Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-20
Four Runaway Coal Cars Wreck
Two Other Cars and a Frame
House.
A GUANO CAVE DISCOVERED
Several Gases Disposed of in District Court
at Silver 0ity-A Rough Rider Ao-
cused Of Murder in the First
Degree.
LINCOLN COUNTY

Captain.
Considerable coal is being shipped
from Captain to Guaymas, Mex, con.
signed to the Guaymas Water Com.
pany.
The recent rains were especially
heavy in the vicinity of Three Rivers
| and unless there is an early frost good
range is assured.
A new postoffice building has been
| erected in Captain, and it is expected
| that authority will soon be received
from Washington to change the name
Of office from Gray to Captain.
Last Tuesday night the Southwestern
Mercantile Company gave a grand ball
n their store at Captain. There was a
arge attendance from Captain and the
surrounding country. and the proceeds
were given to the Red Men for the COM
! pletion Of their new hall.
The FL Paso & Northeastern railway
has completed the extension of it's track
from the camp to the town of Captain
two miles distant, and freight will now
be taken over to the latter point for
unloading for the town, as we'll as for
Fort Stanton and Lincoln. The passen-
ger train is expected to run through
soon.
Last Wednesday cars loaded with
coal got away at the Captain mines, and
running into a passenger coach stand
ing in front of the depot sent it flying
down the track, where it struck car
loaded with corn standing in front of
the store Of the Southwestern Mercan-
tile Company and drove it into frame
house, which was knocked squarely off
it's foundation. The cars all ran off the
end of the rails. Conductor J. H. Gra-
ham, who was seated in the passenger
coach making out his reports, being un-
able to get out in time, braced himself
against the seat to Withstand the shock,
but it was too much for him, and he
had a rib broken and his back badly
sprained. Mail Clerk Hart saw the dan
ger in time to jump. Conductor Ora
ham Is we'll known in railroad circles
in southern New Mexico, having work
led for fourteen years or the Santa Fe.
He is married and resides in HI Paso.
GRANT COUNTY.
The ninetieth anniversary of Mexican
independence was celebrated by very
elaborate two days program at Central
on Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. E. E. Vance, late of Greeley,
Colo, has been appointed pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Deming, and
has arrived at his new post of duty.
On Saturday stranger, supposed to
be ]. H. Hardiman. of Oregon, died sud-
denly from heart failure in the Ameri-
can restaurant at Deming.
David Baker, while exercising on a
trapeze at his home one day last week,
| fell and dslocated his left wrist. A
physician set the fracture, and David
will soon be able to tackle his trapeze
again.
Attorney Pinto Pine, of Las Cruces,
is interested in a guano cave in the
Tres Hermanos mountains. A small
shipment of the guano has been made
to San Diego, Cal, for test as fertil-
izer.
w. A. Leonard, formerly of the Silver
City Enterprise, writes to relatives at
Silver City that he and his family es-
capped with their lives from the Texas
floods, but that his printing office and
residence We're destroyed.
H. H. Williams, yardmaster at Dem
ing for some years, but recently of
Tucson, has accepted a position with
the Arizona & New Mexico railroad at
Lordsburg, where he will have charge
of the transfer yards.
The burning of the ice plant at DEM
ing last week is very likely to deprive
Silver City of local industry, as it is
more than likely that Adolph Witzel
| will Join Mr.. Johnson, the owner Of the
Deming plant, in the erection Of a new
and much larger factory, the product
of which will supply the town Of Silver
City, Deming, Lordsburg, and surround.
ing towns. Deming being a more cen
trail location, and having an abundant
water supply, will in all probability be
selected as the site for the proposed
new plant
Frank Brito the young man who
shot and killed his sister-in-law at Pi.
nos Altos last week, served with Roose-
velt's rough riders and is veteran OF
the fight at San Juan hill. He is an in
telligent young man, and speaks Eng
lish we'll. He has always borne very
good reputation, but 1t is said that feel
ing Is very bitter against him in Pinos
Altos, and it is said that he had NJ
cause for being Jealous of his wife
which, according to his story, was tn
cause of the trouble. He will be tried
next Wednesday for murder in the frs
degree.
The case Of the territory against r
H. Speed, charged with effacing, defac
ling and unlawfully branding, was triet
Friday at Silver City, F. r. Conway ap
pearing for the defendant. At the con
clusion Of the testimony the case wa
dismissed on account Of variance II
the testimony and the allegations con
tained in the Indictment. B. F. Allisol
was tried Wednesday for a murderou
assault upon Frank Miller. The jur,
returned verdict Of not guilty, and AL
lison was consequently discharged. tn
trial of Mariana Sais was had Monday
He was charged with stabbing his wifi
in the back with q miners pick In Sil
yer City some weeks since. After bein
out several hours the jury returned
verdict Of guilty Of assault with dead
ly weapon.