Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-14

San Miguel, Dona Ana county, peo-
pie are indignant at having two small
poX cases foisted on them from outside,
one being from El Paso.
5. NJ. Nauclain, one of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works Company, and the
originator of the celebrated compound
engine, has been at A~lamogordo looking
after the engine that has had such
trouble in being kept on the track,
The Las Cruces public schools have
reopened with Miss Iva Mead, an Agri-
cultural College graduate, as principal.
The new hotel of so rooms at Alamo
gordo was opened ON the 10th inst. with
a grand spread, which was attended by
a special party from Ell Paso under the
direction of j.. A. Eddy, of the Ell Paso
& Northeastern road.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Postmaster T.. r. Matthews, of Ra-
weeks siege of the grip and is once
more at his post of duty.
Ration business houses will hereafter
close at I p. m. daily, except on Satur-
days and pay days.
Nels Benston and bride, of Ration,
have returned home after a tour
through the southern part of the terri
tory.
ATnfIrnnlu fnr, ps mn of tho
most successful engineers running out
of Ration, has been promoted to be
travelling engineer on the Santa Fe
from Las Vegas to La Junta.
Engine 626, which vas demolished j
the Dillon wreck, has just been rebuilt
at the Ration shops, and is as good as
new.
There has been an unusually large
amount of ice stored at Ration in the
last two weeks.
More houses will be erected this year
in Ration than in any previous year.
Rough Rider Frank A. Hill, of Ration,
has been appointed deputy sheriff by
Sheriff Campbell.
The Colfax county commissioners or
der the county clerk to take the county
records, and the sheriff the county
prisoners. with Jail cells and vault
doors, to Ration. A mandamus proceed
ings at Las Vegas by the Springer peo-
pie to hinder this move may be looked
for.
LAS VEGAS.
Rev. s.. w. Curtis has word from his
son William, a private in A company,
list Colorado infantry at Manila. The
young nan has been very sick with a
combination of fever, rheumatism and
d~ysentery caused by exposure, and he
lost so pounds. But he is now on the
Curtis says the boys were used badly
by the medical staff, and the death rate
has been heavy, but he is managing to
do better because he is an interpreter,
the officers of the regiment. The Amer
lean troops are still feeding 10, 900 Span
ish prisoners. The troops are also do
ing effective police duty, and have
Spaniards were afraid to arrest. The
trip over is the event of a lifetime, but
no one can succeed in a business way
in the Philippines without large CAPT
tai.
j. w. Clay has returned from Mis-
souri, with a carload of fine mich cows.
Miss Carrie r. Dubree, who left Las
Vegas a year g to pursue a course of
study in Philadelphia, was called to La
Junta recently by the illness of her
mother and brother, and while there
was taken fatally i'll. The al buried
at La Junta.
Mrs. Frank Cayote and two children
have returned from a trip to Washing
ton, d. c..
The board of regents of the New Mex
leo Normal school and school district
No. 4 of Las Vegas have entered into an
agreement whereby all students, bona
fide residents of said district, shall be
entitled to enter and attend the prepar-
atory department of the Normal school
free of charge. In consideration Of this,
the district shall pay the Normal school
$40 per annum for each pupil enrolled
in the preparatory department and $40
per month for nine months for the SUI
pervision of the president of the Nor
NAL school.
Edgar j. Thompson is missing from a
ranch near this city and cannot be
found.
j.. r.. Smith will build a large ware
house adjoining his mill property.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Heavy rains are reported around Gal
lup.
John Fair, of Red River, has been dis
charged from the Trinidad pest house
and has returned home.
Owing to the coming opening Of the
Salado coal fields, Ell Paso expects to
double her population within the next
few wears