Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-25
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
COLFAX COUNTY.

SoAE An SoO4N L.
William r. Tompkins has located al
Las Vegas.
Edward Athons was brutally assault.
ed at Springer by William Parsons, who
was under the influence of liquor.
j. P. Hansen, of Springer, is very Ill
His neighbors are gratuitously lending
their teams, planting and cu~ltivating
his crops.
Mrs. A. Sellers was found dead in hei
bed at Gray's sawmill. There is suspi.
cion Of foul play, but as no c%oroner's
inquest was called the cause of the
woman's death may never be deter
mined.
Marion Payne was bitten on the foot
by a r~attlesnake at Maxwell City. He
has killed twenty rattlers this spring.
DR.. A. Douglas has purchased two
houses at Blossburg.
The Ration Ice and Brewing Company
has purchased Max Franck's saloon at
Blossburg.
Campbell Haddow and Miss Matte
Fotheringill, both of Blossburg, will be
married at Engleville, Colo.
The Crowfoot Cattle Company has
sold it's property to Hon. w. H. Jack,
of Silver City. The property is located
in Colfax and Grant counties.
A valuable horse belonging to A. S.
Neff, of Ration, was stolen and found or
the Sugarite, beaten to death.
The United States history class of the
Ration high school held a contest in es-
says on United States history. Eight
essays were selected for the contest.
The committee gave first place to Olive
Dare, for an essay on washington"
second place to Julia Burman for an
essay on Robert E. Lee;" third place
to Wiley Hudson, for an essay on AN
drew Jackson" and made honorable
mention of Evlyn Shuler for an essay on
Thomas Jonathan Jackson"
DONA ANA COUNTY.
Prof. c. T. Jordan, of the agricultural
college, was rendered a reception at the
Bowman residence.
Fabian Garcia, for six years without
intermission the assistant agriculturist
and horticulturist Of the agricultural
college, has been granted a vacation of
six months, during which he will visit
various experimental stations and take
a course at the University of Wisconsin.
the agricultural college, was summoned
to her home at Linnaeus, Mo-, by a tel
| egram.
Jennie Armijo, youngest child of Hon.
and Mrs. Armijo, died at Las Cruces of
the smallpox.
The Shalem colony, north of Las
Cruces, is successfully cultivating an
extensive tract Of land by pumping wa
ter for irrigation with windmills.
TAOS COUNTY.
A little boy picked up a bottle of poi
son tablets, bichloride of mercury, at
Taos, and, thinking they were some
kind Of candy, gave and traded them to
several other children. One Of Mr..
Adair's little boys ate two or three of
the tablets, and it was only by quick
discovery and treatment that a fatal
result was averted.
Jose Gabriel Santisteven, of Canon de
Taos, died at his residence. He was one
Of the oldest residents of the valley.
George Malette has bought Everett
Burns hay ranch on the Bobcat, near
Red river.
o. B. Steen, of Taos, has been invited
to address the Transmississippi con-
gress on the Mining interests of the
| West"
Taos will hold a festival or carnival
in the fall, with a series Of Indian
dances as a feature. The carnival is to
last five days, and is to follow immedi-
ately after the feast of San Geronimo.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The house occupied by Sidney Hook
| EFT, at San Marcial, was discovered to
be on fire. The San Marcial fire com
pany subdued the flames in five min
utes after the fire alarm was sounded.
The fire was caused by the upsetting of
a gasoline stove, and $1,000 worth Of
furniture was ruined. There was no in
surance.
GRANT COUNTY.
Eighty men have been given employ
ment on the construction Of the Han
over branch of the Silver City and
I Northern railroad.
Richard Schaffer, for three years a
resident at Silver City, died Of tubercu-
losis at the Sisters hospital, Silver City.
The old firm Of A. D. Gilbert, Of Silver
| City, has made an assignment to Mrs.
o. S. Warren.
David, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman
Abraham, Of Silver City, died In New
| York of tonsilitis. Mr.. and Mrs. Abra-
hams are visiting friends in New York.
Frank Silvar, one of the pioneers of
| Grant County, died at his ranch four
miles from Silver City. He vas aged IS
years. He ruptured a blood vessel by
lifting a heavy weight.
George Benton, aged 66 years, a resi-
dent Of Silver City the last tw~enty-sev-
| en- years, died at the Sisters hospital,
Silver City.
BLAND.
A. L. French has bought from Alonxo
| Cassell a lot at Eagle townsite.
AT the residence Of the bride, John
W.. Jones and Miss Lizzie Martinez