Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-02
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

SOcorro Will mold munlcipai election
on Tuesday.
There will be great deal of development
work done on the mines at Water canon
during the present year.
Mr.. ia. Moore is Investigating the min
eral deposits of ths country between tho
Gallinas and the Sacramentos.
"a. Richardson and Henry Wareham
are engaged in prospecting the mountains
between White Oaks and Jlcarilla and are
now in the vicinity of Coy ote.
There is probably more systematic
prospecting going on in this region just
now than at any time before ia the his
tory of the amp.-White Oaks Eagle.
Ii is learned that Humphrey and Fen
Hamilton, the two sons Of Judge HHmil.
ton, who are attending the military
academy at Lexington, Mo are making ex-
cellent progress in their studies.--So-
corro Ohleftain.
Ernest G. Van Leeuwen, Of Las Vegas,
and Elizabeth G. Hugenhcltz, of Grand
Rapids Mich, were married on Wednes-
day evening, April 20, al the residence of
Norman Skinner, the officiating clergy
msn.--Optic.
Phil Blanchard killed one dog and
wounded one other of agang Of four en-
gagged in killing calves on the range. The
alfkilling ours are getting too numerous
of late and ought to be annihilated.-
White Oaks Eagle.
The sters of Loretto, OF Sooorro, will
give concert at the opera house, Friday
evening, May l5. This is the occasion of
the closing of the convent school for the
summer vacation and very interesting
program has been prepared.
Speaking Of the murderer of W. H..
Guyse, the Roswell Register says: Casey
is young man and has lived in Lincoln
county for twenty years. He is a peace
able man, though his wife has been in
vclved in law for number of years, his
father having been killed during the Lin
coin county war.
Judge N. G. Collier expects to leave
cuperetion. Upon his return the re-
naming business of the present pro-
tracted term of the district court will
be disposed of and final adjournment
soon acknowledgements Citizen.
Judge Smith has ordered the county
commissioners to establish a sYstem of
bookkeeping by which the exact floating
debt of the county can be known at any
| time, and that the financial condition of
the county can be obtained without
trouble by those desiring this informa.
tion.-Las Vegas Examiner.
George Ludermann, owner of the big
wool securing establishment north of Las
Vegas, died Of pneumonia yesterday after.
noon. He was about 10 years old. He
leaves a wife, to whom he was married
about thirteen years ago, and by whom
he has had two children, little girl,
Rosale, aged 10, and boy who died in
infancy; also grown daughter, Lille, by
a former marriage. The latter is attend
ing school in Fayette, Mo.
The result of the preliminary examine
tion of the murderer and accessories to
the murder of W. H. Guyse, in Lincoln
county last week, was the commitment of
Ad. Casey without bail and holding Klas-
ner and wife in $4,000 each, says the
White Oaks Eagle. At one time there
was considerable excitement in the vicin-
ity of the murder. II was feared that
violence would be resorted to by an In
dignant public, but this has largely dis
appeared and no danger is now apparent.
Prosecutor Wharton went to Lincoln and
conducted the examination on behalf of
the territory, while Sidney F. Matthews
represented the defense.
Last Saturday night, Judson Allen Page,
who was employed by Hamm & Edie,
secured his weekly wages, after which he
forged the firms name to four or five
checks for $40 each, obtaining the money
from several of our merchants. The
forgery did not come to light till Monday
morning, when the checks were presented
at the First National bank, and, on inves.
tigation, Messrs. Hamm & Edie declared
that their names had been forged and by
their employe, Judson Allen Page, who
had likewise mysteriously disappeared
from the city.-Albuquerque Citizen
Page is now under arrest at Lincoln, Neb.
and Sheriff Hubbell has gone after him.