Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-27
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Las Cruces is trying to incorporate as
city.
Cattle will laugh and grow fat in Grant
county this year.
Town lots are changing hands on La
Belle at from. $40 to $3.50 each.
The new road between La Belle and
Elizabethtown is nearly completed.
The output of the Hillsboro gold mines
for the week ended July %, was 1856 tons.
In Denver, July 2l, Mr.. j. K. Vencill,
of San Marcial, and Miss Minnie Morris,
of Denver, we're joined in marriage.
1t was reported yesterday that rich ore
had been strnck in the Eighty-Five at
depth of 800 feet from the surface, says
the Hillsboro Advocate.
Goldbug editorials, scissored from
eastern papers, will not answer the pur-
pose out here in this campalgn.-Las
Vegas Optics dig at the Citizen.
Married, at the home of the BRIDES
parents, at Mogollon, Socorro county, N.
NJ, Wednesday evening, Jnly 20, 1896,
Miss Ida Mcintosh to DR.. W. @. Field.
Don H. Kedzie, of the Lordsburg Lib
eral ia perched high on the fence and is
supporting "The Clean Shaved Mar" for
president and "The Man with Mustache
for vice-P President.
The school board has hired Miss Mat.
tie Johnson to teach the Lordsburg
school next year. There will be eight
months school if the funds hold out. The
rouao 40; Il will ba %7O par month
The country on both sides of the rail
road from here to Ell Paso is fairly
soaked with water, and even if no more
rain falls there will be fine crop of
grass, which is very satisfactory to the
cattlemen.-Lordsburg Liberal.
Those people who are prone to think
that the Mora electric railroad has gone
to meet the Las Vegas street fair, may
yet wake up to find themselves mistaken
in the opinion. Can not always tell,
you know.-Las Vegas Optic.
The store and postoffice of Separ, Grant
county, we're robbed by three masked
men on last Monday evening about
O'Clock. John d. Weems ia proprietor
of the store and Robert Milliken is post
master with his office in the store build
ing. The amount of money and goods
stolen from Mr.. Weems is approximated
at $3.50 and the postoffice loses $50 in
cash.
Last Monday a.. large black, angry
looking cloud that gathered itself to-
gether in the neighborhood of the Rio
Grande river, sailed into the Hillsboro
gold placers and emptied itself into the
Animas creek, filling the stream to its
banks. 1t attracted considerable at
tention here, the hills being crowded with
people watchinglt. As far as heard from
it did no damage.-Hillsboro Advocate.
Bishop Kendrick has appointed Rev. E.
H. j. Andrews assistant minister of st.
Clements Church, Ell Paso, Tex. Mr.. An
drews will remove to his new home Sep
tember /, so that his next visit to Hills
boro Fourth Sunday in August) will be his
last It is probable the Rev. Mr.. Gross, rec
tor of Silver City, will hold monthly ser
vice there after Mr. Andrews departure.
The cattle ranges of the county are in
better shape than any season for years
past. The rains this year have not been
in torrents as usual in this climate, but
slow, steady rains which have been ab-
sorbed by the needy earth as it has fallen.
There will be bountiful supply of water
for the cattle ranges and also for mining
purposes. Grass on the ranges is from
six to ten inches high already, fully a
month earlier than in past seasons.-Sil-
yer City Enterprise.
The Springer Stockmsn is informed
that the necessary papers have been made
for the land, the royalty fixed, and COM
pany being organized for the develop
ment of the newly discovered oil fields
west OF Springer. From an experts re-
port and analysis good article can be
reached at only few hundred feet. Bor-
ing machinery will be first put in
operation, and when the oil is tapped a
refinery will be built. Mr.. ], E. Goblin,
of this city, is the principle promoter of
the enterprise, he having made the dis
covery year or SO ago.
The past three weeks Colfax county has
been visited by frequent heavy rains,
covering the county in nearly every To-
cality. The grass on the range is in OK.
cellent condition, crops of all kinds grow
ing nicely and stock looking round and
sleek. As result the placer mines in the
Baldy district have resumed operations,
and that branch of mining is again as
suming lively proportions. All are in
good spirits over the assurance of good
season in Collar county. One feature of
our rains this year is that they have not
been accompanied by many electrical
storms and scarcely any hail.-Springer
Stockman.
A daughter of the world-famed scout
and frontiersman, Kit Carson, who few
years ago married Vim. Squires at
Elizabethtown, they now being parted at
their own consent, not by law, came in
from Taos, Monday, going to Trinidad on
Tuesday mornings delayed train, where
she now lives. Kit Carson left several
who at different periods visit
the grave of their father at the ancient
city of Taos, where in his life time he
often requested that his body should be
laid. There are few of Kits acquaint-
ances now living and only very few
of his most intimate ones; Jesus G. Abreu,
now long in his eighties and becoming
feeble, can, by the aid of remarkable
tell more truthful anecdotes of
the Kit Carson days than any man living,
Mr.. Abreu lives at Rayado, Colfax county,
New Mexico, the most beautiful spot on
earth. h.-Springer Stockman.
The best place to board in the city is at