Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-07-30
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
Eastern Dona Ana County,

John w. johnson, a young lawyer
from California, has located in Alamo
gordo.
w. X. Stallcup, formerly county clerk
of Eddy county, is now bookkeeper for
G.. Meyer at La Luz.
Scott N. Morris has a force of 100 tic
choppers and 80 teams engaged hauling
ties for the Alamogordo & Sacramento
Mountain railroad.
Tracklaying on the A. & S. NJ. rail-
way has been suspended for a few days
to allow the graders and bridge mcn to
get ahead with their work.
+. II. Pierce, the we'll known ranch
man of the Sacramento country, has
taken his son Earl, who accidentally
shot himself in the wrist last Sunday,
to the Hotel Dieu at Ell Paso, where
he is under the care of DIR. Turner.
The wound was made by a fowling
piece and while serious, it is thought
amputation will not be necessary.
The Alamogordo Lumber Company is
erecting a large saw mill at Alamogordo.
The main building will be 36x165 feet,
the boiler room, 50x50 feet, and there
will also be erected storage houses and
drying kilns. The mill will have a
capacity of 5000 feet of lumber an hour
and will work night and day. 1t is said
that 200 men will be employed by the
company and the pay roll will average
$500 per day.
Bernalillo County.
Morello Brothers are erecting a new
business block in Gallup.
Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Simpkin, of Gal
lup, are enjoying a visit in California.
The work of constructing the new
Odd Fellows hall at Gallup is progress
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Kartline, of Gal
lup, are happy all on account of a new
baby at their home.
Edward Hart, the popular Gallup mer-
chant, has returned from an extended
trip to eastern points.
Last Thursday night there was a jail
delivery at Gallup. A number of pris-
oners made their escape by digging their
way out underneath the jail wall.
A baby boy arrived to brighten the
h%earthstone of Mr.. and Mrs. John Book
lett, of Gallup. Another July baby was
a ten pound daughter born to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Kraher, of the same town.
Eddy County.
Eddy is to have a dramatic club.
Considerable of the enbankment and
four bents of the big flume above Eddy
were washed away by the heavy food Of
last week.
Hail OF considerable size fell in the
vicinity of Eddy last week, crushing out
the window panes in the house of Ed
Mintz on Black river.
Grant County.
Deming is advertising itself as a con-
v~ention city.
P. G. Landrum has sold the Elephant
corral at Silver City to J. +. Price.
Preparations are still continuing for
an electric light plant for Silver City.
Ramsey & Woods have bought Henry
| Meyers butcher business and ranch at
Deming.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bell, of Silver
City, have returned from a visit to Cali
fornia.
Hon. j. A. Ancheta, of Silver City, is
pleased over the presentation to him by
his wife of a fine baby daughter.
The United States court for the 81
judicial district will convene in Septem-
Der, at which time the trial of the Stein
Pass train robbers will come up.
As q result of injuries received from
being thrown by a horse, Joe DePriest,
aged 25 years, died at his home near
! PinOs Altos.
Manager ID. b. Gillett, Jr., of the
Hearst estate interests in Silver City
and vicinity has gone to California to
rest and to get well.
County health officer, DR.. H. B.
| Strathy, reports that there Is no increase