Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-02
TERRITORIAL NEWS BUDGET
Albuquerque.

Albuquerque.
j. NJ. Hessler of Connersville, Ind, the
new normal training teacher in the gov
ernment Indian school, has arrived and
taken his position.
The Bernalillo county normal institute
began today at st. Mary's school. Rev.
A. M. Mandalari, Professor Hadley, Pro-
fessor Perigo, and DR.. Hope, will deliver
lectures on interesting subjects during
the institute.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Smith, and Mrs.
Foster, a visitor from Kansas City, have
gone to southern California for short
outing.
o. M. Karn, Bert Vorhees, and Ross
Merritt, will leave for Alaska in day or
two. They are backed by local capital
lists and make the trip under the direc-
tion and management of the company,
Miss Josie Parsons, teacher in the New
Mexico university, is home from the Pa
citic coast, where she spent part of the
summers vacation.
s. j. Fleming and G. H. Chick, who
bought the Kent placer mines in He'll
canon recently, are receiving q lot of i'm
proved machinery for use in the mines.
Seven tickets to Hong Kong, China,
were cold at the depot Friday night.
They were bought by Chinese returning
to their former Oriental homes.
The Touring mill belonging to E. A.
Miera, at Naciamento, was burned last
Friday evening. The loss amounted to
$4,000.
Governor Otero's household goods are
packed and ready for shipment to the
capital.
Myer Friedman & Bro. closed out their
wool on Saturday, having sold 100000
pounds during the month of July.
E. G. Langston and Charles App, who
have been employed on a railroad in
Mexico for several months past, have re-
turned to this city.
DR.. L. A. Olney has returned to Chi
cago, after a three weeks visit with
friends in this city.
Grant County.
The appointment of Creighton M. For
aker to the Office of United States mar
shal meets with the approval of the entire
county.
Edward Reed, a former resident of
Deming, committed suicide in his state
room on hoard the steamer Orizaba, be-
tween Guaymas and Ensenada, last week.
He fastened rope to hook in the CELL
ing and hanged himself. No reason for
the rash act is known.
Mr.. E. E. Burdick of Deming, while
los IL
week, found the bones of man near the
Chicken-coop ranch and buried them.
About year ago Mexican started from
that vicinity for Las Cruces. where he was
to have been married, and all trace of him
was lost. Mr.. Burdick thinks the bones
found were the remains of the man, and
that he was murdered by companion
and robbed.
In the month of June $50 cars, contain
ing 9,S68 head of cattle, were shipped out
of Deming over the Santa Fe road, maxi
ing total of 1,l7S cars, carrying 4S,5O5
head, since January 1, an increase of 583
cars and 25,573 head of cattle over the
shipments for the same period in 1896.
Cattlemen will meet in Deming on
August 10 to arrange for the fall round
up.
Lordsburg is on the "boom," and land
for town lots is selling by the front foot,
In place of the acre as heretofore.
The Alaska fever has struck Deming
and several young men are putting mat
ters in shape to leave for that cold, cold
country in the near future.
The work of repairing the Santa Fe
tracks near Whitewater, where it has been
washed out 30 often by foods, has been
finished. A new track has been laid for
several miles over an entirely new bed,
over which the trains are now running.
The old track will be left until after the
rainy season is over, and trains will not
be delayed unless both tracks are washed
out.
SOcOrrO County.
August Rouiller, of Paraje, delivered
1900 head of cattle at Socorro last week,
that had been bought by Mr.. Arnold of
Santa Fe.
During the last three weeks the Broyles
Touring mill at San Marcial received over
900 pounds of new wheat, the greater
part coming from the farms in the vi.
cinity of that place.
1t ls said that fishermen are using
dynamite in the river opposite Paraje,
and that large numbers of fish have been
destroyed.
The citizens of San Antonio are COM
planning of hot, dry weather, and are Pc
titionipg the weather clerk for good rains.
Frank Smith drove 1000 head of sheep
into San Antonio from the San Andres
mountains last Wednesday, and delivered
them to l.. B. Denmsn of Nebraska, where
they were shipped.