Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-12
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
CHAVES COUNTY.

j. r. Dudleigh will start a chicken
| ranch near Roswell.
Lewis & Wells are building large lum-
ber sheds at Roswell.
A windmill has been shipped from
Roswell to w. H. H. Miller, in Oregon.
Curran D. Swint and Malcolm H.
Neldson, of Indiana, will establish a
sheep ranch near Roswell.
r. F. Barnett has bought out his part
| ner in the cattle business, William Nor
row, paying him $500 for his share.
The board of county commissioners
has ordered two steel bridges like the
one across the Rio Hondo for the Ber-
rendo.
Ounce Cummins, of Roswell, in
stalled an acetylene gas machine in the
store Of Harlan & Bradfordfield, of Por-
tales.
The board of county commissioners
has appointed E. o. Creighton county
superintendent, vice Lucius Dills, re-
signed.
The assessors returns show the Pen
asco precinct, lately attached to Chaves
county, to have so voters, and an as
sessed valuation of over 100000.
The Wells-Fargo Express Company
has superseded the Pacific Express
Company on the Pecos Valley & North
eastern railway, and has greatly re-
duced rates.
Lochausen & Jones have shipped 200
cars of cattle from Roswell to Higgins,
securing rate of $45 per car. Mr.. Loo
hansen will also drive 1000 head Of cat
tie from Texas to the Pecos valley.
The Roswell band has organized by
electing the following officers Presi-
dent, Phil Helmig; vice president,
Charles Kanen; secretary Joseph
Jones; treasurer, Charles Sherwood.
Colonel Meadors, superintendent of
the New Mexico Military Institute, will
make the commencement address of the
Roswell public schools His topic will
be "The Aim of the Modern Education"
The Roswell ice plant has started op-
erations for the summer, and is selling
ice for rs cents per 100 pounds.
The northern canal was sold to the
Feliz Irrigation Company for $l6600 at
special masters sale. The personal
property of the company was sold to f.
S. Motter for j. J. Hagerman at $3,400
The real estate of the company was also
bought by j. j. Hagerman for $27,725
The property was sold under a decree
Of foreclosure of two deeds of trust one
made by the Pecos Irrigation and I'M
provement Company in favor of the Illi-
nois Trust and Savings Bank for $780,
900, and the other in favor of the Cen
tria Trust Company of New York for
5000, OOO
Vicente M. Baca, Of Albuquerque, is
at Roswell, looking for investments. Mr..
Baca is sheep man, and is highly
pleased with the Pecos valley as stock
country, and in every other respect. He
is accompanied by his three sons, Ed
mond, Melquiades and William.
sOCORRO COUNTY.
The Crown Mill Company at Socorro
is building large warehouse.
Jose Gonzales, who has been in the
Socorro Jail, accused of killing Juan
Abeyta, has been released under $4,000
bond.
Lucio Montoya, of Socorro, was
caught in the act of robbing Solomon
Baca's butcher shop. Montoya was
placed under $4,000 bond.
There are 26 buildings in the Rosedale
mining camp, and 16 children of school
age. A teacher for them has been Sc
cured and is being paid by subscription.
The sheepherders around Rosedale
have been responsible for destroying by
fire large acreage Of pasture.
James Puckett, of San Marcial, and
Miss Ida Hykes, of Houston. Tex, were
married at the Methodist parsonage at
San Marcial by Rev. T. L. Lallance.
Miss Lillian Morris, formerly of San
Marcial, died at Topeka Of tuberculosis.
Moses Dietrich, of San Marcial, for
whom warrant for cattle stealing has
been issued, is reported to have been
found dead near Winslow, Arizona.
GRANT COUNTY.
Smallpox has broken out at Allison.
A new Methodist church is being built
at Dwyer.