Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-12
TERRITORIAL CHIP BASKET.

The Springer stockman will soon be
located in it's new home.
Mrs. G. A. Shiffer, nee Miss Edna
Durea, died in Silver City ON Friday
night.
j. G. Meadors, of McMinnvile, Tenn.
has been selected as principal of the
military institute at Roswell
The facilities of the repair shops OF
the Santa Fe Pacific railroad at Gallup
have recently been increased.
Joe Brockman, who has been serious
ly Ill with pneumonia at the Sisters hos
pital in Silver City, is convalescing.
Editor Norton, of the Silver City Inde-
pendent, won new plug hat Of Editor
Sheridan, of the Enterprise, on the cleo
tion of Hanna.
The ladies Of Eddy have organized q
county hospital association and are re-
solved to establish an institution for the
care of invalds as soon as possible
Frank Vigil, the enterprising and en-
ergetic collector of Mora county, has
managed to put about $4,000 of filthy
lucre into the county treasury in the
past tnfee mOntnS.
The Matheson Commission company
shipped $500 pounds of mohair to New
York Tuesday. 1t was the shearing of
Garst Il Every Mohair is quoted all
the way from 10 to 20 cents.--Eddy Ar
gus.
10. E. Sheridan, chairman, has issued
call for a meeting of the members OF
the Grant county committee on the
Transmississippi exposition at the Office
Of John Corbett, at Deming. on Friday,
January 21, 1898.
The following mail contracts have
been recently let: From Silver City to
Mogollon was let to c. G. Steele, of
London, KY, at $3,24O per year; from
Silver City to Pinos Altos, L. S. Grey, of
Clinton, Mo-, secured the contract at
$3.50 per annum; from Silver City to
Alhambra, II. c. Hazelwood, of London,
KY, was awarded the job at 1894 per
year,
Death has claimed another honored
citizen and old timer of Grant county,
through the passing way of Captain
Webb, at Pinos Altos, last Sunday. On
last Tuesday the captain was stricken
with paralysis while at work and failed
to rally, with the above result. De-
ceased came to Grant county in 1879
and settled at Georgetown, and subse-
quently went to Pinos Altos and en-
gagged in mining. He was about 65
years of age and leaves a wife and
children to mourn his demise. reports
the Silver City Independent.
w. G. Hamilton is the latest man to
provide diet Of beet pulp for his sheep.
He is feeding the old ewes to get them
into proper condition for the lambing
season. Mr.. Crawford, who has 500
lambs at the factory, says they eat the
pulp with avidity. Hay is fed in con-
junction with 1t. The factory will have
no trouble in disposing of all its pulp,
which Is being proved by stockmen to be
. most excellent and fattening ration,
says the Pecos Valley Argus.
John Snediger met with a very severe
accident last Monday, at the Brush
Heap mine blacksmith shop. While
fixing steel punch his tongs slipped
and the red hot punch struck him in the
left eye, destroying its sight forever.
MhudSeI Vail DIUuSut tIlc llJuTeu ludI
to Hillsboro, making the distance In IS
to have the terrible injury at
tended to by DR.. Given. Mr.. Snediger
IS dow doing as well as can be expected,
says the Hillsboro Advocate.
The year Of 1893 is going to be rec
ord breaker in Gallup. The general
prosperity of the whole country and
stimulus given to the rail-
road business is responsible for this
state of affairs. New fields of business |
IRE now being opened in the territories !
Ind on the coast for the consumption
II the black diamond and Gallups coal |
or0prietors are not slow to seize the |
of securing full share
II what business is going. says the
ilcaner.
When Sheriff McAfee, of Grant coun-
y, came up to Los Lunas to take Am
,rosio Hernandez, the sheepherder, who
vas charged with attempting to rape
md then numbering Lulu Werner at
Silver City some time ago, he immedi-
Itely declared that a mistake had been
made and that he was not the guilty
nan. Hernandez was then turned
oose. Sheriff McAfee says that the
,erson who committed the crime was
10Y about 10 years old