHamed, they
look better, and he says they feel better
than for some time, says the Roswell
Record.
Grand Chancellor W. F. Kuckenbecker,
of the grand lodge of the Knights of Py-
tias of New Mexico, made an official visit
to the local lodge Thursday evening.
After the usual session in Castle hall the
knights adjourned to the American
kitchen and regaled themselves with an
elegant banquet City Eagle.
The hustling receiver of the Albuquer-
que National bank, John w. Schofeld,
informs the Citizen that he expects
checks for dividend No. 6 from Washing
! ton every day. This will be encouraging
news to the depositors of the defunct
banking institution, and will place in
circulation here considerable money now
tied up.-Albuquerque Citizen.
Bishop j. NJ. Kendrick, of the Episcopal
church, will leave this evening for Gallup,
and after stay there of day the bishop
will go to California. He expects to at
tend the convocation of his church at
Minneapolis about October l, and later a
meeting of the Episcopal church bishops
in New York. He will be absent about
three months. s.-Albuquerque Citizen.
DR.. G. W. Bailey, one of the Oldest and
most highly respected citizens of Silver
City, died at his home on Thursday morn
ing, aged 65 years, 8 months and days.
Deceased was born near Cooperstown, N.
Y, and after spending some years at diff
ferent mining camps in Colorado and this
territory came to Silver City IN 1871 and
has resided here ever since.
Monday being Labor day little or moth
ing could be done and yesterday was taken
up almost entirely by arguments on
motion filed by the attorneys for the con-
testees in the Dona Ana county election
cases asking for the suppression of the
greater portion of the testimony taken by
the special master on the ground of GER
tain alleged Irregularities. The attorneys
interested in the argument we're Hon.
Thomas B. Catron, delegate-elect to con-
gress, of Santa Fe, Judge John R. McFie,
s. B. Newcomb, A. J. Fountain and A. L.
ChristY, of Las Cruces, for the Republican