El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-30

erty.-Ex.
Roswell now has an artesian we'll
that flows 1900 gallons of water per
minute.-Register.
One and q half million pounds of
wool were handled in Clayton this year
from the Union county hocks.-Ex.
The Alamogordo improvement COM
pany will lay out cemeterey on the
Southeastern boundary of Alamogordo.
It has been discovered that several
of the mining claims located In the
mountains near Santa Fe recently are
on grants.-Optic.
The Roswell Telephone and Man
ufscturing company has applied to the
town trustees for an electric light
franchise.-RoswellR Record.
Miss Florence Otero. of Albuquer-
que has gone to Oakland, Gala, to
take the veil. She will join the Sis
tiers of the.Holy Name.
The Brown & Manzanares company
have received an order to ship some
household goods and farm implements
from Las Vegas to Turkey.-Optic.
A Southern Pacific freight train
went through q cattle guard at Dem
ing last week and four cars of sugar
were utterly demolished
headlight.
The city marshal of Albuquerque
has been instructed to notify all pro-
perty owners that they must burn all
caterpillars infesting the trees on their
premises. -Gptic.
Inocencio Valdez shot and killed his
father-in-law. jose Maria Sanchez at
Ocate, Moro county recently. Both
were Intoxicated and were celebrating
St. James dsy.-Ex.
Anthony Crown, Hillsboro re-
sid lent, has returned home from the
Klondike after an absence of two years
and he brought with him 100000 In
cash.-Hillsboro Advocate.
First Lieutenant Max Luna of the
Thirty fourth United States volunteer
infantry has been appointed adjutant
of the fret battalion of the regiment
commanded by Major Penn.-Optic.
The territorial land commission has
received 400 applications to lease
school sections 16 and SO of the various
townships in the territory. The lands
have been reserved for school purpos-
Eek.
B. G. Wilson, general agent of the
Standard Oil company in New Mexico,
has been ARRESTED for not complying
with the territorial laws relative to
the payment OF license fees.-New
Mexican.
The New Mexico college of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts has just re-
ceived s25, 600, the appropriation which
the concern receives from the United
States under the congressional act of
1860.-Ex.
The Lumber company is building Q
large hotel in Alamogordo to accom-
will also run commissary store to help
the merchants of that plsce.-TularosA
Democrat.
there is talk about the streets that the
city administration proposes to issue
city bonds to the amount of SIC, 900, the
proceeds to be used for street improve
ments. sidewalks and the like.
Robert Martin has discovered q gal
ena mine in the San Andres that is 80
per cent lead and 80 ounces silver
There are old workings on the proper
ty, but the former owners we're driven
out of the country by the Indians
Elk.
Jim Mite, the outlaw who was cap
tured near Jarilla by the Eddy county
posse, some time ago, has been sem
fenced to life imprisonment for murder
at Henderson, Texas, He was the
last survivor of the Dalton gang
Elk.
A Colorado & Southern train was
held up again near Folsom last week,
by one man. Conductor Harrington
turned a double barrelled shot gun
loose on the robber and wounded
him go severely that he WAS captured.