Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-21
TERRITORIAL NEWS BUDGET
News Items Of Interest from Various
Sections of New Mexico, as Cleaned
from Our Exchanges.
C0LFAX And TAOS COUNTY NOTEs
The People of Red River City Defend
ing Their Claims to Town Real
Estate in the Courts.
ooLFAx AND TAOS COUNTIES.

CoLFAx AND TAOS COUNTIES.
Elizabethtown wants a new schoo
house.
Soft coal of an excellent quality sells
in Ration for 50 per ton.
The first shade trees in Red River were
set out on Monday of last week, in front
of the News office.
Miss Eva Troy, second daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Troy, died at her home il
Ration Wednesday, May 12, after an ill
ness of several months duration.
The merchants of the towns in west
ern Colfax are complaining bitterly OF
the peddler nuisance. The travelling
merchants are swarming ilto the mining
camps and picking up the business.
The carpenters and builders of Eliza
bethtown are unhappy. The saw mills
cannot turn out lumber fast enough to
supply the demand for building material,
and work is greatly delayed in conse-
quence.
0. D. Crane, editor and proprietor of
the Red River Review, died at his home
in Red River on Saturday, May 8, from
heart failure. The deceased was MEM
Der of the Odd Fellows, and the G. A. r.,
having served through the war from 1861
to 1866 with the rank of colonel. He
leaves wife and six children.
The people of Red River are wonder
ing who owns that town. The residents
thought they we're property owners, but
the claim set up by E. I. Jones that he is
owner of the townsite by virtue of work
done on placer claim, casts cloud
over the title of every lot in the town.
The matter will be settled in the courts.
soooRRo COUNTY.
Sooorro is to be visited by circus the
latter part af the month.
Richard Brown has rendered his resig-
nation as constable of the precinct in
which San Maroial is located.
The Golden Grown mill, at Socorro, is
to be enlarged, the capacity increased,
and large elevator erected in which to
store grain for use in the mill.
The San Maroial postoffice will prob
ably be taken from the fourth.class and
made presidential office. The earnings
last year amounted to $500.
The Rio Grande river, near San Mar
cial, is cutting high jinks with the chan
mel. One case is reported where the
course of the stream has changed nearly
half mile.
i 1t is thought that the financial troubles
of Creighton g. Graves of Magdalena, who
made an assignment few weeks ago,
will be satisfactorily arranged. and that
that firm will resume business at the old
stand In the near future.
The Colonial concert, given By home
talent in Socorro, on Monday evening of
last week was successful affair. The
stage settings and costumes were in keep
ing with Eye olden times" and the effect
is said to have been very realistic.
The Santa Fe road, at the next meet
ing of the board of county commissioners
will convey the San Antonio bridge to
the county, on condition that ii be kept
in repair and forever maintained as
free bridge.
DoNA ANA COUNTY.
Alfalfa cutting has begun in earnest.
Home grown strawberries are in the
marKets OF Las CruceS.
Joseph Bennett won the all round medal
at the field day exercises of the Agricul-
tural college, held on Friday, May z.
Philip Mann, sub-contractor on the
Selden dam, is under arrest charged with
selling property belonging to Mrs. Leslie
Dow of Eddy.
The Alameda health resort, one mile
north of Las Cruces, is now under the
management of Mr.. W. E. Baker, who has
leased the property from Mr.. j. K. Liv-
ingston.
| The local supply of wheat in the Mesilla
| valley has been exhausted, and Mr.. Martin
Lohman has ordered 10000 pounds of
Kansas wheat for use in his Las Cruces
mill.
EDDY COUNTY.
The towns of Eddy and Roswell are
making ugly faces at each other. The
whole cause of the trouble is vested in the
question, which is the more beautifully
Saturday afternoon, May 7, Mrs. J. M.
Buck, resident of Eddy, dropped dead
from heart disease. She had complained
of pain in the head for some time, but
nothing serious was anticipated. On the
day of her death she had attended to the
usual duties of the home, but becoming
weary, sat down in chair and expired
almost instantly. She was 60 years of age
and leaves husband and ten children.
oHAvEs COUNTY.
Chaves county lambs are selling for
$1.35 piece. Yearling steers find a
ready market at prices ranging from $l3
to SIS per head.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The county jail is empty, and matters
in the sheriff's office are mighty quiet.
A little son of Nabor Chavez was acci.
IDENTIFY killed on Monday of last week by
the premature discharge of shotgun.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Bears are said to be Numerous in the
vicinity of Chloride perhaps this is
only bare story.
H. A. Ringer has an imported ooon
dog, and is making thing warm for the
ringtailed animals near his ranch.
George Lufkins, the original discoverer
of the famous Lake Valley Bridal Cham
Der, from which nearly $8,OOO,OOO of sill
yer ore was taken in few months, died
at his home in Hillsboro, on Sunday, May
9, aged rs years.
GRANT COUNTY.
District court is in session at Silver
City.
Last weeks shipments of cattle from
Deming broke the record for the year,
1922 heads going 20 different points in
Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, South Da-
kota and Wyoming.