Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-14
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NEW MEXICO NEWS.

The Socorro public schools opened to-
day.
r. W. d. Bryan, wife and children have
returned to Albuquerque from summer
vacation in New York.
! o. r. Brant still claims honors as a
fisherman, thirty pounds Of fish being his
record last Monday morning, at Hager-
man dam. Eddy Argus.
The Silver City Enterprise calls upon
the press of the territory to aid the tax
payers in the effort to reduce the exorbit-
ant salaries paid to county officials.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baylor Shannon returned
to Silver City from their wedding tour on
Monday. A host of friends joyfully well
coined them home.
FIX. Eberle, the owner of the great
Eberle bonanza mines, at Mogollon, ar
rived at Silver City from Los Angeles, CAL,
on Sunday. He went to Mogollon Mon
day.
Conductor Pat Savage informs the So
zorro Chieftain that some 5000 cars of
cattle have been shipped from Magda-
lena this summer and that the shipments
are still constantly going on.
In the matter of the assignment of the
st. Vrain Mercantile company, an order
has been entered for the delivery of sheep
rented by that company to ths owners,
Gross, Blackwell & Co., says the Optic.
JEFF Kelly, who was mayor of Ration in
'93 and '94, and whole.souled, COM
panionable gentleman, is reported to be
dangerously i'll in a hospital in Albuquer-
que, with but little or no hope for recov-
cry.
1t will not do to say that potatoes can
not be raised in New Mexico. We saw
and ate this week some as fine potatoes
as an Irishman ever Topped lip over,
which we're raised on Gila river farm
Lordsburg Liberal.
Tbos. Ross has just closed one of the
largest wool sales that has been made in
this territory for a long time. He has
sold to new buyers who have never be-
fore invested in New Mexico wool, nearly
100000 pounds of wool.
Juan Bautista Armijo, an uncle of Don
Jacinto Armijo, died on the 4th inst, up
at Colorado, this county, aged Sc years.
Don Juan was one CT the old settlers of
Don Ana county, whose death is much
regretted by his numerous friends.-Rio
Grande Republican.
1t has often been stated that tomatoes
could not be successfully grown in this
latitude, but VIM. Luythe, of Springer,
has settled all such doubts this season by
raising fine yield in his garden here.
The vines fully matured are of large va
rietY, and the tomatoes ripen just the
same as in the eastern states.-Springer
Stockman.
Work on the Magdalena and Mogollon
wagon road is progressing nicely. The
road is nearly completed through the
mountains where the only heavy work is
to be done and Sheriff Bursum who has
the enterprise in charge and who re-
turned this week from viewing the work
says the road is fine one.-Socorro
Chieftain.
Jacob N. Straus, the aged father of A. |
Straus and Mrs. Fannie Colman, passed |
away at the home of the latter at 10
O'Clock last evening. Mr.. Straus had
caught cold on Saturday last and this |
finally developed into pneumonia, dis
ease so fatal to aged persons. The de-
ceased was born at Dittlofsroda near
Wuerzburg, Germany, December 20, 1911,
and consequently would have been So
years old had he lived until December
next.-Las Vegas Optic.