El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-19
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New Mexico
The assessment of Otero county for
1899 il 1858, 841. "a.
Editor Walton of Silver City and
Col. w. ]. Bryan, of Nebraska, are
stirring up the state of California at
present.
Rosedale, SocOrro county, with Nellie
Parrish as Observation-Disclosures
que Citizen.
The New Mexico conference of the
M. e. church south will at
Albuquerque. September 27.-Alamo-
gordo News.
The Eddy fire department a dis
banded on account of what it believes
u~nwarranted and unfair treatment at
the hands of the town board.-Ex.
The Alamogordo Presbyterians have
extended a call to Rev. w. p. Lord, OF
for the judgement of the Lord.-News.
Will Mentz' who tried to resurrect
the Bland Herald, has gone back to
AkUuQu6TQu0 ouu bhS Al5 III PAoS0
as travelling agent for the Citizen
Elk.
Ex-Editor J.. II. Lightfoot has se-
cured a lot of apples in TularOss eau
Won which average Is ounce in weight.
He will take them to the fair at Albu-
querque.-Ex.
The Woman's improvement associa-
tion of Las Cruces, which by its splen-
| did efforts have given the town a beau
tiful park, elected new officers a few
days ago.-Ex.
The grand jury Of Union county
found four indictments against Tom
Ketchum under the territorial stat
utes for holding up trains and for as
sault with attempt to kill.-Ex.
Carlsbad, that pretty little southern
suburb of Roswell, arrived at . mo-
mentous incident last week when the
'fnest saloon in New Mexico" opened
it's doors for business.-Register.
The total assessed valuation of Grant
county is SO. 575.413.45 {, and the tax de-
| rived from it amounts to S102 341. 04.
| The total assessed valuation of Silver
| City is 1855, O20.-Roswell Record.
Francisco de Aguerre, who escaped
from the penitentisry while working
VI eaS "a INV -
weeks ago, was recaptured by Sheri fl
Demetrio Perea in Lincoln county
Elk.
The first session of the grand lodge
of New Mexico and Arizona, A. o. U.
W., was held at Silver City last week.
The reports showed that New Mexico
has nine lodges and Arizona eighteen.
|-EX.
The lawyers have set the ball rolling
in the settlement of the Wilson Wad-
bingham estate and before they quit
the most of the $4,000, 900 OF property
In New Mexico and elsewhere will not
belong to the heirs.-Socorro Chief
tain.
On the criminal docket in the dis
trict court of Santa Fe county there
are twenty-eight cases, ten of which
are for murder, two for assault with in
tent to murder, tour for larceny, one
for burglary, two for perjury and the
The Cloudcroft Chautauqua has done
more to advertise the Sacramento
Athens than even the trim Alamogordo
News. There are some original phases
about it's learning, too. A lady writing
in the T. p. Quarterly says hat the
students there "drank deep from the
Castilian spring"-Ex.
The artesian wells of Chaves county
now number over one hundred, flowing
from so to 1000 gallons q minute. The
latest one struck was on the old CHS
UNI ranch, now the property of James
J. Hagerman, president of the Pecos
| Valley & North Eastern. The we'll
now shows a steady flow of /, 200 gal
Ions q minute.-Optic.
DR.. Cobb, the physician in charge,
thinks that between the climate and
| Jersey milk, properly administered,
be will lose few patients, unless they
reach Fort Stanton in q state of the
disease that is too far advanced to be
affected by any sort of medical treat
ment, no matter how careful or en-
lightened it might be.-Optic.
On Q very good subject, the Ration
Gazette says: New Mexico lands, I'M
der irrigation, are more fruitful than
aver the Mississippi valley was and
their fertility. Thirty or forty acres
are more productive and more valu-
able in their products than a quarter
section in the older states.-Albuquer-
que Citizen.
The New Mexico territorial supreme
court has decided that the law passed
by the last legislature requiring cor
po~rations to take out a license to do
business in the territory va %unconsti-
tutional, as far rs it relates to the Con-
tinental Oil company, q branch of the
Standard Oil company, for the reason
that it, confiioted with the Interstate
commerce laws.
It was announced in Santa Fe the
other day that q certain faction of New
Mexico's Democracy has fixed upon
Frank A. Manzapares of Las Vegas as
its candidate for delegate to congress-.
Mr.. Mauzsnares resigned q few months