Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-18
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

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The public schools at Chama will close
in six weeks.
Carolina populars border the school
grounds at Hagerman.
The Citizen is now the official organ of
the city of Albuquerque.
Several Eddy merchants are opening
branch stores in Hagerman.
The Methodist Sunday school at Ros-
we'll has ordered new library.
| City Marshal Clay, of Las Vegas, col
lected $3.50 license money yesterday.
Last Monday New Mexico deposited
240 ounces of gold in the Denver mint.
l.. A. Stephens has four windmills in
operation on his place north of Roswell.
Lincoln county ranchmen rejoice over
the prospect of plenty of water for irri-
eating purposes.
| The Las Vegas telephone company, up
to last evening, had booked an even sixty
| eight subscribers.
Roswell is arranging to build Meth
odist church. Ground was broken Inst
Monday for Baptist church.
The gospel car in charge of Mr..
Wheeler stepped at Eddy one day, en-
route southwark from Hagerman.
Judge Trimble says the Democrat has
| left out the main plank IN his platform,
that of statehood for New Mexico.
Miss Mamie Hatch, of Albuquerque,
was presented with a fine piano this
week by her mother as a birthday pre-
sent.
At the special election at Malaga on
April 6 to vote $4,000 bonds to build a
new school house the bonds were unani-
mously voted.
James Fleck has removed to Hon. r.
d. Burns ranch adjoining Seths mill,
near Park View, and will seed 100 acres
to wheat and oats.
Prof. Ramsey of the Albuquerque
academy, has purchased business col
lege at Fresno, CAL, and will in q few
weeks move to that city.
The Roswell bank now occupies a
handsome new building, built by Colonel
j. w. Poe. The Roswell Land and Water
company uses the upper ar.s.
On the 1st of May, Receiver Schofeld,
of the Albuquerque National bank, will
pay dividend of 10 per cent, thus dis
bursting over $270c0.
Vim. Woodmansee and Miss Mamie
Farley were united in marriage at Albu
querque on Monday evening, and left the
same night for a tour to the Pacific
coast.
Six cars of oranges, thrown from the
track in Tuesdays wrecF, we're brought
into Las Vegas, to be transferred to other
cars. The fruit was but little, if any,
damaged.
The first of last week two head of cattle
we're stolen from Indians residing oppo-
site the mission at Jewett. They we're
milch COWS for which the Indians had been
buying and begging hay all winter.
Ruidoso is one of the most beautiful
streams in the county. The farmers
along the stream have already planted
their fields In wheat and oats, and are
preparing and cleaning land for corn.
The new appointive officers of Albu-
querque are as follows: T. A. Finical,
city attorney; DR.. Haynes, city physician;
Fred Fornoff, city marshal; Frank Harris
and George Carson, policemen; W. R.
Gerhart, iailer.
Mrs. M. J. Borden, of Albuquerque,
held services for the ly-organized
Congregational church, at Bland, on East
or Sunday; also conducted the funeral
services Of Tony O'Neal, who died at that
place on Saturday evening,
Roswell Record: "Hon. George Curry
and John l. Hinkle have leased the room
in the Hotel Pauly, formerly occupied by
the bank of Roswell. This would indi-
cate that George expects to make KOS
we'll his home in the near future"
The lower Pecos valley farmer need not
fear any chance of failing to get good,
paving mrrket for all the alfalfa he can
grow 80 long as the transportation COM
panies pursue their present liberal course
in granting rates to eastern points.
The San Marcial Bee: w. s. Hopewell,
of Sierra county, told Bee reporter on
Tuesday that he had secured from New
York a supply of sacaline seed some of
which will be planted on his ranch and
some on the Rio Grande bottom lands.
The experiment will be watched with in
terest.
Superintendent Bartlett has force of
about twenty-five men with teams and
necessary implements constructing
laterals to supply the farmers at Hager-
man With water. They are also doing
some good work on the tOwnsite, putting
bridges at the crossings.
The Roswell Record: Sheriff Perry re-
turned Wednesday from Muskogee, /. T.,
where he took jim Turner, Bill Cooks
chief lieutenant and partner in crime.
Turner strenuously denied his identity
until after he got into the territory, and
then he admitted that he was the man
wanted.
The Citizen: On the incoming of
court this morning the jury returned
verdict of guilty in the case of the Ter
ritory va. Pedro Garcia, embezzlement.
The defendants attorney moved for
new trial, and in default of $4,000 bond
Garcia was remanded into the custody OF
Capt. Hubbell deputy sheriff.
The Albuquerque Democrat: "The en-
tire forty acre tract purchased by the
railway company just south Of town, for
stock yards, is being covered with pens,
corrals, chutes and sidetracks, and is Just
now one of the busiest spots in the coun-
ty. This is to be the most important
feeding and resting station IN New Mex
leo, and oil the cattle coming in on both
roads will be unloaded here"
E. w. Pierce, the disbarred attorney,
boarded the early morning train for
puahlo in vhiCh Colorado oitv he will