Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-12-15
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.


done in the Magdalena range.
The beet sugar factory at Eddy shipped
/ l car loads of sugar last week.
Fifty-four pupils are enrolled in the
public school at Weed, Lincoln county.
The Advertiser positively declares that
Socorro this winter.
The society people of Socorro will
revel in the seductive delights of fancy
dress ball on Christmas eve.
Ell Captain company shipped four car
loads of bulls from Roswell to Kansas or
Monday. They will be fed for time
and then put on the market.
Every foot of lumber in the lumber
yard at La Luz was purchased the past
week by parties intending to build, and
the demand was not then satisfied.
Contractor Morris, with large outfit
of men and teams, has commenced active
work on an irrigation system that will
reclaim $4,000 acres of fertile mesa land
in San Juan county.
District Attorney H. M. Dougherty was
unable to attend court in Socorro the
other day all because of the advent OF a
nonpareil specimen of femininity in his
home during the small hours of the pre-
vious night.
La Luz, Tularosa, Penasco and Weed
are all Dragging about building booms
and the fact that the eaw-mils in the
adjacent mountains cannot supply the
demand for lumber seems to afford SUBJ
stantial justification for such talk.
The Socorro Advertiser deposes and
says: E. Gillett recently counted the ap-
Piles in three 50.pound sacks he was de-
livering. In each sack he found just
100 apples, each apple averaging one-half
pound. His entire crop of apples will
average about the same.
Colonel G. W. Wood, with a force of
workmen from Nogal, passed through La
Luz on Tuesday en- route to the Jicarilla
mountains to open up and develope min
ing property there belonging to the New
Mexico Development & Mining company
on the line of the new railroad, says the
Chief.
Timely note in the San Juan Index:
The Denver press has much to say con-
cerniDg the train load of apples shipped
to that city from Durango, but thus far
we have been unable to discover single
word to the effect that the bulk of this
shipment, (if NOT every apple) was grown
in San Juan county, New Mexico.
The Knights of Pythias, of Eddy, have
elected the following officers to serve for
the ensuing term: A. R. O'Quinn, chan
cellor commander; g. M. Whicher, vice
chancellor; M. j. Murray, prelate; j. p.
Mcmillan, master of work; J.. T. Bolton,
kee per Of records and seal; L. Anderson,
master of finance; M. P. Kerr, master of
exchequer; j, s. Crozier, master at arms;
A. ]. McCallum, inner guard; R. g.
Woke, outer guard.
The newly elected officers of the Rio
Hondo Commendery No. 6, Knights
Templar, of New Mexico, were duly in
staleda their asylum on Saturday night,
as follows: John W. Poe, eminent COM
mander; E. A. Cahoon, generaliss' mo;
Charles Wilson, captain of the guard; G.
s. McOarty, treasurer; W. H. Oosgrove,
recorder; J.. W. James, prelate; O. II.
Clark, senior warden; W. s. Prayer,
bearer; W. A. Finlay, sword bearer; W.
M. Atkinson, warden.
While driving ont to his ranch Monday
afternoon and when in the vicinity of the
Hillsboro powder houses, Hon. W. S.
Hopewell WIS quite severely injured by
his blackboard colliding with rock at a
sharp curve in the road and he being
jolted out and falling upon his head. Mr..
Hopewel's head and face were severely
ont and he WAS rendered upconscious, In
this condition he was picked up by a
passing Mexican, his team secured and
the gentleman brought home. DR.. Given
was summoned and soos had Mr.. Hope
we'll we'll enough to enable him to start
out again for the ranch. Sierra County
Advocate.