El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-25
Neighbour
hood Notes.
New Mexico,

nj, forty miles.-Optic.
Pablito Martinez broke out of Jail at
Cerillos Saturday night, and has not
been recaptured.-Optic.
Part of the machinery for the Gal
lup electric plant has arrived and will
shortly be in place.-Ex.
party of capitalists recently visit
ed San Pedro with the view of build
ing q smelter there.-Ex.
The Register is informed that 241
to wn los in Roswell were not on the
tax roll at all last yeer.-Opt1c.
Bear, mountain lions and wolves ar
harrassing the cattlemen of Grant
county.-Silver City Enterprise.
Large shipments of cots and bedding
intended for the Fort Bayard sanitari-
UNI are being received at Halls station.
Elk.
w. D. Murray, of Central. has been
awarded the contract to furnish wood,
hay and grain to Fort Bayard.-
Elk.
It ia expected that Judge Brum-
packer will appoint q receiver for the
new opera house in Albuquerque
Ex.
Grasshoppers which destroyed every
thing in their way are infestinR the
country along the Mimbres and doing
| damage.-Ex.
Fred Rsymer. of Silver City, who
played on the Kansas City, base ball
clu b, has been appoiuteds anitary plum
| Der at Fort Wingate.-Ex.
Jesus Carrates fell from train at
Lord burg, had his skull fractured,
and died without reRainipg conscious
| ness.-Silver City Independent.
Cedar wood ia 90 scarce in the vicinity
| of Silver City that it sells for 81 cord,
| Coal will be used more extensively In
that vicinity in the future.-EX.
Charles Osgood, formerly locomo-
tive engineer, has returned to Lords
burg from the Klondike poorer than
he went, but wiser.-New Mex
lean.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
RID. Capper, of Blossburg, had his
skull fractured in seven places by
mule kicking him. The boyis recov-
ering.. Socorro Chieftain.
The fremont hotel building at
Silver City, which has been condemned
by the city council, and which will be
torn down, has been bought by John
L. Rurnside.-Lordsburg Liberal.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany is arranging to make an exhibit
ton at the Paris exposition, and has
offered a prize OF $50 for the best plan
or suggestion for an exhibit.-Ex.
Victor c. Heikes, honorary special
agent of the department of mines and
metallurgy for the commissioner gem
eral Of the United States to the Paris
exposition, was in Grant county for
the purpose of securing mineral ex-
bibit from that county.--Deming Head
light.
The force of car repsirers at Ration Ia
being increased and all put on full time
in order to get to work on supplying all
cars with automatic couplers whit
American attachments, which work
must be completed by January l, 1900,
in accordance with an act of congress
New Mexican.
The contract for carrying the school
children between the mines and the
town of Gallup for the coming term
was given to Sam Brown for the Git
son mines at $40 per month, and John
month. They had the same contracts
last year and gave satisfaction.-Op-
tic.
the San Miguel college at Santa Fee
and is being attended by all the priests
of the diocese of New Mexico. The
various parochisl priests of Albuquer-
que, Socorro, Belen and Gallup and
other Southern towns are now at the
retreat. Archbishop Bourgarde, as
sisted by Jesuit father from Ell Paso,
has charge of the religious event.
Albuquerque Citizen.
A Santa Fe railroad official says:
That if the people of Santa Fe would
raise about $1,000 the Santa Fe and the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad CON-
panies would put up fine union depot
at convenient place in the city.
somewhat like the depot in Las Vegas,
and proposed depot at Trinidad. Tri-
nidad people raised about 50, 500 and
now the Santa Fe company will spend
over $4,000 in improvements at that
place.-Ex.
given New Mexico by the federal
government for school purposes cau.be
obtained from the following: The terri
tory contains 70, 1854 160 were of which
5000, 900 acres have beeen given out
right to the territory and cannot be
sold for less than 90 per acre. In ad
dition to this some 3 S04, 16O acres
may be leased at 2 cents an acre. If
all the latter berented at the minimum
rate the territory will have an income
therefrom of S73,O S3 per year. This
will help to make ike financial stand
ing of the territory even more secure
than it Is at present and should
be great inducement to outside ca
pitalists.- Albuquerque Citizen.
Arizona.