Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-29

La Luz has beaten A~lamogordo 6 to
4 at base ball, and the La Luz horn is
nightly exalted.
There was no water in the river at
Las Cruces for several weeks until very
recently.
trapped in Dona Ana by reed traps with
an %aperature at the bottom. The birds
enter these cages to secure the grain
scattered there, and hen try to escape
by the top instead of the bottom of the
cage.
The Agricultural college farm title is
said to be cloudy, because Sam Bean,
who sold the land in 1854 to Salvador
Cordova, never secured the consent of
his wife to the sale. 1t is estimated that
at least $100, 900 worth of improvements
have been put on the land.
CHAvES COUNTY.
George w. Webster, of Roswell, has
bought 500 more head Of Shropshire
lambs for feeding for the spring mar
kets.
Fifty miles of range in Chaves
ty have been burned over through care
lessness.
DR.. ]. D. Love, of the Upper Penasco;
has returned to his former home in Ar
kansas, and a physician named Brown,
from Ell Paso, has taken his place.
The people of Elk are hauling lumber
for a school house which they expect to
have ready for occupancy in three
weeks.
The track layers of the Pecos Valley
extension are within 80 miles of Ros-
we'll.
Roswell is wrestling under the throes
of an egg famine. The local hens with
malice aforethought" have one and all
refused to lay.
GRANT COUNTY.
The justices of Central and Silver
City are on a crusade against the
would-be knights Grant who think it
smart to pack guns around in viola
ton of the law.
Judge Porterfield and bride, of Silver
City, have just been treated to a char
ivari party. There were no casualties
except such as commonly result from
champagne cork explosions.
Intimidation of voters at Central in
Grant county by al armed deputy sher-
if is complained of. The officer beat a
colored man over the head with his gun,
and did other things, it is charged, that
he had no right to do.
The Lordsburg Knights of Pythias
are about to build a hall.
Miss Eltha Neff, of Silver City, has
returned from an extended visit to Los
Angeles.
There is a large amount of corn on
the Mimbres, and the growers are Won
dering what to do with it if not allowed
to haul it to market. On account of the
smallpox, Mimbres people are being
cooped up.
The Pinos Altos schools have re-
opened, as the smallpox scare has sub
sided.
A Chinaman presented himself before
the Deming registrar before the recent
election, with what he claimed to be
naturalization papers, and was allowed
therefore to register. On election day
he appeared at the polls with his mat
uralization papers, and cast his ballot,
allie heap samee mclean man. Then it
to some of the citizens lea by
to examine his naturalization papers,
more closely, and they panned out to
be a marriage license issued to the Ce-
in California. Then there was a
how dye do all round.
Mrs. Agnes Hogan and daughters,
Miss Mary and Margaret, Of Burling- |
ton, Ia, are visiting for the winter at
City with her son, L. r. Dixon.
Silver City reports new buildings GO
ing up on every hand. That seems to |
be a common complaint all wei the ter
ritory Of New Mexico.
Surveyors are at work on the pros
pective railroad to Hanover from near |
City.
Deming is sending hay to California,
thre is a good demand for New
hay.