El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-14
Neighb0r-
hood Notes.
New Mexico.

| New Mexico.
The town OF Lincoln is full of wool
| buyers.
There is fear of shortage of water
| for domestic purposes at Silver City.
Crosson & Gray of Roswell have just
| opened up another kiln of very fine
| brick.
Lincoln now has we'll organized
| militia company called company A,
Lincoln Tigers.
]. M. Miller, the Roswell sheepman,
sold his wool clip of about TIC, 600 lbs
for 103 cents per pound.
s. T. Gray Is now delivering ties be-
| tween Indiana Canon and the Salado
for the Ell Paso & Northeastern.
Prof. Giles L. Maish of New York
City and graduate of Williams col
lege. has been elected principal of the
Santa Fe schools.
Wool buyers from the east put in an
appearance two days ago at Albuquer-
que and the price paid jumped from 6
and cents to IL and u.
The mayor of Albuquerque has de-
to facilitate attendance of citizens at
| the Rough Riders reunion.
Governor Otero has appointed F. G..
pired term of James @. Fitch, resigned
as trustee of the Socorro school of
mines.
The safe in the Old Las Vegas post
Office was broken open Saturday night,
and robbed of $500 cash, besides other
valuables. The work was done by an
expert.
Within the last six weeks Madrid
has lost $50 to 200 in population. Three
of the mines are closed down and q
| fourth mine is full of gas and may close
down for q while.
81. r. Laurie, who was on the Chi
cago Times-Herald staff in Cuba dur
] ing the Disqualification war, died
at Rincon Tuesday, while on his way
to bis home in Illinois.
Governor Otero has appointed c. E.
Burg captain, James L. Elder fret
lieutenant and Frank b. Stone second
lieutenant of company G, of the First
territorial infantry at Albuquerque.
Wednesday Gov. Otero formally re-
moved from Office Territorial Treasur-
err Samuel Eldodt by letter to that Off
cial. Hon. Jefferson Reynolds, of Las
VEGAS, was appointed by the governor
to fill the vacancy.
Mrs. Jerry Hockradle of Nogal died
at that place Friday afternoon of heart
failure. Mrs. Hockradle and a friend
were out driving when she was sudden
ly stricken, falling out of the buggy,
dying almost instantly.
The people of Midway are petition
ing for q separate school district, and
as they can show the presence of TWEEN
ty-fve heads Of families who have chill
5ren of school age, their desire will
probably be gratified by the county
commissioners.
The Albuquerque people respectfullv
declined that proposition by certain
Arizona parties to put in $40, ZOO cop
per smelter for $50, 900, but some of our
own people have taken hold of the
matter. and intend to make it go as a
business matter. That's better.
The necessity for storage reservoirs
for water in New Mexico is clearly
shown by the fact that the Rio Grande
at Las Cruces Is now dry. People
there estimate the alfalfa crop in the
Las Cruces part of the Mesilia valley
at cutting and a half.
The court of private land claims ad-
lourned Saturday. deciding to hold the
next meeting at Santa Fe, beginning
October 81. The judges all went home
except Wilbur F. Stone, of Denver,
who remained in Santa Fee to witness
the religious PROFESSIONS.
AT the territorial secretary's Office |
the First Presbyterian church of Ala
has filed incorporation papers
with the territorial secretary. The |
lncorporatOrs are Robert White.
George Cor bin Bryan, Arthur Pink,
ney Jackson, William Dryden, John |
Briegel and William Pitts johnson.
Petitions to allow the sheep to Craze
have extensivelycirculated and
will be telegraphed to the land com
missioner at Washington, as urgent
action Is necessary to save what re-
mains of the focks of sheep in the ter
'itory.
United States Engineer P. E. Har-
'oun left Santa Fee Thursday on an
overland trip through the northern
BART of the Territory to make gen
'ral reconnaissance of the country
preparatory to more thorough iuves- {
lgatlon OF the most suitable places for
'eservoir sites, as he was requested to I
10 by the geological survey. Mr..
iarroun was accompanied by j. I
rsrwell, John Balcomb and w. L.
Williams.
An associated press telegram from 9
Eddy says: The sugar beet crop of the
alley is now estimated at 20, 600 tons,
instead of $4,000 tons, the figures at II
'hich the factory officials first placed s
{. The acreage will fall only slightly J
elow $500 acres. 1t appears that a
early twice the ground has been II