Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-20
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
ALBUQUERQUE

MISS Emily BuTSeSS Is SpellulHS SeN-
eral weeks with friends in Colorado
Springs.
Charles n. Crittenton, the wealthy
New York druggist and founder of the
Florence Crittendon homes scattered
through the country for the rescue of
fallen women, will conduct a series of
union meetings in this city early in the
coming month. He is now in Phoenix.
Judge C~rumpacker and daughter,
! Kittie. have gone to La Porte, Ind, to
spend the holidays at the old home.
Jack Smith writes from Alaska that
he has made his pile and will return
with the same to New Mexico.
]. e. Holmes, of the Citizen, has gone
to Ell Paso to work for the Times of that
city.
Four hobos have been arrested,
for stealing nine pairs of trousers
from Grunsfeld's clothing store. One
was bound over to the grand jury and
| the others are given 90 days each in the
county Jail,
A 5-years-old Jemez boy named Cas-
tro was burned to death the other day
by getting too near the fireplace.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Faustino Garcia, of Garcia, whose
wife is the local pOstmistress, will be
tried on charge of using the postage
stamps in buying goods, thereby in
creasing the sales of the office.
Postmaster Palagio Casaus, in Qua
dalupe county, has been fined $50 and
costs for improperly registering his can
collation. stamps to increase the sales of
his office.
Solomon Bibo, a well-known business
man of Valencia county, is removing to
San Francisco to live, although he will
retain his stock interests in this terri
tory.
The Suspension of the game law in the
southern part of the territory has re-
suited in the local markets being well
stocked with quail.
The shipment of stock, past and pros
pective, since last reports, checks up as
follows: Two cars of hogs ven south
Louis. Tuesday, the Littlefield Cattle
Company shipped n car of calves to
Brownwood, Tex. Yesterday, at Hager-
man, was loaded the first nine ears of a
shipment of u cars of sheep for A. N.
Garrett. They go to Dublin, Tex, for
fattening. G. b. Willingham will ship
26 cars of cattle from Roswell to Kansas
!|,t, t,,,t nc ,-n, pc h, any, naJIy fhn
necessary cars.-Eddy Argus.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
Mrs. j. G. Wheeler, of Socorro, has
died suddenly of heart disease.
Soeorro has just given a dance in hon
or of the Rough Riders who went from
that county.
San Marcial is much disturbed be-
cause tramps persist in making it's pest
house a lodging house over night.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Sheriff Pat Garrett, of Las Cruces, is.
at Tularosa to raise a posse for the pur-
suit and capture of Lee and Gililland.
The new hotel at Alamorgordo will be
opened on the first of the month.
The recent snowfall in the Sacrament
tos has been very heavy, and the stock
and ranchmen are greatly elated.
The Rio Grande river has once more
become n~avigable at Las Cruces-for
ducks only.
Freighters are receiving $1.75 for
hauling ores from the Organs to Las
Cruces.
The late A. j. de Mules has two al
legged relatives who have come suddenly
into notice to claim his property, viz, a
brother, A. A. de Mules, in Minneapolis,
and a Nebraska woman, who claims to
be the 4ohly living relative of the de-
ceased.
Parties from eastern Dona Ana coun-
ty say that the name of the new county
will be Sacramento county.
Dan Read, a Las Cruces cattle man,
INDUCED in a duel the other day with
Felix Apodaca in a controversy over
smallpox. The weapons were six-shoot-
| ers, and Apodaca got the worst of it,
though the results We're not serious.
Read was arrested and fined $50 and
| costs, from which he appealed to the
district court.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Snow fell recently at Lincoln for SO
hours.
Miss Fannie Lalone and d. Lacey, of
White Oaks, We're recently married.
Henry M. Bellamy, of White Oaks,
has astonished his friends by going to
New York and returning a Benedict.
His bride will rejoin him later.
The Old Abe mine at White Oaks had
to close down several days recently be-
| cause of the non-arrival of powder,
which was on the road from Socorro
for IL days.
CoLFAX COUNTY.
Nearly three miles of four-inch water
main is being laid between Ration and
| Gardiner to supply the latter place with
| water.
Rev. ]. w. Sinnock, Of Ration, has
been seriously i'll.
The Santa FEES shops at Ration are
now working 26O men, an increase of
% per cent in the last two months; and
the road list shows 50 engineers and 100
firemen. 80 freight conductors and 105
~brakemen, the aggregate payroll APP
proximating $45,O 900 per month.
Excellent coal is mined within so rods
of Ration, and delivered at the consum-