The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-05-31
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
is to have telephone sys-

Carlsbad is to have telephone sys-
ten.
Roswell town trustees have fixed the
annual tax levy at 9l9 mills.
over 5000 head of cattle have been
shipped from Silver City during this
month.
An effort is being made to establish
company of the National Guard at
Roswell.
Roswell is to have new hotel. and it
is hoped to have it in the course of CON
Struction in a short time.
A movement has been started at Al
buquerque to make the fire department
of that place in part paid one.
Since the beginning of 1899 the in
debtednesS of Grant county has been
reduced from S2S3, 900 to S235, 900.
Ruiz, the murderer, will be hanged
at the Bernalilo county jail in Old AL
buquerque, Friday morning, June /.
The board of education OF Roswell is
receiving plans and specifications for
a $25, 900 school house to be erected
there.
The total assessed valuation of tax
able property of East Las Vegas is
81, ,135, 1l2 This is $4,000 more than
IN 1898.
Application has been made. to the
postoffice department Tor the establish
ment of postoflice at Cybar, Dona Ana
county.
Thomas Matthews an Albuquerque
bartender, has fallen heir to 900 by
the death of relative in Green county,
Kentucky.
Eighty-six Mexicans left Las Vegas
one day last week for Rocky Ford, Colo
rado, where they will work in the sugar
beet fields.
Deming is ohave new secret order. the
Dramatic Order Knights of KhorasSan.
the first one of its kind to be organized
in New Mexico.
Extradition papers have been made
out by the governor for James Brooks
and w. d. johnson who are in custody
in Sonora, Mexico
A bill has been introduced in the
house of representatives to open the
Navajo Indian reservation in New MeXi-
co for mining purposes.
A bill has been introduced in the house
of representatives to confirm the title
to certain lands to the Indians of the
pueblo of Iuni, in Valencia county.
The house public lands committee has
reported favorably the bill to set aside
part of the proceeds of the sales of public
lands to aid mining schools in the public
land states and territories.
The bondsmen of Carlos Gabaldon.
the defauting collector of San Miguel
county. have made arrangements to pay
81, 800 into the county treasury in full
settlement of the defalcation.
1t is expected that work on the Black
Range railway from Magdalena, in So
zorro county, to Chloride, in Sierra coun-
ty, distance of ninety miles, will be
commenced in the near future
Invitations have been issued for the
commencement ball of the graduating
class of the New Mexico School of Mines.
which will take place Friday evening,
June /, at Garcia Opera House, Socorro
James Kibbee, of Carlsbad, will on
June /, start the publication of the
/ Carlsbad Morning Sun, Democratic
daily paper. This will increase the
number of daily papers in New Mexico
to five.
James Wilson Parker, father of Judge
| Parker, of Illlsboro, died at his home
at Stergis, Michigan. He was aged II
years. Judge Parker was on his way
to his fathers bedside at the time the
death occurred.
The Edison, experimental gold saving
plant. which is being constructed at
Dolores on the famous Ortiz mine grant.
is nearing completion and the work of
setting up the electrical appliances Is
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
A shortage in the accounts Of Post
master RomulO PrOvenciO, of Socorro,
was discovered last week by postoliice
] Inspector He was arrested on war
rant charging embezzlement, but i'm
medlately gave bond for for $3.50 and
was released.
The supreme court Of New Mexico has
affirmed the decision Of the COlfaX coun-
ty district court sentencing William Nc
Ginnis, the train robber and murderer,
to the pententiary for life for partici-
patton in the murder of Officer w. ID.
Farr near Cimarron some months ago.
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