Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-19
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Grant County.

The public school at Pinos Altos will
open early in September in brand new
school house.
The movement to secure public
reading room in Silver City will soon
blossom and bear satisfactory fruit.
The Independent reports that some
kind of "a nasty insect is playing hav-
oc with the shade trees in Silver City,
Barns bursting with plenty will be
the rule in the agricultural and fruit
growing districts of Grant county this
season.
Lordsburg has so far been exempt
from the political fever that has pre-
vailed in Grant county for several weeks
and threatens to spread.
The liberal-minded and progressive
people of Pinos Altos are chipping in all
around to defray the expense of erecting
free for all church building.
Meadow City Mention
Lincoln park is being very much inn
attractive resort.
The annual examination of applicants
for certificates in the public schools of !
San Miguel county is now in progress in
Las Vegas.
Colonel Z. B. Mills has returned from
where he let two con-
tracts for development work on the New
Moon for $50 feet and on the Dawn for
$50 feet, on Il crOss-cut.
The total amount of property re-
turned for taxation for San Miguel |
. .t,1
amount of exemptions. S219, ,4s5 leaV- !
ing balance subject to taxation of 81
O63, ,93a
County Clerk Gonzales will have his
annual report of the receipts and eX-
penditures of San Miguel county from
July /, 1897, to June 30 of this year, in
elusive, ready for the use of the gov
ernor in his report to the secretary of
the interior in a few days
Albuquerque Brevities.
The Citizen announces that Mr.. A. f.
Iiaggerty, of Albuquerque will teach
the public school at Bland during the
ensuing school year.
The managers of the Territorial Fair
Association have decided to hold the
October !, instead of a week later as
previously announced.
The members of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union have forwarded
a petition to President Mckinley pray ,
ing that he issue an order abOlishing the ,
army canteen.
e. sherman, a veteran of the civil
war, has received notice from Washing ,
ton that he has been dropped from the
pension rolls, and his friends insist that
the action taken is unjust and should
be corrected.
The Citizen quietly hints that the per-
son who is engaged in the promiscuous
of dogs in the Ducal City is
not horrd man. but member of the
genter sex. Evidence is being gath
cred to Justify an arrest.
Colfax County.
Hon. S w. Dorsey recently passed
through Ration on his way to Denver
from his Arizona mines.
Rolla Fullenwider, who distinguished
himself as sergeant Of Troop q,
Rough Riders, is now 1st sergeant of
that troop He is one of the soldiers
Ration is proud of.
VIM. j. Howells, Ratons pride as a
tenor singer, arrived home Tuesday on
a visit. He will 60 east from here and
enter professional career.
The normal institute opened at Ration,
on Monday. for two weeks session.
with County Superintendent Leahy and
Professor A. E. Burnett, of Silver City,
as conductors. Nineteen teachers are
in attendance
Mrs. C. N. Blackwell and daughter,
Miss Sudie. have left Ration for the east
They 90 together to Kansas City. when
Miss Sudie goes to Omaha,s and from ,
there to Brazil Ind, where she will at
tend school the coming year. Mrs.
Blackwell will visit Canada before re-
M. j. Coyle arrived at his home in
Ration Saturday morning. He is one OF
Raton's gallant members of Troop q,
Rough Riders.' and he would have
been given public reception had it
been known to his family that he was
coming. His wound is healing and he
is feeling in good condition.
La Belle Gold Mines.
The placers on Bitter Creek are pan
ming out WELL
Superintendent Cormey, of the Schnei-
der tunnel in Gold gulch. has passed
under the 1O0foot shaft, and will push
on until the vein is cut, a supposed dis
tance of about 20 feet.
John Ham is pushing work on his
group of properties near the Midnight,
and is elated over the uncovering of