Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
COLFAN COUNTY.

Half of the population of Maxwell
City, are laid up with the grip.
Engineer Hammer, of the Santa Fe,
;peka.
A. H. Cecil of Ration, has been called
! to Galesburg, ILL.,, by the serious illness
of his aunt.
Rev. Lonsdale, the new pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Ration, has ar
rived, and preached last Sunday.
M. B.. Stockton of Ration, has return
| ed from Denver, with his daughter, who
is in poor health.
Oar c. Spencer of Ration, has died of
pneumonia, after residence in New
Mexico since last September, for his
health.
Mrs. Ernest Winter and children of
Denver, are visiting in Ration with Mr..
and Mrs. Linwood while Mr.. Winter is
in England.
Mrs. S. Stafford and brother, of Ra-
ton, who have been in New York and
Pennsylvania for the past year, have
| Itlulllou w III lClIitOly.
1t is reported that the ballot box at
Buena Vista, one of the largest pre-
cincts in Colfax county, was stolen the
night after the precinct election. Con-
s%equently the justice and constable will
have to be appointed by the county
commissioners.
The stockholders of the First Nation
al Bank of Ration have reelected their
old directory without opposition. The
banks condition was found satisfactory
and a semi-annual dividend of 4 per
cent was declared. The past six months
was said to have peer the most pros
porous in the history of the bank. The
former officers were elected.
Judge Mills has issued a mandamus
on County Clerk Salazar of Colfax
county, to remove the records to Ration
before the 22nd, or show cause why the
order should not be complied with. The
clerk had declined to obey the order Of
the county commissioners, as he claim
ed that the main question at issue was
pending to test the legality Of Raton's
rights as a county seat in the territorial
supreme court.
William Edling of Elizabethtown, has
been seriously hurt by a fall on the ice.
The water main from Ration to Gard
iner has been completed, and the people
of the latter town can now drink all the
good water they want.
Mrs. Permilla Bacon, aged SO, en- route
from California to Reynolds, Ind, died
on the train just as it was leaving Las
while the body could be placed in a
casket, and the daughter and husband
of the unfortunate woman continued on
with the remains.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
Socorro is said to be the first county
in the territory to have a referee ap-
pointed for bankruptcy cases.
Mrs. Lundy, mother of Mrs. Mayer, of
the Socorro Chieftain, is dead.
DONA ANA COUNTY.
The corner stone of a Baptist church
has been laid at A1amogordo.
The Jarilla mining properties in
southeastern New Mexico are attract
ing more and more attention, especially
since the Ell Paso & Northeastern road
has been built up into that country.
The properties are of gold and copper,
promising rich returns to investors.
Moreover, the finest turquoise gems in
the United States are to be found here.
The Eddy Brothers w much valuable
property in the section referred to, and
will develop the same as rapidly as
possible.
A few months ago Alamogordo was a
barren, uninhabited plain. Now it is
the commercial center Of a rapidly
growing country, and ''the end is not
yet"
The great sawmill at Alamogordo is
Der into lath daily, and when arrange
ments are perfected, other waste will
be made into shingles, and the small
stuff that cannot be made anything of
will be burned under the boilers which
run the $50 horse power engine.
The reported discovery of a buried
city in FL Paso, has set buried city
prospectors to hoeing the country over
for hidden archaeological treasures,
real and imaginary-more generally i'm
aginary. So there is no great astonish-
ment at the report from the southern
territorial border hat another lost
city, has been found, on H. M. Mundy's
ranch at Anthony. The excavator is
modest, however, and is content with
finding a prehistoric castle of cut stone.
Alexandra Daguerre, a prominent
business man of Juarez, Mexico, and
Miss Maria. Amador, daughter of Mar
Cruces, were married recently in the
latter city, and have located in Juarez.
The sensation mongers have been i'm
posing upon the credulity of the Ell
Paso press by circulating stories to the
effect that Col. A.. j. Fountain, who was
murdered several years g in Lincoln
county, was still alive.
A teachers society is to be organized
at Las Cruces, to advance the interests
of teachers throughout the territory.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Miss Rowland's Presbyterian Mission
school at Taos recently enjoyed a par
ticularly pleasant Christmas celebra-
ton, and a feature of the occasion was
a big box of good things sent from
ladies in Cincinnati.
For the first time in its history, Lin
coin county has, with n single keep
ton, a full set Of Republican officials.
LAS VEGAS.
The Aqua Pura Company is working
nearly 200 men harvesting ice.
A. Strauss has had an arm fractured
by being thrown from his wagon by an
unmanageable team.
Las Vegas schools are crowded. The
| superintendent's monthly report shows