Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-21
TERRITORIAL news BUDGET
C0ifaX County.

The Colfax county normal institut
which has been in session the past weel
was attended by 30 teachers.
The Ration base ball club is going t.
Albuquerque during the fair and proposes
to clean up all the prizes offered for bal
games.
The county seat removal question ii
not yet settled. M. W. Mills of Springer
has filed a complaint, consisting of
voluminous petition against John E. Cod
lin, James F. Ruffner, VIM. R. Griffin
M. M. Salazar and the board of county
commissioners, for the purpose of test
ing the validity of the county seat re-
moval law. The case will probably &c
up to the United States Supreme couri
for final decision.
Grant County,
The Silver City public schools open on
September 6.
Miss Alice Railey, Miss Belle Gaddis
and Eugene Warren of Silver City, will
attend the Stanford university the com.
ing year, leaving for the west next week
Mr.. l.. A. Skelly, postmaster a. Silver
City, is home from Old Mexico, where he
spent some time trying to locate the men
who murdered his brother early in the
summer.
DOna Ana County.
Roman De)gado and Conc. GALES are in
the county jail charged with killing some
other fellows cattle.
The Rouault canning factory at Las
Cruces began the seasons campaign on
last Thursday. Tomatoes are now being
canned, and later on Mesilla valley fruit
will be preserved.
The Las Cruces board of education at q
meeting elected the following teachers
for the ensuing year: Miss Lynch, Miss
Dougherty, Miss Sullivan, Miss DeMier,
Mrs. W. r. Fall. The date for the open
ing of the schools will be fixed at meet
ing of the board to be held on Septem'
Der /.
Chavez County.
G. W. Haynes is fencing IN 2,o00 acres
of land along the Hondo, which he will
use for pasturage.
Oattlemen of the county are improving
the grade of range cattle as fast as
possible, by the introduction of blooded
breeding stock.
Davis Lilies of Roswell, was caught in q
cattle stampede one night last week, and
in the dark his horse ran into wire fence
and Mr.. Lilies received some serious cuts
on the barbs.
WI. Crockett of Puerto de Luna, re-
ceived 5000 head of sheep, recently bought
from the Salt Greek Sheep company in
Roswell, last week, and drove them across
the country to Guadalupe county.
J.P. White has purchased for the use
of the Littletield Cattle company, 40 head
of high grade Hereford and Durham bulls
from the Milne and Bush breeding lard.
These, in connection with the lot pur-
chased from Colonel Elliott, will supply
the L. F. d. company for two years.
The people of Roswell have apparently
gone into q joint stock concern for the
raising of spring chickens, or at least the
following paragraph taken from the REQ
ord would indicate such condition: 20
Judge by the noise made by the chant1-
cleer from daylight till sun up, stranger
would be justified in believing that Ros-
we'll was grand poultry farm"
san Juan County.
The citizens of Pennington are arrang-
ing for Fruit Day festival, to be held
this fall.
Mr., L. Smith, an old gentleman "a years
of age, died at the residence of Mr.. w. Il,
Crouch in Flora Vista, on Sunday, Au-
gust s.
The fruit crop in the county this year
is estimated at 20,000,000 pounds. The
yield in 1895 was 100000, the great In
crease resulting from the large acreage
of land that has been devoted to orchards.
An election will be held in school dis
trict No. on September l, to vote on the
issuing of $4,000 in bonds tor the purpose
of building an addition to the Pennington
school house, the present building being
no longer large enough to accommodate
the increased number of pupils in the
district.
Eddy County.
Mr.. II. A. Vallez, who has been the
chemist in the Lehi, Gal 4, sugar factory
for number of years, comes to Eddy the
early part of September and will take
charge Of the Pecos valley sugar factory
as superintendent.
Mr.. Frank l.. Scogin and Miss Annie
Turknett were married on Wednesday,
August II, in Miller, Rev. Kell, pastor of
the Presby yterian church at Eddy, per-
forming the ceremony.
Pecos valley grapes are finding their
way into market. This years crop is
exceptionally fine, while the yield will be
very large. Mr.. Osborne of Eddy, raises
Tokay grapes that are "dandles," one
bunch picked last week weighing over
three pounds.