Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-15
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
DONA N COUNTY.

Wood trains are nov running from
Alamogordo to Ell Paso.
La Luz orchardists areNshipping APP
pies to the City Of Mexico.
Eastern Dona Ana people are agitat-
ing, more than ever, the organization
of a new county for the Sacramento
country.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
The La Plata p~ostofiice has been
made a money order office.
Postmistress Mrs. Ella Hornbogen
and j. H. Earle, of La Plata, have been
married.
Mrs. McClaren, of Brookings, S. D.,
and daughter are visiting for the win
ter at Aztec.
d. b. Ross and K. II. Woods, of San
Juan, have each marketed 1000 boxes
of apples this fall.
ALBUQUERQUE.
The Albuquerque public library is
sued 965 volumes to readers during Oc-
tober.
Arthur c. Brady, of Indiana, and
| Miss Lillian Newman, of Albuquerque,
were married the other evening in this
city, where they will reside.
Miguel and Celso Sedillo have been
bound over, without bail, on charge of
numbering Vicente Baldanado.
Albuquerque will hold union Thanks
giving service this year in the Lead
Avenue Methodist church, with Rev.
Bruce Kinney, of the Baptist church.
to preach the sermon.
P. Hanley, a gunner on the monitor
Terror during the recent war, is win
tering in Albuquerque, where he ex-
poets to regain the health he lost in
the late unpleasantness."
Attorney Donanciano Chaves, of Ba-
relas, lost his right arm and was other
| wise injured by coming in contact with
a train, recently.
COLFAX COUNTY.
George II. Hare, a carpenter, for sew
eral years in the railroad shops at Ra-
ton, has been transferred to the shops
at Topeka.
Father Cooney, of Ration, secured
sugar beet seed last spring from the
agricultural station at Mesilla, and dis
tributed this seed among parties in and
around Ration. The beets We're grown,
and last week Father Cooney sent sam
pies to the station for analysis. The
| reports showed IL 6-10 to II $40 per
cent saccharine matter, and rs per cent
in purity. The yield was figured at IS
tons to the acre, while II to 25 ton is a
good yield.
CHAvES COUNTY.
H. B. Hamilton, Jr., of Roswell, has
just been admitted to the bar.
H. f. Smith, of Brighton, Ia, is re-
moving his family to Roswell.
The Ell Captain Land and Cattle
Company will erect a number of new
and large wind mills on their ranches
in Chaves county.
The Pecos Valley Orchard Company
is shipping apples by the car load to
San Antonio, Tex.
The new railroad bridge over the Pc
cos at Roswell will be completed %,
December l..
William II. Ballard and Miss Kate
Carper, of Roswell, have been married.
Judge H. B. Hamilton and +. Will
Jams, of Roswell, have formed a law
partnership.
.
Judge w. w. Martin, of Roswell, has
had the misfortune to break several of
his ribs recently by a fall.
NJ. c. Corbit has passed the examina-
ton necessary to enable him to be-
come principal of Roswells public
schools.
j.. c. Ward, of Wichita Falls, Tex,
will open a general merchandising
store in Roswell.
EDDY COUNTY.
The Texas & Pacific is doing it's best
to help build up the southeastern part
of New Mexico.
The upper Pecos valley will supply
the Eddy beet sugar factory with al
ly 1000 tons of beets. The machinery
of the factory is now in motion, and
so far everything is going all right.
LeGrande Pratt, of Eddy, has been
found guilty of murder. in the third de-
gree after the jury was out Is hours.
Pratt killed Deputy Sheriff A.. D. John
son last spring in a fight over irrigat-
ing water.
LAS VEGAS.
Fellow, is dead.
At the annual election of Las Vegas
commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar,
held on November s, the following off.
GERS We're elected: L. D. Webb, E. c.;
r. B. Mills, genls.; l.. H. Hofmeister,
C. G.; George T. Gould, prelate; II. J.
Haywood, $. W.; G. Ellicott, j. W.; A.
F. Benedict, treasurer; G. r. Rothgeb,
recorder; b. +. Mcclure, warden; ].
N. Jameson, sentinel; j. B Reed, st.
B.; Mike Slattery, Sw. b.; O. l.. Greg
DRY, T. B.. Bowen, Cy. Boucher, guards.
1t is reported hat Mr.. Wilson Wad-
bingham will resume control of the Bell
ranch near Las Vegas about January 1.
Three inches of snow fell Friday
night.
GENERAL ITEMS.
w. A. Bell and Tom Strong, of Tres
Piedras, got into a fight the other day,
n using rocks and the other a knife.
Both men are badly used up.
There has been no water in the Rio
Grande at Ell Paso for nearly a month,
and yet General Mills holds that the
river at that point is a navigable
stream.
A boy named Mors, son of Gabriel
Mors, of White Oaks, accidentally shot
himself through the knee with a six
shooter, but the leg was saved.