Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-16
TERRITORIAL
HAPPENINGS
Railroaders Have Organized a Ii
brary Association and Social
Club at Lordsburg.
Attest WELL AT SILVER CITY
Republican Rallies Held at Pinos Altos
and at Osntral-Hauling Lime from
Santa Fe to Albemarle- le-0ther
News Items.
OTERO COUNTY.

Frank w. McCleary and family have
removed from Alamogordo to San An
tonic, Tex.
Robbers entered the saloon of W. d.
Upton at Tularosa and stole two guns
and three pints of old rye.
Work on the Baptist college and the
public school building at Alamogordo
has been delayed for lack of bricks.
A car load of furniture has been or
dered for the Baptist college and the
public school building at Alamogordo.
George Richardson has been appoint
ed deputy grand master for the
Knights of Pythias lodge at Alamogor-
| do.
Harry Heffelman, who came to Ala
mogordo recently from Missouri, has
purchased several lots and will erect a
residence thereon.
| S. H. Buchanan, the contractor who
has been awarded the work Of chang
ing the narrow gauge Of the Arizona &
New Mexico railroad from Lordsburg,
Grant county, to Clifton, Ariz., to
standard gauge, has sent out gang of
men to build boarding shanties near
Clifton in order to push the work. He
has appointed M. Loewenstein, of
| Ysleta, to be commissary clerk, and a
Chinaman to do the cooking. Between
600 or 700 men are to be put to work as
soon as the boarding shanties are up.
DR.. ]. r. Gilbert, of Ranger, Tex, has
| located at Alamogordo to practice med
| icne.
J. c. Beam brought 1900 heads of cab
| bages to Alamogordo he had raised in
Hay canon. Some of the heads weighed
| IA pounds.
Fred Neimeyer, a furniture dealer at
| Alamogordo, has bought the New Com
| mercial hotel at Ell Paso from e. B.
Welch.
A number of families moved to Tula-
rosa this fall to take advantage Of the
excellent school facilities of that town.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Silver City water company is
sinking test we'll with a view of find
| ing an additional water supply.
Augustus J. Kellis bought half in
terest in the blacksmith shop owned by
Charles l.. Erickson at Silver City.
Tha employees of the smelter at Silver
City presented Superintendent Harms
and bride with handsome silver case.
James Burr prominent citizen of
Pinos Altos, was taken to the Silver
| City hospital suffering from typhoid fe
ver
Helen Rebekah lodge of Silver City
| last week initiated four new members,
and after the initiation enjoyed a ban
quet and dancing.
John M. Fritter. of Silver City, repre-
sented the A. o. U. w. lodge Of that
city at the meeting of the grand lodge
at Phoenix, Ariz.
Republican headquarters have been
established over the Silver City Nation
al Bank. A stenographer has been en-
ployed for the campaign.
A Republican rally was held at Pinos
Altos Saturday week ago. Speeches
were made by Messrs. Barnes, Graham,
Goodell, Witzel, Hudson, Decker and
Murray. A rally was also held at Cen
trail, at which the Republican nominees
for county offices were in attendance.
The railroad men in Lordsburg have
organized a club for the purpose of
starting reading room. They elected
the following officers: j. W. Bruce,
president; DR.. M. M. Crocker, vice pres
ident; G. L. Bugbee, treasurer; f. F.
Ferris, secretary; H. Biggers, G. Padel-
ford, J. w. Welden, G. F. Moore, T. B.
Holiday, G. w. Mullen and ]. Lavoff,
board of directors.
COCHITI DISTRICT.
Joseph Routledge last week started to
saw lumber for the new mill of the Co.
| chit company at Woodbury..
| Mrs. w. e. Myers, of Bland. last week
| received the sad tidings Of the death Of
her mother, Mrs. Mary Hobson, Of Jew
ell county, Kan. She was aged u years,
and leaves six children.
James Merchant, telegraph operator
for the Western Union at Bland, has re-
| signed his position and has gone to his
Ian, of Salt Lake City, has succeeded
him.
John Moore, Cochiti milkman, expe-
| rienced d thrilling runaway last week
on the steep incline between Albemarle
and Bland. The wagon was badly
| wrecked and the milk cans were thrown
down the precipice but Mr.. Moore and
| the horses escaped injury.
Eleven four-horse teams are now en-
gagged in hauling lime to the Albemarle
mill from Santa Fe. The contract at
first called for seventy-five tons a
month, but this has been increased to
125 tons. The contractors furnishing the
lime are Rev. G. s. Madden, s. w.
Young and Milo Hill.
| LINCOLN COUNTY.
| The 7-months-o old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Coke Keith died at White Oaks.
| Jicarilla precinct has seventy regis
tered voters.
A company Is being organized at
White Oaks to build an electric railway
from Carizozo station to White Oaks.
The White Oaks baseball nine was
defeated at Alamogordo by a score of
q to g. James Lee, the White Oaks
pitcher had his arm dislocated in the
J game. :,
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