Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-03-31
TERRITORIAL SIFTINGS.
Dona Ana County.

Dona Ana County.
Smallpox is reported at Iona Parda.
Mrs. Gertrude Villareal died at La
Luz last week.
Mrs. Thomas Fennessey has opened a
millinery store at La Luz.
T. A. Goodwin, formerly of Hagerman,
N. M, is a new La Luz rancher.
Perry Kearney, of La Luz, has sold his
alfalfa ranch and orchard for $ 1000.
The La Luz park commissioners have
received a consignment OF 10000 pounds
of trees.
Charley Cowan and Miss Alice La
point, of Las Cruces, will be married on
the 18th of April.
Credencio Cordova, II of the pioneers
of the county, settling here in 1s40, died
at Dona Ana last week, aged IS.
Richard Warren and Miss Maude Will
kinson, of Weed, last week decided to
paddle through life in the same canoe.
Wayland Bros. have secured an In
e%xhaustible supply of water at q depth
of 80 feet, three miles south OF La Luz.
The Sacramento Chief says that the
free government land in that locality Is
being rapidly taken up by homeseekers.
John Wood, Felipe Lucero and Reyes
Apodaca, of Dona Ana county, shipped
a carload of beef steers to Albuquerque
last week.
Thad Mossman, OF Las Cruces, has
gone to Holbrook, A. T., where he will
act as foreman for the Aztec Land &
Cattle company.
Land that had no commercial value,
south Of La Luz, is now being eagerly
sought for residence purposes, says the
Sacramento Chief.
Cuttings from the Muscat, Black Ham
burg, Sultanas, %Zinfandels, Carbonet,
Sauorguon and. Whitewater grape vines
of the Dessauer vineyard ut Las Cruces
are being shipped extensively.
E. b. Learned and wife have arrived
at Las Cruces from Wichita, Kas. Mr..
Learned has taken charge OF his position
there as station agent. He exchanged
places with Mr.. Miles on account of the
Ill health of the latter gentleman.
The recent cold snap did considerable
damage to the fruit in the Mesilla val
ley, and it is feared that a great portion
has been destroyed. The thermometer
was down to two degrees above zero,
and as most of the trees were in bios
som they were severely frost bitten. The
peaches and apricots suffered the most.
Chavez County.
Roswell trustees has passed a vagrant
law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monte Miller, Of Roswell,
are the parents of q new girl.
Chas. Lush, of Roswell, has sold 1900
head of sheep to Knollin Il Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodhart, Of Roswell,
have a new boy at their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chisman have a now
girl at their West Grand Plain home.
The Acasio Gallegos place at Lincoln
has been sold to L. B. Walters for 81 900.
The cattle sanitary board has ap-
pointed C. L. Ballard cattle inspector
for Chaves county.
Perry Melton was arrested at Hope
last week and taken to Eddy to answer
to the charge of stealing calves.
Tom Sans, colored, died at the Eddy
hospital last week. His was the first
death occurring In that institution.
Harry Hamilton, of Roswell, has over
100 fine, large lambs from his 300 Ram
bouillet ewes. The latter began lamb
ing the 18th.
Chaves county stock men report the
cattle coming through the winter in
fine condition, and do not anticipate
any losses to speak of this spring.
The Roswell Record states that the
denizens Of that section are INDUCING
in their annual shear, and depriving
themselves Of hirsute adornments.
The Cass Land & Cattle company has
sold the summer drive at $18.37k per
head for yearlings; $25 for 2-year-old
steers, and $40 for SIS and up, to the
Kidder Commission Co., of Kansas City.
The Capital Syndicate company, OPP
Grating in ChAves county, has sold Its
'0s calf crop to T. F. B. Sotham, Of
Chilicothe, at $24 per head for Novem-
Der delivery.
Comptroller OF. the Cur rency Dawes
has levied an assumpsit on the stock
holders of the defunct First National
bank Of Eddy. They must pay $lS,O 600
on or before April IA.
Albuquerque.
United States Attorney Childers is at
tending court in Las Cruces. He is
looking after the interests Of the gov
eminent In several cases.
c. M. Higginson, his daughter and
niece, accompanied by A.G. Wells, left for
the west Tuesday night in MI. Higgin-
sons elegant private . +
DR.. Cowan, Of Las Cruces, passed
through this city Tuesday night for
Trinidad to meet his wife, who has been
east on q visit. They are expected to
pass south on their way home tonight.
The machinery for the Alton & Mil.
Ing company Is oil in position In He'll
canon, and fires were started on Mon
day. George Bowman, who was in this
city on Tuesday, says that the treatment
Of ore has begun.
Max. e. Becker and Ed. Torlina, who
have been on q visit to the half dozen
! mining camps north Of the city, returned
home Tuesday night. They spesk n
high terms Of the mining poseibilitisa Of
northern New Nsxico.. u