Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-15
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
GRANT COUNTY.

GRANT COUNTY.
Cattle are reported dying of blacllleg
| in western Grant county.
The new electric lights in Silver City
| are to beturned on Christmas eve.
A new station three miles east of
Lordsburg on the Southern Pacific is
| named East Lordsburg.
A man who claimed to be 'Red Pip
kin" was arrested in Deming saloon
by George Scarborough, while on a tear
AS Wells Fargo have offered from $10-
900 to 100000 reward for the arrest of
this desperado, the announcement ere
ated something of a commotion. How
ever, when the fellow was actually in
limbo, he acknowledged he was not
Red Pipkin" and the scare was "off.''
EDDY COUNTY.
Ten tons of beets have been raised to
the acre in Eddy county.
G. A. Simpson, of Sedalia, Mo-, has re-
moved to Eddy to engage in business.
There is such demand in Eddy coun-
ty for alfalfa that local famine is
threatened before the winter is over.
Frank P. Pool, an Eddy photographer,
has been married at Anson, Tex, to
Miss Lucy Davis.
Real estate business in and around
Eddy is very active, and many ranch
properties are changing hands.
In the insurance suit for $4,000
against the New York Life Insurance
Company at Ell Paso by j. o. Cameron,
of Eddy, intervenor Judge Harper, of
the probate court, decides in favor of
the Eddy claimant.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
Socorro has a gang of very tough
youths are living on what they can
steal.
David Baca mad Vivian Chavez. of
Socorro, have been indicted for assault
with intent to murder.
William Walter "Broncho BILL has
three indictments for murder to his
credit, and trial is set for the 10th inst.
The people of Alma in western Socor-
no have repeatedly petitioned for post
Office, which request has as repeatedly
been denied. The last petition was sign
ed by 100 persons, but it did no good.
For the district court in session at
Socorro, Orrin Rice has been appaointed
court stenographer, w. E. Martin inter-
prefer and N. P. Eaton court crier.
There are 81 students in the school of
mines at socorro and the attendance is
increasing.
Large quantities of mistle toe are be-
ing shipped from San Marcia on Christ
mas orders.
Dick Brown, of the territorial regi-
ment, has returned to his San Marcial
ohme, having secured his discharge.
w. A. Sanders, the cattle man who re-
Gently shot and killed j. f. Baker, of
Socorro, has been indicted for murder
in the first degree.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Gus Duval, recently of Hillsboro, will
remove to Cuba to engage in business.
w. S. Arnold, Of Utah, has entered
suit to recover copper properties for
merly owned by him in the Cabello
mountains and sold to M. M. Freed. The
property involved is valued at $1,00O,O0O
| Robinson Chavez, of Animas River,
has sold his fruit and vegetable ranch
to w. S. Hopewell for $1,000.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Rev. Father Moog has arrived at
| Springer from San Marcial and will as
sist Rev. Lammert in the parish Of Col
fax and Union counties.
| Springer is to have new water mains
and an increased water supply.
Three engines and IL freight cars were
wrecked near Ration the other day in a
collision.
| The Ration authorities located gang
supposed to be organized for predatory
purposes and drove them out of that
part of the country.
There was collision the other even
ing at Dillon between a freight train
and a light engine, and Engineers
simms and Bourne were slightly hurt.
W. H. Bogert, New York business
man, has removed to Springer, where he
will engage in ranching and stock rails
ing.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The schools at Las Cruces are closec
until after the holidays.
Snow and very cold weather is re-
ported in the Sacramento country.
Numa Raymond, Of Las Cruces, has
gone on an eastern trip.
H. B. Bowman, administrator of the
De Mules estate, has hired 25 men to az
assessment work in the Jarillas anc
Black mountain.
When De Mules was killed he was
wearing large and very handsome
turouois ring, which fitted very tightly
When the body reache FL Paso the rini
was gone, and no one knew anything
about it.
Nineteen carloads Of wood were re
Gently Skinned from the SacramentOs t