Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-24
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Work on the new smelter at Kelly is
progressing rapidly.
The farmers in the vicinity of San Mar
cial are blowing and Planting.
District Attorney Thomas N. Wllker-
son is reported quite i'll at Albuquerque.
Ore is coming right along to the sam
pier here from all directions and the min
ing revival appears to be very permanent
-Deming Headlight.
Remarks the Deming Headlight: The
winter just ending has been one of the
most delightful ever experienced in
southern New Mexico.
Cattle buyers in Grant county have Of
fered - for yearlings, $12 for twos and
SIS for threes,:: which figures are con-
sidered very fai- when compared with
prices prevailing for the last few years.
Prof. c. E. Hodgin, principal of the
city schools, presided and Messrs. F. W.
CLANCY, H. B. Ferguson and L. s. Young,
delivered addresses at the Washington's
birthday festival at Albuquerque on
Saturday evening.
The FIVE cases remaining against Chas.
H. Dane, of the defunct First National
banks Of Silver City and Deming, charg-
ing him with embezzlsment and making
false entries we're dismissed in open
court at Silver City on Thursday by
United States Attorney J. B. Ii. Heming-
way, 80 that when Dane completes his
commnted sentence he will not have to
meet any further charges.
The Springer Stockman reports that
H. II. Argue, of Buffalo, N. Y, an extern
sive mine operator and largely interested
in Moreno valley mining, came in Tues
day evening from the east. Mr.. Argue is
member of the dredging system com
pany that have operated in the valley for
two years now. Finding the system very
practical they intend to start up with a
larger force than heretofore when the
spring opens.
Cleso Valdez, alias Ceso Analla, who
cruelty murdered Constable Shultz be-
tween Silver City and Lordsburg, while
that official was conveying him to the
county Jail, some two years ago, will not
likely be given trial in this county for
some years to come. 1t has been known
for some time that he was under arrest
for murder committed in Mexico pre-
vious to his coming to the United States,
and for time in custody in Juarez, but
a recent investigation by Sheriff Shannon
brings to light the fact that he was duly
convicted and sentenced to hard labor in
the salt mines in the state of Coahuila for
the period of thirty-seven years, and is
now hard at work with the other convicts
in the mines.
The extensive ditch work at the Mills
Red river ranch, under the supervision of
A. Scherer, is a much larger project than
one would suppose. There is under con-
struction two and one quarter miles of
new ditch with outs from three to eleven
and one-half feet and it drops one foot to
every thousand feet. The work was COM
mence6 the 26th of November and will
not be completed until about the lst of
April. Mr.. Scherer also has the contract
for repairing two and one-balf miles Of
old ditch, and has constructed one and a
half miles of new road. The force at work
has averaged twenty men and four teams
with scrapers. M. W. Mills has spent a
fortune already on this ranch, but tells Us
that be intends making one of the
fines. fruit farms in the west out of it,
putting in all modern Improvements,
and will spare no expense toward the
success of the same.-Springer Stock.
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