Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-01
SAN JUAN COUNTY.

Cyril Collyer has returned to Farm
ington from trip to England
W. ]. Miller and a colony from Palo
Alto, CAL, will settle at Aztec.
Samuel Rugh is remodeling his resi-
dence on his ranch at Pennington.
George Baughtman, of Pennington,
has left on visit to relatives in Indi-
ana. ~
Miss Ethel Gurney, formerly of Aztec,
died at Bayfield,, Colo. She was aged
Is years.
Five placer claims on the San Juan
river were filed on record in the pro-
bate clerks office last week.
Rev. J. r. Cooper, of Texas, has ar
rived at Aztec to fill the pulpit Of the
Presbyterian church at that place.
Giles Masters, of Fruitland, a native
of Great Britain. took out his naturall-
cation papers at the last term Of court.
Price Walters has been appointed a
member of the county board of school
examiners to succeed William Locke,
resigned.
James w. McDermott, Beecher Wag-
goner and L. c. Grove have been ap-
pointed census enumerators for San
Juan county.
M. Milligan has again returned to
Pennington after living awhile at
Phoenix, Ariz. He will conduct a
freighting outfit from Pennington to
Durango.
Henry r. Skinner died at Farming
ton of heart disease at the age of 62
years. He was born at Bristol Conn.
Mr.. Skinner was a member of Animas
lodge, A., F. and A. M.
A horse kicked Ethel, the 6-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Brown,
Of Aztec. The hoof of the animal struck
the child on the forehead above the
right eye. The child may recover.
Considerable work is being done in
try. Over 100 people are employed, and
the company doing the work has a
large freighting outfit which is busy
freighting in supplies and freighting out
ger, and Robert c. Prewitt the book
keeper of the company. The main
building that is being excavated meas
ures 540x350 feet, and is four stories or
80 feet high. There are over 700 rooms
in it, 1872 of which have been excavated
and explored.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Six car loads of freight come into
White Oaks every week.
j. H. Lightfoot has started a weekly
paper at Captain, which he calls the
Captain Miner.
P. G. Peters, of Angus, has been
awarded the contract to furnish the
poles for the telephone line from White
Oaks to Carizozo.
The Ell Paso Mine, Mill and Smelter
Company has been awarded the con-
tract for putting in laundry and an
ice plant at Fort Stanton.
White Oaks is after Baptist college
to be established in New Mexico. and
made a very liberal proposition to the
promoters of the undertaking.
Deputy Sheriff John w. Owen brought
Thomas Bragg, who is charged with
cattle stealing, from Hereford, Texas.
Some time ago stranger sold S. T.
Gray span Of horses, and the same
day stole the horses from Gray and left
after Bragg, Deputy Sheriff Owen met
this fellow. He arrested him and
chained him to a telegraph pole until
he had arrested Bragg, and then re-
turned for his first capture. The man
who stole Gray's horses was lodged in
the Roswell Jail, while Brass was lock-
ed in the Lincoln Jail. At Captain Owen
also captured a man who is wanted in
Texas for murder.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
The interior of the Methodist church
at San Marcial is being decorated.
The lambing season is on, and the
sheep owners report a good crop.
Rutilio Romero, of Frisco. died at So
zorro after an illness of eleven months.
]. w. Jones & Co., Of Frisco sold their
valuable business to Hood Bros. & Hud-
son.
An operation for appendicitis upon the
3-year-old child Of Mrs. r. Tripp, of San
Antonio, resulted fatally.
The indications are for an abundance
Of fruit in Socorro county. Apricots
alone We're injured by the frost.
The county commissioners gave John
Greenwald the right to build road 40
feet wide from Socorro to Lemitar.
Lee Terry bought the Major Bahney
property at Socorro for $500. He will
move his family to Socorro from Water
Canon.
A cowboy working for Frank Johnson
near San Marcial, while out shooting
rabbits the other day, shot his horse by
accident and killed 1t.
Conductor M. L. Pierce, Of San Mar
cial has resigned his position, and with
his family has gone to Gettysburg, s.
D., to till farm he owns in that Sec
tion.
Mrs. Dale. while holding a vicious
horse fifteen miles east of San Antonio,
was kicked and trampled upon by the
animal. Her hips were crushed and a
thigh bone broken.
A. C. Thomas recently bought some
ore wagons for his teamster. The lat
ter hitched up the other day and drove
away to parts unknown with the horses
and wagons belonging to Mr.. Thomas.
In district court of Socorro county the
case of the territory VS.. the delinquent
tax list Of Socorro county, for taxes,
was dismissed by plaintiff at its cost,
and a motion to quash service was sus-
tanned.
SIERRA COUNTY.