, 1899-10-19

There is no clue TO the assassin.
The hod carriers Mt Victor have
struck for higher wages. They have
been getting SO and $3.50 per day of
eight hours.
The Standard tunnel Mt Cripple
Greek struck n big flow of water the
other day. For n while it amounted to
10000 gallons per minute.
The Santa Fe railroad has decided to
remove Its railroad shops from San
Marcial, Socorro county, New Mexico,
n TO make Rincon the division head
quarters.
"Dick" Holmes, who VOL fame as
color bearer of the Colorado volun-
teers, was given n rousing welcome at
his old home in Phillipsburg, New
Jersey.
Ex-United States Senator John j.. In
gals spent several hours in Albu-
querque last night. He is in very
poor health. being scarcely able to
speak above a whisper. He is on his
way to Las Cruces in search of relief.
Llewellyn and Greenway of Las
Cruces, have located $4,000 acres of
soda placer mines in the vicinity of
White Sands, near the Donn Ann-Otero
county lines. The location is on n pro
posed branch line of the Santa Fe rail
! road from Las Cruces to Tularosa.
The career OF John Carter, alias Kid
Adams, who attempted to rob n treas
ure coach near Mt. Sneffels last week,
has been cut short by a bullet. He
was shot and killed near Placerville by
Deputy Sheriff George Kinchen, while
resisting arrest.
While sinking an ~artesian well at
the Vineyard stock farm, in Eddy
county. New Mexico, traces of oil
We're discovered at n depth of 500 feet.
Several veins of good water were
struck also. but not of sufficient HOW.
The well will be sunk 1000 feet.
1t is stated that the fund used to de
fend McGinnis was secured by n col
lection among the cowboys of the Mo
COLON district in Socorro county, among
whom McGinnis was very popular.
They appointed Il. A. Cunningham to
attend the trial and to do everything i'll
his power to get McGinnis free.
Norman Newman. an outlaw and flu
gitive from justice from Greer county,
Oklahoma, was shot and killed at CoX's
ranch. at San Augustin. New Mexico,
by Jose Espalin, n deputy sheriff.
Newman In November of 1898 murder
ed and robbed his partner. He was
arrested and kept in Jail until July l
last, at which time lie escaped.
Ex-Mayor Ldcius Anderson, who left
Carlsbad w years z for
returned home unexpectedly. After
nine months of prospecting and dig
ging neal Dawson City he gave up in
disgust and went to work ut his trade
as carpenter, ut which he made more
money than his companions did at gold
digging,
Judge Leland has ordered all saloons
closed OF Sundays at Las Cruces, and
Judge Crumpacker received n petition
To order the saloons of Albuquerque
closed Sundays. In nearly all other
cities and towns of New Mexico the
Sunday law is now being enforced and
has resulted in the reduction of arrests
for petty offenses.
1t is stated positively that the United
Oil Company has struck oil in large
quantities east of Trinidad in the San
Francisco basin, and that h hole has
been plugged up, the machinery moved
to another part of the land and that
another well will be ut once put down.
1t is stated that oil has been found ut
n depth of little less than 1000 feet.
Senator Wheeler. who for nearly
twenty years has published the Daily
and Weekly Times at Aspen, has
leased the paper and plant for one
year to a. s. Thompson and W. ii.
Breach, secretary and stakeholder, re
spectively, in the Times Publishing
Company. Senator Wheeler will spend
n portion of his time in the Cripple
Greek district, where he has recently
become interested in some promising
gold properties.
The ease of the Territory versus VII
liam IL. McGinnis. the train robber, on
trial all this week for the killing of
Sheriff Edward Farr of WaIscnburg,
came TO n close mt Ration Saturday. The
judge instructed the jury At S o'clock,
aud at o o'clock the jury retired. The
jury at 12:lo brought in n verdict of
guilty of murder In the second degree,
Counsel for defendant entered n gen
cral exception to the judges charge to
the jury and especially 10 the special
charges suggested by counsel for the
state.
The government seems to he in earn
est about establishing n forest reserve
of over 5OO,OoO acres In Lincoln Coun-
ty, despite the decided opposition to
the project. An order has been issued
by the Interior Department withdraw
ing the land within the proposed forest
reserve from settlement for the pres
ent. There are twenty-scven town
ships in the proposed reserve and ey-
cry town in Lincoln county, except
White Onks, is situated upon 1t, to-
gcther with the Nogal and BOnito min
ing districts and the SaladU coal fields.
Developments in Denver and Ouray
throw n new and sensational light ON
the life II death of the man Adams.
who helped to hold up the Sneffels
Stage coach near Ouray last week, and
who was reported to have been killed
by Il deputy sheriff at Placerville last
Tuesday evening. II turns out that
his real name is Walter Adams in
stead Of John Carter or kid" Adams,
and that he committed suicide instead
OF meeting his death at the hands OF
an officer of the law, as was reported.
Further than this, he was n member
of n pioneer, well-to-do and highly re-
spected Colorado family. His father Is