Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-21
NEW MEXICO NEWS.

The election in Pennington resulted in
the reelection Of Wm. Locke rs Justice
of the peace, and T. hot Locke as con-
| stable.
/ The new st. AnthoDy's sanitarium at
Las Vegas will be dedicated on Tuesday,
January 25.
d. p. Carr has secured the Silver City
agency for Hon. W. j. Bryan's new book
entitled, "The First Battle
Mrs, Wendridge and Mrs. Wenz will re-
open the Thinner house dining. room at
Silver City some time this week.
! Albuquerque is agitating the matter of
sinking artesian wells down there, for the
purpose of securing pure drinking water.
Sill Gamblin and Geo. Warden at Silver
City have purchased the White House
saloon of Bell & Harvey and taken pos
session of the came.
The U. S. district court for the Sd iudi-
cial district will be convened in Silver
City on Monday, February l. The juries
were drawn last Thursday.
Melqniades Martin has been arrested at
Ranches de AtrIsco by Sheriff Hubbell, of
et-heart some weeks ago.
The Silver City postoffice has been
moved to the northwest corner room Of the
Thinner house, where it will remain until
the new Skelly building is completed.
Baxter Bishop has moved his stock Of
stationery, periodicals, etc, into the post
Office store, northwest corner Of the Tim.
mer house building, down at Silver City.
Jim AVN, the China boy who owns the
Broadway restaurant at Silver City, won
the capital prize in a Chinese lottery in
that city last week, and has gone to China
to visit his aged mother.
The Steeple Rock company at Oarlisln
is putting iss lara.. y,,7u f,,srnr,- ,y:5n~-t,e
huntington rolls ana If they mh. c,c-
GEES in working low grade ore thai camp
will jump to the front IN no time.
Bell d Harvey, proprietors of the nb
House saloon, of Silver CITY, have leased
the adjoining room formerly occupied by
the billiard hail. in which they Will con-
duct wholesale liquor and cigar husi-
ness on large scale.
Holster and other machinery for the.
Midnight mine at La Belle is on the road
from Trinidad. Twelve men are now at
the workings and the mine will more than
double the ferce as soon as the new ma
chinery is put in place.
W. s. Heney, an extensive sheep buyer,
is in Las Vegas looking for au opportun-
ity to buy. He will take any number that
can be furnished, aud complains that it is
very hard to get what he wants.
Floyd Whitson, who left Albuquerque
short time ago with the Wilbur com
pany, is now the musical director of the
Rice Mystery company, according 20
letter received by his parents. The com
pany is now en- route eastward.
In the case of the ballot box steal AZ
Atrisoo, BeTnalillo county, per emptory
mandamus was issued from the district
court commanding the judges of election
to present certificates of tesult Of election
to the board of county commissioners at
tH next meeting.
Superintendent 8. NJ. MCGOWAN, OF the
Indian school north of Albuquerque, has
been offered promotion to the higheat
civil service position in the gift of the
Indian bureauthat OF supervisor of In
dian schools, and will probably accept it.
Work on the jackson reservoir in San
Juan county ID being pushed. This
reservoir will store abundant water for
the irrigation of q number Of the best
ranches on the La Plata, constituting
what is known as the jackson settlement,
five or six miles from Pennington.
r. H. Greenleaf, game warden at Albu-
querque, had Emil Kleinwort, of the
Third street meat market, arrested on
the charge of having in his possession
the carcass of deer, contrary to the
game law of 1893 Mr.. Kleinwort was
fined $25 and costs, being the minimum
fine in such cases.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Silver City National bank the old board
of directors was reelected, and on Janu-
ary IA the directors elected the following
officers to serve for the ensuing year:
James Gillett, president; I. +. Conway,
vice president; J. W. Carter, cashier; j. S.
Carter, assistant cashier.
Major W. Hammer, of Albuquerque, is
expecting Major Jackson every day to
relieve him as paymaster. Major Jack
son was located at Fort Logan, Colo,
and is an officer of the 7th regiment of
infantry, but recently has been engaged
in the recruiting service at Albany, N. Y.
Major jackson will retire in two years as
he is SO years of age.
G. H. McCaa is in receipt OF a letter
from Col. Beach, of New York, in which
that gentleman states that he has secured
what he is confident is the proper ma
chinery for profitably working the placer
ground IN which he is interested on the
San Juan near Fruitland, and will be here
with the machinery about the first of
May and commence work on an extensive
scale. The apparatus referred to is