Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-15
Dona Ana County.

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There are nearly 100 children of school
age in Alamogordo.
Rev. James Norby is the new Presby.-
terrain minister at Las Cruces.
General Manager S. F. Webb, of the
Arizona Gazette, is a witness before the
court at Las Cruces.
Mrs. w. II. Howard, of San Marcial,
will be matron of the dormitory of the
Agricultural college at Las Cruces.
A%lamogordo is to have u Methodist
church, and Presiding Elder Morrison
has chosen the lots OH which to build.
Sheriff Garrett is promised the sup
port of both local parties in his candi-
dacy for the %shrievalty of Dona Ana
county.
Marble from Alamogordo is about to
| be shipped to various parts for building
| purposes. The marble will cost laid
down about the same as Pecos sand
stone.
Miss Margaret Trip, formerly Meth
| odist mission teacher at Las Cruces, has
| removed to Ell Paso to resume mission
work there. FL Paso does need re.
generation.
An immense log rolled down hill at
| Fresnal the other day, and crashing
over a tent in which was Mrs. Maui, q
widow, killed her instantly, crushing
every bone in her body.
The engineer OF the Southern Pacific
train held up at STEMS Pass last spring.
has identified two of the prisoners at
Las Cruces, Walter Hoffman and Leon.
ard Alverson as two of the robbers who
covered him with their guns. The tria
is progressing.
4 The Ell Paso & Northeastern road has
Just set in operation q mountain engine
Weighing III, 900 pounds for use on the
Sacramento mountain branch which |!
now nearing completion. This machine
Is so constructed that it will easily rur
around q 40 degree curve and haul Il
cars Of logs up a So per cent grade.
Grant County.
Dryer is experiencing a grasshoppe'
plague.
A 1876, 900 brick kiln is being erected
at Silver City.
Two inches of snow fell at Santa Rit;
Sunday morning.
Rev. A. A. Hyde, of Silver City, is cir
cult riding in the Mogollons.
Miss Ida Cain, a popular young lad.
of Silver City, has gone to Lordsburg tt
teach school.
Colonel Tom Parker, of Silver City
has returned home from an extended
European trip.
Ex-Sheriff Andy Laird, of Grant coun
ty, is at Las Cruces as a witness IN TIN
STEMS Pass robbery case.
Two prominent Silver City people
Thomas G. Culbertson and Miss Cora A
Fleming, have been married.
Grant county will sue the Santa F.
road for its refusal to pay taxes, AM
special counsel has been secured t.
force the suit.
James Brent, Of Silver City, while il
Las Cruces the other day, dropped t.
the ground from an attack of heart dis
ease, and was with difficulty resusci
tated.
The Silver City Independent says tn
Legislature made a mistake in abolishin,
the Office of county road supervisor ant
saddling his duties on thejustice of thu
peace. The result in Grant county |
that the roads are now neglected an
travel i%mpedded.
The Knickerbocker Trust Company @
New York has Instituted foreclosur
proceedings in the Grant county distric
court against the Silver City & North
ern road to secure the payment of $3.50,
900. The suit is to perfect the title o
the road prior to its acquisition by tn
Santa Fe road. The line formerly eX
tended from Whitewater to San Jose
but has recently been built on to Han
over.
Eddy County.
The bank Of Eddy has $25O,0OO in in
dividual deposits.
Eddy's term of court opens October lC
with Judge Leland on the bench.
Black River people have built a fin
frame school house, and are now look
ing for q teacher.
Fumigated mails have been lately re
ceived at Eddy, and the smell from tn
same occasions considerable gossip.
John Byrne, one Of the prominen
sheep men of Eddy county, and Mis-
: Anna Mehan have just been married.
Chavss County.
DR.. Peter Ferguson, Of Roswell, die
suddenly the other day from hemorrl
9 age.
The New Mexico Military Institute O
8 Roswell has opened auspiciously with
good attendance.
Misses Alice and Lizzie Llttlefield, I
d Roswell, have gone to Sherman, Tex
r to attend school.
Otto H%edgecoxe, Of Chaves county, hi
Q an artcsian well yielding 300 gallons {
the minute, and will drill further for
greater flow.
A. G. Mills, of Puerto de Luna, eel
brated placing his son in the New Me,
leo Military Institute recently BY ma
I rying Miss Lucy E. Hastings, Of Ro
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