Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-25
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
TAOS

Luis M. Archulcta has been appointed
Justice OF the peace and Jesus M. Ar
chuleta constable Of precinct No. II.
New York capitalists are inquiring
about the old survey of the Rock Island
railroad up the Cimarron canon and
over Taos pass.
Superintendent r. M. ~Iiardinge, of
the New Mexico section of the crop ser
vice and weather bureau, desires to es-
tablish a station in Taos, that county
being the only one in the territory with
out such a station.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
On the east side of the Rio Grande
cattle are dying from ticks in their ears.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. 0. b
Bishop, of Luna, died at Springerville,
A. I.
Mrs. j. d. Herbert has assumed the
management of the Herbert hotel in
Magdalena.
Mrs. w. M. Bell, aged SO years, died
at Socorro, having gone there five weeks
ago from Missouri.
Felipe Trujillo died suddenly of heart
disease while at work on the irrigating
ditch near Sabinal.
The farmers along the San Francisco
river have planted their corn. Wheat
and small grain sown earlier in the
season are now up and looking well.
Three sheep thieves made a raid on
Juan Garcia's sheep camp near Monica
Spring. They drove off 100 head of
ewes and young lambs. The men were
pursued and the sheep recovered but the
thieves escaped.
w. W. Jones, deputy United States
mineral surveyor, and George Long
worth, have surveyed q townsite ut
Frisco and several mining and home
stead claims in the ella forest reserve
in the western part of the county.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
Farmers are complaining of the pre-
vailing drought.
Joseph Prewitt has opened a private
school at Pennington.
Indications point to a large pear,
ounce, plum and apricot crop this sea-
on.
Aztec too has organized a CONNER
cial club to advertise that brisk little
town.
Aztec citizens are planting shade
trees, much to the improvement of the
pretty town.
W. II. Jones and Mrs. Fanagher, of
La Plata, were married at the Metho-
dist parsonage at Pennington.
Justice of the Peace W. G. Block, at
Fruitland. has a corral full of ponies
%empounded for t%respassing on neigh
boring ranches.
Farmers around Fruitland are en-
larging their apple orchards and digging
up old peach trees because they have
been injured by the frost.
OF 10000 acres of land under ditch
only $4,000 acres is in cultivation, 5000
being orchards. About 10000 tons of
alfalfa will probably be raised in the
county this. year.
BLAND NOTES.
I. I. Springer has erected a new resi-
dence.
Mrs. j. b. Bolander, aged SO years,
died of Brights disease. She is survived
by her husband and five children.
Thomas Goodwin is erecting a pretty
cottage of the fine quality of building
stone to be found at Bland.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
w. E. Langston and Miss Agnes O.
McMains were married at White Oaks.
The county commissioners at their
last session redistricted the county on
account Of certain sections having
been merged into the counties of Otero
and Chaves.
Charles Beljean, of Lincoln, has gone
to Switzerland, where he will enter a
sanitarium for his health.
EDDY COUNTY.
DR.. C. M. Whicher has been appointed
city health officer Of Eddy.
Mrs. Mittie Griffin has gone from
Eddy to Roswell to organize a class in
music.
Mayor M. j. Murray has purchased
the Fred Nymeyer cottage on Alameda
Eddy.
Sugar beet and alfalfa seem to be the
favorite products of the farmers of Eddy
county.
Carl Gordon was thrown from his
horse at Rocky Arroyo and had his
shoulder broken.
N. Thille went to Humphrey, Neb.,
to persuade a colony of Germans to
settle in Eddy county.
The irrigation company has just COM
pleted a new dam and canal on Black
A part of this canal goes through
solid rock.
Rev. q. v. Lilies, of the Methodist
church at Eddy, was compelled to move
to Mckinney, Texas on account of the /
of his wife.
Marion Brock is languishing in the
Jail charged with robbing Crozier
4 Murray's store, at Eddy. He was
captured at Pecos,
The neatest looking, the best printed
and one Of the most interesting papers
IN the territory is the Pecos Valley
Argus published at Eddy.
The Pecos Valley & Northeastern will
erect stock yards and loading pens south
Eddy. The cattlemen will furnish
The ground and the railroad company
build the yards.
w. G. Cass, accused of killing J. H.
Carpenter was given preliminary hear
ng at Eddy before Justice Roberts. He
bound yer without bail to await
he action of the grand jury.
A statistician has figured out that the
oecos valley with its 100, 900 acres under
irrigation could raise $50, 600, 900 worth
# fruit a year, or If planted in alfalfa
or fattening stock, would yield an an
lual profit of IS, O0O, ZOO.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Ripe strawberries are being gathered
n the Mesilla valley.