Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-09
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Chaves County,

The New Mexico Military Institute
building is finished and has been received
by the regents.
John Fewson bought 1000 pounds Of
sorghum seed of W. F. Randolph this
week at cents per pound and will SOW
it on his Hondo farm.
The spring term of the District court
for Chaves county cOnvenes in Roswell
on the 10th. The docket is light, show
ing that the people of the county are all
right.
Assessor E. y. Lea began work
promptly the first day of the month, and
our people will generally feel poor for
the next two or three months. says the
Roswell Record.
A very welcome drop in the tempera'
ture came Wednesday morning, which
we hope will continue for some time and
that snow will fall before there Is a
change to warmer weather. remarks the
Roswell Register
Assessor w. F. Cochran, last week,
found fine spring of water on his place
on top of the Gnadalupes. tits supposed
the spring had been covered up by the
Indians years ago, on account OF the
fact that cliff Of rock near the spring
was covered by old Indian signs and the
formation around the spring showed un-
mstakable signs of having been dis
turbed. There is no doubt plenty OF
water in the Guadalupes, but which was
hidden by the Indians to check the in
vason of the whites.-Roswell Register
socorro County.
Captain Jack Crawford has joined his
family in San Marcial
A. H. Hilton is agitating the build
ing of canagria extract works in
San Antonio.
Mrs. A. j. Richards has returned to
her San Marcial home from two
months visit with relatives in st. Paul,
Kas.
Judge Hamilton has decided that city
warrants that have been outstanding
for more than six wears are uncollect-
ibe
j. D. Brooks. ESQ.,. who has been To-
Gated at Socorro for some time past has
gone to Springer to locate permanently.
and will engage In the practice of law in
that thriving little city.
Some hungry prowler stole large
quantity of fresh beef from Mr.. d. w.
Hitchcock few evenings ago, and now
the San Marcial meat dealers have to
deliver a guarantee of ownership with
every steak sold.
MIR. E. NJ. Kealer. who was seriously
hurt a fou, do We cipoo hv tbo fa1iipV nf
a horse which he was riding, is again
able to attend to business in Socorro, al
though not fully recovered from the
bruises received in the fall.
The Chieftain says: 1T is all war
talk on the streets these days and every
body wants to 60 should there be war,
from the little boy In knee pants up to
the old gray-haired man. No section OF
the country can show more loyalty and
patriotism than that Of the people OF
New Mexico
Mr.. Frank Camp, of Des Moines.. Ia,
and Miss Louise Meek, OF IndiaHcla, Ia,
were married in Socorro on Tuesday.
Miss Meek is the sister of Mrs. Robert
son, and has been visiting in Socorro
for several weeks past. After the mar
riage the young people will return to
Des Moines to make their home
DR.. G. &. Cruikshank, the daddy Of
San Marcial" as the citizens of that
place call him, was treated to an
agreeable surprise on Monday evening
of last week. The doctor and wife were
to leave for Los Angeles the following
morning to make their home in the fu-
ture, and they were inveigled into the
opera house where their many friends
had assembled, and while there the doc
tor was presented with a hand some
diamond pin as token of the esteem In
which he is held by his friends and ac-
quaintances Of lS years standing.