Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-23
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
GRANT COUNTY.

w. D. Murray, of Central, has been
awarded the contract to furnish wood,
hay and grain to Fort Bayard.
Large shipments OF cots and bedding
intended for the Fort Bayard sanitari-
UNI are being received at Halls station.
Grasshoppers which destroy every
thing in their way are infesting the
country along the Mimbres and doing
damage.
Fred Raymer, of Silver City, who
played on the Kansas City baseball
club, has been appointed sanitary
plumber at Fort Wingate.
Grant Van Lint, an employe of the
Victoria Cattle Company at the Animas
valley ranch, was brought into Deming
! with his right leg broken in two places,
| the result of a horse having fallen on
| him.
Three head of horses belonging to
| James E. Hervey, of Silver City, were
| frightened by a mountain lion and a
| wildly into a barbed-wire fence and
| were badly cut.
Cedar wood is so scarce in the vicin-
ity of Silver City that it sells for 81 a
cord. Coal will be used more extensively
in that vicinity in the future.
An unknown man was found dead by
W.. F. Wakefield in the field of Mrs.
Robert Swan, at Red Rock. The man
came from the Mimbres, where he is
coi1 70 hoyn n 70 poi1u Ha lui6pnt1V
starved to death. He had been supplied
! with food some time ago by a party that
crossed the country, but his supplies
gave out.
An exciting game of ball took place at
Graham between the Grahams and Mo-
gollons for $500 a side. The Mogollons
won by a score of II to 10.
The fremont hotel building at Silver
City, which has been condemned by the
city council, and which will be torn
| down, has been bought bv John L.
| Burnside.
H. H. Kidder is constructing a store
| building near the terminus of the Han
over railroad.
Bear. mountain lions and wolves are
harrassing the cattlemen of Grant
county.
The Whitewater branch of the A., 7.
& S. F. railway running from White
water to Santa Rita does a daily bust
ness of 81, 900, which will be doubled
when the Hanover railway is finished.
Mo- AaI%o, Df Ct1ryar C,fxy hnr
arrived at Leipzig, Germany, where she
is studying in a conservatory of music.
Charles Osgood, formerly a locomo-
tive engineer, has returned to Lords
burg from the Klondike poorer than he
went, but wiser.
Jose Parrada, living at Pinos Altos,
picked UP a large stone to hammer
down a nail in his shoe. He found that
the stone. was very heavy, and upon *
animation discovered it to contain a
large percentage of gold. He sold the
stone at Silver City for $25.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
is arranging to make an exhibition at
the Paris exposition, and has offered a
Va p4OO 4ol LIN 0CoS pllll Vi 6C6-
ton for an exhibit.
Victor C. Heikes, honorary special
agent of the department Of mines and
~metallurgy for the commissioner gener-
al Of the United States to the Paris ex-
position, was in Grant county for the
purpose of securing a mineral exhibit
from that county.
Jesus Carratas fell from a train at
Lordsburg, had his skull fractured, and
died without regaining consciousness.
Alonzo Moore and George Cosper,
members of the territorial militia, and
Homer Brooks, all of the lower ella dis
trict, have Joined the 34th regiment.
COLFAx COUNTY.
The force Of car repairers at Ration is.
being increased and all put on full time
in order to get to work on supplying all
cars with automatic couplers with
American attachments, which work
must be completed by January /, 1900,
In accordance with an act of congress.
A. E. Stoughton, who has been help
ing hostler in the Ration round house
the past two years, has been trans
ferred to the Rio Grande division, to run
the switch engine in the Albuquerque
yards.
Miss Emma J. Potts. of Leauville,
Colo, and s. T. Mcdonald, of Ration,
formerly Of Kansas City, were married
at Ration by Rev. Frank Lonsdale.
The 3-year-old son Of MI. and Mrs. r.
D. Capper, Of Blossburg, had his skull
fractured in seven places by q mule
him. The boy is recovering.
Alfred Bum, father Of Judson Bum,
Of Ration. died at Silver Lake, Ind, and
buried at Coshocton, o. Mr.. Bum
aged SO years, and was in the first
company that went to Pixies peak.
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