Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-30

> The ditch will irrigate over 1900 acre
i OF mesa land above Pennington.
Union County.
On Wednesday, March 20, daughte
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Price.
A new business house will be built ad
joining the Denitz store at Clayton. 1
will be built of stone.
Mr.. Howell Earnest and Miss Mabe
Hosfield, of Clayton, were married ir
Philadelphia last week and will return
to Clayton on the 3Oth inst.
Las Vegas.
g Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Walsen, of Den
q yer, are the guests of Charles II. Spor
leder and family
The residences of d. T. Hoskins and
B. Smith, cashiers in the two nationa
f banks of the city, are receiving exten
, sive Improvements.
: The four new residences to be bull
: on Eleventh street by j. s. Reynolds
will soon be under way. Stone for the
foundations is being delivered on the
ground.
Eutimio Martinez. charged with the
murder of the woman at Schaya few
months ago, had his preliminary exam
nation before Judge Mills in chambers
Saturday.
The contract for the Jamison cottage
was awarded by Architects Fritch &c Co.,
to James Kraul, his bid being s., ,O47.
The building will be on Lincoln avenue,
opposite the park.
Mrs. Martha Frank, died Monday
nrpttr rof hn af II,
funeral occurred Tuesday afternoon
from Mrs. Springers home, the inter-
ment being in the Masonic cemetery.
The Citizens Union party held its
ward meetings last night and nominated
candidates for the city council and
board of education, and selected dele.
gates to attend the city convention to
be held in the city hall tonight.
The partnership heretofore existing
between Secundno Romero and Delu-
bino r. Romero, under the firm name of
Romero & Romero, has been dissolved,
Mr.. Secundino Romero retires from the
business in order to devote his entire
time to the district clerkship.
The Democrats of the city held their
ward meeting in the different wards last
evening at s o'clock. In each ward
| there are to be elected one councilman
and one member of the board of educa-
| tion to serve for two years, and in the
second ward member of tho school
board to fll an unexpired term. Tho
city convention will be held tonight at
O'clock
The brick yard and kilns are all ready
for the reception of the new S., 900 brick
machine which is now due to arrive
here from Rucyrus, 0. Messrs Hill and
Brown, the owners, claim that they will
be able in 80 days, to put as fine buff
colored pressed brick on the market as
can be found anywhere in the country,
for $S per thousand The shale from
which the brick will be made Is found in
immense quantities in the bluffs just
east of Las Vegas, less than quarter
Of mile from the postoffice.
A gentleman was in the city last week
looking for location for beet sugar
factory. o. L. Crandall, owner of the
old Romero ranch, just south of town,
had the gentleman In charge. The pro-
moters of this enterprise desire the citi
zens to take $50, 900 in stock in the con-
cern. just at present, however, Las We
gans feel that all their energies should
be turned toward the Taos and Mora
railroad and it is very doubtful II $50, 900
can now be secured for any other enter
prise.
Santa Fe County.
The measels which has been very bad
here for some time has almost entirely
vanished, and the general health OF the
community is quite good.
The serious illness by measels last
week of Mrs John f. Daily and infant
daughter at Golden, resulted in the
death of the little one, after an illness of
four days, but the mother has entirely
recovered.
A sad death occurred on Saturday the
Goth instant. Mrs Romulo Bellas gave
birth to baby at her home in San
Pedro, while her husband was away In
Cerrillos. There was no one to look
after the poor woman except some child
rem and she died. The funeral occurred
next day at Golden. The little one Is
doing well and was taken care of by
friends.
Colfax Counry.
Hugh Grogan died at Ration last week.
Hume Brown is the new night operator
Of the Santa Fe at Springer
Laub & Adams have purchased the ice
plant OF Oldham Bros. at Ration.
Elmer Jacques is the new foreman Of
the Santa Fe boiler shops at Ration.
Mr., and Mrs. Chaplin Cartwright, of
Ration, are the parents Of a new boy.
A carload of machinery has been re-
ceived for the Spear nursery at Ration.
The family of Mr.. and Mrs. Adgar, of
Ration, has been increased by daugh-
ter.
G. I. Kern is acting as station agent
at Ration during the illness of w, NJ
Oliver.
Conductor Raymond, of the Santa Fe,
running out of Ration, is the father of a
new sou.
Fowler & Underwood, OF Catskill, have
purchased the Shaw ranch and stock at
vermejo park.
A son arrived to Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Gates, of Catskill, the 18th, and he was
named Patrick.
The county superintendent Of schools
is out with his Arbor day proclamation
for Colfax county.
Sheriff Littrell has seized Is head of
cattle stolen from Nicolas Cordova, and
the sanitary board Of the territory will
prosecute the case.
Juan B. Arellano has been nominated
alderman, and Celso Chavez and Robert
Estees school directors, by the Union
party at Buena Vista.
Isaac Marez, of Buena Vista, while
drawing water from a 4O-foot we'll,