Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-25
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

La Belle talks of organizing city gov
ernment.
The albuquerque police are abating
the tramp nuisance.
There will be a fine crop of early
peaches in Grant county.
The ranges are dry and cattlemen are
anxiously awaiting rain.
Last years hay crop in the Glla valley
has been completely exhausted.
Hon. H. B. Ferguson, of Albuquerque,
is attending court at Hillsboro.
DR.. R. @. Anderson has been appointed
postmaster at Central, Grant county.
Six Grant county lunatics are confined
in the insane hospital at Las Vegas.
The Biggs Lumber company is putting
in mill at Chrome, Rio Arriba county.
At La Belle cabins are worth $40 per
month and $75 house is worth 5000 per
year.
Hunter Woodson is no longer connect
ed with the Albuquerque Citizen in any
capacity.
Rociada rejoices over heavy rain, es-
timated to be worth $l,000O00, on Sun
day.
The Deming Headlight editorially af-
firms that: "The hens are laying white
eggs again."
R. @. Prewtt has twenty-five Naval 10 In
dians at work on the South Side canal at
Pennington.
Tho Rio Grop1o hos ofoh h1irhol v,ripa
of $15 for range horses killed on the San
Juan division.
Kemary Ritter, treasurer of Union
county, has returned to Clayton from a
visit to Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. r. Gable will soon
leave Albuquerque for New York City,
where they will hereafter reside.
On account of the great increase of
business, another set of train dispatchers
has been put on at Las Vegas.
The people of Gila valley and the Mo-
gollon mining district can now talk with
their friends at Silver City over the tele-
phone.
Sheriff Hunt arrested a hack-driver
named Fred. 9. Green in albuquerque,
yesterday. Wanted for forgery in Sew
ard, Neb.
rumor is to the effect that the Santa
Fe company will temporarily abandon
the branch road from Mutt station to
Lake Valley.
Water was turned into the Koontz
ditch Tuesday and the many thrifty shade
trees which line the streets of Aztec are
being irrigated.
In the matter of the assignment of
John H. Hughes to W. L. Trimble, down
in Albuq uerque, an order to sell property
was granted by the court.
There will be no court in Mora county
this month, but probably a short term
will be held over there this summer. The
Springer court will be held the latter part
of May.
1t is stated at Las Cruces that E. W..
Pierce, late of Las Vegas and the Mora
jail, wrote the report of the legislative
committee appointed to visit the agri-
cultural college.
The Santa Fe has recently discharged
some of IFS men for drinking, and it is
said that hereafter, the road will not re-
tain men in its employ that drink, either
on or off duty.
White Oaks is rather cosmopolitan for
small place. There are within 1t and
its environs representatives of almost
every quarter of the earth, or natives
who have visited remote climes.
Arthur Raithel, who has been connected
with the Deming Headlight Office for
over two years, has resigned his position
to accept an advanced and more lucrative
one, as second book-keeper, in the Office
of g. Wormser g. Co.
Uncle Lucien Stewart, of Chama, has
Just received notice from Washington
that his pension has been increased from
50 to $12 per month. Mr.. Stewart was
an old Mexican soldier and frontier scout.
Miss Hadley, daughter of Prof. Hiram
Hadley, did not leave Albuquerque for
Boston on Wednesday morning. The
train was so crowded it was impossible
to secure berth in one of the Pullmans.
The Albuquerque Citizen: Capt. 8. F.
johnson, manager of the Prairie Land
& Cattle company ranches in Colorado,
was in the city last Saturday and was en-
tertained in royal, social style by Sheriff
Hunt, Stock Agent Brooks and Messrs
Slaughter and Furlong.
At Albuquerque yesterday Judge Col.
lier sentenced "Red" johnson, a half.
witted tin.horn gambler, to one year in
the penitentiary for slashing John Wick.
strom with knife. He also sentenced
Ufrano Noceda to seven months in the
pen. and to pay fine of $1OO for assault
ing his wife.
Says the Optic: Work on the Las
Vegas normal school building will be
pushed to completion, so soon as the
financial standing of three of Contractor
Berardinelli's Santa Fe bondsmen il
passed upon by the board of regents oi
the institution.
The Daily Hotel Gazette, Los Angeles
CAL: John Oliver Plank, manager of the
Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas hot springs
N. NJ, proposes to run excursions to that
famous resort, from points in Arizona
and, possibly, from the Pacific coast.
The San Juan Index: Judge Black, OF
Las Cruces, visited the experimental sta
tion Friday last and In behalf of the ter.
ritory accepted the buildings and released
Contractor Brewers bondsmen. The
Judge expressed himself a. we'll pleased
with the manner In which Brewer per-
formed his contract and paid that gentle
man high compliment,