Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-08
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Chaves County.

Chaves County.
Pecos Valley railroad rains will be
running into Amarillo on a regular time
schedule by January 1.
The Roswell Land and Water Com
pany has over 10000 acres of fine land
under the ditch.
immigration parties are arriving at
Roswell from Oklahoma, Kansas and
other points.
The country in the vicinity of Hagar-
man is becoming noted as a great Sec
ton for market garden truck.
The Pecos Valley extension from the
north end, has gone over the state line
into New Mexico.
d. w. Scott and II. w. Leary, of Ros-
well, have 5000 celery plants almost
ready for marketing.
Dona Ana County.
The Las Cruces Independent Demo-
crat learns that the chief jailer at the
county Jail has the cheerful habit of
gambling with the prisoners through
the bars of their cells. He wins the to-
bacco of the prisoners, and hen sells it
back to them for what small change
they can raise.
Phoebus Prudential, of Las Cruces,
has the tri-weekly contract for carry
ing the mail to Organ at $175 per mum.
-Four car loads of fine marble have
been shipped from A~lamogordo to Ell
Paso for building purposes.
Mrs. Fl. L. Allen, of Las Cruces, gave
a social hop at the local rink that was
quite a society affair, in honor of the
visit of her friend, Mrs. Louis E. Behr,
of Eel Paso. A tea party was also given
in honor of Mrs. Behr the following day.
Alamogordo has a base ball club
which processes it's ability to "knock
the stufIing" out of the I'll Paso club
any day in the week.
Alamogordo citizens have started out
to improve the roads leading from the
mountains to the town.
DR.. j. II. Blazer, of Sacramento. is
seriously i'll at his Mescalero home.
Alamogordo has 175 legal voters.
Fine water has been struck at 42S feet
near Hueco station on the FL Paso e.
Northeastern road.
Eddy County.
Eddy has a dramatic club which will
give performances this winter locally,
and in the ne%ighboring towns.
r.. e. Banner, an old resident of Eddy,
has been indicted OF a charge of making
false returns on a warrant.
Martin Hardsoeg, of Ottumwa, Ia,
and family have removed to Eddy to es-
cape the rigors of northern winters.
Lincoln County.
The White Oaks public school has 1902
pupils.
Rev. Y. L. Adams, the new Methodist
minister at White Oaks, has reached his
new hunting grounds and has started
in with a protracted meeting. Rev. Adj
ans was stationed at Magdalena last
year, and is a persistent, powerful
worker. He never knows what it is to
be tired.
Colfax County.
Brakeman Johnson fell from his train
recently on the Ration mountain and
was seriously hurt. He is in the hos
pital.
Ramon Chacon, the man who killed
Y. C. Morris, a Seventh Day Adventist
preacher, recently, and is now in Jail al
C,a,;.ra. al,,1,r1@1oo he .l,at tha
man. but claims it was accidental.
AL Grimes, a young man who re-
Gently completed his apprenticeship as
a machinist in the Ration shops, has had
his left hand cut off by a planer.
Arnold Garlick, of Las Vegas, is the
new principal of schools at Gardner.
Ration people are trying to organize a
cheese and dairy factory.
Rev. Reynolds, the Baptist minister
at Ration, has been called to the sick
bed of his mother in Ohio.
Albuquerque Notes.
Beggars are bothering the people of
the city.
Ross Merit and Tony Ortiz have re-
turned from Klondike, telling marvel
Gus tales of hairbreadth escapes and
divers and sundry thrilling adventures.
They say there are many men up in
Alaska who have not money enough to
get away on. They met Captain Jack
Crawfords's outfit at the mouth of the
Hootalinqua river and well equipped for
the work they were engaged in.
The members of the vaudeville show |
who recently attached the trunks Of the
manager as he was about to depart, to !
secure their overdue salaries, have won
their suit in the local court, and the COM
pany is now scattering to their several
homes.
Miss Alice M. Lewis has returned
from her California trip with recovered
health.
The Santa Fe is building a new iron
bridge across the river at Ysleta.
Arno Huning has gone to Lenox, Ia,
to marry Miss Helen T.. Scroggs. They
will return to this city in two weeks.
A. A. Grant has returned from a trip
to San Francisco.
G. Fl. Sack, of Warrensburg, Mo-,
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