Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-31

an engine neal Tiffany ranch last week.
Abran Abeytia, county treasurer, city
clerk and general merchant at Socorro,
contemplates opening a bank at that
place.
Last week Il Socorro jury acquitted
Jack Mulhcrn of the charge of stealing
money and diamonds from an insensible
person.
Professor w. II. Seamon. who has had
charge of the New Mexico School of
Mines in Socorro for the past three
years, has gone to Alaska to examine
some mining properties for a wealthy
Klondike company.
Dona Ana County.
The Tortugas school will close in
June.
Dona Ana county farmers are busy
bailing alfalfa.
Howard Guron, of Mesilla. is cutting
| 40 acres of alfalfa.
The McClintock ice house in Rincon
is being enlarged.
Annual election of school directors at
| Las Cruces, June 7.
The Rincon school house has been
overhauled and repaired.
County commissioners will meet Mon
day, June 6, at Las Cruces.
Work has been started on s. +. Beans
new residence at Las Cruces.
Miss Windsor, of Ell Paso, is visiting
Miss Mamie Baird in Las Cruces.
Jesus Ortega, of Las Cruces, is repin-
ing in jail for resisting an officer.
Miss Leva Granger. of Las Cruces, is
rusticating at Long Branch, Cal.
Mrs. j. A. Baird and son, of Las Cru
ces, have been visiting in Ell Paso.'
Charles West and wife will open a pri-
vate boarding house in Las Cruces.
C. C. Cowan, of Las Cruces, has gone
out to his mine in the San Andres noun
tains.
The infant daughter of MI. and Mrs.
b. +. Scott, of Las Cruces, died last
week.
The Presbyterian Mexican Mission
school at Las Cruces is closed for the
summer.
The family of George l.. Bowman,
formerly of Las Cruces, is now residing
in Clifton, Ariz.
Probate Clerk Lucero is now occupy
ing his new home on the Alameda road
near Las Cruces.
The home Of Don Melquiades Madrid,
of Mesilla, is now frightened by the
presence of a son
w. l.. Breeze has been brought to the
Mcsilla hospital from Organ. He is suf-
fering with pneumonia.
Mrs. w. B. Knight, of st. Louis, and
Mrs. w. r. Buckmaster, of Decatur,
ILL.,, are visiting their sister. Mrs. w. E.
Baker, at the Alameda, in Las Cruces.
The administrative of the estate OF
Pedro Chavez, of Las Cruces, has been
ordered by the probate court to show
cause why she has failed to pay APP
proved accounts. =
William Douglas, who enlisted from
Las Cruces with Captain Curry's troop,
has returned home, having been dis
charged on account of sickness.
Albuquerque.
Rev. L. C. Beattie has returned from
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church, which was held at Winona
Lake, Ind.
Frank Written, who is now a full
Aedged cadet at the Annapolis naval
academy, is home to spend a three
months vacation.
A company of volunteers has been Or
ganized at Gallup by w. A.. Smith, and
its services have been offered Gov
ernor Otero under the presidents second
call.
Early Monday morning a cottage on
the Tijeras road, opposite the city build
ing, was destroyed by fire. 1t was occu-
pied by Mrs. Myers and a family of small
children, who lost all they had.
NJ. s. Otero finished shearing his locks
of sheep last week, and a number of
wagon loads of wool arrived in this city
Sunday morning. The wool will be
stored until u better market material
ICES.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Van Antwerp
passed through the city on their way to
the City of Mexico, after a visit in Chi
cage. Mr.. Van Antwerp years ago was
the assistant live stock agent of the
Santa Fe road, with headquarters in AL
buquerque, but is now traffic superin-
tendent of the Mexican International
railway.
Memorial day was observed in this
city in a very impressive manner. Aside
from the usual parade, there were adj
dresses by Hon. b. $. Rodey and Judge
Collier, and a flag raising, in which a
beautiful new American flag, 30x15 feet,
with a miniature Cuban flag underneath,
which called for cheers and the blowing
of whistles at the shops and by the
engines in the railroad yards. The
graves of old soldiers at Fairview, Santa
Barbara and Old Town cemeteries were
p%rofusely decorated.
Santa Fe County.
Mrs. Nora Simon, of Cerrillos, died
last week.
Mrs. E. A. Turner, of Madrid, is on
the sick list.
The Catholic church at Dolores has
been repaired.
The infant daughter of Frank Arrange
died at Dolores last week.
Captain j. G. Burdick and daughter,
of Madrid, are on the sick list.
q. B. Hendricks has returned to his
Dolores home from Las Vegas.
The family of Mr.. ana Mrs. Joe Stew
art, of Golden, has been Increased by the
arrival of a girl baby.
Richard Carley, the 1S-year old son OF
Robert Carley. died at Golden last week,