Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-09
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
LAS VEGAS.

fl1teen~ round house men are laid In
sick with vaccination.
The fire department will hold it's an
nual ball Monday, January 2.
twenty-five cars of lumber have ar
rived at Las Vegas for the new railroad
ice houses.
Miss Emma Mcdonald, formerly O
this city, has been married to FRANK
Spafford, of Hanford, Calf.
Rev. j.. D. Bush, formerly of Las We.
gas and now of New York, expects
shortly to return to this territory.
The Santa Fe and Ell Paso & North.
eastern will allow one fare for the round
trip to parties wishing to attend the
Christian Endeavor convention and the
educational convention at Las Vegas
during holiday week.
An oratorio society has been organ
lied with As members, who put up 81
each for membership fee. j. G.. McNary
is mucical director and j. w. collars is
president. The first work to be taken uI
will be Haydn's oratorio of the Crea-
ton.
The Bell ranch has just sold at Kan
sas City, three train loads of yearling
cattle, the average weight in each train
being 562, 572 and 566 pounds, respective
ly, and the price being $40. The Bell
ranch has been using only the best
Hereford bulls, and are now putting in
shorthorns.
Patrick Ford's litigation with the
Springer Land Association has been adj
justed satisfactorily to himself, where
by he is to be reimbursed. according to
the decision of the United States SUI
preme court, with 1920 0 interest and
costs, for refusal of the association to
pay him for reservoir work in 1S90-92.
Defendants claimed the work was not
done according to contract. Ford had
advertised the ditch and reservoir land
for sale in execution this week, but the
association has come to terms and pro-
ceedings are dropped.
ALBUQUERQUE.
All of the railroad shops are rushed
with work.
A celebration In Albuquerque over the
mayordomo election came near ending
in a riot between the victors and the de-
feated.
Kansas officers who took Mrs. B. H..
Macke, wife of the alleged embezzler
back to Kansas. are accused of having
robbed the woman of her money and
jewelry, and finally turned her loose in
Topeka, where she is at present forced
to work for her living.
Albuquerque capitalists are beginning
to realize that until a direct line can be
run from that city to the Pecos valley,
a valuable trade must be resigned to
Texas which should be held entirely
within this territory.
Peter J. McGrath, an Albuquerque
letter carrier, is having hard lines. He
was a soldier in the territorial regiment,
and was left behind at Whipple bar
racks with typhoid fever when the COM |
mand removed to Kentucky. He was |
discharged and returned to Albuquer-
que only to fall sick again, and this
time it seems to be smallpox, for his
house has been ~placarded and he is n
der charge of the city physician. The
a contagious disease.
GRANT COUNTY.
A soldier at Fort Bayard has died of
smallpox.
R r Allan ooraa eE q prcroinant |
ranchman near Silver City, is dead.
Aaron Schultz, of Silver City, is recov-
from his attack of dementia.
The Knights of Pythias of Silver City
will give a grand ball on the night of the
Oscar A. Appel and Garry c.. Fielder,
of Silver City, have been admitted to
the bar.
New York Police Judge James A.
is in Silver City visiting with his
brother, H. H. Belts.
Mayor Fleming has returned home
to Silver City after a tour of the coal
mines of the territory.
B. F. Moore, of Deming, has sold his
entire brand of cattle and ranches at
to Charles Baker, of the Ami !
valley.
Elmer Bradford and Miss Hettie At
Sins, of Silver City, we're married the
'ther evening in Odd Fellows hall, and
he wedding vas made a great local So
'iety event.
The Grant county grand jury has
So indictments against saloon
for violating the Sunday law.
Silver City store keepers are making
special efforts to dress their show win
lows in holiday attire.
CHAvEs COUNTY.
Floyd Mccoy, of Odessa, Mo-, is re-
moving with his family to Roswell. (.
Mrs. Louise E. Chewing, a promi-
lent Roswell woman, is lead at the age 1
# So.
Gerd B. S~tonehouse and Miss Clara
Of Roswell, daughter Of County ,
Jerk Gayle, were recently married.
w. ii. Hoar, IN experienced artesian
veil borer, of Melbourne, Ia, will re- {
move to Roswell and work up the well {
prospects of the country. ]
Roswell is still calling for a bran new !
lotel to accommodate the increasing l
of travellers and other visitors d,
rho are continually coming into town. /
The Christian church at Roswell is ]
to secure Rev. S. X. Hallam, Of
fcKinney, Tex. Rev. Hallam was one {
f the committee of the El Paso minis =
ars' union who drove the fistic carnival :,
ut Of FL Paso in 1896. F.,
SAN JUAN COUNTY. /
The Santa Fe Presbytery Is holding a |
assion ut Aztec. 7
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