El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-04
New Mexico.

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A union depot is being sgitated for
Santa Fee.
Las Vegas is preparing to vote $780,
600 for water works.
FierrO is the name of q new mining
town in Grant conunty.
The assessed valuation of Lincoln
county for 1899 is 81, 236, 1877.
About million and a half pounds of
wool were handled at Chams this sea-
son.
The Aetno building association has
beer Incorporated for business in Las
Vegas.
J. w. Stewart has constructed big
dam at Grama to collect the surfact
waters.
Las Vegas papers state that the as
sessors'rolls of that county are bundle
of errors.
The fruit crop at Ojo Caliente, in
Santa Fe county, is a complete failure
| this year.-Chieftain.
Crops are dry and burning up in Val
encia county. There is no water in
the Rio Grande there.
The Albuquerque mining concern ia
building an electric power line down
Cola Canon near Bland.
A part of the fremont house at Sill
yer City is built of adobe bricks made
twenty-five years sgo.-Ex.
Mrs. Thomas Lyons is Grant coun-
ty lady who recently shot and killed q
bear after an exciting chase.
81. P. Hobson of Ros we'll has brought
three cars of Shropshire ewes and
rams from Northern Illinois.
The Captain Sheep company has sold
80 600 pounds of wool to Brown & Man
zanares at IA IL cents per pound.
The regular term of the district
court for Lincoln county cOcvenes 1t
Lincoln October 16th.-White Oaks
Eagle.
Santa Fe hotels complain that travel
10 light. Due to lack of commercial
men, from trust influences.-NewM Mex
lean.
A. B. Rennehan, Santa Fe attorney
has q piece of the battle dag which
hosted over the Brooklyn at tho Ssnti-
ago battle.
Miss Elizabeth Pease of Denver has
been appointed teacher lin the Nutria
Indian school, Pueblo and Jicarilla
tSilver City people, besides the build
ing and loan association, recently es-
tablished. have just organized a saw
ings bsnk.-Enterprise.
George Stevens, the train robber
who was shot while holding up the
Southern Pacific train, will probably
survive and stretch hemp:
Mrs. Caroline Cole, cook in the Mes
cs!ero Indian school, has been transfer
red to the Fort Mojsve school in Ariz-
ona.-Albuquerque Citizen.
A lotion concentrstor, air drills and
electric light plant are being put in by
the Copper Hill Mining company oper-
ating near Elizabethtown.-Jour nai
Democrat.
The probate clerk of Grant county
has 5000 in warrants awaiting owners,
being amounts refunded from the il
legal tax collections of James Lock-
hart in 1S93.-Deming Headlight.
The Salado Live Stock company has
been organized for business in San
Miguel county with Governor Otero,
Chief Justice Mills, and Chairman
John S. Clark as incorporators.-Ex.
1t is now high time this cattle steal
ing was stopped. if it has to be done by
making someone Jump OIL the cross
bars of a telegraph pole, wearing q
hempen cravat.-Dsming Headlight.
The old fremont house at Silver
City which had been undermined by
floods has been torn down, and the
material Is being used to build q resi-
dence on Billiard street.-Independ-
ent.
The band from McCook. Neb., took
first prize and the band from LssVegss,
N. M, second in the band contest.
which was the feature of the Festival
OF Mountain and Plain. Fifteen bands
we're entered.-Optic
Judge A. L. Morrison. internal rev.
enue collector for this district, has re-
ceived decision from the authorities
at Washington W. ich says that q state
ment OF account sent in lieu of Q draft |
to bank or other collecting agency