El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16
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New Mexico.
The Hessian fly has almost destroyed
the bean crop in the Socorro vicinity.
Eek.
Chss. Ballard of Roswell has &C
cepted q Iieutenancy in the 11th cav
airy.
Fresh oysters are selling In Carls-
bad for 10 cents q dozen. There ought
to be money in church festivals in that
town.-Ex.
The new fixtures for the Roswell
postoffice will soon arrive. There will
be something like 282 lock boxes and
drawers.-Ex.
The grand lodge of knights OF Pyth-
las of New Mexico will convene in Sill
YER City on Tuesday, September 10
Albuquerque Citizen.
A choral union has been organized
at Roswell. The members threaten
however to sing anything and every
thing else than chorale.
Next Monday court will open in
Colfax county with an unusually large
docket to dispose of. There are six
murder cases on the docket
Optic.
The officers and members OF the
Carlsbad fire department have resign
ed en- masse because they didn't get
| the financial support they we're prom
lised.-Argus.
The sugar factory at Carlsbad will
open between November l and 10. The
| beets will commence ripening about
| October Is, when testing will Begin
New Mexican.
The Roswell board of education has
rented the Baptist church at $40 per
month for school purposes. There is
talk of erecting new building
Carlsbad Argus.
Roswell people are feeling good over
| q reduced rate on corn of 35 cents per
| hundred from Emporia, Kan, to Ros
| we'll. over the Santa Fe and Pecos Val
| ley roads.-Ex.
The Timber Peak and Milling Co.,
of Socorro county. will substitute
stamps in place of rollers at their mill.
This will increase the production OF
the mill fully 100 per cent.
The territorial supreme court has
sustained the decision of the lower
court in the case of the county seat re-
moval in Colfax county, from Springer
to acknowledgement News.
The Cslfsx county Normal Institute
closed in Ration last Saturday, when
all who expect to teach for the coming
year in the county acquired their Gre
dentials so to do.-New Mexican Min
or.
The Pecos forest reserve, which was
l. T.
size in 1898, covers 431 ,O4O acres In
Santa Fe, Moro, Rio Arriba, Taos and
San Miguel counties, and is more than
half she size of the state of Rhode
Island.-Ex.
F. E. Beidelman is the newly sp-
pointed county superintendent of
| schools. He 10 the proper man for the
position, for he has energy and push
and the interests of the parents and
school children will be fully conserved
while he occupies the plsce.-Ex.
The decision of the Territorial su-
preme court in she Continental OIL
company case saved Sierra county .
good bill of costs, inasmuch - viola
lions of the law by the oil company
we're being unearthed and would have
been prosecuted in the courts.-Ex-
| change.
The bonded Indebtedness of Beraa-
lilo county is $3.50, 900; of San Miguel
county 1896, 900; OF Santa Fe, 1915, 900.
These good old republican counties
have no more to show for their indebt-
edness than Chaves, with bonded in
debtedness Of $780, So much for
democratic government.-Pecos News.
Col. Harry Lopez and associates, OF
Roswell, who are having an artesian
we'll drilled on their land, talk of dypa-
| hitting the we'll iu order to see II that
will not augment the flow. The ex-
pertinent will be waited with decided
| interest on the part of others who
are interested in arteeian water devel.
opment.
Deputy Assessor Hill has furnished
| the News with the assessment of Otero
county for 1899. It is $593. saba. TIE
COUNT 20 IN excellent financial condi-
| ton, the taxes due from c0unties from
which Otero was created having beeG
sufficient to defray the cost of oreauiza-
ton and pay running expenses to date.
-Alamogordo News.
The Roswell papers cay: There is
general complaint on the part of citi-
! zens who do q great deal of driving
particularly in the evenings after sup
per, on Main street. about the utter
| disregard of the rules of the road Oh
| the part of large number of people,
who turn to the left instead of the
right. This makes it difficult to avoid
accidents, particularly late in the
| evenings. Indians are usually the
only ones, who. in driving, turn TO the
| left.
The Carlsbad Argus says that word
comes from Seven Rivers that .
preacher named Lee Turkpett has