Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-20
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the tie preserving works near Las Vegas
Manuel Alvarado, of Hatch, was drown
ed in attempting to cross the Rio Grande
at Las Cruces.
At Gallup, a fire in the Laclede hotel
destroyed the two corner rooms of the
building. Incendiary.
The new telephone company at Las
Vegas has begun business. Mrs. Anna
Carson will be day operator.
Francis V. Smith, of Colfax county, has
asked for divorce from Dolan Y. Smith,
on the grounds of cruel and inhuman
treatment.
S. Baca and brother have thirty men
employed in shearing 10000 sheep, about
a mile and half from Las Vegas, 500
were sheared on Thursday.
One hundred men are at work repair
ing the washouts on the Silver City G.
Northern railroad between Whitewater
and Hanover. 1t Is expected that through
trains will be running over the line Mon
day.
W. c. Davenport, the man who mur-
dered Sig WeisI at Carlisle Tuesday
night, has been captured, given pre-
llminary hearing and sent to the Silver
City Jail without bail.
Robert Mckinley, wife and family and
tho wife of John James, jr., have moved
to the city from Madrid Mr.. and Mrs.
Mckinley will open dining room in the
highland acknowledgements Citizen.
Eddy Independent: "We learn that a
car load of delicious Pecos valley grapes
Will be shipped from here later on to I.os
Angeles, Cal. This is strange, but true;
the grape raised in this valley is far su-
perior in flavor to the grape of California"
Las Vegas Examiner: circular let
ter descriptive of the valuable ibrary of
the late Columbus Moies is being printed
in this Office. Bids will be received on
any or all of the books which are q selec-
tion that would grace any library.
From twenty pans of dirt taken from
the Red river sands, Col. T. B. Mills has
washed thirty-one grains of gold There
are 1f0 pans in cubic yard Figure it
out yourself and see if it would pay to
work such dirt!--I.as Vegas Examiner.
Last Saturday evening heavy rain
cloud passed over Las Cruces and burst
when it struck the Organ mountains. The
flood came down the big arroyo and
made things quite damp at Las Liebres.
crowd OF people went out on the mesa
to see the torrent.- Independent Dem.
ocrat.
Judge j. r. McFie, Major W. II. II.
LleWellyn and Stenogrupher Fl. B. Holt
are occupied to-day in taking testimony
in the office of Childers g. Dobson in
snit, which involves the title to several
valuable mining claims at Hillsboro.-
Citizen.
Victor l.. Ochoa, Il former Las Vegas
editor of Spanish paper, who took part
In an lnsurrection In Mexico, and was
captured and prosecuted by the United
States, for violation of neutrality, has
been sentenced to three years lmprlson-
ment in New York.
It is publicly asserted here that petit
tion is being circulated in Socorro county
asking for pardon for James Reynolds,
who is now serving five years. term in
the New Mexico penitentiary, for the
murder of Irwin Moore. The murder was
committed in Grant county and was an
aggravated and heinous crime.-Silyer
City Enterprise.
Mrs. Mary p. Casey, of Silver City, has
handed into the building fund of the
Church of the Good Shepherd $50 as a
donation from Miss Jamie Hargreaves,
Birkenhead, England, and Mrs. Thornley,
Taylor, Barnsly, England. Mrs. Lettie
B. Morrill, has also handed into the same
fund SIS, the gift of Mr.. Percival Nichols,
Bristol, N. Y.-Enterprise.
Asphalt roofs seem to be growing in
favor in this city, especially for business
houses. Mayor f. E. Olney had no sooner
finished putting an asphalt roof on his
block, Douglas avenue and Sixth street,
than VIM. Malboeuf followed with it as
roofing for his Sixth street business house.
And now Henry Coors is having it put on
the large store building occupied by Ros-
enthal Brothers, corner of Lincoln and
Sixth streets.-Las Vegas Optic.
On account of the copious rains now
falling almost daily, nature wears smi-
ing face ard all the earth seems glad. The
crops, throughout this sectionof the terri
tory, which we're not injured by the recent
hail storms, were never surpassed, and
ly, if ever equaled. The stock raisers
wear smiling countenances, and their
herds and hocks are wild and frisky over
the prospects of good living and exceed
ing fatness.--Las Vegas Optic.
Las Vegas Optic: Father Defouri,
parish priest on the west side, is engaged
in the very laudable endeavor to have
steel ceiling, like that in the ground floor
of the Masonic temple, put into the west.
side church. The ceiling of the church
was made of common sheeting, in the
first place, and has been in use for
twenty-six years. The weight of accu-
mulated dust which it bears, with
its growing weakness from age, is liable
to precipitate it upon the heads of the
congregation at any time. Father De-
fouri will gladly accept any donations
which may be offered him from the east
side, and the Optic hopes they will be
many.
fancy metal toy, shaped something
like a pocket flask, and having springs
inside of it, was found among the debris
of the A., I. g. s. F. depot at Silver City.
Soon it was uoised about that this was an
internal machine which had been wound
up and set to start on fire after every one
had left the premises. Mr.. Chas. Dyer,
general superintendent western grand
division, aud j. E. Hurley, division su-
perintendent, arrived Tuesday evening.
They examined the supposed incendiary
machine. They secuted the idea that it
was ever used for any such purpose. The
lost property amounted to $4,000, mostly
on railroad buildings, There Was very
little freight stored in the freight house
and very little baggage in the baggage
room.