Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-03-29
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Gieanings from Our Ex-
changes. Touching Upon Items of
General Interest from Different
Points In New Mexico.
BERNALILLO COUNTY.

| BERNALILLO COUNTY.
The citizens or Albuquerque are some
what anxious over a probable overt1o
of the Rio Grande in May or June. Their
are from eight to thirty feet of snow i
the mountains Of Colorado, and with raj
and thaw combined, this will result IN
flooded condition of the river which wi
equal, if not surpass, that of six year
ago. Sheriff Hubbell is stirring up th
people for action, and embankment
along the river north of the city vii
probably be built.
yarn is going the rounds of tn
papers to the effect that twelve intelli
gent Jurors came near crossing the rive
Styx, all in one load at Albuquerque on
night last week. These men did not ge
through with their labors by bed time
and the court instructed the bailiff tt
keep them together and provide a lodg
ing place for them, A large room wa
secured, and the jury placed therein TO-
safe keeping, with the door latched OF
the outside. During the night the hote
clerk smelled the odor of escaping gas
and investigation found the leak in the
jurors room. The door was opened anG
the men who blew out the gas were res
oued.
GRANT COUNTY.
W. R. Merrill, of Deming, while at.
tempting to repair windmill during g
storm one day last week, was thrown
from the tower and received very pain.
fol injuries.
The Silver City & Northern railroad
running from White Water to Hanover,
has been transferred to the management
of the Santa Fe road and added to the
lines under the supervision of Mr.. j. E.
Hurley of Las Vegas.
The Deming Headlight wants the farm
ers of that vicinity to plant watermelon
seeds, and then when the luscious fruit
reaches its state of perfection, celebrate
the event with grand watermelon day
in that little CITY. Not bad idea.
Mr.. George H. Bell has purchased a
dozen Chinese pheasants, which he will
turn loose in the upper Gila river coun.
try. Az these fowls breed rapidly it will
be but few years until there are thous-
ands of them in Grant county, provided
they are not molested by pot hunters.
Recently while crowd of Deming boys
were engaged in the pastime ,f throwing
rocks at one another, Edwin Matthews
was hit in the head with small size
boulder, resulting in three separate frac'
lures OF the skull. The little fellow lies
at his home in very precarious con-
dition.
ha T ID Oh opfhn Nv fnr
the report that ex-Sheriff Harvey White
hill recently invested all his ready cash
in silver bricks, smuggled in from Old
Mexico by Mexicans, and had figured ont
a small fortune from the deal. An ex-
animation of the white blocks of metal
dashed his hopes to the ground-they
were spelter.
The hardware store belonging to M. W.
Neff, in Silver City, has been closed under
an attachment. The suit was brought
by the Giant Powder company for the
sum of $4,000 which that company claims
is due it. Mr.. Neff claims he owes the
company nothing, but to the contrary
there is balance due him. Persons in
Silver City who have some knowledge of
the matter claim that an injustice has
been done Mr.. Neff, and that were no
grounds for the attachment.
cOLFAx AND TAOS COUNTIES.
Mayor Tanning of Ration has been re-
nominated for that office by the Demo-
cratic free silver men of his town.
Red River City is to have new paper,
j. E. Curren having shipped an outfit
from Clayton to that place for that pur-
pose.
Last Wednesday Miss Sarah j. Durache
arrived in Springer from Sumner, Mo.
She was met at the depot by J. P. Hansen,
a farmer living near that place, and they
at once took their way to the Methodist
parsonage, where Rev. WI Phelps made
them husband and wife.
The Hawkins stage line, running from
Springer to Elizabethtown, is to be dis
continued soon, but another line of stages
will take up the business at once, ii 1900
having been raised for that purpose.
Springer has been the railroad point for
the Red River country for 16 years, and
the citizens of that town do not propose
to see some other point capture the busi-
uesS resulting tuerelrOm.
socoRRo COUNTY.
Western Socorro county has been visit.
cd by party of horse thieves the past
few days. Horses we're stolen from g. B
Hudson, Bonifacio Bustamante and Can
delario Chavez. At Frisco they made an
attempt to gain An entrance to Bernabel
Chavez store, but failed.
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
A band of dogs is roaming the
woods of the upper Sapello, mutilating
and killing cattle. The Blake ranch has
suffered considerably from the depreda'
tlons of these half wild ANIMALS, and the
shotgun rule will be adopted in dealing
with them.
DR.. j. M. Shields, while working in his
garden at Hot Sulphur Springs, unearthed
several curious specimens of Indian pot.
terry which he thinks are 200 years old.
SANTA YE COUNTY.
Fred Delaney, miner in the White Ash
mine at Madrid, was badly hurt on last
Wednesday in the mine.
The Oerrilios cornet band will hereafter
give open air concents every Saturday
evening. The citizens of that little city
take much pride in the band, and are
highly pleased with this arrangement.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Hillsborro wants resident physician.
The town il1s GO doctor and is dependent
upon the nSighboring towns for medical
attendance.