Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-12
THROUGHOUT The TERRITORY.
Happenings Of Interest In Grant, Oolfax
and Other Counties.
GRANT COUNTY,

Happenings of Interest In Grant, Oolfax
and Other Counties.
GRANT COUNTY.
The Thinner house has passed to the
control of Silver City parties who will
remodel it.
Silver City public school directors will
spend 81, 800 In a new school house for
the primary pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Cosgrove and
family left for Nova Scotia, where they
will spend six weeks visiting friends and
relatives.
Farmers on the Mimbres are cutting
their first crop of alfalfa not much
earlier than northern and central
New Mexico.
They do things different down in Sill
yer City. The city council subscribed
$75 to the special edition issued by the
Enterprise.
The 4th of July committee has secured
subscriptions to the amount of j ,175. 40,
which will be considerably increased be-
fore the celebration.
A Baptist church was organized in
Silver City by Rev. c. H. Strong, of
Deming. The new congregation starts
with a membership of Is.
s. M. Ashenfelter has gone to Colorado
on business, and for the purpose of &C.
%companying his daughter, Miss Anna,
home from Colorado Springs, where she
has been attending college.
Sheriff Blair has not yet succeeded in
arresting Ochoa, Ell Cubano and Villa
lobos, wanted for the murder of Albino
Gonzales, near Pinos Altos, but is con
tinuing the pursuit and has good rea-
sons to believe that the men will be in
custody before a great while.
A gang of horse thieves is operating
in the Fierro, Hanover and Santa Rita
section. Quite a number of valuable
animals, lot to mention numerous sad
dies, have mysteriously disappeared
and there is reason to believe that
their absence is due to an organized
gang.
Beginning on June 7, a series of evan
gelical meetings were held in Silver
City in the business section in a large
tent, which was especially erected
for such purpose. Rev. l.. L. Gladney,
the San Marclal evangelist, and Song
Evangelist Higgins, of Oklahoma, we're
in charge of the meetings and were
assisted by the pastors and members of
the local churches.
COLFAX COUNTY.
A new irrigation ditch Is under survey
on the Chicorica.
New bridges have been put in many
places across the Cimarron.
Fred Young of Omaha, visited several
days with his sister, Mrs. Abbott, of Red
River.
Half a dozen new dwellings and bust
ness houses are building at Springer.
Good sign.
At Catskill the weather continues
stormy and not a day passes without a
thunderstorm.
j. A. Mckay, has returned after sew
eral years absence, in Colorado, and will
settle in Elizabethtown.
Professor w. E. McClelland, principal
of the Ration schools, is teaching a sum
mer term in the Gallager district.
Elizabethtown's public school enter
tainment was well attended by people
from Badly and Red River districts.
F. B. Houghton, general passenger
agent Of the Santa Fe railroad has been
looking up business at Elizabethtown.
Jerry Fitzpatrick announces himself
a candidate before the Democratic nom
mating convention for sheriff of ColfaX
county.
The extreme warm weather of the |
past week together with occasional
showers is rushing the crops wonder
fully fast.
A number OF moving wagons have
passed through Elizatethtown on their
way to Red River. Many people are
coming into the mountains this season.
Mrs. DR.. Shnler and her children left
Ration Friday last for a visit to the doc
tors old home in the Shenandoah val
ley, Virginia. Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Shuler's
mother, accompanied them.
Mrs. Florence G. Morse was the Dec
GRAFTON day orator at Elizabethtown.
She spoke in the morning to the as.
sembled crowd, on the street, after the
decoration of the graves at the ceme-
terry, and at Pritchard's hall in the
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Walker, of Ration,
entertained a few friends at a 6 o'clock
Friday evening. There were
present, besides the host and hostess:
j. E. Lyon and wife, D. R. Lockard and
wife, Mrs, G. F. Remsburg and Mrs. Z.
N. Bonfls, Of Denver.
Springer's public schools made a very
proud record for the year just closed.
A committee of seven citizens, chosen
because they were childless, examined
the pupils of the eighth grade and
found the work of both teachers and
pupils highly satisfactory.
AS Chas. Purdy was trying to cross a
swollen creek In Longs n his wagon
was overturned. The passengers who
were in the conveyance narrowly es-
capped drowning. Badly Benson was
some distance by the swift cur
rent and narrowly escaped a watery
grave. The horses and wagon were
saved with difficulty. All baggage and
part of the harness were lost.
The following officers of Ration Chap
ter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, were
and installed Monday night: A.
G. Price, high priest; Frank Henning,
king; G, N. Blackwell, scribe; G.. b.
Stevens, treasurer; James R. McPher-
son, secretary; P. P. Tanning, captain
of host; w. j. Linwood, principal So
j%ourner; j. s. Morrison, royal arch cap
tain; Geo. e. Lyon, master Of I'd vail;
Geo. 8. Porter, master of I'd vail; j.
P. Williams, master Of 1st vail; ]. E.
Kidd, sentinel.