El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-16
New Mexico.

New Mexico.
A Mexican miner named Rubio, en-
ployed at the Trippe, fell backwards
in to 20 foot ehaft and sprained both
wrists.
A coal prospect near Engle which
was discovered a few years ago and
abandoned Ia being developed by q
party from San Msrcial.
The coal companies at Gallup are
crowded to their full capacity to meet
the demands of the coal trade. All
the miners are working day aud night
shifts.
The Hillsboro mines during 1899
produced 6,156 tons of ore. or this
{, 1925 tons showed an average value of
S19. 43 per ton while 831 tons was worth
SS3 per ton.
A fatal shooting scrape occurred last
week at Liberty. Guadalupe county, in
which John Moore was fatally shot by
Manuel Morales. The killing was the
result of IN old feud.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
de Baca has given notice to The county
superintendent that teachers must
b I'D certificates rs provided by law
before warrants can be approved.
Emmett Joyce, who is employed by
the Colorado Iron & Fuel company at
Hanover in the capacity of foreman of
one Of the company q mines, was serious
ly if not fatally hurt by au explosion
last week.
At q regular meeting of the Black
Range Stock Growers Protective as
ISOLATION of Sierra county held at Gu
chillO Negro one day last week the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing term.
AS the result of a dispute between
the cattlemen and sheepmen over the
possession of certain grazing lands
located between the San Juan and
Animas rivers, in Graham county, war
rants were issued for the arrest of a
dozen prominent cattlemen.
w. T. Wells. w. P. Lewis and G. w.
Read have formed the Blackwater
Irrigation company and filed articles
of incorporation. The object of the
company Is to develop water and i'm
prove land on Blackwater arroyo,
we'll.
In the federal land Office in Santa
Fe, the territory of New Mexico has
fled on ,O5S. A acres of land in the
extreme northwestern corner of So
SothO Soubcy' AHo louo HdS US6u
selected by the United States land
commission for the university of New
Mexico at Albuquerque.
For the first time since it's organiza-
ton Sierra county virtually has enough
money on hand to pay all it's liabilities,
excepting its bonded indebtedness.
This very pleasing condition Of affairs
is due to the active and successful COL
lection of taxes by Will M. Robins and
the economical conduct of county af-
fairs by its officers generally.
Quite skirmish ensued near Mag
dalena on the 10Th inst: says the So
zorro Chieftain, between the herders of
Juan Garcia's flocks and man by the
name of Downing. The trouble came
up by Downing ordering the sheep off
the range and resulted in some shots
being fred by both parties. The ex-
tent of the casualty list is two
sheep dead and one wounded.
A pretty hard story is going the
rounds about Santa F'e's officials,
which is to the effect that ''nigger'
recently got drunk, and was arrested by
a policeman who was drunken than the
''nigger, and taken before the police
magistrate who was drunken than both
of them. But we are not surprised that
1t becomes necessary to use the COM
parative and superlstive degrees in
order to give an idea of the different
kinds of drunkenness that occurr in
that city.-Taos Cresset.