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brother will attend school.
COIFAX COUNTY

brother will attend school.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Bert Cobble, of Ration, a soldier in the
territorial regiment, who has been sick
at the hospital in Arizona, has returned
home.
Hope lodge, No. 81, International AS
ISOLATION of Machinists of Ration, will
give a ball on the night of December
%.
Ration is to have a big dairy and
cheese factory in the spring.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Silver City postoftice has receiv-
ed authority from Washington to cam
Gel pension checks.
James Brooks, awaiting trial in Jail
School Teacher Simmons at Cooks
Peak, tried to suicide the other night
by taking poison. He failed to take
enough, and his life was saved.
A. A. Taylor and wife, of Columbus,
Ohio, are visiting in Silver City with
their niece Miss Taylor.
Crescencio Valerie, who claims to be
a Mexican citizen, was brought into Ell
Paso the other day with his back full of
buckshot. He claimed hat he with
several other tie pass travellers had
built a fire near Cambray station, on
the Southern Pacific, and We're warm
ing their shins with the same, when the
Cambray station agent showed up on a
hand car and ordered the outfit to 10Y
on. They We're taking their own good
time about obeying when the agent up
with a gun and let drive a load of buck
shot into Valerio's back. The wounded
man was put on the eastbound passen-
ger train that presently came along,
and brought to Ell Paso, where he is
now in the Sisters hospital. Mexican
Consul Mallen has the matter in hand,
and International complications may
result.
GENERAL ITEMS.
p. A. Ross, of the Santa Fe road at
San Marcial, has gone to Winslow as
private secretary to the master me-
chanic there.
There has been a tragedy at Dulce,
the Jicarilla sub-agency. An Indian
named Capulina was found dead two
miles from town on November %, with
three stab wounds in his back; and
three Indians are now under arrest for
the murder. The unfortunate man was
carried one mile after being killed, and
thrown into an arroyo. The deed is
supposed to have been done by blood
%atoners, Capulina being supposed
to have slain an Apache squaw two
years ago.
Gallup is excited over smallpox, as
men sick with disease have been found
walking about town, and there is no
telling now who have been exposed to
infection.
Fine marble is being shipped from the
A~lamogordo quarries.
Northeastern road are within Is miles
of the Salado coal fields.
Two Las Cruces lads went hunting
the other day, and got into a scuffle for
the possession of the n gun they had.
1t went off in the scramble, and one of
the boys was killed. The name of the
boy unhurt was Alvarez; the name of
the boy killed is not known.
Porfirio Porto, of T%ortugas, is lead
from wounds received while carelessly
handling a rifle. He got off his wag-
on to shoot a jack rabbit, and as his
boy was handing him the gun, it went
off with fatal results.
MINING NOTES.
Foreman A. L. Hall of the Albemarle
mine at Bland has returned from a trip
to the Mercur mine in Utah. William
jerks has begun work on several fine
properties in Cola canyon.
A tunnel is being u on the Aztec
near Bland that will open the mine LOG
feet lower than any of the other work.
ings. The mill has been thoroughly re-
paired, and is running 20 stamps on $40
ore with several hundred tons on the
dump and a three feet vein to draw
from.
Machinery for the $50 ton mill to be
built in the Timber Peak mining dis
trict must be hauled up the mountain
from Socorro, where hitherto it has
been thought hazardous for a saddle
horse to go, and some of the pieces OF
machinery weigh 1900 pounds. The en-
terprise is backed by Philadelphia cap
ital, and no expense Is being spared to
expedite the construction. The ore
lodges vary from 100 to 200 feet in thick
ness. The average value of the ore is
not owe $3.50 per ton, but it is SO easily
worked as to make it's handling profit
able.
The Montezuma Gold Mining and
Placer Company, of Morino valley, have
men in their employ.