Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-12
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

The Flagler reduction works at Silver
City will soon be started up.
The Optic protests against dirty
Gypsy camp" in the old town of Las We.
gas.
The famous Sam P. Jones will lecture
in Albuquerque about the middle Of
April.
Commerce of Albuquerque, is in Bland
looking after his Cochiti mining inter
ests.
The territorial grand jury at Albuquer-
que returned twenty-eight more indict-
ments on Tuesday afternoon and was dis
charged.
Ths fruit crop in Grant county was not
materially injured by the recess cold
snap. Only a few apricot buds were
nipped.
The March term OF the district court of
Dona Ana county will be postponed
owing to the lack of funds to defray ex-
penses of same.
N. Bell brought fourgod bricks down to
Silver City from the Bell & Stephens
at about $4,000.
Bishop Kendrick will administer tho
apostolic rite of confirmation next Sun.
Jay morning at the Church Of the Good
Shepherd, in Silver City.
One of the teachers in the Indian school
at Albuquerque has FLED charges against
Superintendent ). ]. McKain and the lat.
ter has filed counter charges.
Thos. Ritchie, of Elizabethtown, Col
fax county, recently mRde sale of
placer claim up there for $4,000 to par
ties who will work it for all there's in it.
The Masonic lodge of Silver City offers
$50 for the recovery of the bodies of Col.
Fountain and son and $50 more for the
arrest and conviction of the murderers.
Mr.. Herbert Bishop and Miss Josie
Whitehill were united in marriage last
Wednesday evening, at the residence of
the brides father, in Silver City, by the
Rev. A. A. Hyde.
The stockholders of the Silver City
National bank have elected the following
directors for the ensuing year: Thos. f.
Conway, James W. Gillett, G. F. Grayson,
John W. Carter and James 8. Carter.
VIM. f. Lorenz who has been assistant
postmaster at Silver City since February
/, 1891, has resigned that Office and will
in future devote his time to mis- rapidly
increasing life and fire insurance busi
ness.
Mrs. Ruperta Chavez de Gutierrez, of
Las Vegas, filed suit for divorce from
4. Ill n,,ki
of Bernalillo county, on the ground Of
desertion aud cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
Joseph Small, the old.time citizen of
Colfax county, died at the Ladies' Home
in Las Vegas, on Saturday night, and VAS
buried on Monday, DR.. L. Hines, Of
Springer, sending down SIS to help de-
fray the expenses OF burial.
A man at Flora Vista, San Juan county,
is said to be at work upon new scheme
to increase the sum of human happiness.
He is trying to cross the milkweed and
the strawberry, so that people may raise
strawberries and cream together.
The Southwestern Farm and Orchard,
formerly published at Las Cruces, has
been sold to Hull's printing house, Of FL
Paso. Mr.. F. c. Barker will continue to
act as Agricultural and horticultural edi-
tor. Future Issues will appear in en-
larged and much improved form.
New Mexico boys usually come in for
their share of cognizance where ability is
the test. So we are not surprised that R. |
L. Munson, who left here year past and
who is in Philadelphia, has been promot-
ed to the position of foreman of the
electric works of that city, Silver City
Eagle.
The territorial grand jury Yesterday re.
turned a true bill against Ellen L. |
Lockhart, the charge being perjury. The
indictment bears the names off. Q. Willis,
j. A. johnson and Hub Leeds az wit
nesses before the grand jury. This charge
nrises out Of the celebrated Washington
mine case, Henry Lockhart, plaintiff, W..
Leeds ct al. The Indictment charges the |
accused with feloiionsly, willfully, COR
ruptly and falsely swearing to collusion
between parties in the suit and fills about
a dozen pages, typewriter. Summons |
were issued and placed in the hands Of
Sheriff Hubboll requiring the accuped to
answer to the charge prsfefred.--Albu.
querque Democrat.