Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-04-27
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest from Different
Points Of the Territory. Cleaned
from Exchanges.
LAS VEGAS HAPPENINGS.

Don Pedro A. Leiva, an old and re-
spected citizen, father of Mrs. Frank
Morgan, is dead. He died at his home il
Mora.
Mr.. John Wilcox of Fort Sumner, and
Miss Oipriana Baca, daughter Of Felipe
Baca Garcia, were married at the cath
edral yesterday morning by Rev. Father
Defouri; and Manuel Medina to Mrs.
Juanita Angel.
Charles W. Cause spent yesterday in
Las Vegas. Mr.. Cause was on his way
to the Carrizono ranch in Lincoln county,
where he will receive large number of
steers. He brought 200 horses from Kan
sas, and completed the purchas es for his
outfit of the merchants in this city.
| Sunday afternoon Felipe Garcia and
Francisco Lucero, two young boys, were
arrested for breaking II panes of glass
in the ublio school building in precinct
No. 81. Yesterday morning they we're
taken before Justice Valdez, who fined
them each S. and costs, and required
them to replace the broken glass with new.
Last night the Las Vegas lodge No. 4,
/. 0. o.. F., held family reunion i'll the
lodge rooms, in celebration of the 18th
anniversary of the founding of the order
in America. The attendance was large
and royal good time enjoyed by those
present.
| John Fl. Teitlsbaum was arrested Satur-
day night, charged with connection in the
matter of the falsifying of the public
records by Bias Sanchez. Yesterday
morning he was released on bond fur
nished by Ike Davis. Sanchez is still be-
hind the bars, not being able to find home
bondsmen.
| DONA ANA COUNTY.
DR.. L. NJ. Buck of Las Cruces, has
gone to Topeka, Kas., to be married.
| On the agency farm at Mescalero, in
| 1896, rs tons of beets were raised on
three fourths of an acre of land.
Within the next 60 days over $4,000
will be paid out at Tularosa and La Luz
for cattle. The principal purchasers are
l.. Horn, Trinidad; Colonel P. Mothersill,
Engle; J. 8. Boone, La Luz; B. F. Woot-
en-, Fresnal; John H. Riley, Las Cruces,
and j. Sanders of Magdalena. The
prices paid are the highest received for
years.
Rito Montoya, the fellow under indict
ment for terrorizing Iona Padre pre-
cinct, Dona Ana county, has been arrest.
ed by Deputy Sheriff Meadows. Mon.
toya made desperate effort to escape,
abandoning his horse and going across
fields on foot to the river. On reaching
the river he was caught in quicksand
and held until the officer and party sur
rounded him. Seeing that resistance un-
der such circumstances was useless Mon
toya surrendered and was lodged in the
Las Cruces Jail.
EDDY COUNTY.
A cantata was given by the home talent
of Eddy, last Tuesday evening, for the
benefit Of Mrs. s. L. Dow, whose husband
was murdered last February. The at
tendance was large, the reoeip pts netting
about $50.
Warren Millett, a colored man with a
longing to be bad man, was fined $50
and costs by Justice Roberts, in Eddy,
last week, for carrying six-shooter CON
trary to the statutes In such cases made
and provided. Millett is sojourning at
the county Jail for time.
Eddy's new social and commercial or
ganization, the Union club, is reality,
and is at home in luxurious quarters in
the Tansill building. The club has
membership of 80 members, with I. s.
Osborne, president; A. o. Campbell, Woe
| president; Hugh freeman, secretary, and
E. 8. Motter, treasurer.