Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Money Being Subscribed For the
Capture Of the Murderers
of John Pichler.
A GRAVEYARD DESIGNATED
Prospecting In San Juan County for Oil
and Gas-Tree Planting at Alamo
gordo-The Destruction Of Fish
Punished.
LINCOLN COUNTY.

LINCOLN COUNTY.
White Oaks is justly proud of it's ex
cellent schools and churches.
The merchants at White Oaks arr
laying in unusually large stocks o
spring goods.
William Lane is sinking we'll for w
G. Mcdonald on the CariZoZo ranges
near the Malpais.
j. f. Wharton is this spring adding
many young trees to his fine orchard
near White Oaks.
Money is being freely subscribed a
White Oaks and vicinity to raise funt
sufficient to employ competent detect
i've to locate the cowardly murderers O.
John Pichler at Jicarilla.
A. C. Storm was fined $25 and costs al
Nogal the other day for the destruction
of fish in Eagle creek by allowing saw
er. DR.. M. G. Paden, of White Oaks
acting as fish and game warden, prose
cuted
OTERO COUNTY.
Hon. w. A. Hawkins is putting ou
eighty shade trees on his fine residence
lot at Alamogordo.
The trout in Malpais spring, near AL
amogordo are doing well. Some of them
are already from s to 10 inches long.
Hundreds Of inquiries concerning the
climate and resources of Otero county
are pouring into Alamogordo from all
parts of the country.
Poplar and weeping willow trees have
been planted in the cemetery at Alamo
gordo. Ample provision has been made
for irrigating the place.
Five hundred thousand acres of the
Mescalero Indian reservation in Lin
coin and Otero counties will probably
soon be opened to public settlement.
DR.. Bryan. son-in-law of Postmaster
Collier, of Ration, has recovered from a
serious attack of typhoid pneumonia
and resumed his practice at Alamogor-
do.
Mrs. James Bullard, whose husband
recently died at La Luz under peculiar
ly distressing circumstances, read in g
paper the other day that her son Noaf
was severelE~uouaded in the hip on the
1Gfh while. serving under Genera, Otis
in the Philippines.
GRANT COUNTY.
A brass band has been organized al
Pinos Altos.
Twelve hundred pounds of fine mohaii
were last week shipped from Silver City
to Springfield, Mo.
The presbytery at Las Cruces has ap-
pointed Rev. J. R. Gass to the Silver
City and Deming charges for another
year.
The new track constructed on the To-
cal Santa Fe branch from Silver City
to Whitewater has been completed, ant
trains are running over it daily.
The Pinos Altos Gold Mining Com
pany has donated tract of land, 1OOs
300 feet, near the Pinos Altos public
school, for playground for the chill
dren
Several young vandals desecrated the
Masonic cemetery at Silver City by
overturning nearly all the monuments
and gravestones and tearing away
many of the fences around graves. The
guilty boys were arrested, and will bt
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lesson.
The postoffice department has let {
contract to the Silver City & Northern
railroad branch to carry the mail daily
Sundays excepted, between Whitewatel
and Fierro, service to commence OF
April 16. The important mining towns
of Santa Rita and Hanover are on thi!
branch.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
A bicycle livery has been established
at Aztec.
Fruit prospects all over San Jual
county are reported unusually promis
ing.
l "A. VOOuW dI u dliu b'1lah AIiShSAA
| stealth were united in marriage at Az
| tee last week.
At the recent electric belt show Mis-
Maud Waring was voted the most pop
ular young lady in Aztec, and was Civ
en- the gold watch.
| Several persons are quietly prospect
ing in the county for oil and gas. TIL
surface indications are regarded as ia
vorable by experts.
| C. e. Mead superintendent of the ex
perimental station at Aztec, was ten
dered pleasant surprise party by
number of his friends a few evening
ago.
Many wells are being sunk on the L
Plata for irrigation purposes. A abun
dant supply of water Is found there a
an easy depth. Both windmills an
steam power will be used for pumpin
the water.
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q. 3. Weather Bureau Notes.
| Forecast for New Mexico: Fair t,
night and Saturday; warmer Saturda.
Yesterday the thermometer registere
40 followa. Mavimnm tamnnratnra