Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-10
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Grant County,

Is IN receipt OF tneIr new guns.
Joan E. Warren was married to Ell
more B. Norman at Silver City last
week.
Tom Parker, the turguoiS mining
man. has returned to Silver City from
his European trip.
Miss Tena Marts. a Deming school
teacher, has gone to her home in Mis-
souri, for the vacation.
Jesse Pease has purchased the Cassel
property on Spruce street, Silver City,
and will put in a millinery store.
James A. Long has announced hat he
is not an applicant for the job of princi-
pal of the Deming high school.
In the case of James Brooks and Will
lam Wilson, heard at Silver City, for the
murder of H. J.. Simmons, the Cooks
Peak school teacher, the men were
bound over to the grand jury at the
next term of the district court.
The trial of Frank Osborne, charged
with holding up Buncker & Deckard's
store at Dwyer, has been continued un-
at Silver City.
In Silver City, last week, the grand
jury found indictments against William
Warderman, Henry Marshall, Walter
Hoffman, Leonard Alverson and John
Cush for attempting to hold up the
Southern Pacific train at STEMS Pass
last winter. The trial was continued
until the next term of court.
Deputy Collector of Customs Richard
IT,,l.., ~ nnr,tp Jn, nn11p1 fn~ thn
resignation of Mounted Inspector I. r.
Heustis, and the latter named gentle
man refuses to tender it. Louis Holtz-
man has been appointed to the position.
William Baker and W.. E. McDougal
have also been appointed to similar po-
sitions.
Albuquerque.
A. A. Grant, owner and publisher of
the Morning Democrat, has returned to
his home in southern California.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Farr, who live on
the Las Mangas ranch, about IS miles
from this city, ale rejoicing over the
| birth of a son, which occurred on Mon
day night.
Captain G. N. Sterry, general coun-
sellor for the Santa Fe-Paciic and
Southern California railways, who spent
two days in Albuquerque, left for Chi
cago last evening.
A suit to recover money due on a
promissory note was filed in the District
court yesterday morning, against James
r. MCGOWAN and others, by the Fidelity
Savings association.
The following named school teachers
left last night for the east: Miss Kath-
crime Fields will visit in Kansas City:
Miss Nellie Booth will spend the vaca-
ton in Indiana; Miss Fannie Nowlin
and Miss Emma Huning will visit in
Missouri.
Little Helen d. Snyder, the pretty
daughter of Mr.. and, Mrs. Karl "A. Sny-
der, has gone into the newspaper bust
ness in this city, and issues every day
the Albuquerque Daily News, which
gives the war news taken from the bull
letins posted in front of the Citizen
Office. The type-setting and press work
are done on Helen's papa's typewriter.
Elias Garcia, a prominent sheep
raiser in the Jemez country, is in the
city On business. He reports the peaches
in that section in good condition, but
unless rain falls within a few days there
will be a scarcity of water and grass on
the ranges. Mr.. Garcia recently sold
and delivered 1000 ewes to Frank Jan
dell, of Minneapolis, Mimi, which were
shipped to Kansas and Colorado pas
lures.
The preliminary hearing of Joseph
Metzinger, the owner of the property on
which Mrs. Carabajal was killed by a
man trap, last Sunday evening, began
before Justice Duran Wednesday morn
ing. The defense set up the claim that
Metzinger had a right to protect his
premises against thieves in the manner
he did; the property was securely fenced,
the gates were locked, and that Mr.. and
Mrs. Carabajal were trespassers. The
prosecution maintained that no man had
the right to place a deadly trap where it
would endanger human life, and partic-
ularly in such places where innocent
persons might suffer death, as was the
result of Metzinger's experiment. Met
Finger was bound over to appear before
the grand jury without bail.
Recent developments prove that Jose
p. Romero, the man confined in the
county Jail for the murder of O'Ban-
mons child, is guilty of cattle stealing
along with his other ~offenses. Two
ranchmen were in the city Tuesday who
informed Sheriff Hubbell of their sus-
picions that Ruiz was the mar who had
stolen their cattle a short time before
the shooting of the child occurred. The
sheriff made an investigation and found
several hides and a live low in
the possession of Juan Samora, a butch
err in Old Albuquerque, which had been
bought from Ruiz and a man by the
name of Conrado Gonzales, alias Manuel
Garcia y Romero. The two ranchmen
identified the COW and hides as their
property. Sheriff Hubbell is now look
ing for Gonzales.
San Miguel County.
On Tuesday w. r. Williams killed a
large wild cat on his ranch, a few miles
west of Las Vegas.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. E. MSrkle have zone
to the Harvey resort, where they will
spend the summer
A splendid rain fell in Las Vegas and
the surrounding country Wednesday,
which did a great amount of good.
Colonel r. G. Head Is in Magdalena
arranging to ship a bunch Of cattle to
his ranch at Watrous, where they will
be fed.
Within the past few days good rains
have fallen in the vicinity of Puerto de
Luna, Gallinas Springs. Springer and
along the Pecos river.