Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-16
TERRITORIAL SIFTINGS.
AlbuQuernue.


Albuquerque.
Nestor Montoya, the court interpreter,
is making extensive Improvements on his
home property in old town.
Louis Hostetter has sold his residence
property on the corner of Fifth street
and Tijeras avenue to Mr.. Hockett.
David Elmer Thomas, the second son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Thomas, died of
spinal meningitis yesterday morning,
and the funeral services will be held ut
the family home Friday afternoon.
Company D, Fifteenth regiment, passed
through the city Wednesday night on
its way from Fort Bayard to Fort Apa-
che, where it will be stationed in the
future. The Eleventh regiment and
band has been transferred to Jefferson
barracks from Fort Apache, passing
through this city last night on their
way east.
The wool securing plant has been
closed down until the war scare Is over.
j. M. Wilkinson, the lessee of the plant,
received word from New York and BOs-
ton not to ship any more wool, for the
reason that no insurance can be had
during the present troublesome times,
and the business has gone into tenn
porary retirement.
In the District court yesterday the
jury was instructed to bring in q verdict
in favor of the defense, in the case OF
the First National bank vs.. Lesser 4
Lewiston, in attachment to recover
money due ON a promissory note. The
case involved the transfer OF property
to relatives, fraud being charged. LII
the case of j. B. Bushnell VS.. E. W.
, Coggshell, a verdict of $691 was rendered
:, in favor of the plaintiff.
Las Vegas.
A. Christensen, managerO OF the central
department of the Wells-Fargo Express
company, has been looking after the In
terests Of the company in the city.
Thirty-four carloads of cattle from
Old Mexico have been fed at the stock
, yards here the past week. They wer'
T, on the way to Kingsley, Kas., to be fed
Ilfeld's Plaza store is being equipped
: with two elevators, one for freight ant
one for passengers. j. S. Ridpath, o
Chicago, is experimenting the work 0
installment.
That business in this city is lookin!
up is evidenced by the postof1ice receipts
For the year ending March 81, the ofic
, in East Las Vegas took in 81, $50. "a, al
u increase of 81, O62.47 over the p~recedinI
!. year, while the receipts of the west sid
Office amounted to 50, 504. 76.
Grant County.
= Mr.. Dean and Miss Fannie Baxter, G
Silver City, will be married Sunda
~ evening in the Methodist church OF tha
t. place.
Z. M. Walker, the Gold Hill cattl
man, has sold his entire herd Of yea
lings at $1s. SO per head, the delivery t
take place on April rs, at Separ.
Clinton Dimmickra well known mil
r. Ing man at Pinos Altos, was caught
the within at his mine one day this wee
r and sustained a broken leg from the a.
ic cident.
'e Norman Pronger and Alexander Woo
+ burn. while working in the mines &
Copper Flat last week, were caught in
CAVERN and received serious injurie
They will recover.
~ Henry Marshall, II of the men a
~ quilted of the charge of train robbel
=. at the last term of the United Stat
court held at Silver City, has furntshe
bond and been released on the 9th
charges pending against him.
ID Attorney w. A. Hawkins, who is tel
porarily located at Ell Paso while a
10 tending to the legal business Of the
e) Paso & Northeastern railroad, will mo-
n. his family to that city for a short REL
I'd dence, this week.
~ Colfax County.
Id Eliz abethtown is determined to ha
re fire prot ection, and to that end a pop
at lar subscription has been started
- raise the necessary funds.
A mail route between Elizabethtoy
and La Belle has been established, al
the service will begin in a few day
The fact that the Hankins' stage al
mail line between Springer and Eliz
BEETHOVEN never missed to bring mail |
to the latter place on time, determine
the citizens of La Belle to i
tition the Postofice department to sci
their mail by the Springer route, al
the request has been granted.
DOna Ana County.
A new road has been ordered 81
veyed between Las Cruces and Tularos
by the county commissioners.
Eddy Brothers have received 44,O
pounds Of cottonwood trees to be plar
ed in a large public park near La L.
In the District court, E. Soliz has be-
sentenced to the penitentiary for t,
years for burglary, and A. Dias to
months for wife beating.
Unless something very unusual ha
pens in the Mesilla valley In the ne
future, there will be plenty Of fruit
and around Las Cruces and Mesill
Notwithstanding reports to the co
trAry.