Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-18

thew Lofland, Miss Mary Chambers
and Harry Baldwin, of Missouri, have
settled at Ration.
| DONA ANA COUNTY.
| The two-year-old dauohter of Mr..
and Mrs, William Page died at Las
| Cruces.
The engagement of Roman Gutierres
and Crucita Lucero, of Mesilla, is an
nounced.
The Columbian society at the agricul-
tural college gave a splendid entertain
| ment in McFie hall. A vocal solo by
| Miss M. E. MeFie, entitled "Siska. the
Albanian Maiden" was the best rem
dered selection of the fine program
The baccalaureate sermon of the COL
| lege will be delivered May 2S by Rev. P.
A. Simpkins, of Gallup, Congrega-
tional minister. Hon. r. E. Twitchell,
Of Las Vegas, will deliver the COM
mencement address.
Mollie Leonard aged 30, a domestic
in the family of Captain ]. P Casey, at
Las bIuCeS, has DeeH committed 10 the
'I7r~sgas insane asylum.
aI.v.. Nieves Tesnero, one of the first
settlers of Done Ana, died, aged 9s
years.
Las Cruces is to have new l+Ige of
Elks.
SIERRA COUNTY.
Thos. Higgins and Miss Susie Dunn,
Of Lake Valley, were married at Pearce,
Arizona
Mrs Major M. Morgans, Of Lake VAL
ley, died at Indianapolis, Ind.
CHAvES COUNTY.
Judge A. A. Freeman, of Eddy, will
deliver the commencement address at
the commencement Of the New Mexico
Military Institute. The baccalaureate
sermon will be delivered by Rev. A. j.
Emerson, pastor of the Baptist church
at Eddy.
Lawrence Prentice, known to old
timers in Lincoln, Chaves and Eddy
counties as "Old Larry" died in Eddy.
He was an old stage driver born in
Springfield, Mo, and was in the busi-
ness in Colorado, New Mexico and 9TH
er western states and territories.
The Rio Hondo has been shortened
quarter of a mile by engineers making
a cut across neck of land 1856 feet
wide. The work was done by the Ros-
we'll Land & Water Company.
Hotel Richard is new hotel opened
at Roswell
William Akers, of Texas, has taken
up a homestead near Roswell.
SAN JUAN COUNTY
John w. Jones, a Colorado mining
man, has bought 160-acre ranch from
Joseph Howe, near Aztec, paying $1,000
for it.
7. Marcoot, of Telluride, has bought
the Tony Boyle ranch near Aztec, and
will Immediately improve it.
Drs. I. Phillips and w. c. Clayton, of
Dallas, Tex, have bought lots in Aztec,
on which they intend to build.
Henry j. McKiffen has sold his big
ranch north of Aztec to Messrs. Dalora
and Steele, of Central City, Colo, for
$500.
A party Of Utah people have bought
100 acres of the Sunnyside orchard near
Aztec, belonging to w. N. Knight.
Ralph and James, sons of r. H. Nc
Junkin, were thrown by horse on
which they were riding at Pennington.
Both boys were seriously injured
w. A. Oakley, of Eagle, l. T., has To-
Gated at Pennington.
Herman Blum and Michael Shea, of
Pennington, have secured a fine ranch
on the Ute reservation.
Fred Griffith has purchased four
acres of good land from w. S. Sheek, at
Pennington, for s275.
Michael Dermody, an old-tme miner
and prospector in San Juan county,
died at the Durango hospital. He was
aged 81 years.
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY.
The Chama Tribune has put in new.
press and new type, and makes mob
by appearance in it's new dress.
Hon. r. D. Burns has gone to Chica-
go and Ann Arbor. At the latter place
he will visit his son, who is attending
the University of Michigan.
A hobo physician visited Chama the
other day. That is a new species of
hobo, never before seen in New Mexico.
Oldest Resident Dead.
Don Nieves Tesneros, one of the first