Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-31
new MEXICO SIFTINGS.
Grant County.

Grant County.
: Mrs. DR.. Stovall recently passed
through Deming en- route from San
Francisco to her home at San Pedro,
near Corralitos. Mexico. DR.. StOvall
was at Deming to meet and escort her
home.
Cards have been received announcing
that on Thursday February 10, 1898.
Miss Olyve Hughes and Mr.. Edwin Ely
are to be married at st. Luke's church.
Deming. The young couple are well
known in LOrdsburg. and have the kind
est wishes OF their many acquaintances,
says the Liberal.
On Wednesday afternoon. W. II. Mar
bic was driving his siX-horse team from
Lordsburg to Shakespeare. just before
| getting there one of the horses fell and
in the following struggle Mr.. Marble was
thrown out, breaking his right arm just
above the wrist.
Pinos Altos is just starting on an era
of greater prosperity than ever enjoyed
before. Business is brisk, every business
and residence building is occupied and
not domicile of any description to be
rented for love nor money. There is a
good opening for a paying Investment
| to build several small dwelling houses
| for rent.
Coleman Il Qnintalla, keepers of the
Alaska saloon at Silver City, were fined
$50 for allowing gambling without license
in their saloon. The law places GER
tain license upon each gambling table
and to evade the letter of the law craps
ri 41,,
| let the proprietors into the spirit of the
law Oh the ground floor. at $50 fine, says
the Enterprise
| SOcorro County.
Lon HONEYWELL will leave SoeorrO for
klondike in few weeks.
The Chinese population of San Mar
cial can be counted on six fingers.
The new opera house at San Marcal
will be opened with a free ball tomorrow
night.
Colonel W. $. Williams. editor of the
Chieftain, has gone to Los Angeles on
legal business.
The large and handsome Armijo resi-
dcnce property at Socorro has been con-
vclted into sanitarium.
Professor w. H. Seamon recently re-
turned to Socorro from a trip to the
southern part of the territory where he
went as grand lecturer of the Masonic
order, and at the same time to lay be-
fore the people of the towns he visited
the advantages of the New Mexico
School of Mines, says the Chieftain.
Thomas A. Fair, who had been a resi-
nf Sa Mop ota1 Of 1act No
at the home OF his brother, Fireman j.
II. Fair, on last Wednesday morning of
spinal menengitis.
Valentln Torres, an old and respected |
citizen of Socorro, died at his home on |
Friday morning. The deceased was 62 |
years of age and was member of one !
of the Oldest Spanish f"nlilits ot the ter.
ritory. He was the tlJhn OF Nh lose
Epitacio Torres, til present pro} siN .
Judge of Socorro county.
Several crews from he Santa lfc Pas
cific are expected E san MgraiaE 10 !
handle freight from gbat road pass
ing over the Rio Gralde dv'sion, BY th9l
way of Deming and the Sppthcrr Pteiic .
for and from thieves, Tics 5aiie ina ,
go by this route for sevefi' Wa. ts d. +,
come, as the work on f. 'HHfa6 turDfi
is progressing very slow- .la Boe.
Judge Hamilton is eug hlgs in
shape for adjournm District
court which has benu sion since
the first of DecenluuI. .4s been a
long term and a large numJer of inn
portant cases have been disrosed Of.
There was also a large criminal docket
an with a pnuuiatfnr inpv p,,,b NJ, +to |
present one, nearly everyone who came
before it accused of a crime was con-
vcted
bona Ana County.
The DOna Ana county exhibit includ-
ing poultry, received for premiums $3.50
from the Territorial Fair association.
The board of regents of the Agricul-
tural college met on Wednesday and
accepted the two new build
ings for the Agricultural College at ;
Mesila Park.
About 900 bales of alfalfa belonging to
the Duhalde estate, and a tenant farm
ing the land, were destroyed by fire at
Las Cruces, on Monday afternoon, dur
ing the wind storm.
At Las Cruces, U. S. Commissioner
Pinto Pine recently presided over the
preliminary hearing of Jos. A. Brown
ing and Priciliano Lopez, charged with
buying government property from the
Mescalero Apache Indians. Browning
was bound over in the sum of $500 for
his appearance at Socorro next May, to
await the action of the grand jury.
Lopez was also bound over to await the
action of the federal grand jury, which
meets at Silver City on February next
Lincoln County.
About two feet of snow have fallen in
the Jicarilla mountains during this
Gus Winfield and Jackson Leighnor.
'f White Oaks. recently killed 20 wild
turkeys in the CAPTAIN mountains.
The public school at White Oaks
opened, on Monday, with an enrolment
If SO pupils. Miss Austin and Miss
1osie Biggs are in charge Professor