Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-15
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Albuquerque Notes.

NaclHlltltO mUuiludllS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Grunsfeld, of this
city. are visiting the Trans-mississippi
exposition in Omaha this week.
Judge Crumpacker has granted Ester
Armijo de Gonzales an absolute divorce
from her husband. Conrado Gonzales.
According to the edict of the Denver
board of fire insurance underwriters,
fire insurance rates on dwellings in this
city will be reduced from 10 to 20 per
cent after this date.
A wandering outcaSt Of the genus
tramp. afflicted with smallpox. started
to walk into Albuquerque the other
afternoon from lsleta. He was inter
cepted and sent to the ~pest-house.
The territorial fair has been formally
scheduled for October 4 to 5 inclusive. at
Albuquerque. The soliciting committees
are hard at work raising the needed
funds for prizes and other expenses.
Mrs. j. G.. Albright has returned
from New York City, whittier she &C
companied her gifted daughter. Miss
Claude. on the latter's way to Paris.
France, to resume her musical studies
under Madame de la Grange, the famous
teacher of prima donnas.
Miss Jessie Alderman, who has thrice
encircled the globe and made side trips
into Iceland and other remote regions,
is the guest of Rev. Mrs. NJ. }. Borden.
She is employed as Il lecturer and mis-
sionary by the Woman's Christian TEN
perance Union of the World.
Professor M. Z. Hickey, superintend-
ent of the city schools, has formally as
| signed the teachers under him to their
respective posts for the ensuing school
year, which will open on Monday, Sep
TENDER 6. Professor j. Everitt Smith
will serve as principal OF the high
school, and Miss Coltrane as model
teacher of the eighth grade.
Las Vegas Mention.
Chris. Sellman has bought the Morris
property, two doors east OF his residence
The city council has ordered the i'm
mediate grading of Center and Sixth
streets.
Trinidad Romero is slowly recovering
from a siege of sickness that threatened
his life at one time.
Mrs. r. E. T%witchell, accompanied by
her son. NdluO, Has I'puihou 'i"h' :"
visit to st. Joseph, Mo.
The local wool dealers are receiving
large consignments of the tleecy stuff.
both by rail and overland.
Vigorous measures are being taken to
guard against typhoid and other NTH
diseases by a general cleaning up OF the
city
News reaches the city that Mrs. j. q.
Clancy, wife of the Puerto de Luna
sheep man. is so seriously afflicted with
stomach trouble that her recovery is
despaired Of.
Geo. |. Kilmer, of Ciudad de Mexico,
and Miss Edith Rothgeb, the charming
and accomplished daughter of Mr.. &. A.
Rothgeb, of this city. were united by he
silken ties of matrimony on Saturday
afternoon. Rev. Geo. Selby tied the
knot.
Socorro County.
Eleven prisoners are now confined in
the Socorro jail.
Much new wheat is already pouring
into the Socorro market.
Wheat recently threshed near san
| iAlllOIIlo NlCluCt ~ iohti W. IN -
j. N. Broyles is paying from 60 to 70
cents per bushel for new wheat at San
Marcial.
Anastacio Torres and Miss Encarna-
cion Torres, very remotely related by
blood, were married in Socorro a few
days ago.
Professor Il. A. Jones has arrived at
Cocoon, e,pnn KanSus (ity to lSSnmp the
duties of superintendent of the New
Mexico School of Mines.
Mrs. d. III. Harroun has arrived in
Socorro from Mexico to pay q visit to
her mother and sister, Mrs. DR.. Martin
and Mrs. j. II. McCutchen.
Socorro is already making elaborate
preparations for the suitable entertain
j, ment of the members of the New Mexico
grand lodge Knights of Pythlas in Sep
TENDER.
A. b. Baca. who is being favorab,y
mentioned in connection with the Re-
publican nomination for sheriff of So
zorro county, recently captured Mateo
Kunegal, the fugitive horse thief, and
safely landed him in jail at San Marcial,
:. Dona Ana County.
Five cases of smallpox are reported
: at Mesilla.
The United States District court will
!, meet in Las Cruces on September 8.
e Grasshoppers are doing much mis-
chief to growing crops in the county.
The orchards and ranches in the Me
silla valley are suffering from lack o
1 water.
o MI. b. Williams and Mrs. Colita Cor
pening were united in marriage at La'
: Cruces on Friday evening.
Mrs. Walter c. Hadley and LITTLE
daughter, of Albuquerque. are TIN
n guests of Professor and Mrs. Hiram
Hadley at Las Cruces.
Grant County.
Mrs. Dollie Stoneberger, aged 81, die
9 at Silver City on Friday.
A lodge of the Fraternal Brotherhood
n was recently organized at Deming witt
S a large charter membership OF prom
nent people.
a Deming will, as usual, celebrate til,
Independence day of the Mexican Re
h public on September Is.
y, w. Fl. Hudson, of Deming. has passe'
the civil service examination requires
for the position Of mounted inspector o
customs.
8 The Grant county newspapers, irrc
l. spective of party, unite in paying elo
" uuent and touching tributes to tn
IF memory of the late Judge Gideon l
t Bantz.
n 1t seems to be a settled fact that "
1t G. McAfee will not be a candidate fo
70 reelection as sheriff of Grant county o
the Democratic or any other old tickle
Or In this connection, it may be truthful
l added that the political situation |
n Grant county is mixed by IN ovel
whelming majority. Even some OF tn
IN Republicans do not seem to know whei
they are at.