Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-23
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Happenings Of the Past Few Days in DIFF
ferent Counties,
SAN JUAN COUNTY.

August Bero Is erecting a new resi-
dence at Pennington.
Nearly all the cattlemen have driven
their stock to the hills for the summer.
Rev. j. r. Cooper will preach Memo
rial day sermon next Sunday at Aztec
under the auspices of Aztec pos, No.
Is, G. A. r.
| A rather loud newspaper fight Is be-
ing waged between the Pennington
Times and the San Juan County Index,
the merits of which are not readily ap-
parent to the outsider.
Harry Myers and Jesse Harwood have
begun the erection of large brick kiln
| on the mesa near Pennington, where
excellent clay has been found
w. N. Kight is erecting fine resi-
| dence on his Sunny Side ranch near
Pennington He sold forty acres Of his
ranch to George Phelps, who will make
it an ideal home.
Aztec Post, G. A. R., has elected the
following officers: Post commander
Col w. H. Williams; senior vice COM
mander, A. j. Gilmour; junior vice
commander, F. v. Williams; adjutant.
G. w. Mccoy; surgeon, G. w. Freeman;
| chaplain, Elder J.. S. Henry; quarter
master J. V. Dunlap: officer of the day.
A. A. Waggoner; sergeant major c. H.
McHenry; officer of the guard, James
Stephenson; quartermaster sergeant, B.
G. Hildebrand. The following commit
tees for decoration day were appointed:
On speakers-M. l.. Page. On music
Mrs. T. J. West, A. E. Brown; On pro-
curing flowers-Mrs. A. J. Gilmour Mrs.
G. w. Mccoy. On preparing coffee-G.
w. Goodwin, P. X. Knickerbocker. On
reception-Peyton Skidmore, M. L.
Page. Captain Knowlton. Pearl Gill
mour. Linn Page and Roy Stewart We're
appointed committee to decorate the
graves of comrades buried at Flora
Vista.
GRANT COUNTY.
Some unknown person killed the IA
vorite saddle horse Of Mrs. Thomas Ly-
ons.
Thomas Lowe, of Ohio. has decided to
locate permanently at Silver City. He is
a health-seeker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Burnside and
Frank K. Wyman and family, of DEM
ing, will spend the summer in Penn
sylvania.
Mrs. Frank Stewart died of pneumo-
mia at Silver City. Her age was 35 years.
She is survived by her husband and
three children.
Harmar Denny Mcknight, aged So
years, for seven years resident of Sill
yer City, died at Allegheny, Pa, of
congestion of the brain.
Mrs. Harriet Landrum, wife of r. G.
Landrum, died last week at her home
at Silver City. She was born in Austin
county, Tex, in 1S4S. She came to Sill
yer City with her family in 1887.
United States Marshal Foraker left
Deming last week with ten Cinnamon,
who are returning to China because
the United States authorities will not
permit them to settle In this country.
Mrs. Elizabeth Amelia Shannon died
at the residence of Mrs. S. A. Spann, at
Silver City. She was aged 81 years.
Mrs Shannon was native of Month
cello, Ky. She came to Silver City in
1880 with her two sons, Charles M. and
Baylor.
Several men who were discharged by
the Pinos Altos Gold Mining Company
created quite disturbance in the Pinos
Altos company store because they were
refused credit. In the fight between the
employees of the store and the workmen
half a dozen combatants were injured.
OTERO COUNTY.
Miss D. H. Trenchard, trained nurse
from Philadelphia, Pa, has accepted
position at the railway hospital at Ala
mogordo.
A wagon road Is to be built from Ala
mogordo through the rich agricultural
region of the Sacramentos. The road is
to be thirty miles long. and is to extend
from Alamogordo to Weed.
The grand jury returned thirty-flve
indictments at its last session. No in
dictments for murder or manslaughter
were returned. The case of the terri
tory VS.. James A. Cole, who Is indicted
for murder, was carried over until the
next term. James Wilson, alias McGin-
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