Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-13
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

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Mrs. W. S. Standish is dangerously i'll
at Las Vegas.
The miners about Kelley are all hard Mt
work as usual.
The Eddy Current is clamoring for
graded streets.
Louis Ilfeld, of Albuquerque, is buying
goods in the eastern cities.
Mrs. W. S. Hopewell is recovering from
a severe illness at her home in Hillsboro.
Mr.. Chas. H. Brown, of Nogal, and Miss
Sadie Coe, of Ruidoso, we're married last
week.
Hon. Numa Raymond and wife, of Las
Cruces, are at present at Geneva, Switzer-
land.
The Lordsburg Liberal reports: The
Indications are that there will be fine
quail crop this fall.
j. A. Mcdonald and A. N. Price have
completed the first 100 feet on the Old
Abe shaft at White Oaks.
The Columbus smelter at Water Canon,
Socorro county, is nearly ready to blow
in with plenty of ore in sight.
| There are large number of stock cars
at Magdalena awaiting the coming in OF
cattle from the west for shipment.
Justice II. S. Wooster, of Las Vegas,
has been granted a divorce from his wife,
Mrs. Celina Ii. Wooster, on the ground of
desertion.
O. W.Strong, furniture dealer and under
taker at Albuquerque, mourns the loss of
his mother, who died at Buffalo, N. Y, on
July II.
Several large fish we're caught out of
the Pecos river this week, the largest
weighing twenty-five pounds. Eddy Cur
rent.
San Marcal Bee: The Mexicans are
rushing in the new crop of wheat and the
Hour mill is rapidly grinding it for local
consumption.
The delinquent tax list of San Miguel
county for 1895 is being gotten out by
order of the court and the board of county
commissioners.
Petra Chavez, a deserving and destitute
old woman at Las Vegas, was recently the
recipient of $3.50 pension check from
the department at Washington.
The Veeder brothers Mt Las Vegas have
instituted suit against the Lake Ranch
Cattle company, up in Colfax county, for
$4,000 attorneys fees.
The Graphic smelter at Magdalena is
running to about it's fullest capacity, is
turning out ore right along for twenty
four hours in the day and is shipping
bullion regularly.
H. Krug & Co., the Trinidad contrac-
tors, have been awarded the contract for
the wood work on the Sisters sanitarium
at Las Vegas, and W. G. Rupp, of Las Ve-
gas, the contract for the foundation and
the stone work.
During the rains of last week about
800 feet of railroad track were washed out
at Magdalena and the town was generally
flooded with water. 1t is said to have
been the biggest rain Magdalena ever
had.
Mrs. Jos. r. Davis and son, Archie,
the family of Mr.. Jos. R. Davis, of the
Galisteo Mining company, came out from
Philadelphia, arriving Sunday night, and
will probably remain in New Mexico dur
ing the summer-Cerrlllos Rustler.
The North Homestake Mining company
expects it's new mill in few days. 1t
has a large amount of ore in sight; vein
at the south end of the claim is being de-
veloped and some very rich ore is being
taken out. 1t is at this working that the
first discovery in White Oaks was made.
White Oaks Eagle.
Miss Lulu Hamilton, of Socorro, daugh-
ter of Judge II. B. Hamilton, who started
last week for Washington, d. c., to attend
meeting of the National Christian En-
deavor society, to which she is delegate,
will spend about month at the capital
r. Riggle.
On August II the present mail service
between Las Cruces and Fort Stanton will
be discontinued and a daily service put
on instead. This will give Organ, La
Luz, Tularosa, Mescalero and Fort Stan
ton daily mail from Las Cruces instead
of tri-weekly as heretofore. The contract,
as carrier, was awarded to Adolph Solo
mon, of Ell Paso
Last February W. W. Cox received 800
head of cattle here and took them out to
| MS runCTs IbEbleb WHO saw tuoui uulUdu
ed say they were so poor that they were
hardly able to walk. Yesterday Mr.. Cox
shipped car load of these cattle, all be-
ing in fine condition. This ia good
showing for our ranges.-Las Cruces Re-
publican.
The erection and operation of smelt-
er at Cerrillos is looked upon with great
favor by the miners of the Cochiti dis
trict for the reason that such plant
would give them the opportunity to
handle large quantities of low grade ore
which now lies on the dumps and can not
be moved because of the heavy transpor-
tation charges. .-Cerrillos Rustler.
Albert Barnum, of Elizabethtown, com
mitted rape on little 9-year-old girl at
that place on the 4th. She is the daugh-
ter of the woman with whom he was liv-
ing In adultery. Barnum escaped and
from last reports has not yet been cap
tured. Such Williams should be promptly
dealt with when captured.-Sprnger
| StOckman.