Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-08-03
The Drouth Is Causing Much Dam
age to Herds on the Navajo
Reservation.
SILVER CITY ICE FACTORY
Assets Of Two Banks Consisting Of S25, ,00o
Worth of Judgments and Some Real
Estate Sold for $24-Other
Territorial Notes.
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY,

The drouth in western and northern
Rio Arriba county is still unbr oxen
though rains threaten daily
st. James day was celebrated a. Tier.
ra Amarillo, and several hundred visit
ors were, in attendance. Rev. Father
Jouvenceau conducted the religious ex.
ercises of the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus A. Roberts, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. E. Sloan, Miss Edna Newman
Miss Mary Sloan, Miss Helen Rodgers
and Ben Russell, of Durango. arrived
in Chama, accompanied by Colonel and
Mrs. w. f. Broad, Miss Amy Broad and
Mrs. Frank w. Broad, and left for a
two weeks camp on the Rio Navajo.
BERNALILLO COUNTY.
Mrs. J. II. Bailey has removed from
Cerrillos and located at Gallup.
Two eighty car side tracks are going
down in the railroad yards at Gallup.
Gallup, Gibson and Catalpa, now
comprising one school district, demand
that the one be cut into three districts
II. W. Townsend has resigned the
office Of postmaster at Wingate, Miss
Winifred Woodgate, sister of S. M
Woodgate, the Indian interpreter, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Louis Smith has a number of young
people practicing at Gallup for an opera
which will be given about the fist of
September for the benefit of the Epis-
copal church.
Business on the railroad is very light.
There are but six crews working on the
first division out Of Gallup. A number
of conductors are breaking, and quite a
few old hands are on the slow board.
After c. F. Jones had bought and
paid Ed Hart for two lots on Railroad
avenue at Gallup he made the discovery
that he was liable to lose his eyesight.
Hart, on being informed of the above
fact, returned the purchase money to
Jones, who left Immediately for New
York to consult an oculist.
There has been no rain in the Gallup
region this year. Coyotes are going
mad for want Of water. Nearly all the
water holes have dried up, and there Is
great loss among the Indian herds
and fiocks in consequence. The pros
pect is a gloomy one for the large num-
Der of people who have to depend on
grass for living. At Albuquerque the
Rio Grande Is dry and several gardens
have been abandoned for lack Of water
to irrigate.
GRANT COUNTY.
Cattle about Deming are in fine condi-
tion.
Adolph Witzel will erect an ice fac
tory at Silver City.
Good showers continue to fall
throughout Grant county.
Broncho Mitchell, the old-time stage
driver, is seriously i'll at Cooks Peak
]. A. Mahoney and family have gone
from Deming on a summer trip to the
Pacific coast.
Harry Potter, aged years, was rid
ing "catch-On" behind the Wells Fargo
wagon at Silver City. Now he is nurs-
ing a broken ankle.
J. H. Morse, capitalist, and DR.. J. r.
Clark, a wealthy retired physician, for
mer residents of Kentucky, are looking
over Grant county and may locate.
Francisco Garcia was sentenced to a
term of 116 days in the county Jail at
hard work by Justice of the Peace New
comb because he tried to shoot up the
town of Santa Rita.
Francisco Marcus, of Mogollon, is
charged with raising check issued by
D. r. Brownell from 1920 to 5000, and
Andres Gutierrez, who swears his real
name Is Isador Lopez, is in hook,
charged with horse stealing
"Shorty" Miller was placed under
81, 500 bond by Judge Newcomb to await
grand jury action on three different
charges of unlawfully handling neat
cattle. The, mail was forthcoming. and
Miller was released from custody.
The last remnant of the assets Of the
defunct First National Banks of Silver
City and Deming were disposed Of al
public sale Saturday in pursuance OF
an order Of court. The aggregate Of the
judgments sold was something like $685.,
| 900. in addition to which there were
sixty-two lots and over seventy acres
Of land, and the total receipts of the
sale were exactly $24.
Cattlemen owning cattle and sheer
ranging on the Gila forest reserve have
received blank forms asking that II
they so desire they make proper appli-
cation for permission to allow theil
stock to remain on the reserve by pay
| ing therefor cents head on cattle and
8 cents head on sheep. The majority
of the stockmen will endeavor to secure
other ranges, although a number will
avail themselves of the offer made by
the government.