Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-12-16
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Hillsboro public schools are in q
lourishing condition.
Silver City literally supports four ex.
cellent weekly newspapers.
The bRstile at Deming was destroyed
by fire early Sunday morning.
The Midnight mine in the La Belle
dis trict is being steadily and systematical
ly developed.
The Range confidently affirms that Ra-
ton will have a beet sugar factory in the
near future.
The Territorial Teachers association
will meet at Albuquerque December 28
and 80 of this year.
The output of the Hillsboro gold mines
for the IL months ended on December 8
aggregates 1914 tons. ..#...
1t is reported at Silver City that d. P.
Carr has taken his departure snd located
in the city of Chihuahua.
The skating rink is running day and
night and is being patronized to a large
extent, says the Silver City Eagle.
The Ration Water comp pany has just
completed the laying of $500 feet of A.
The Santa Fe has passed an order for
additional large compound locomotives
for use on the New Mexico division.
Editor Norton, OF the Silver City Irde.
pendent, has gone to California, where he
will join Mrs. Norton and spend corple
of weeks.
Mr.. Mason of Ellzabethtown, is superin-
tending the erection of large steam
grappler near that place for placer min
ing purposes.
The Democrat earnestly pleads with
the management of the Western Union
Telegraph company to establish down
town Office at Silver City.
w. B. Walton, clerk of the District
court, will have editorial charge of the
Silver City Independent during the alb
sence of Editor Norton in California.
Tilly Conner, domestic in the employ
of I. s. Hefin, at Silver City, dropped
dead on Thursday evening, at about 8
O'clock, while in the discharge of her
duties.
The Silver City Reduction works is one
of the best paying and most satisfactorily
conducted institutions of the kind in the
southwest. May its future be as pros
porous as its past, says the Democrat.
Ambrosio Fernandez, the murderer of
little Lulu Werner, has made his escape
across the Mexican border into Old Mex
leo, and the chances are that he never will
be brought to Justice, says the Silver
City Independent.
The snow storm of Wednesday night .
and Thursday was of general character in
northern New Mexico. Even in the Taos
valley the fall was very heavy, more snow
having fallen there up to noon Thursday
than in the Moreno, says the Elizabeth
town Miner.
The matrimonial editor of the Gallup
Cleaner says: If we take into consdera-
tiop the large number of handsome and
young ladies in Gallup and |
the score of wellto-do bachelors, there
ought to be an even dozen weddings
in the Goal city before the
roses bloom again.
John Johnson WIS over from Elizabeth.
town, where he is now making his head
q uarters, few days this week. He is
opening up some claims near that place
budV iio UciicNeb Will ulhhc sulppcTs iTOu
the jump aud judging from the samples
he has, which show an abundance of
free gold, he is correct, says La Belle
Cresset.
Mr.. l.. L. Pratt of Hope, was in town
yesterday with load Of potatoes and
SAM Piles of beans, corn meal and sorghum.
Mr.. Pratt has the finest corn meal ever
seen in Eddy. 1t is from white corn and
is ground as fine as flour. The sorghum
is gilt edged. Mr.. Pratt intends to take
orders for his corn meal, sorghum, po-
tatoes and beans in Eddy, says the Cur
rent.
A. w. Shidler and O. H. McHenry are
from the fruit growers and
ranchmen of the Animas, San Juan and |
La Plata valleys, specimens of the prod |
ucts of their orchards, gardens and fields,
10 be placed on exhibition in Farming
Ton about the Goth inst. in time to be
seen by the excursionists and homeseek-
,rs from Iowa and Missouri who will be
brought here by the Animes Valley Land
Irrigation company, and who are ex-
pected to arrive on the 23d inst, says the
San Juan County Times.
Broom industry Mt R0swell