Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-12

AT GALLUP
Over One Hundred New Houses Are
Being Erected at and Around
the Carbon City.
A LOT OF NEW BANK NOTES
The First National Bank at Carlsbad Re-
ceived 1880 of Them Carlsbad Boys
Will Go to South America
Territorial News.
CHAVES COUNTY,

CHAVES COUNTY.
Sheep shearing is in full blast in the
Pecos valley.
The Odd Fellows lodge at Roswell ha.
been reorganized.
The corn crop in the Pecos valley il
very good this year.
j. M. OKelly brought the first load O.
corn into Roswell last week.
B. F. Hammett has returned to Ros
well from a trip through Mexico.
l.. r. Basham and wife, of Uvalda
Tex, have taken up their residence a
Roswell.
George Z. Davis, of the Woodlawr
farm, is building a cottage at Wood
avn farm.
Alexander McIlree and John Chris.
nan are boring wells for Mr. Slaughter
1t Grand Plains.
Roswell is enjoying it's street fair
dover parade and accompanying at
fractions this week.
shipped seven cars of cattle from Ros-
we'll to Kansas City last week.
George A. White and son are. shearine
1000 sheep at Hagerman. The sheer
shear about pounds to the fleece.
G. W. Kelly and F. V. Brown, of War
rensburg, Mo-, bought 1000 yearling
wethers of Jaffa & Praeger at Roswell
last week.
The Lincoln Trading Company has
turned over to James Miller, of Ros-
well, all the sheep it bought in the Pc
eos valley.
S. J. Walton, of Temple, Tex, is at
Roswell, and commenced boring for ar
tesian water at Orchard Park for j. D.
Tortenstein.
The Roswell Register has moved into
It's own new brick building, and has in
stalled a two and half horsepower
gasoline engine.
William Hamilton, superintendent of
sJarks at Pittsburg, Pa, is the guest of
his sons, w. G., Harry w. and J. c.
hamilton, at Roswell.
J. D. Hortenstein and S. w. Chisum
ire having deep wells drilled on thc!.
ranches at Grand Plains. They are to
be put down 1000 feet.
A terrific hail storm passed over Ros-
well last Monday, and 100 window panes
at the New Mexico Military Institute
were broken. No other serious damage
vas done.
j. P. White, manager of the l.. F. d.
ranch, shipped 1,12O head of 3-year- old
cattle from Roswell. He averaged $37.75
per head on the shipment at Kansas
City.
An attempt was made by several pris-
oners to break out of the Roswell Jail
but they were discovered while saving
heir way out, and their little game was
spoiled.
The Roswell Telephone Company has
put in a monster pole on Main street
Roswell 1t is As feet lorg and IS inches
in diameter. The pole is feet in the
ground.
Mrs. Charles S Kessler and daugh-
ters Helen, Ruth and Margaret, have
removed from Roswell to Little Rock
Ark, where Mr.. kessler has been en-
poyed in a printing office.
P. +. Roe has returned to Roswell
from Kansas City, whittier he had ta-
ken several car loads of cattle and pur-
chased the machinery for the cold stor-
age plant he is erecting at Roswell
w. T. Jones sold the 900 cattle he had
running twenty miles west Of Roswell
to w. H. Coon, of Austin, Tex. An out
fit is now gathering the cattle, and will
take them to c. B. Willingham's ranch
John r. Upton and Annie Archey
were married last Monday evening al
Roswell by Rev. ]. Mel. Gardiner, min
lister of the Presbyterian church. The
groom is fireman on the Pecos system
and the bride Is daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Archey.
The locomotive engineers of the Pc
well and elected the following officers
A. Archey, chief engineer; e. P. Cooley
first engineer; A. D. Cowell, second en-.
gineer; M. D. Carelton, first assistan
engineer; c. H. Hoffman, second assist
ant engineer; V. o. McCollum, third as
sistant engineer; V. w. Kretley, guide
]. B. Atwood, chaplain. The division
has been named Nichols division, No
229.
TAOS COUNTY.
James B. Newell and c. Scruggs, O.
Pueblo, Colo, have decided to settle a
Red River.
I. T. Burns is building a large add
ton to the Pioneer house at Red River
A board and bunk house is being bull
by the Golden Treasure company "a
Red River.
F. E. Balm, of Red River, was arrest
ed at Mosca, Colo, on the charge o
cattle stealing. Balm, who, with hi
wife and daughter, was on his way tt
Leadville, Colo, overland, was withou
water and food, and in desperation
killed a yearling calf, the property o
M. Sylvester. He was discovered by Pc
dro Trujillo and promptly arrested. HI
was released upon paying for the value
of the calf.
COLFAX COUNTY.
The grand jury of district court a
Ration returned nineteen true bills.
w. c. Whitescarver has large fore
of men at work building dam acros
the Moreno to make lake to float tn
large dredges that it is proposed to pu
en- the Moreno placers.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
Ten Of the school districts Of Sal
Juan county have voted in favor of
special school tax of mills in addition
to the regular school income.