Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-12-04
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Guadalupe county is having trouble
over its school affairs.
Ifeld loaded 5000 sheep for Wisconsin
parties at Las Vegas yesterday.
The district court will doubtless nd
journ at Las Vegas this week.
Judge H. B. Hamilton will open court
in Socorro county on next Monday.
Miss Margaret Graney resigned as a
teacher in the Ration schools ard Miss
Mary Reid, of Colorado, has accepted the
position.
Last Sabbath six persons were received
into the Methodist church in Ration, which
makes seventy one persons who have
Joined this church in little over two
years.
j. L. Smyths returned from Kansas
City sunday. He struck good market,
receiving $3.50 per hundred for his steers
which averaged over 1,l00 pounds
Ration Range.
John Pace has filed suit against the city
of East Las Vegas in the sum of 1915, on
money due on warrants issued him for
his commission as county commissioner.
Chas. w. Campbell, of near Rincon, is
in town to transfer deed to Mr.. R. r.
Russell, of Fife, Scotland. to his ranch
near Rincon which he sold for good
onsideration.-Las Cruces Democrat.
Organ note: The Bennett mill, with
Mr.. Rowcroft in charge, started up again
this week. The mill has had thorough
overhauling, and is at present in nice
condition. Water for the mill is being
pumped from the Memphis mine.
H. H. Hankins, the enterprising mana
ger of the stage and freight line between
Springer and Baldy, was in Ration Tues
day. He reports business as growing
and best possible outlook for the Colfax
county gold mines.
Thirty-four Thousand pounds of potatoes
on two and one.fourth acres of land is
good big crop in any country. This is
the amount Frank Anderson raised this
year on his mesa ranch north of Ration,
says the Range.
Considerable bad blood was engender-
ed.at the foot ball game and some of the
parties came to blows and the following
day paid fines into the county treasury,
one of $3.50, and another of $450.-Las
Cruces Democrat.
Word was received in Las Vegas yes
terday that Father Mark Gross, brother
of Jacob Gross, of the firm of Gross,
Blackwell & Co., had died at his home in
Washington, d. O., on tuesday last
Father Gross was Jesuit father. The
funeral will take place to-dss.
Pete Ryan, who wns rer ~ ,-eo seyerel.
frozen, continues to hold his own at the
Ladies' home. Thus far it has not be-
come necessary to amputate any of the
frozen limbs. He does not suffer great
deal of pain, in fact not enough to make
the case look favorable to his physician.
Las Vegas Optic.
Vic Proctor, of Rincon, says he was
walking along in dry arroyo and saw
something shining in the sand. He
stopped and picked it up and found
stencil plate with the name, "Vic Proctor"
The strange thing in reference to it was
he never had had one made in his life.-
Las Cruces Democrat.
At the recent meeting of agricultural
college representatives New Mexico was
represented by President G. T. Jordan,
and from the reports In the Washington
Star, acquitted himself in a highly credit
able manner. After the session closed,
Prof. Jordan spent day or two at his
old Virginia home. He arrived home
Friday.
Hospital notes in the Albuquerque
Citizen Recent arrivals at the hospital
are as follows: A. Garrity, bruised side,
from Winslow; F. W. Littlefeld and Pat
Finn, bad cold and malaria, ]. 8. Warner,
wounded finger, Needles; Jose Dias, cold
and cough, Franconia; John Tehan,
rheumatism, Truxton; Chas. Priest, in
jury, Harden; 4. W. Hayden, invalid
operator, Williams.
The case of Henrique Ribera, who is
charged with the murder of Ramondo
Mestas Posada at Ell Macho, near Pecos,
is now on trial. Posada had willed all
his property to young Ribera, and soon
after he was found dead with his skull
fractured. Ribera claims that death was
caused by a horse kicking Pasado, and
that he was present when the accident
happened. The prosecution will en-
deavor to show that Ribera did the kill
ing with his own hands.-Las Vegas Op.
tic.
The Optic reporter was unable to at.
tend the wedding of Cleofas Romero and
Miss Arabella Bernard, but understands
that it was one of the grardest and most
pleasant occasions of this kind that has
occurred in this city for some time. The
bride and attendants were dressed in gor-
geous gowns. The ceremony took place
at the west side church, Monday, at 10
O'Clock, a. IN. After the ceremony at the
church, a reception was held at the home
of the bride, at which there was very
large attendance. The wedding repast
was ON magnificent scale, and was par.
taken of by numbers of the happy
couples friends. After the reception
dancing and vocal music were INDUCED
in during the remainder of the afternoon.
Las Vegas Optic.
The best 25.oent meals to be had in the