Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-12
Las Vegas,

La vegas,
A 550-pound bear has been shot neal
a Las Vegas sheep dip.
Teodoro Ortiz y Salazar, an old and
respected citizen Of Mora county. has
died at Las Vegas.
John w. D. Veedcr, of Las Vegas, has
received from a relative an English
clock 200 years old which still keeps
good time.
Las Vegas seems to be in need of q
decent water supply, for there are fire.
quent complaints about the sickenine
qualities of the local aqua.
There is so much profanity among
Las Vegas children that a local preach
er, Rev. Norman Skinner, has felt
called upon to deliver an especial ser
mon on the matter
Tom Davis, sol of Il. A. Davis, OF
Las Vegas, who ran away last April, has
turned up as liable seaman" on the bat
tleship Iowa. He was all through the
engagements of the Santiago campaign
The San Miguel county commission.
ers have appointed Felix Martinez, Jr.,
a cadet to the Military Institute at Ros-
well, with Cecil Hays as alternate.
In the case of Louis S%ulzbacher VS..
Administrator William Naeglin, of the
estate Of Henry Korte. Judge Mills rem
dered judgment for the plaintiff in S573'
Albuquerque.
Sacramento will send a carload OF
local products to the territorial fair.
The managers of the Territorial Fail
association have decided to continue the
fair from September ~ to October1 l.
G. w. Laing and Mrs. A. H. Martin,
of Albuquerque, have been arrested
on charge of violating the Edmunds
law.
The wooden bridges between Albu-
querque and Las Vegas, on the Santa
Fe road, are to be replaced with stone
culverts and iron bridges.
James Douglas, of the "Rough Rid
ers," has returned to his Albuquerque
home. He belonged to Captain Curry's
troop, and was permanently disabled by
a kick from a horse. :
California horses will take part in the
races at the territorial fair, and the
Cerrillos Coal Company have applied for
a large space wherein to exhibit ar ex-
tended display from their mines
Fred Talbot, of Albuquerque, has
been heard from up in the Klondike
He hasn't made his pile yet, but he
hopes to get onto it shortly.
The five Indians charged with com
hitting a murderous assault on Mariana
Padilla, at Isleta, on San Augustin's
day, have been bound over in $500, in
default of which they are holding a
ghost dance in the Albuquerque jug.
Mora County.
Publisher Severiano NJ. Sanchez, OF
La Union at Buena Vista, has died at
Wagon Mound at the age of %.
Chaves County.
Hobbie Bros. have an artesian we'll on
their place near Roswell, 6s1 feet deep,
yielding 800 gallons of water per min.
ute. The we'll will be sunk until a flow
of 500 gallons is secured.
Eddy County. af
Marion Edwards and Horace Williams
are in Jail at Eddy on a charge of brutal
ly and perhaps fatally beating Walter
Ransberger, a livery stable hand who
found that a hired rig by the two men te
90 to a dance had been returned in
damaged condition.
Taos County.
The fruit crop in the Taos valley is
reported the largest in years. There is
also a fine wheat crop that is now being
thrashed.
Mining Notes.
More prospecting is reported in Grant
county than ever before.
The huge cyanide tanks at the Old
Abe mine ut White Oaks have been con
pleted. .t,s
New mining machinery is being moved
into the Jicarilla placers in Dona Ana
county.
A great deal of work will be done or
the mining properties around White
Oaks the coming winter.
A party of Detroit capitalists have
visited Watrous to investigate the Cop
per Zone Mining Company's proper
ties.
There is a great deal Of prospecting
going on in the Bonita and Ruidost
country in Lincoln county, and the ap
proach of the Ell Paso & Northeastern
ROAD is putting new life into all of tina
property.
The sulphur mines in Guadalupe coun'
ty are being rapidly developed, and on'
concern of which A. A. Cheateau |!
manager, is putting in a furnace capable
of reducing 100 tons of ore daily. Thu
price of sulphur has risen $22 to $40 pei
ton.
The Hematite mill at Red River ha!
been sold to Messrs. Longdorf, Masor
& Kelly, and arrangements are being
made to start it up without delay.
''The Insurgent" Is the name Of
new silver ore producer located between
Hillsboro and Lake Valley, and now
being operated by Messrs. Webster
Orchard, Diddinger & Bennett. Thu
vein is said to be Is inches wide and as
say 50 to go ounces in silver.
The Blakesley Tunnel Company have
driven their tunnel 800 feet into the cas-
side Of Badly mountain. F*"'
% seis..D An Explanation.
She-What is meant by the saying
that a mar Is convalescing?
He-That he has outwitted his doctor
l suppose. g'f A7,o.,