Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-29
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

NEW MEXICO NEWS.
The Stockman says that Springer will
be in holiday attire on the glorious
Fourth.
The citizens of Ft. Sumner and vicinity
propose to have grand 4th of July cele-
bration.
Mrs. George Curry and children, of
Roswell, will spend the heated term at
Lincoln.
The range around Deming is badly in
need of rain, but otherwise it is in first
class condition.
The Cleaner insists that Gallup has
more vitality than any town of twice its
size in the territory.
Died, June 25, 1896, at Bland, N. NJ,
Robert B., infant son of Arthur l.. and
Mary Finch, aged l6 months.
The saw-mill, to cut timber for the new
stamp mill at Rosedale, was taken to the
mountains the last of last week.
In expressing the hope that st. Vim
cent sanitarium will be rebuilt, the Optic
wishes Santa Fe "long life and much
prosperity"
Oliver Lee lost about 100 head of
horses recently, both his Dog canon and
and Jicarilla springs having gone dry
Rio Grande Republican.
Car load shipments of ore continue to
be made daily from Cooks Peak, the El
Paso properties under lease by William
Kieff being the leading producers.
0. s. Williams, son of W. s. Williams,
of the Socorro Chiefta:n, who will soon
graduate from the Ann Arbor law school,
is expected home after his graduation.
The cattlemen in Grant county report
the increase this season as better than at
any time since the Sos and the outlook
for prosperous year is correspondingly
bright.
Colfax county mines are running forces
of men regular, and everything is lively
at Baldy, Elizabethtown and Hematite.
A great deal of machinery is being put
in, which of itself is evidence OF the dis
trict's prosperity.
Lionel A. Sheldon, of Los Angeles, Cal,
who was governor of New Mexico under
the Garfield administration, passed
through yesterday on his return from the
St. Louis convention. Mr.. Sheldon was
sporting large free silver badge.-Dem-
ing Headlight.
The Republican learns that some of
our politicians are quietly trying to cir
culate the report that Col. Fountain is
alive and in Cuba. We believe that no
man, unless he knows something about
this dastardly double murder, could at
tempt to insinuate such thing.-Rio
Grande Republican.
Col. d. H. Tilton, commanding officer
at Fort Wingate, denies the story that two
men Of z troop, Or -aya'ry, who had
been detailed for special duty in the San
Juan country, died from thirst. All OF
the troop Z boys are alive and we'll and
expect to be back at the post on the 3Oth
of the month.
At Paraje the cutting of wheat com-
menced last week. Across the river from
San Marcial some of the wheat is ready
for the reaper, while good deal of it is
still in an undeveloped state. The straw
is short and the heads contracted and
the prospect of good yield far from
favorable.
Manager McCue received telegram
from F. s. Swan, manager OF the Francis
Wilson base eball club of Los Angeles,
saying he would leave Los Angeles on the
morning of July l, and be in Albuquer-
que on the night of July 2 to play the
cham pion baseball team of New Mexico
and Arizona, with ten star players who
now claim the championship Of southern
California.
Jack Wilson, the cowboy who stole
Frank Hubbell's sheep, is still at large.
Sheriff Max Luna took him from here to
Los Lunas and when they left the train
Wilson said "adios" to the sheriff and
calmly walked away into the dark of the
night. He made his way to Laguna, stole
an Indian pony and rode of. The In
dians followed and overlook him and
they had him before Justice of the
peace at Cubero. Wilson told the justice
that he had been released by Sheriff Luna
and upon payment of $11 costs the jus
tice turned him loose.-Albuquerque
Democrat.
Twenty. one applicants for teachers
certificates presented themselves for ex
animation at the court house last week
The first grade certificates, good for two
years, we're issued to Mrs. Mary Morrison
of Bernalillo; Agnes V. Quinliven, Eft,
J. Vaughn, Minnie Randall and Mrs. Alice
M. NJ. Lewis, all of this city; h. L. Fisher
John NJ. Hackett and Samnel h. Beattie
Second grade certificates, good for ON
year we're issued to Jose Salazar, Misse
Nellie Abeytia, Clarita Abeytia, and thirt
grade to Miss Mary Clark, Lorenzo L
Henderson, Higinio Guevara, Antonio
Guevera, Luciano Gallegos, David Moy'
and Esteban M. y Coyazo.-Albuquerqu
Democrat.
| A stranger would never suppose tina
the present bed of the Rio Grande eve
contained water. It is perfectly dry an
when contrasted with the adjacent coun
try in point of elevation long stretc
of the Imagination is necessary to reac
the conclusion that only few weeks ag
it contained an ample supply of water Il
brighten and give new life to the thous
ands Of trees and vines and the man
hundreds of acres of alfalfa and cereal
bordering its lengthy confines. Th
present outlook for the fruit grower an
farmer is certainly one of discourage
|. ment.-San Marclal Bee.