Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-21
TRAIN WRECKERS
An Attempt to Derail a Santa Fe
Train--0ther Grant Coun-
ty Items.
IMPROVEMENTS AT BAYARD
A Nine Foreman's Terrible Accidental
Woman's Edition of the Silver
City Sentinel-0ther In
teresting Items.

Water Is very low in the Mimbres.
Gordon Bradley has left Silver City
for Cape Nome, Alaska.
w. A. Hether. of Cliff, has left for
Paris to visit the exposition.
Frost has considerably damaged the
fruit prospects around Silver City.
George Rowland. of Deming, has re-
turned from a trip to the Philippines.
young child of Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk.
patrick died at Silver City of diphtheria.
A golf club has been organized at
Fort Bayard, and Silver City will follow
suit.
The price Of ice at Silver City has
been raised to one and quarter cents
a pound.
The Mimbres valley was visited by a
killing frost, which means a loss Of
thousands Of dollars to fruit growers.
Oglebys saloon at Plnos Altos was
broken into by thieves, who stole sew
eral gold watches and a lot Of whisky
James X. Blair. sheriff of Grant coun-
ty, will be married at Bolton, Tex, on
the 25th of this month, to Miss Hattie
Corey.
Oliver Williams, who had revived the
Silver City Eagle for short space Of
time, has accepted a position on the
Silver City Independent.
A number of residents of Fierro, Han
over, Santa Rita and Central will in
corporate telephone company to build
telephone system to connect those
towns.
The Deming baseball nine defeated
the Silver City nine at Silver City last
Sunday by score of 10 to 8. This is the
second time this season that Deming
has defeated Silver City.
Mrs. Ollie Beevers died at Fierro aft
er an illness of only two days Of cere-
brO-spinal meningitis. She is survived
by her husband and two small children,
the Oldest one of which is dying of the
same disease to which the mother sue
cumbed.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
The fireman of the Mother Lode mine
at Hanover, while descending the lad
der in the shaft. fell distance Of 40
feet and landed upon an iron bucket in
the bottom. His thigh. arm and skull
were fractured. -a -
TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK
An attempt was made recently to
wreck the Santa Fe train between Sill
yer City and Rincon. Ties were placed
upon the tracks, but the obstruction
was not sufficiently well placed to do
any harm. and was swept aside. The
two scoundrels who tried to wreck the
train had been lying close to the tracks.
They were trailed for about half mile.
where they had horses tied.
A WOMAN'S EDITION.
The ladies of the Episcopal Guild wilt
on May issue the Silver City Sentinel
as woman would. The following staff
has been appointed: Editor In chief,
Mrs. Barnes; business managers, Mrs.
Muse and Mrs. McCulloch: society and
local editors. Mrs. Newcomb; assist
ants Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Bantz; edu-
cational. Mrs. Fielder and Miss Eckles;
CITY culIOEo, MIS-. DcllS anu N1TS. w
rem: associate editors, Mrs. Shoemaker,
Mrs. Wiley, Mrs. Nichol and Mrs. Nor
rill.
IMPROVEMENTS AT FORT BAYARD
The work of converting the old quar-
ters Of the commanding officer at Fort
Bayard into a hospital for officers is
we'll under way. A complete new sew
erage system Is also among the i'm
provements contemplated. The number
Of patients now averages seventy-five.
which is all that can be accommodated
under present conditions. Six White
Cross nurses are In attendance. Strict
sanitary regulations are enforced. No
promiscuous expectoration is permit
ted. and sanitary boxes are being pro-
vided for that purpose. and these are
cremated daily. The death rate Is ex-
tremely low.