Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-30
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Roswell boasts fourishing Woman's
club.
The public schools of Las Cruces have
opened with an enrolment of 100 pupils.
DR.. M. f. Desmarais has left Las Vegas
for the City of Mexico, where he will enter
upon the practice of his profession.
Hon. S. Alexander is now an expert
with bicycle, and his friends intend to
enter him in the races at the next terri
torial fair, says the Socorro Advertiser.
Miss Carrie Collier, sister of Judge
Collier, who was on visit to Georgia
relatives and friends, has resumed her
duties as deputy clerk of the court at
Albuquerque.
A. A. Grant, proprietor of the Albu-
querque Democrat, of the Albuquerque
water works, of the Albuquerque opera
house, and of several other things which
are in Albuquerque, has gone to Chicago.
The new Masonic hall at Albuquerque
will be dedicated on October z. The
Masonic grand lodge opens in that city,
at 10 O'Clock that morning, and after
transacting necessary business, the grand
master will dedicate the hall.
Edward Newcomer has completed the
tax roll of Bernalillo county, which foots
up $8,s85,O0O, an increase of $2,000,000
over 1894. The tax on this years assess
ment on basis of 3711a, is $4,000, and
the collector is required to give bonds in
double that acknowledgements Dem
ocrat.
The grand jury at Las Cruces found
two true bills against Ben Williams, one
for the Colorado shooting and another on
mileage account, and indicted COL A. j.
Fountain on the charge of forgery. Bills
were not found against A. B. Fall or Joe
Williams in connection with the Williams
Morgan shooting scrape.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe en-
gineers have decided upon the site for a
dam at the point of the mountain. The
rev dam will be in the same place as for
merly, but wing dam will be run from
a point above the railroad bridge. When
the work is completed Socorro will be
perfectly safe from future floods. So
corro Advertiser.
Sea Foam, better known as the "Bailey
colt" owned by George Green, of Ger
rillos, won in half-mile dash on the AL
buquerque race track last Sunday after
noon. Chaplain was the defeated horse.
George sends his father thirteen tons of
baled hay, that amount having been
among the winnings of the lucky horse.
Good for George!-Cerrillos Rustler.
At a horse ranch not far from Magda-
lena, N. M, the proprietor takes grim
satisfaction in using for a sugar bowl the
skull of human being found on the
desert some years ago. The ranch hands
and visitors object to It's presence, and
forego the use of sugar rather than delve
into its recesses for the sweets therein.
It's owner evinces great delight in the
ghastly relic and will not dine unless it
occupies conspicuous position at the
board.-San Marcial Bee.
Excitement ran high on Monday even
ing when W. G. Bell, accompanied by his
family, came in from Rosedale, in the San
Mateo mountains, and spread the news
that murder had been committed in the
mountains near his home, the victim be-
ing James Cornell, a we'll known old
prospector and rancher of this vicinity.
San Marctal Bee. Before death claimed
him the poor fellow stated that he was
shot by an Indian in ambush. The muir
derer bas not been captured.
G. B. Eddy returned last Sunday from
an extended trip east and through the
n Mountains of New Mexico, having located
large tract of coal lands IN the Salado
district of Lincoln county, and in COM
pany with his brother, j. A. Eddy, estab-
lished an Office for the transaction OF
business in White Oaks. When the El Paso
and White Oaks railway is built Eddy
Bros. will be found to have the coal busi-
ness of the county.-Eddy Current.