Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-11-15
NEW MEXICO BREVITIES

The mining industry in Grant county
is displaying remarkable activity.
The people of Las Cruces proudly point
to their fine new postoffioe building.
Deming is pining to have a militia
company with brass band attachment
The postofice at Fort Stanton has been
made money order Office with Clara S.
Blanchard as postmistress.
Joe Donnelly, for many years a proml-
nent citizen of Central, recently died at
the Sisters hospital in Silver City.
Five entries of homesteads of over 700
acres around Tularosa and La Luz have
been made in the land Office at Las
Cruces.
Rev. Edward s. Gross, of San Maroial,
general missionary for New Mexico, will
officiate at the Episcopal church in Socor-
TO on Thanksgiving day.
e. Moree has returned to Anthony
from Silver City, where he contracted to
furnish the reduction works with two cars
of lime per week for five years.
1t is reported that the Bennett Stephen
son mines in the Organ mountains, under
the management of W. H. Skidmore, are
making q fine financial showing this
year.
There is q greater demand for lumber
at Springer now than there has been for
several years past. Besides what is used
iu town, many farmers in the vicinity are
improving their homes.
Mrs. F. g. Barker left Las Cruces, on
Wednesday, for chihuahua, Mexico, called
there by the illness of her daughter, Miss
Millicent. Mrs. M. f. Carroll accom-
panied her as far as Ell Paso.
The Silver City Enterprise reports that
Tom Lyons aud Victor Culberson killed
six grizzlies on their recent bear hunt in
Grant county. One of them measured
exactly nine feet from tip to tip.
While out deer hunting near the Mesca-
lero Indian agency last Friday soldier
from Fort Bliss, Tex, last Sunday, acci-
dentally shot and killed his soldier com.
panion, mistaking him for deer.
The farm house of W. p. Stibbine, To-
Gated on the vermijo road II miles north
of Springer, was burglarized of number
of articles few nights ago, while the
man in charge was attending court.
j. M. Bratton died in Deming on Wed.
nesday of consumption, aged "a years.
Mr.. Bratton came to Deming in the fall OF
1898, but the dread disease had gained
such headwsy that his death was only
question of time.
Nook Kee, the Chinaman who stabbed
and killed Alfred Job at Silver City last
Sunday, made a desperate attempt to
commit suicide 10 the county jail Wednes-
day, but did not succeed. He did, how
ever, fracture his skull.
Mrs. H. A. Howell of Dardanelle, Ark,
has arrived in Socorro for winters visit
to her SOD, DR.. A. E. Howell, She was
accom- panied by Miss Mary Mcclure, q
cousin of DR.. Howell, who will spend the
winter visiting her brother.
The appeal in the Rio Grapde Dam &
Irrigation company case will be heard by
the Supreme court in December. The
United States seems to be unusually sub
servisnt to the wishes Of Mexico in con-
tinuing this detrimental litigation.
An important conference between J. J..
Frey, general manager Of the Santa Fe,
and J. A. Fillmore, general manager of
the Southern Pacific, will be held in Dem
ing next Tuesday, November l6, in rela-
tion TO the establishment OF joint agency
Of the two railroads in this city.