Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-10
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
CHAvES COUNTY

OAAHA i1D
The Roswell Record has changed
hands, the interests of J. D. Lea and Lu-
cius Dills being purchased by Messrs.
Creighton and Burnett. Mr.. Creighton
is principal of the Roswell public
schools
General Manager Nichols, of the Pc
cos Valley road, says the extension will
be built so that cars can run through to
Amarillo from Roswell by January rs.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Edgar w. Howe and Miss Olive W.
Chandler, of Wagon Mound, have been
married.
F. f. Mccartney, of Martinez, has
sold his saw mill to James Cory, of
Springer.
Laud Hixenbaugh has sold his
Wheaton Canon ranch in Colfax county.
Harry Carroll and Miss Annie Tae-
neck and John Burnett and Miss Far
rell, of Catskill, have been married.
A Colfax county ranchman objected
to caring for his aged and helpless faith
er-in-law, so after abusing the old a
who was entirely unable to protect him.
self, this amiable son-in-law picked the
old mar up like a bag of potatoes and,
firing him into a farm wagon, carted
him through the freezing cold to the
domicile of another relative who was
willing to take care of the sufferer.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Alamogordo is to have a fine club
house.
Alamogordo is having an abundance
of ditch water for irrigation.
The Alamogordo Improvement Com
pany is clearing small tracts of land in
the Sacramento mountains for summer
cottages, and a number of these tracts
have already been sold to Ell Paso peo-
pie who will move up in the spring.
President Jordan, of the Agricultural
College at Las Cruces, has been laid up
with the grip.
Colonies of potato growers from Col
orado are moving to the Sacramento
mountains to grow their favorite tuber.
LAS VEGAS.
Judge William Frank, of Los Alamos,
county board of county commissioners.
Las Vegas is pushing the collection
of poll taxes from able-bodied citizens
as the money is needed for the public
schools.
Antonio Lucero and Ezequiel C. De
Baca have bought a one-half interest in
La Voz del Pueblo.
Harry Simpson is the new lessee of
| the Plaza hotel.
Moses Friedman, a pioneer citizen, is
| dead at the age of n. He leaves six chill
! dren. His business career began when
| the Santa Fe road started west from
| Kansas City, and he has been largely
identified with Las Vegas wholesale in
%terests.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The 3O.0 00-pounds wool clip of Mart
Manning, of Eddy, has just been
| shipped to st. Louis.
Joseph Montgomery, of San Marcial,
is removing to Mesa City, A. T., to en-
gage in business there.
George Ray, of Chama, has entered
| the bridge building crew of the d. & r.
G.,
There have been 100 cases of smallpox
at the Jemez pueblo in Bernalillo coun-
ty, zeal Perea, of which 4S cases proved
fatal. The disease is. being stamped out.
While James Conner was running a
handcar through a cut on the Santa Fe
| near Ibex, the other day, he ran into a
| freight train. Conner suffered a broken
leg and badly bruised body, while moth
ing was left of the handcar.
John r. De Mier is shipping 100 tons
of bat guano from Pope station in ST.
ezra county on the Santa Fe, where he
| has discovered a new ave with the
guano.
GRANT COUNTY.
l.. A. Snyder is the new ore purchaser
| of the Silver City reduction works.
The Silver City papers are giving one
Marcus Ruthenberg a free advertising.
THE subject of this sketch" came from
| Colorado several months ago, acted and
looked like a mining man, talked about
mysterious processes for reduction of
ores, bonded mines at Central, Pascal,
Pinos Altos and other places, hired help,
had assays made, and-now cannot be
found. The local papers say Ruthenberg
| did not pay the piper, and his hotel and
restaurant bills at the time of writing
J had not been l%iquidated.