Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-23

Inc west Ie4dS fIeSs heeOCidtipll
which recently concluded its meeting at
Pecos City, Tex, made an interesting
excursion trip up to Eddy and Roswell.
According to the Roswell Record, ac-
tual work of track laying, bridge build
ing, etc, on the Roswell extension has
just begun. and will be pushed to the
Pecos.
John Z. Stone, of Roswell, has ship
ped to the Texas state fair at Dallas,
six champion ~squasheS, n of which
weighed lis pounds. Il second l0s, and
a third l04 pounds.
Albuquerque.
C. Ii. Shedd, press taker" at the
Western Union Office at Albuquerque,
has been transferred to Denver.
William Bryce and Miss Julia Wey-
gand have been married by Rev. Fl. F..
Allen. The ceremony was quite a So
ciety affair.
Harry Lithgow and George Hopping.
well known young men who awe NTH
erto born a good reputation in Albu-
9uerque were caught the other night, in
the act of robbing the residence of Will
lam Bryce, after Il hard struggle.
Albuquerque will hold a peace jubilee
on the retur of the Rough Riders on
Thursday Of the fair week, with speak
ers from various parts. Among the ora
tors will be Governor Murphy, of Ari-
iona; Colonel X. E. Twitchell, of the
governor's,staf of Las Vegas; Neill b.
Field, of Albuquerque, and others.
Co1fax County
Blackleg has been eliminated from
the cattle in Colfax county.
The Waldo coke ovens in Colfax
ty have been starSed up again with coal
shipped from Starkville, Colo.
Continued and successful efforts have
been made in western Colfax county to
improve the local breed of cattle.
The bounty on wolf scalps in Colfax
county has been the means of greatly
reducing the number of those lovely
creatures.
Las Vegas.
A. C. White has bought $50 mead of
stock from Harry f. Beyers.
James r. Smith and Miss Catherine
A. Hanlon have just been married.
Miss Carrie Dubress, of Las Vegas,
has entered school at West Chester, Pa.
A Montezuma hotel gardner has re-
ceived an incubator of 300 eggs capa-
city.
Miss Efie Hull, of Eel PaSo, has been
spending two months at Las Vegas Hot
Springs.
R. B. Ellison has purchased the s. A..
Clements ranch ut Eden, and takes i'm
mediate charge.
The w. C. r. U. have just given a
public reception to their returning
Trough Riders"
The Las Vegas Methodists decline to
receive any further support from the
board of home missions, and will paddle
their WI canoe hereafter.
A. W. Htnchman has bought 400
calves and several hundred yearlings
and two years old in Vermejo, Carriso,
Van Brimer and Cimarron valleys. The
cattle will be shipped to Mr.. Hinch-
mans ranch near Emporia, Kas.
A Mr.. Homer, of New York, died the
other day on a Santa Fe train while
crossing the Glorieta range. and the
body was taken off at Las Vegas pre-
paratory to shipment east for burial.
The deceased was en- route home to die,
as the climate of Phoenix where he had
been proved of no value to him. Better
have come to Santa Fe.
General Items.
George Goss. of Engle, has bought
two cars Of steers from Captain George
Austin.
The ~postofiice at Vida, Union county.
has been discontinued. and the mail
goes to S%pringhill.
A. E. Perea, son of Hon. Pedro Perea,
has been very sick at his home in Ber'
nalillo. but is recovering, and will short
ly make a trip to Philadelphia.
La Cueva Ranch & Cattle Company
have leased the Horseshoe pasture on
the vermejo, where they will pasture
some 1000 head of cattle this winter.
Roswell and Eddy have been disput-
ing for the general offices of the Pecos
Valley & Northeastern railway, and it
is announced that Eddy is to have the
offices.