Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-04
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
EDDY COUNTY.

| perance town.
George H. Webster, a cattle feeder,
| is putting 1000 acres of the Greene
vineyard tract into alfalfa.
r. N. McElvain and W. r. Anderson
are planting extensive vineyards in La
| Huerta.
There is a great scarcity of dwelling
houses in Eddy, and loud call for men
with means who will invest in that
class of property.
Andy Crawford (colored), of Three
Rivers, recently shot himself acciden-
tally through the heart with Win
chester.
| DONA ANA COUNTY.
| Miller & Schumachers flour mill at
| Anthony is now complete.
Major Llewellyn is now able to be on
| the street.
| Township No. 16 south, range east,
| New Mexico meridian, will be filed in
the Las Cruces land office April 30.
This township lies northwest of Ala
mogordo.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Morgan, of Las
Cruces, have a new son, who was born
on March 81
Mrs. Albert j. Fountain has filed
suit in the Dona Ana county district
court against Oliver Lee and William
| Gilliland, claiming $5O,0OO damages for
the murder of her husband.
Las Cruces is to have brass band of
30 pieces.
The board of regents of the agricul-
tural college will meet at Las Cruces
April 10 to choose corps of instructors
for the ensuing scholastic year.
There are 30 old soldiers buried at Las
Cruces, and Major Van Patton is work
ing to secure grave stones for the de-
parted veterans.
GRANT COUNTY.
| The office of the Silver City Reduction
works was burned on Sunday morning,
March 90, and the assayers instruments
| were all destroyed. The loss did not
| delay business one moment. Early
Monday morning new outfit was Sc
cured and the buying of ores was con-
! tinued as before. The company is build
ing a new office and will have every
branch of the business running smooth
ly again in a few days.
Lieutenant Bertram c. Gilbert, of Sill
yer City, belongs to the 9Th artillery,
which has been ordered to the Philip
pines. He was recently promoted to be
first lieutenant, and the Silver City
people are very proud of their only rep
resentative in the regular army.
On last Tuesday Silver City went
back a few ages in the progress that
| place is making, and permitted a cock
| fight in which rs fowls took part, II be-
| ing killed in the contests. Judging from
the account of the affair which appear
| ed in the local papers, all the leading
citizens" were present.
COLFAX COUNTY.
| From the amount of business on hand,
| it is thought that the district court now
| in session at Ration will continue for an
other week.
George G. Mauck and Miss Myrtle E.
| Ash were married in Ration last Mon
day by Rev. A. Holman.
| Juan B. Arellano, who for many years
was a respected citizen of Ration, died
| at his home in that city last week of
bright's disease.
On Wednesday train of five wagons
passed through Ration from Southern
Colorado for Alamogordo. The wagons
bore the legend, New Mexico or Bust
and carried the effects of three fami-
lies, who will make their homes in Ote-
ro county.
| The farmers of Johnson mesa are
plowing for spring planting.
Ferdinate Brown, an old resident of
Ration, is dead.
| Springer is free from small pox.
| Frank Atterbery and Victor Sanborn
were arrested Friday on the charge of
| stealing goods from M. w. Mills store
at Springer. They waived examination
and were taken to the county Jail at
Ration to await the action of the grand
jury.
S. Floersheim of the Floersheim Mer-
camille company at Springer, has re-
turned from trip to Germany.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The San Marcial Bee is now under
the control and management of Mr.. H.
H. Howard, the interest of F. o. Blood
in the paper having been bought by the
former.
The fire laddies of San Marcial have
gotten themselves new. uniforms, and
every one else in town gets out into the
weeds when they pass by.
The people in the county along the
Rio Grande are much encouraged over
the stage of water in that stream, and
believe that all danger from floods has
passed. The recent cold weather in the
northern part of the territory and
Southern Colorado has checked the
melting Of the snow in the mountains,
allowing the flood already under way to
run out before another begins.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
A gambler named Hall has been
found guilty at Roswell Of murder in
the first degree for having killed man
a few months ago in a house of ill-fame,
and then pounding his head to a pulp
with gun.
Ramona Viacaras, Of Albuquerque,
who was lately fatally wounded by her
lover, Antonio Flores, is dead, and
Flores is held on the charge of murder
at Albuquerque.
Las Cruces will shortly revel in the
aesthetic glories of cornet band.
Portales is the name Of new town
out on the railway from Roswell, which
will be a large cattle shipping point.
Elizabethtown reports that plans are