Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-10
TERRITORIAL NEWS BUDGET
Late Happenings from Various Sec
lions of New Mexico as Cleaned
from Our Exchanges.
SHIPPING NEWS FROM The RIO GRANDE
Fair Prospect of Having Mail Route
Established Between Pennington
and Gallup-Damage from Floods
in the Mesilla Valley.
LINCOLN COUNTY.

LINCOLN COUNTY.
Cherries are beginning to ripen in the
orchards around Lincoln.
Nogal is passing through the first
stages of boom. New stores are open.
ing, town lots selling, new houses build
ing, and newspaper is badly wanted by
the enterprising citizens.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Hundreds of wild horses and cattle are
found in the white sands or gypsum beds
west of Tularosa and La Luz, that have
never been caught or branded. They
thrive on the grass and water found in
the numerous lagunas.
The following item appeared in last
weeks Las Cruces Independent Democrat:
''The steamer Las Cruces which left her
wharf last Sunday morning, was wrecked
near Ell Paso by running athwart a willow
switch which was resting quietly on the
bottom of our own, navigable Rio
Grande.'"
Lohman's mill in Las Cruces is again
turning out flour, grinding Kansas wheat.
The food waters from the Rio Grande
have done considerable damage to prop
erty in the Mesilla valley. Several
houses have been washed down, fields
flooded and crops injured to some extent.
GRANT COUNTY.
The grand jury was in session at Silver
City seven days and found II true bills
out of 33 cases brought before it.
W. P. Wilkerson of Deming, is putting
ri, nj nd raf, 10 /
quaintances on the street.-the has brand
new boy at his house.
Charles Tindle was found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree, for the shooting
of Jack Stewart, near Deming, February
last, in the District court at Silver City
last week.
The trial of Walter Schaffer for the
murder of Edward Harrison, near Silver
City in February 1895, resulted in YER
dict of not guilty, the jury being out only
few minutes. Schaffer's attorneys i'm
peached the witnesses for the prosecution
and established an albi
Two weddings took place in Deming on
Wednesday of last week. The contract
ing parties were: Henry Meyer and Miss
Maggie Meader, both of Deming; William
Sweeney of Central, and Miss Effie Nav
field, of Deming. On Tuesday, in Albu.
querque, Lou Desplaine of Colorado, and
Miss Lou Breisser, a sister of Mrs. VIM.
LETTER of Deming, were married. On
Monday evening, the marriage of O.
Merganthaler and Miss Maggie O'Dough-
erty, both of Deming, took place in
that city, and on Tuesday David H. Tul-
lock of White Signal, and Miss Ether M.
Craig, were married at the brides home
at Lone Mountain. The young folks of
Deming are wondering who will answer
to the call of "next."
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
The Pennington people want a mail
route established between that place and
Gallup.
George Morris, an old resident of
Pennington, has received a pension of |
S12 per month, receiving back pay from
January last, when he made his applica.
tion.
Peoria, ILL.,, persons are making in
1uiries concerning oanaigre cultivation
n the San Juan country, with the inten-
lion OF putting in an extract plant If
conditions are favorable.
TAOS AND ooLAAx COUNTIES,
Edmund Casey, a prospector who had
,een In Cabresto canon for two months
disappeared the latter part of May, and
'ometime after his body was found fast
lnder drift wood in the creek which runs
through the canon.
Last Saturday evening Ollie and Ed.
yard Gregory, aged u and years, of
taton, were struck by lightning, during a
hunder storm. The children were in the
rouse at the time, with two others, who
lid not feel the shock. Ollie's feet were
'urst open on the bottom, and Edwards
eft foot suffered in the same way. The
title folks will recover, but will not for
let their experience with lightning very
Don.