Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-23

| The W0Odmen OF san Mafclal nelQ a
banquet that proved to be an enjoyable
affair.
School started in Cooney last week
| with Miss Stevens as teacher.
While extracting cartridge from the
magazine of a gun. r. c. Patterson, at
Socorro, seriously injured his hand and
! face by the cartridge exploding.
The Rio Grande is dry as far north as
La Joya twenty-five miles north of So
| corro
CHAVES COUNTY.
G. w. Lloyd and Miss Kate White, of
| Roswell, We're married at Roswell by
Rev. S. K. Hallam.
Wilfried Robinson formerly editor of
the Las Cruces Democrat, has accepted
position as compositor on the Ros-
| we'll Record.
King Bros, of Roswell, bought from
Captain Lea a lot west of the Hotel
| Richards, and will erect stone build
ing for a restaurant and bakery.
F. Henry Higginson and Vernon Bal
ly, connected with the department Of
ornithology in the Smithsonian Insti-
tute, Washington, left Monday for
| Richardson, from which point they will
explore the Captain mountains to col
lect specimens of birds.
c. c. Emerson is preparing plans for
an opera house at Roswell and has al
ready booked company to play in the
new house next January.
H. L. Powell, of Cleburne, Tex, will
put up a steam laundry at Roswell.
Four inches of rain fell at Hagerman
the other day in forty-five minutes.
Houses and railroad tracks We're flood
ed, and damage was done to crops.
James Mullen, a Snowman, was ar
rested near Roswell on charge of pass
ing Confederate bills on Juan B. Marti-
nez for a mare. When arrested, Mullen
had $400 in Confederate money on his
person. In default of bail he was lodged
in the Roswell Jail.
The Roswell club elected L. K. Me-
Gaffey,, D. A. Starkweather and z. o.
Creighton directors Of the club. The
board of directors elected the following
officers: President, A. M. Robertson;
vice president, D. A. Starkweather; Sec
ond vice president, r. S. Hamilton;
treasurer, r. A. Cahoon; secretary, L.
K. McGaffey.
Governor Roosevelt has been invited
to pay Roswell and Carlsbad visit.
Frank Eckert and family, who came
to Hope year ago from Texas, left
for their home.
BLAND.
Arve Minkers is erecting neat little
cottage in Cola Canyon. John Hart has
the contract.
A fifty horsepower engine has been
purchased from the placer company of
Cerrillos by Joseph Routledge. The en-
gine will be placed IN the sawmill at
Bland.
A new road is being constructed by
Joseph Routledge from point north Of
the Crown Point mine on the Sulphur
Spring road to the Griffin ranch. The
road will be over mile in length.
A telephone line connecting Bland
with the Albemarle has been completed.
G.. w. Wheeler owns the line.
A brown bear measuring feet from
tip to tip and weighing 800 pounds was
killed six miles from Bland by Ignacio
Gallegos. 1t took three shots to kill
Bruin, who after the first shot, made
dive for Mr.. Gallegos.
Mrs. Della 0. Baca died at Bland at
the home of her son-iu-law, Richard M.
Stephens. She leaves husband and
four children.
Two Santa Fe railroad officials were
in Bland to look over the ground for a
branch railroad from Thornton to
Bland.
EDDY COUNTY.
The corrugated iron building at Carls-
bad, near the Hotel Schlitz, was moved
to Canyon street. The site formerly oc-
cupied by the building will be utilized
for a stone building to be erected by
Eugene Wuesthoff.
A horse kicked E. Mcqueen Gray on
the arm, breaking the bone.
The management Of the Hotel Schlitz
at Carlsbad has passed from D. w. Ger
hart to George H. Hutchins.
The measles are still prevalent at
Carlsbad.
Carl Gordon, Of Rocky Arroyo, was
Lin inly In tha hv
cheek bone was fractured.
The water in Lake Mcmillan rose 2
| feet from recent rains.
In Carlsbad there Is great demand
for modern dwelling houses. Ten cot
tages renting for SO month could find