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

HOWARD balQrlOse, cCusln VI OHo Aayoi,
left Albuquerque night before last for
La Junta, where he will make his future
home.
The New Mexico board of pharmacy
will meet in Albuquerque next Friday,
and an effort will be made to have a more
stringent poison law passed.
JGdge Trimble, of Al.uSq peawill
represent the Territorial FAR association
at the National Irrigation congress,
which convenes at Phoenix, A. T., De.
cember Is.
Charles O'Connor Roberts, an old
resident of Albuquerque, is now resid-
ing at Elizabethtown, in the northern
part of the territory, aud is editing the
Miner of that place.
The family of Mr.. Otto Mergenthaler,
the inventor of the type setting machine,
arrived at Deming recently from Baltl-
more, Md. Mr.. Mergenthaler and family
will occupy the Lockhart residence.
Miss Collier, sister of Judge Collier,
who met with bicycle accident last
July, is doing very nicely, being able to
go about the house on crutches. The
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fco. o.-Albuquerque Democrat.
Chauncey Raught, who is working some
leased ground from Jack Williams in
Willow gulch, made one of the finest
"clean-ups" for the amount OF ground
handled that was ever made in Willow.
Nine ounces of the yellow metal we're se-
cured Elizabeth Miner.
I'll. oo..o,kor, , ra ho ri Of uo,k ropo.
waiting rooms and II in the First Ma
tional bank building, which will be occu-
pied by Attorney R. W. D. Bryan: Attor-
ney Wycoff will remove his office to the
Cromwell block.-Albuquerque Citizen.
Mrs. Pat Fisher arrived from Gallup
last night in charge of an officer. The
woman is demented and will be taken to
the insane asylum at Las Vegas. Her
husband is miner and they have nine
children in destitute circumstances.
buquerque Democrat.
The United States marshal's and sher-
ifs posses, which have been pursuing the
three remaining bandits of the Black
Jack gang, returned from their hunt last
week, without being able to capture
them and they are still at large in the
mountains of western Grant county. Sill
yer City Eagle.
Beginning with to-day, the business
management of the Optic will be in the
hands of N. s. Belden, W. G. Reid having
resigned that duty. W. G. Reid, who has
had charge of the affairs Of this paper for
the past year and half, will remain in
charge Of the editorial department until
r. A. Kistler, the editor and proprietor,
returns to the city, which will he about
the 18th inst.-Las Vegas Optic.
Last Friday night some miscreant at
tenn pted to burn down Martin Lohman's
store at Las Cruces. A large quantity of
coal oil was poured in front of the door and
the woodwork of the building was thor.
oughly saturated with oil. The 6end or
fiends we're evidently scared off before
they could carry their hellish plot icto
execution. Whether revenge or desire to
plunder WAS the motive is not known but
Indications point to the latter as the cor
rect theory.
1t is indeed very good evidence of
the appreciation of the ability of Rev.
George Selby, that the Trinity Episcopal
church, of Phoenix, A. T., should extend
him call to the rectorship Of that
church, at greatly increased salary.
While at the same time it is quite COM
pliment to Las Vegas people that Mr..
Selby prefers to remain here, where his
work is 40 satisfactory, and his environ
ments so pleasant. Las Vegas can i'll
afford to lose such people as Rev. Selby
and wife.-Las Vegas Optic.
At Ration on Saturday will be issued the
first number of Ell Amigo Del Pueblo, a
Spanish weekly of six columns. Jose
Escobar and Juan B. Arellano are
the editors and proprietors. The paper
will be non. partisan. Jose Escobar has
been identified with Ell Progresso and
Dos Republicos of Trinidad and Denver
ard also in former years with Spanish
publications in New Mexico. Juan B
Arellano has for some years past taught
school in Ration and other places, but fol
the past two years has been in the mercan.
tile business in east Raton.-Reporter.
Business on the Pecos Valley line con
tinues brisk, the road having all it car
do. Since the last issue of the Argue
twenty six cars of cattle have gone south
from Roswell, shipped by Q. B. Willing
ham to the Kansas City market. Malags
has sent out two cars, Florence three
cars, and Otis one car of cattle and hogs
the past week. Orders have been filed
for two cars for Florence to be loaded
with hogs from the Wesdall farm, and fol
four cars for the Bolles farm. It is ex
pected that 1873 cars of cattle will bt
handled between now and December 10
Up to Wednesday noon the railway com
pany had delivered to the sugar factory
twenty. nine car loads of beets. Eddy
Argus.
Cattle Inspector P. ]. Towner, of tn,
Colorado sanitary board, but stationed il
northern New Mexico, says that from th'
18th Of March to the 18th of November
of the present year he inspected 224,10t
head Of cattle that passed through his dis
trict either for Colorado or eastern mar
kets. He also inspected during that tim'
10000 head of sheep that entered Colo
RADIO from New Mexico. JEFF says this il
the best showing in years, and is evidence
sufficient that the industry is growing II
New Mexico. He says that to-day ther'
are more sheep being fed in Colorado
than ever before, the alfalfa crop beiul
40 large. Mr.. Towner is kept busy al
most night and day, and hopes soon to b.
able to obtain little rest from bis du
ties.-Springer Stockman.