Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-08-11
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
EDDY COUNTY.

A tennis club has beer. organized at
Carlsbad.
The bank of Carlsbad has deposits
amounting to $l01 ,54s. 66.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. +. earle have re-
moved from Carlsbad to Los Angeles.
All the company buildings on the Pc
cos Valley railroad are being reprinted.
Beulah, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryant, died suddenly at Carlsbad of
cramps after attending a picnic and eat
ing ice cream.
Miss Jennie Potter has returned to
Carlsbad from Los Angeles where she at
tended the National Education Associa-
ton convention.
s. L. Biting. of Carlsbad, bought an
interest in the Conway property for
$40 at foreclosure sale. He also bought
for $3.50 a house and lot from John r.
Joyce.
Thomas Boatright, a cowboy working
on the Hart ranch, is wanted in Rush
county. Texas, on a charge of cattle
stealing, the Carlsbad papers say.
The Carlsbad lodge of Odd Fellows
purchased the lot and building belong
ing to E. G. earle on Canon street. They
paid $500 for the property. The lodge
intend . erect a handsome lodge build
ing in place of the frame house now oc-
cupied as a bakery.
Chief Engineer Reed, of the irrigation
company, has a force of men destroying
the old Black river fiume, the improve
ments made there making the iume un-
necessary.
Frank Laverty, of Carlsbad, was APP
pointed to the cadetship for Eddy coun-
ty at the Military Institute at Roswell.
Walter Daugherty was the only other
candidate, Laverty passing the better
examination.
j. M. Summey, of Carlsbad, bought
the Osborne property in which the hre
company was housed and where the
town council held its meetings. The
building will be converted into an office
building.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
San Juan county has "a, ss3.5 cash in
its treasury.
At Aztec last week in less than an
hour over an inch of rain fell.
George P. Prim and wife have re-
turned from Aztec to Ohio to live.
A. D. Gallop and family, of Gallop,
Neb., have settled at Pennington.
The Pennington school district voted
a special school tax levy of S mills.
Elroy L. Page and Miss Grace r.
Bates were married at the home OF Rev.
Hugh Griffin, Pennington, a few days
since.
The plum crop being harvested in the
San Juan valley is the largest that sec
tion has ever had. The raspberry crop
is also very good.
Judge George G. Taylor, a aged resi-
dent of Cedar Hill, died at The age of "a
years. He was a member of Animas
lodge No. Is, A. f. & A. M.
, Cardinal Williams, a veteran of the
civil war, died at Aztec. He was born
in Illinois and fought in a Missouri
regiment. He was aged Sc years.
The Model Ditch company will build
a new head for the ditch. 1t is the in
tention to head the canal above Largo,
the canon being either siphoned, %tunneled
or flumed.
Rain did considerable damage to irri-
CATION bitches in the county. The
banks of the Aztec town ditch gave way
before the rush of waters while the
bitches on the western side Of the Ami.
mas river were washed out by the water.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale died at Farming.
ton. She was a native of England and
moved to the United States with her
husband in 1876, and from Kansas with
her family to the La Plata river, New
Mexico, in 1882. She was aged II years
and leaves a husband and eight chill
dren.
BFRNALILLO COUNTY.
Gustav Stromberg has returned to
Gallup from a trip to Sweden. He had
left Gallup a year ago on a gold expedi-
ton to Peru, and returned home by way
of Sweden.
TAOS COUNTY.
A force of men has been put to work
on the Bitter Creek road and the Black
Copper road.
Burglars entered the Dunlavy store at
Red River City and stole a small amount
of merchandise.
UNION COUNTY.
Guy Mellon was kicked by q horse and
seriously injured at Folsom.
GRANT COUNTY.
Committees have been appointed to
entertain the A. o. U. w. grand lodge
which will meet at Silver City Septem-
Der 5.
Isaac Henderson and Miss Minnie
Stanford were married at ella a few
days ago.
John Wood Lightfoot and Miss Dora
Carter were married at ella last week.
A crowd of young people who started
out in a wagon to attend a dance on the
ella experienced q runaway on a narrow
part of the road between a 12-foot wash
out and a bluff on the other side. Sew
eral young were slightly injured
and it was a miracle that they were not
more seriously hurt.
The Silver City council passed an or
dinance prohibiting minors playing slot
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