Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
CHAvEs COUNTY.

The little son OF MI. ana MIS-. y. H.
Brown died at Roswell. The boy was
aged Is months.
X. S. Hamilton has been elected pres
of the Roswell club, to succeed A.
NJ. Robertson, resigned, and E. Q.
Creighton elected second vice president.
John Posey, a cattleman, had his right
leg broken by his horse falling with him
at Elk. He crawled fully a mile, when
he sank down exhausted II was not
until twenty-nine hours after the
accident. In that same vicinity one OF
the cowboys Of the Block ranch was
hooked in the neck by an Infatuated COW
and severely injured.
Sylvester p. johnson and Miss Fran
ces c. Geyer were married at Roswell
by Rev. Arthur Marston.
Roswell town trustees have decided to
a competent civil engineer to
make plans and estimates for a sewer
age system for the town.
Walter Lionel Cass, aged SIS years,
died at Roswell. He was born in Eng
land. He leaves a widow, three sons
and two daughters.
The county commissioners have decid-
ed to erect a new bridge across the Pc
cos, just below the mouth Of the Hondo
river.
Elmer Doyle, Of Glare, Mich, and F.
w. Eggert, Of Illinois, health seekers,
have settled at Roswell.
The Bloom Cattle Company received
an immense coil of 2-inch cable for their
700-foot well on the Feliz.
A. Mcdonald got a flow of 400 gallons
at a depth of 140 feet in an artesian well
he was drilling thirteen miles west of
Mcmillan. A number Of other wells are
being drilled at Mcmillan and Stegman.
Edgar Williams Broekman was com
mitted to the Roswell Jail on a charge
of committing rape.
Mrs. Ella G. Timoney, her son Bert,
granddaughter Carrie Wilson and Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Long have moved
from Roswell to White Oaks.
EDDY COUNTY.
The water from the spillway of the
Mcmillan dam is about to cut into the
cemetery at Seven Rivers. The bodies
are being moved from the cemetery in
consequence.
The Pecos Valley railroad residence
at Carlsbad was sold by w. c. Reiff for
49,, 500 to Daniel H. Lucas, a cattleman.
d. D. Jones came from Canon City,
Colo, to take charge Of the elghty-acre
farm of G. II. McGinnis, south Of Carls-
bad.
The school census shows that Carls-
bad has 1878 children Of school age, which
indicates 1880 inhabitants for the town.
A fight occurred at a dance at the
home of Bias Aralos near Florence.
Clubs, knives and pistols were drawn,
and several of the guests were badly
hurt. One of the men stabbed a horse
badly. Two men were Jailed for ten
days.
Another bank is to be established at
Carlsbad.
LJpllcln lCNCI PACNoilo ob
George Wilson, for four years a res
ident of Carlsbad, died of consumption
at the home of his father at Murdoch,
Illinois.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
John NJ. Black, of st. Johns, Ariz,
has taken charge of the Standard roller
mills at Aztec, as miller.
C. N. Trew and A. l.. Hester left
Aztec on an exploration trip to the
Chaco ruins.
A. Smith, of Paradox valley, Colo,
has purchased forty acres Of land at
Flora Vista.
Rev. ]. S. Mitchell, pastor of the M.
e. Church at Pennington, has left for
northwestern Arkansas.
Jacob Bruce, Of Knoxville, Iowa, has
settled at Pennington.
GRANT COUNTY.
Timothy Griffith and Anna Stewart,
Of Bisbee, were married at Lordsburg.
AS there was no minister nor a justice
of the peace in the town, the couple
were married before a notary public.
Immediately after the wedding the
bride took a train for the east, while the
groom took the next train for the west.
William 7. Shine and family have re-
moved from Clifton, Ariz., to Lords
burg.
There are fifteen prisoners, four wom-
en- and eleven men, in the Grant county
Jail.
The recently installed officers of Hell
en- Rebekah lodge, No. z, I. o. O. F., of
Silver City, are: Noble grand, Miss
Mamie Holson; vice grand, Miss Agnes
Green; secretary, Mrs. W. r. Orr; treas
urer, Mrs. Mccullough; conductor, Mrs.
F. P. Jones; warden. Mrs. A. K. How
ell; r. s. N. e., Mrs. L. s. Rowlee; L. s..
N. G., Mrs. Farnsworth; chaplain, Mrs.
Galloway; r. s.. v. G., Mrs. Ada Mat
thews; l.. s. v. G., Miss Clara Green;
I. G., Miss Lille Clayton; o. G.. Samuel
Lindauer.
w. G. Wallis, who has been hauling
ore from the Gilchrist- Dawson lease to
the Santa Rita railway station, has
withdrawn his teams and gone to Cooks
Peak.
The st. James Hotel at Deming has
been rechristened, and is now called the
Dewey house. Joseph Merk has taken
charge of the hotel.
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Edwin scarborough and wife, Misses
George and Ethel Scarborough and
Miss Maud McChristie were baptized at
Deming by Rev. Lee Scarborough, Of
Tex, a Baptist minister.
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