Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-08
IN VARIOUS COUNTIES
Colfax Furnishes a Long String Of
Items Concerning Doings Of
the People.
INFORMATION FROM OTERO
Bernalillo Supplies Some News and Grant
As Usual Has Quota Of Occurrences
From the County Seat and
Elsewhere.
COLFAX COUNTY.

COLFAX COUNTY.
District court will convene at Rator
March 10.
Mrs. John Fleener, Jr., aged rs years
died at Ration.
The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. w
H. French died at Elizabethtown.
A meeting will be held this month al
Ration to organize pioneer club.
The north front of Rev. Burch's brick
house at Ration was blown down by
wind.
At Johnson's Mesa, 1,500 pounds OF
oats were stolen from James Dale, an
invalid.
A tourist car left twenty Missouri I'M
migrants at Ration, who will make their
home in that city.
w. c. Burgess, of Kansas City, has
taken the position of manager in the
store of M. w. Mills.
John Schnell, who farmed the Roth
ranch on the Sugarite, has sold out and
moved to Oklahoma.
Pedro Gonzales was struck over the
head with a club by his step-son at
Catskill and seriously injured.
Edward Drake, Of Denver. had both
legs and an arm crushed by being run
over by freight train near Ration. He
died the same day.
A whist club was organized at Ration,
with DR.. Auer as president, T. D. Leib
vice president, and R. II. Ayers secre-
tary and treasurer.
Agapito Fresquez, ex-assessor of Col
fax county, and ex-postmaster OF
Springer, died at Ration, where he had
moved year before from Ocate.
Ira Belisle, Of the Ration round house,
bruised his hand badly. He bandaged 1t
and soaked 1t with turpentine. This
caught fire. and he sustained serious
burns.
Ona Nauta and Samuel Nauta were
given a hearing at Maxwell City on a
charge of cattle stealing. Ona was dis
charged and Samuel was held under
$500 bail.
The storm at Ration this week blew
down the front of the Citizens Bank
and Mrs. Jones' residence, and drifted
snow several feet high at street COR
ners.
Candido Martinez and Miss Placida
Martinez. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Fernando Martinez, OF Catskill, were
married at the Roman Catholic church
at East Ration.
The report that Judge A. C. Wallace
was killed by bear at Badly Is denied
John Mosman slipped and fell on an
ore dump at Elizabethtown and dislo-
Gated his jaw.
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
The father of A. c. Flack, of Aztec,
died at Plattsburg, Me.
The Aztec school has been closed ow-
ing to sickness, until April l.
A. F. Stump Is erecting an attractive
two-story residence near Pennington.
Peter KnickerbocKer has let the con-
tract for business house 20x60 feet at
Aztec.
Logan Hickman, of Flora Vista, was
thrown by his horse and sustained pain
full injuries.
Capt. T. B. Hart, Of San Juan coun-
ty, and Miss Elsie Yoder, were married
at Hudson, Kan.
A race for $3.50 side took place at
Pennington last week between the
Hatch and the De Luche horses.
Homer Fields and Miss Maud Burk-
ett, of Bloomfield, were married at Az
tee by Justice of the Peace Martin.
Dean Howe and Miss Clara shidler
were married at the residence Of the
BRIDES parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. W.
Shidler, near Pennington.
G. G. Brewer and ]. L. Vance pur-
chased the six-acre tract north of Az
tee, formerly owned by Peter Knicker-
booker, and will lay 1t out in building
lots.
OTERO COUNTY.
Father Migeon is erecting new resi-
dence at Tularosa,
The wife of EzeQuiel Moya died at La
Luz of consumption.
]. c. Dunn, Of Long Beach. Cal, was
at Alamogordo looking up site for a
colony Of fruit growers.
Florence, the IS months old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Ostic, died at
La Luz of pneumonia.
The Alamogordo Improvement Com
pany sold about fifty tracts around AL
amogordo. which will be planted with
fruit trees.
w. B. Snodgrass. Of Alamogordo, dis
posed of his hardware business to @. c.
Scipio, of Greenville. ILL.,, who has taken
up his residence at Alamogordo. :.
Two new engines have been received
at Alamogordo from the Baldwin To-
comotive works at Philadelphia. and
will be followed soon by two more.
w. q. Warren & Co. are erecting a
brick business building at Alamogordo.
Charles e. Thomas, Of Red Oaks, Ia.
q stenographer, has located at Alamo
gordo.
F. C. Matteson. John Shryrock, Frank
Allen, Father Migeon and q. Pradc
were chosen committee to solicit sub.
scrintfona To nav for the drilling Of an