Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-01
They Are Being Excavated On a
Large Scale In San Juan
County.
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS
An Engineer Was Seized With Violent
Insanity At Deming-An Attempt to
Hold Up a Train In 0tero
County.
GRANT COUNTY.

| AHIce ucW loIty -lOH eH6lHeS nave
been received on the Arizona and New
Mexico railroad.
The early garden truck and fruit pros
poets were ruined in the vicinity OF
Lordsburg by the frost.
James w. Harvey and Miss Amelia
OFT were married at Silver City at the
| home Of the brides mother.
D. D. Livingston, who had his fingers
mashed at Lordsburg while coupling
cars. has been awarded 5000 damages
by Texas court.
G. Macarthur, who cdme into Deming
from the west, was suddenly seized
| with violent insanity. He was lodged in
| the Deming Jail He had been locomo-
tive engineer in Mexico, and has fam
| lily at Ell Paso.
The McGraths intend to tear down
the old Ownby house at Lordsburg and
erect large hotel in it's place. The
hotel will be built of brick, and will be
two stories high. 1t will have thirty bed
rooms on the second floor, and will be
run on the American plan.
OTERO COUNTY.
Sheriff w. r. Baker captured three
cattle thieves at Captain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Galusha have moved
from Cloudcroft to La Luz.
A. Carr, brakeman, while making a
coupling at Walnut Station, had hand
crushed.
Denis Driscoll had one of his legs
shot off at Tobaggan while blasting a
stump near Tobaggan. He was taken
to the Ell Paso hospital.
The schools were closed at Alamogor-
do on account of a smallpox case. there
was only one case of smallpox, howev-
er, and one case of the measles.
General Manager J. A. Eddy has re-
|signed from the Ell Paso & Northeast
ern railway, but will remain in New
Mexico to push other enterprises.
A train with forty-fve cars Of coal,
carrying 1886 tons of the black dia-
monds. came down the Ell Paso and
Northeastern railroad last week, being
the heaviest train that ever went down
the road.
Sheriff w. r. Baker, at Ell Paso,
caught Frank Baze, who had fled to
Mexico after being indicted on the
charge of assaulting James Mcbride at
Toboggan. Baze was released after
furnishing $500 bail.
An attempt was made to hold up
passenger train on the Ell Paso &
Northeastern train at the switchback
near the Indian divide. The engineer
get on board. They fired several shots
after the train without hurting any one.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Mrs. M. M. Chase, wife of farmer
living near Cimarron, died few days
ago.
Stock is looking little thin owing to
the cold snap and the recent heavy
SHOWS.
J. p. Patrick and Mrs. McNarren were
united in marriage at Catskill few
days ago.
The residence of J. F. Carrington at
Elizabethtown was much damaged by
fire last week.
]. L. Laub and family have left Ra-
ton for Bayfield,, Wis, where Mr.. Laub
will engage in the lumber and railroad
business.
A lot of new supplies, including a die
tionary, an eight-day clock and several
call bells, have been purchased for the
use of the excellent public school at
Elizabethtown.
w. G. Burnett, formerly publisher Of
the Elizabethtown Miner Is now en-
ployed as private secretary of the su-
perintendent of the Mexican Central
railroad, with headquarters at FL Paso.
The local lodge Of the Woodmen of
the World at Springer Is steadily gain
ing new members and Is in flourishing
condition. "....
CHAvES COUNTY.
The many flock owners of the county
are all busily engaged in shearing
| sheep. -
w. F. Hutchison recently purchased
| !, 200 acres of land near Roswell for pas
turing sheep.
Marshall Maddux, of Roswell, gives
| hobos the choice of working on the
ditch or moving on. and most Of them
move on.
Some one broke into the Roswell post
office recently and carried off $3.50 In
cash and about IS worth of cigars and
| candy.
Frank Large captured six lobo wolves
near Lea lake few days ago, and sue
ceeded in poisoning the mother after
she had killed twenty-five or thirty
lambs.
The prospect Is that the street and
sewer bonds Of the town of Roswell will
soon be sold, and then work on the en-.
terprises indicated will be diligently
prosecuted.
| The business of the telephone sys.
tenn at Roswell has increased so much
that 1t has been found necessary to put
in another switchboard. There are 10'
numbers on the old board, and alread,
twenty-five are in use on the new one
Four marriages were solemnized II
Roswell last week. The contracting
parties were as follows: william T. Da
Wis and Miss Della Kisling; Nicolas
Flores and Marie Valdez: Joseph Phil
lips and Miss Eliza Mcpherson; Pete
Corn. Of Mcmillan. and Mrs. Fanni
Dalton, of Roswell.