Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-03

A. B. Laird proposes to sue the A., Z.
Santa Fe-Pacifc refused to accept mile
age sold by the A., I. g. s. F. agent, at
Silver City.
Colfax County.
Chas. Laub is building a brick resi-
dence in south Ration.
f. s. Crosson is erecting a brick resi-
dence in north Ration.
Considerable interest is shown in base
ball matters at Ration.
Robert Walker Harvey and Maggie
Dyer were married in Ration last week.
Mrs. j.. B. Shredder and daughters, of
Ration, are visiting in southern Cali
fornia.
c. b. Kimball is temporarily manag-
ing the Highland nursery at Ration for
Mr.. Spear.
More houses are being built in Ration
than ever in the history of that pro-
gressive town.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Martin, Of Ration, died last week
of pneumonia.
Editor Collier, of the Ration Range,
contemplates a change of climate in or
der to build up his health.
w. M. Oliver has resumed his duties
as agent of the A., Il. & S. f. railway at
Ration, having fully recovered his health.
The new Ration band will give open
air concerts every Friday evening dur
ing the summer in that city.
Sedgwick Post No. 2, G. A. R., of
| Ration, has changed its meeting day
from the third Thursday to the first
Sunday of each month.
James Sweeny, formerly yardmaster
of the A., T. & s. +. railway at Ration,
has been promoted to general yard
master at Albuquerque.
j. G. Frederick, postoftice inspector,
has captured the thieves who burglar
lied the Ration p~ostoffice some time ago.
| The arrests were made in Pueblo, Colo.
Rev. A. Hoffman, of Ration, has been
appointed delegate to represent New
Mexico at the New York meeting of the
| National conference of charities and
corrections.
+. G. Rasmussen and Harry Beebe,
A., I. & s. f. railway machinists at
Ration, resigned their positions to en-
gage in the war with Spain, and were
assigned to the battleship Iowa.
Las Vegas.
The church at Ell Porvenir was dedi-
Gated yesterday.
Mrs. Joseph W~addingham has IA Sc
we're attack of neuralgia.
The Misses Adams entertained the
Oriental Five, Friday evening.
Machinists Frost and Code have left
the service of the A., T. q S. F. railway
and gone to San Francisco for the pur-
pose of enlisting in the navy. ~.
bona Ana County.
Farmers are planting corn.
Pedro Onopa died at Mesilla Saturday,
April 90.
Gavino Navarro died Tuesday, April
20, at Mesilla.
Chas. Wilkinson has leased the Rous
ranch at Anthony.
Arrangements are being made to start
a cannery at Mesilla.
T. A. Goodwin has completed a new
residence at Alamogordo.
W. B. Murphy has nnfurled the first
Cuban flag in Las Cruces.
Mrs. Clara Sampson died in Las Cruces
Sunday, April 23, of pneumonia.
A heavy yield of wheat from the Gar
field region is looked for this year.
The Agricultural college at Mesilla
Park will observe Field day, May6.
Only two prisoners in the county jail
at Las Cruces last week. Very good.
The M. E. church, south, is holding
p%rotracted meetings at Las Cruces.
The new pavilion for the Las Cruces
city park will be completed this week.
c. L. Reesor, a Rincon switchman, has
been promoted to passenger brakeman.
DR.. Alexander is fascinating a great
many people since the small pox scare.
P. Prudential has returned to Las
Cruces from an extended New York trip.
The Sisters of Mercy at Mesilla will
give their annual entertainment May z.
The Wednesday club of Las Cruces
has waived the organization for the sea-
son.
f. G. Barker, of Las Cruces, is mar
keting his first crop OF strawberries this
week.
Larger crops of corn and beans is be-
ing planted in the county than ever
before.
Some young bloods of Mesilla have
been bound o. to court on the charge
of seduction.
A draft horse belonging to John Nc
Clure was killed In a runaway at Las
Cruces last week.
A number of Las Cruces ladies will at
tend the Federation of Woman's clubs
in Denver in June.
Dona Ana fruit growers predict q full
apple crop and about one-third of a
peach crop this season.
Garfield is afflicted with a few cases of
small pOx and strict quarantine regula-
tions are being observed.
Mrs. Sieberlich, a consumptive suffer-
er, died on the train between Ell PasO
and Las Cruces last week.
A new road Is being surveyed between
Las Cruces and Tularosa that is 20 miles
nearer than the old route.
The Columbian Literary society rem
dered the drama among the Breakers"
at Las Cruces Saturday, April 80.
Anthony people are offering big in
ducements for some one to extend the
Las Cruces ditch from Las Cruces to the
Texas line.
Claude Thompson, of Dona Ana coun-
ty, has been appointed manager of the
Tularosa Land & Cattle company at