Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-07-21

Contractors George S. Good Il Co.. are
employing 600 men to 60 to work on the
canon above La Luz grading and laying
track on the Alamogordo & Sacramento
Mountain railway.
Taos County.
DR.. Brownton, a dentist at Taos, has
moved to Las Vegas.
There is some talk of the Barron hotel
at Taos being opened by Mr.. Whites
carver, of Elizabethtown.
P. B. Steen and wife, of Taos, have
returned from a visit to Salt Lake, where
Mr.. Steen attended the international
Mining Congress as a delegate from New
Mexico.
Editor J. B. Wallace, who is also the
advertising man and collector OF the
Taos Register, had to get out the paper
alone last week the entire force being
laid up by illness.
Grant County.
Weem's store at Separ, was burglarized
by a lone highwayman who secured
about $50 and retired.
President Colquhoun, of the Arizona
Copper Company, has returned to Lords
burg from California.
San Juan County.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. +. Mccartney are
visiting friends in Fruitland from Colfax
county. .
Mrs. L. Z. Burnham, of Fruitland, is
entertaining her daughter, Mrs. Winder,
of Salt Lake.
A new baby daughter is domiciled
with the family of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Waggoner, of Flora Vista.
Sierra County.
The Sierra County Teachers Institute
was in session this week.
Miss Estella Clay, of Kington, and
Frank Buch, of Table Mountain, A. T..
were Joined in the holy bonds of wedlock
at Hillsboro.
Miss Minnie r. Appleton and George
Campbell, both of Hillsboro. we're mar
ried by Rev. j. A. Mussell, of that place,
during the week.
Hon. Silas Alexander, district attorney
for Socorro county, with his family, were
visitors last week with the family of
Don Bias Chaves, of Hilllsboro.
Two risky ghosts who are said to APP
pear nightly along the banbs of the
Animas river, at Hillsboro, are said fur
ther to be proof againt the lariats and
pistol bullets of the cowboys of that vi
cinity.
Albuquerque.
f. A. Spence, a White Oaks merchant,
was in Albuquerque for a few days on a
business trip.
Miss Lena McGillivray and Charles
Roe, the southwestern agent of the
Singer Sewing Machine company at this
place, were married here yesterday.
R. R. Rogers, a new arrival from
California, has taken the place of man
ager of A. A. Grants interests in Albu-
querque in place of Louis A. McRae,
who was appointed 2nd lieutenant of
Company A, New Mexico volunteer in
fantry.
Valencia County.
Pablo Pine y Torres, a prominent citi-
zen of Laguna, died ats o'clock on Tues
day and was buried at CuberO today.
Refugee Flores was killed and Lavino
Barela seriously wounded at Wingate
station on Tuesday night. Both men
were employed on the work train there.
There were several more that were
wounded but cannot be found. 1t was
pay day and several robberies are re-
ported In addition to the above casual
ties. One man is reported shot, but ran
into the canon back of the station and
cannot be located. One man undertook
to stab Andrew johnson. the time keeper,
and the foreman foiled him as he was in
the act and nearly killed his assailant.
San Miguel County.
The following particulars relative to
the shooting affair at Pecos on the 10th
instant have been received: Last Satur-
day night Marcelino Caballes gave u
dance to his friends, and Gonzales, with