Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-12

The Deming ice plant is now in sue
cessfuI operation.
DR.. S. D. Swope is building a resi-
dence at Silver City.
At Santa Rita, Grant county, Jesus
Roblido stabbed his wife and daughter,
though not fatally, then shot himself.
The normal school cadet band gave a
concert at Silver City and realized $50
toward payment for new musical in
| struments.
Cattlemen around Silver City are pre-
pairing to ship their stock to Colorado
and Kansas pastures. Over 1000 head
will be shipped.
| The Santa Fe Railroad Company is
making extensive improvements on its
Silver City branch, and will put in eight
new steel bridges between Silver City
and Whitewater station, and have built
a new steel bridge Just south of Silver
City. A contract has been let for the
| construction of three miles Of new
tracks north of Whitewater, by which
| the roadbed will be taken up from the
lowlands and run along the hillside out
of the reach of floods.
The recent cold wave and frost did
serious damage to fruit Ill Grant c9ui,h
| ty
The freight business at Silver City in
April was the largest ever done at that
office in single month.
A double wedding will take place at
Silver City on May II. Miss Bertha
Reidlinger and George Perrault, and
Miss Alumnia Perrault and Jacob Reid
linger will be married at that time.
A three-room brick addition will be
built to the Sisters hospital
SIERRA COUNTY.
Jesusita Sandoval, an orphan Mexi-
can girl aged IS years, died at Happy
Flat of consumption.
Gregorio Chavez secured an Indian
| depreciation claim of $596, less attor-
ney's fees, from Washington, D. C.
John H. Dissinger, while working in
the Snake mine. had piece of steel fly
into his eye from drill he was holding.
His eyesight was partially destroyed.
Miss Addie Titus, a typesetter in the
Hillsboro Advocate office, has resigned
her position for similar one on the
Silver City Enterprise. Miss Cecilia
Rose Kelly succeeds her at Hillsboro.
COLFAX COUNTY.
The Santa Fe company is making
substantial improvements at Springer.
That town is one of the heaviest freight
points between Trinidad and Las We
gas, very much freight from Taos coun-
ty being shipped at that point.
w. A. Eaton, of the Ration Gazette,
was assaulted at Ration by ex-County
Superintendent d. J. Leahy, on account
of an editorial utterance in the Gazette.
The country around Springer has en-
joyed several showers recently.
A baseball game between the Wag-
on Mound team and the Springer team
resulted in victory for the Wagon
Mound boys.
UNION COUNTY.
A choral society has been organized
at Clayton.
James Cochran, of Kenton, has dug
we'll for Josiah Wilt at Cienequilla del
Burro. Five feet of water was struck at
depth OF 70 feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Taylor have
moved from Clayton to Elizabethtown,
where Mr.. Taylor has secured a posi-
tion.
James Goode has purchased the strip
of land owned by o. T. Toon BIS, at
Clayton and is fencing it in for pasture.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
r. A. Chaffe has been appointed Unit
ed States commissioner at Rincon.
Sheriff Garrett has proved that crops
can be raised in Black mountain with
out irrigation.
Frank Peters section foreman at Rim
con, has resigned his position and has
accepted a similar position at Winslow,
Arizona.
At the seventh annual field day of the
agricultural college several records were
broken. The tug of war between the
business department and the sub-fresh-
men was won by the former
F. G. Barker, who owns three-acre
lot near the Las Cruces depot, raises
on it sixty varieties of Strawberries, ten
varieties of gooseberries, several varie-
ties of currants, raspberries and black
berries, fifteen kinds Of American
grapes, Russian cherries, cantaloupes,
watermelons, rhubarb, sweet corn, to-
matoes, wild olives and hardy oranges.
In his flower patch are found twenty
varieties of roses, twenty varieties of
German iris several varieties of or