Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-13

'N' NAN% 'f'
The Otero guards have enlisted % SOL
dier. boys.
Candal Caldelario Trujillo, a grader
on the Santa Fe, was run down n in
jured by a train the other day. He will
| ecover.
ALBUQUERQUE.
The Elk had a great banquet
Wednesday night when the officers of
the new lodge, No. 461. were installed.
The members of the lodge were initiated
in the afternoon, as follows: B. Ruppe,
Chas. Mausard, M. M. Cruise, Arthur
Everitt, w. 7. Moore, F. Lowenthal,
Louis Baer, F. Levy, Frank Mckee,
| w. Hesselden, j. H. O'Rielly, G.. A.
Kaseman, John Trimble, DR.. j.. r.
Haynes, T. N. Wilkerson, Ed Lembke,
C. F. Myers, w. l.. Hathaway, w. Ear
ickson, Thos. S. Hubbell, Ed Newcomer,
DR.. j. H. Wroth, w. N. McGugan, e. W.
Dobson. AT the banquet Jake Levy, OF
Santa Fe, added variety to the enter
tainment with a song and dance, and
Joe Sheridan brought the formal toasts
to an end by a speech on law and order.
Ere departing, Joe Sheridan said: "On
behalf of the five Elks from Santa Fe I
wish to say that the Albuquerque he ID
cannot be eXcelled as entertainers and
royal good fellows. When the train
reaches Lamy, we will mingle with On
derdonk's goats for several hours before
continuing to the capital"
Miss Helen V. Herzog, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, who achieved notoriety, if not fame,
last month by suing the Citizen for $780,
900 for alleged defamation of character,
has just been married at Phoenix and
the Citizen extends congratulations.
Hon. ]. Frank Grant, of Baltimore,
grand sovereign of the grand lodge of
Odd Fellows, is visiting in Ell Paso, and
will be invited to Albuquerque and Civ
en- a reception.
Colonel William Slade, of the 9th ILL
nois infantry, is in town on a visit.
Mrs. John Wickstrom, who is now in
Chicago, writes her husband that the
change in altitude has greatly benefited
her nerves. She and her son We're on
l the Inflated train that was wrecked
near Trinidad, and lost most of their
clothing.
Walter Miller and William Smith, To-
cal machinists, have returned from a
visit to Topeka.
Henry De Champ, of Topeka, is the
new foreman in the railroad machine
shops in this city.
John Thorn caught his fingers in a
planer at the shops yesterday, and lost
one of them.
Mrs. w. j. Fugate, who has been at
La Junta assisting Mrs. Boucher care
for her husband, has returned home.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
A~lamogordo's present lumber mill,
with a daily capacity of 1850 0 fee::, is
insufficient to supply the rapidly increas-
ing demand for Sacramento mountain
lumber. So the company will erect an
other mill of larger capacity than the
present outfit, and it is to be pu. up as
soon as possible. This will add severa
hundred people at once to the ocal pop
ulation n make of the place, more
than ever, a manufacturing center.
Copper prospects east Of Alamogordo
are being opened UP, and as specimens
assay well, valuable developments are
looked for.
Orders are coming in thick and fast
at the Alamogordo Lumber mill for tim
Der from Arizona and Old Mexico.
The new hotel at Alamogordo was
opened with considerable ceremony on
the 9th inst.
The officials of the Ell Paso & North
eastern road have issued invitations to
prominent business and professional
men to take a free ride over the cloud
climbing route in the Sacramentos.
CHAvES COUNTY.
Roswell will have an ice plant and
an electric light plant this spring.
The Santa Fe received during Novem-
Der, 500 cars Of stock from the COM
pleted part Of the Pecos Valley &
Northeastern road.
Mrs. A. B. McGaffey and son, of Albu-
querque, are visiting in Roswell with
friends.
Two young men named Mobley, of Pa
ola, Kan, have just died of smallpox al
Roswell. They came west for the health
of the younger brother, and, stopping al
Pecos City, Tex, were given a room re-
Gently vacated by a smallpox patient,
Both young men were seized with the
disease and died in the Roswell pest
house.
Some $500 0 worth of machinery has
been placed within the last few months
at the sulphur mines south of the Qua
dalupe mountains in Eddy county.
The editor of the Amarillo Livestock
Champion has been looking over the
Pecos valley and estimating it's re-
sources. He regards it as a stockman's
paradise, and finds the valley also es-
pecially adapted to the raising of small
fruits and berries. In grains, crops OF
so to 100 bushels to the acre are raised,
and cattle feeding crops are alfalfa, In
dian corn, Kaffir corn, milo, maize and
sorghum. There are many fields of In
dian corn averaging Is feet high; but
the staple crop is alfalfa, which will
give four cuttings annually averaging
four tons to the acre, and is the first
source Of local wealth. Every acre of
alfalfa will support two and a half head
of cattle the year around, and sheep and
hogs in proportion. IF there is a place
where a stockman with $4,000 to 5000
can do well, 1t is on an alfalfa farm | n
! the Pecos valley. Sugar beets will fur