Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-22
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
EDDY COUNTY.

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$40 from their election day dinner.
l.. E. Pratt was sentenced at Eddy to
two years for the murder of Bud John
son, but is out on a $4,000 bond pend
ing appeal to the supreme court.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Five persons nave just united with
the Presbyterian church at Ration.
Ration is to have a humane society
and a Band of Mercy.
Raton's new court house will be ready
for occupancy December Is.
A wolf hunter at Ration has been
taken down with the smallpox and is
being cared for outside the city limits.
The Santa Fe shops at Ration We're
never so crowded with orders and work
as at present.
The mercury showed 8 degrees below
zero at Elizabethtown the other day:
and still the people there are not happy.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Las Cruces Republicans have cele-
brated their victory by a big dance.
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Townsend, of the agricultural station at
Las Cruces, are reveling in a new dis
cOvery, that of a hitherto unknown kind
of snail from the top of Sierra Blanca.
After a vigorous assault upon the lexi-
cons, the savants have just decided that
the new-old fossil is a polygra altissima,
whatever that nay mean.
Jack Cravens, of Las Cruces, has
been given the contract to carry the
mails between A~lamogordo and Fort
Stanton.
Ell Paso and ~Alamogordo base ball
teams cross bats at ~Alamogordo on
Thanksgiving day, the day winding up
with a bale.
CHAVES COUNTY.
G. G.. Starkweather, of Roswell, is the
new trainmaster of the Pecos Valley.
The 200 laborers on the Pecos Valley
extension are laying two miles of track
per day, one in the morning and one in
the afternoon. If they can lay the two
miles in less than 10 hours the men have
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their pay goes on. AT present the men
gain half an hour in the morning and
As minutes in the afternoon. or evening,
as afternoon is known down in the
south country.
Two hundred new cars have been or
dered for the Pecos Valley road.
ALBUQUERQUE.
Dairyman B. b. Pursell is dead.
Charles II. Spader returns to his home
in New York after 13 years absence.
G.. w. Johnson is to build him a hand
some new residence.
Assayer W. H. Stevens has returned
from inspecting valuable mining prop
critics neal Guaymas.
The local reading public is at present
much interested in the writings of Colo
mel Roosevelt.
The Santa FEES new round house will
be ready for occupancy the first ot tho
year
E. J. Post & Co, hardware merchants,
We're robbed Friday night of a cas- of
revolvers. The robbery was by tramps,
who sold a number of the guns at Ba!en
and Los Lunas. BY the merest acct.
dent, by chance gossip, in fact, the
thieves We're located and word brought
the Albuquerque police. Marshals Nc
Millin and FoTnoff Immediately took the
train south and caught one of the sus-
pected thieves and recovered a dozen CT
the pistols and two watches. At last
accounts there were good chances of
capturing the whole gang, with other
stolen goods.
GRANT COUNTY.
A. w. Wilson, of Deming, has married
Miss Victoria Salazar, of Hermosillo.
Sonora. The ceremony was performed
at Nogales.
Smallpox is reported gaining along
the Mimbres, and the needless way the !