Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-26
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Mcclure Bros. will shortly ship a car
load of honey from Las Cruces.
W. @. Davenport, accused of murder,
has been released from the Silver City
Jail on bond.
Fruit growers are disposing of pee
as low as cents per pound and
plums can be had for cents in San MAJ
cial.
Old man Meyers, we'll known at Las
Paso few weeFs ago, died last Sunday
from the effects of the wounds received.
The annual session of the New Mexico
Poultry association meets for the trans
action Of routine business and tho cleo
tiop of officers the third day of the terri
torial fair.
Fl. H. Belts is the persistent poll tax
collector appointed by the board of
school trustees. Pay him quick. it is the
easiest way to get rid of him, says the Sill
yer City Enterprise.
W. j. Hill shipped ten cars of range
cattle from San Marcial on Tuesday, to
be unloaded at Trinidad, Colo. They
were from the I ranch in the Black
Range and Tom Whitley, the foreman,
was in charge.
W. H. Newcomb, of Silver City, has the
contract to supply all the rock used by
the Santa Fe railroad on repairs on this
end of the line. He will put men to
work in his quarry below town and will
break about twelve cars of rock per day.
A. P. Loberg, of the firm of Childs g.
Loberg, the big mining operators of Car
Isle, died at the Sisters hospital in Ell
Paso, Monday. His death was the result
of cancer. His remains were embalmed
and shipped to his home at Helena, Mont.
Silver City Enterprise.
About O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
young Mexican woman named Agnstna
Parada was drowned in deep pool near
the Chinese gardens below the Bremen
mill. Deceased was washing clothes near
the pool, from which she obtained water.
While STOPPING to dip water she lost her
balance and fell in.-Silver City Enter
prise.
telegram from Washington announces
that Postmaster T. P. Gable, Of Santa l'e,
has been allowed $1,400 for clerk hire.
The East Las Vegas Office has an allow
ance for clerk hire of $3.50. The west
side has probably about the same. Such
is the difference between having one post
office in town and having two.-Las
Vegas Optic.
Our new Mother Superior, of the Acad-
emy of the Visitation, Mary Bernard, who
arrived here few days ago, has been
stationed at Ell Paso, Texas, for the last
ten years. She is an amiable and accom-
plished lady, and while we priced the
good work of our former mother we are
glad to say that Mother Bernard will be
second to mono in the management of the
institution.-Las Cruces Republican.
There is good prospect of new -four
ing mill in Albuquerque at an early day.
Mr.. F. Frank, who has been in CORE
spondence with eastern parties for some
time past, in regard to the necessary
capital for this enterprise, has now pro-
gressed SO far that there is no longer a |
reasonable doubt that the money re-
quired will be promptly forthcoming.
There will be rivalry at the fair
among the various mining districts of
New Mexico and Arizona, and the mineral
exhibit will be by far the finest and most |
extensive ever made in the southwest. A |
special building is to be put up to &C.
commodate it. People who take an in
terest in mining matters will have a
chance to look at samples of ore from all
the good camps in the country.-Albu-
querqae Citinen.
Mr.. j. H. Riley returned to Las Cruces,
last Saturday, from trip to New York
and Washington. He says the reaction
from the panic has now set in, and better
feeling prevails everywhere in anticipa-