Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-17
A CANNING FACTORY
Over Two Hundred Cans of Fruit a
Day Are Canned at
Tularosa.
WILD BURROS AT TT. SELpEN
The People of White Oaks Are Repairing
Their streets-An Alleged Cattle
Thief Is Arrested in Dona
Ana County.
GRANT COUNTY.

GRANT COUNTY.
The total assessed valuation of prop
erty at Silver City is $927,o
The electric light plant at Silver City
is now being moved into new quarters.
The Silver City baseball team is max
ing preparations to attend the Albu-
querque fair.
Mrs. Martha c. Miller, ore OF the old
pioneers of Grant county, having resid-
ed there since 1862 died at Silver City
on the sth inst
W. J. Wamel has purchased seven
| thoroughbred Hereford bulls from the
r. G. Head ranch and will place them
on his ranch in the southern part of the
county.
During the heavy rains last week the
southern Pacific railroad track was
washed out east of Deming and the
trains being stalled there brought many
strangers to the town.
On Monday, Judge Parker rendered
a decision in favor of the plaintiff in the
case of the Southwestern Copper Com
pany VS.. Robert p. Thompson ct al. The
defendants will appeal.
| The business men of Silver City are
making considerable progress towards
organizing q commercial club, and there
is little doubt but that the city will soon
have strong organization to work for
its advancement.
Harry Goodrich, who has been chief
clerk and cashier of the Harvey house
at Deming for some time past, has re-
signed, and will return to his home in
the east, where he will take a special
course in chemistry.
In the Oldest case on the Grant coun-
ty docket, chancery proceeding, in
which Nina Reidlinger is plaintiff and
Abraham Klein Ordlinger ct al de-
PENDANTS, Judge Parker has appoint
ed Colin Neblett, ESQ.,, to take testi-
mony.
| Simon Holstein, the we'll known cat
tleman of Deming, recently returned
from the east with q bride, and last
Monday night was rendered reception
by his friends. Many persons were in
attendance, not only from Deming, but
from the surrounding country as far as
Silver City.
| SOCORRO COUNTY.
VIM. Wells passed through Socorro
with the cattle from his ranch near
Magdaena. He has rented the Bursum
ranch 40 miles east of San Antonio and
will place his stock there.
P. N. Yunker was in Socorro with
some fine fruit from his farm near
Lemitar. He has about seven acres of
prune trees which will yield him this
year about 10000 pounds OF prunes, for
which he finds ready market at 10
cents pound, making total of $2,-
900 for the crop.
OTERO COUNTY.
Mrs. Margarita Vigil, of Tularosa,
wife of Eduardo Vigil, died at her home
on the 9th inst.
A number of men are employed clean
ing out the ditch in Tularosa canon,
which will add materially to that towns
supply of water.
The cannery at Tularosa is now turn
ing out over two hundred cans day,
and is increasing its force.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
A new barber shop is about to be
opened at White Oaks.
The Mexican residents of Captain cele-
brated the national holiday on the 18th
and 10th.
The people of White Oaks are having
the streets of the town thoroughly re-
paired and put in order. The sidewalks
have graded and the appearance of the
town much improved.
| DONA ANA COUNTY.
Wild burros are becoming so thick in
the vicinity of Fort Selden that the
ranchmen are shooting them to get rid
of them.
| Roman Escobar was arrested last
week near Bosque Secofor for the alleged
theft of a COW from Oscar LOhman.
He was caught in the act of dressing
the beef.
Last week the seven months old baby
of Editor A. J. Papen. of the Rio Grande
! Republican of Las Cruces, swallowed an
open safety pin. Mr. Papen was out of
town at the time and Mrs Papen had
some difficulty in securing medical assis-
tance promptly. The pin remained in
the child's throat for over an hour and
its escape from death was most re-
markable.
OTERO COUNTY.
The school census for district No.
showed $50 children of school age in the
district.
! In addition to their new $4,000
college the Baptists will erect a new
So, 900 brick church at Alamogordo.
The dynamo and machinery for the
electric light plant at the Mescalero
Agency has arrived and will soon be put
n operation.
F. A. Beidleman, formerly of Alamo
gordo, has removed to Cleveland, O..
where he will engage In the lumber
commission business.
On Tuesday, September 18th, grand
concert by some Of the best talent in E
Paso and Alamogordo was given al
Cloudcroft for the benefit OF the Catholic
church ut Alamogordo.
The Ell Paso and Northeastern rail
way has put into effect new time table
by which the time between Ell Paso ant
Captain Is reduced SO minutes on tht
trip south and 80 minutes on the tril
north. The trains now meet and pas
at Dog Canon instead Of at Alamogordt
as formerly.
The voters of school district No.
have decided in favor of an additiona
tax levy OF five miles on the dolla
which will bring In about 81, 600 for tn
expenses Of the district. The levy ha
been approved by the county commissio
l N nd Hnfa al n
, Q vote of 81 to Is.
The Wool Market
st. Louis, Sept. l7.-Wool isquiet an
tending lower.