Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-22
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

Colonel McCord, of the territorial reg
iment, has been placed in command of
the Sd brigade of the 18th army corps at
Albany, Ga, and will shortly be with
his command in Cuba. This leaves
Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell in com.
mand of the regiment. Colonel Mitch
ell is a major in the regular army, and
has got the regiment into fine shape.
Colonel McCord's promotion is said to
be due to the activity he has displayed
in military matters, and he says he en-
joys military service more than any
| other public service he has ever been
engaged in.
j. D.. Chambers, convicted at Las We
| gas of postoffice robbery at Clayton, in
1896, is an ~eXconvict, having served two
terms in the Colorado state prison for
robbery. One of the witnesses for the
government vas J.. M. Frier, alias Bud
Moss, a convict. On being taken from.
the ~penitentiary, where he is serving a
two and half years service for robbery,
Warden Bergman noticed the fellow
walked stif1y. So he had him examined,
and two long saws were removed from
his trousers, and a vial of oil from the
toe of his boot. Friar said he was in
tending them for his friend, Chalmers,
at Las Vegas, and had stolen them
from the penitentiary machine shop.
That's one on me-" remarked sew
eral prominent politicians this morning
at the Palace hotel, as some one, after
looking on the register book suddenly
asked: And where is Clarksville, N.
Mp" After some inquiry it was devel-
oped that GAINESVILLE, is a thriving coal
mining town less than a year old, stu
ated about six miles the other side of
Gallup, and connected with the Santa
Fe road by a spur track built by the
projectors of the mines. The first house
was put up about II months ago and
now the town has so houses and $50 in
habitants, one of the buildings being a
3-story brick. The town was named
after w. A. Clark, the big Montana
miner who has heavy interests in the
Arizona copper mines, and now is doing
so much to bring out the coal interests
of western Bernalillo county. The coal
is bituminous block and Of a fine quail
ity.
The Santa Fe train due in this city at
2:10 this morning, did not arrive until
6:45 because of delays on the main line.
There is a grand kick among the no.
tel men, at the postoffice and among
many people whose interests depend up
on the announcement of arrival and de-
parture of trains, at the failure of Lamy
to give reliable information. Agent
Lutz says the fault is not so much at
Lamy as it is Of Las Vegas, but there
has just been a change in the chief dis
p%atchers, and perhaps the change may
result in giving correct information.
B. H. Macke, the alleged Kansas en-
bezzler, and his wife, who is charged
with completely, have been taken back
to Kansas by the Topeka officers, from
Albuquerque.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
at Pueblo is completing an order for
20, 900 tons of steel rails for the Santa Fe
road.
w. Grove, a mining man from Silver
ton, is a guest at the Exchange en- route
to Arizona. He says the mining indus
try at Silverton continues encouraging
in spite of the low price Of silver, and
large forces of men are employed on the
many properties surrounding Silverton
city. A notable feature of the work
there is the trolley ways for carrying
cars from the mines on the high noun
tain sides down into the valley to the
railroad ore bins. Some of these troll
ley ways are five miles long, and when a
grip breaks the car shoots down the
steep at the rate of $50 miles or o
per hour, and ends in n smash up. Not
outstanding the danger, at some OF the
mines miners 60 and come In those ore
cars, saving a long and very tiresome
climb. There has been only a little
in that country as yet, and 1t
has mostly melted.
U. s. weather bureau forecast for
New Mexico: Fair tonight and We'd
nesday warmer in northern portion to-
night; warmer Wednesday.