Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-09
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Willie 0lmsted Fractured His Spinal
Column by Falling from a
House at Roswell.
A $4,000 LIBRARY AT GALLUP
The Montszuma Hotel at Springer Changed
Hands-An Editorial Change at Far
mington-The Happenings of Last
Week in Several Counties.
OTERO COUNTY.

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Week in Several Counties.
OTERO COUNTY.
Tularosa had a flour famine on Nom
Gay of last week.
Jose Luis Vigil. an old resident, high
ly respected throughout the county, died
at Tularosa, aged rs years.
Political candidates were out in full
force at Alamogordo the Fourth. dis
tributing their cards, hand shaking and
buttonholing.
Last Wednesday at Alamogordo a
drunken Mescalero Apache squaw was
badly cut with knife in the hands of
another Indian.
The Ell Paso & Northeastern railway
has been completed from North Capt.
tan to South CAPTAIN, mile and half
distant. The latter place will be the
also be the town as quite distinct from
the coal camp. Here also handsome
new depot will be built at once. and 9TH
er improvements made which will make
the place a desirable residence town.
The Fourth Of July was great day
for Alamogordo. Every one attending
had good time, the weather was COO
and cloudy, good music, plenty Of dane
ing, etc. There was magnificent dis
play of fireworks, and the citizens OF
Alamogordo Wed with each other to
make it pleasant for their visitors.
A severe hail storm occurred about
ten miles north Of Tularosa last week.
The hailstones were as large as hen
eggs. Out of flock of 1000 head of
sheep about fifty were killed. The fruit
on the trees along the storms route
was threshed to the ground, corn de-
stroyed, chickens and birds killed, and
in some instances the shingles on the
housetops were splintered and carried
away by the storm.
The Alamogordo News blames lis pa
irons for it. 1t says: The News has this
week ordered material and paper for an
elSHl-pd6C SlA~SOluuhh PuUllSallOh, ohu
as soon as the new supplies arrive the
subscribers will be treated to metro
politan appearing paper. The advertls-
ing patronage of the paper has in
creased so steadily during the past six
months that the expense to be incurred
by enlarging Ia deemed justifiable by
the News company, and Is certainly due
the advertisers and readers.
COLFAX COUNTY.
John Morrow, the Ration realty hus-
tier, has been to Kansas City.
Clarence the 16-year- r-old son Of s. H
Reed, died of tonsilitis at Ration.
A downtown salesroom for the Ration
greenhouses has been established.
George T. Southwell, Of Yokum, Tex,
is visiting his father-in-law, Judge Will
son, at Ration.
Mrs. s. F. Morton left Ration to join
her husband at Salida, Colo, where
they will reside.
At Springer overcoats were of more
real SeTVlCc u IIOSt ally oLC VII thc
Fourth than ice cream.
Jose Ramon Montoya, of Ration. died
at the home of his son. Victor Montoya.
He was supposed to be nearly 100 years
of age.
The Montezuma hotel at Springer has
changed hands, Mrs. John B. Jacot pur-
chasing the property and hotel equip
ments from Mrs. ]. E. Goblin.
Mark Honeyfeld Is back in the hay
fields of Johnson Mesa. He went to Cal
ifornia to locate, but found New Mexi-
co the better business country.
Antonio Cajal pounded up the city
marshal of East Ration a few days ago,
depriving him Of his six-shooter and
other arms he carried as a guardian of
the law.
Benigno Tenorio, Juan D. Pacheco, Pc
dro Ribali and several others, Ration
ties, have been employed by the Rocky
Ford beet sugar factory, and are
pleased with their work.
Nestor Martinez was thrown from his
horse at his ranch on the Sweetwater
and badly hurt. He was brought to
Springer, and Is now in the hands OF
the physician.
Mrs. L. c. and Miss Eugenia Moore
ably supported by local talent, will pre-
sent the "Dress Rehearsal" opera a.
the opera house in Ration on July lS fol
the benefit Of the Ration ladies' relic
society.
C. J. Gavin, since his return from Nil
| waukee, has been the recipient OF In
Vulnerable letters, inquiring about thu
possibilities of New Mexico in othel
lines of investment besides that o.
mining The Milwaukee convention ant
the like are Of inestimable benefit t.
New Mexico, with such representative
as Mr.. Gavin on tap.
Mr.. Charles Golfer, with the Syringe
and Moreno Valley Stage Company a
Ute creek, while celebrating the Fourtl
there with giant powder, went VI
against an explosion that tore ava,
half Of the thumb and foreflnger Of tn
| right hand. He was taken to ElizaDeth
town and had the members amputatc
by DR.. Cahill.
Builders and contractors Of Raton ar
very busy and all have on hand NOR
work than can be disposed Of in time
suit their customers. Many new resi-
dences are In contemplation and tours
Of construction, quite number OF busi
ness houses are being remodeled, an
other improvements in the building lin
are in evidence throughout the cit,
Ration is in sympathy with the genera
good times, and is in full accord wit
the doctrine of expansion.
BERNALILLO COUNTY.
Mr.. Buxsar. manager of readin
rooms for the Santa Fe system. has ha
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