Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-24
PAYING OFF ITS DEBT
Grant County In a Little Over a
Year Reduced Its Debt By
$4,000
TT. BAYARD IMPROVEMENTS
High School Commencement at Raton-A
Big Irrigating Canal In San Juan
County to Be Oompleted-0ther
Territorial News.


An engine was derailed at the stock
yards of Ration last week.
T. Ponce de Melendres, aged 81 years,
died at Silver City Of pneumonia.
Mrs. G. D. Bantz has resigned as ma
tron Of the Silver City hospital.
COLFAX COUNTY.
Frank Briggs and William Woods, of
Ration, have left for Cape Nome
Work on the new electric light works
at Silver City is to be started In two
weeks.
Louis Dorsey, Of Silver City. who was
serving with the 34th regiment In the
Philippines. Is reported to have died Of
fever.
A lodge of the Dramatic Order OF
Knights of Khorassan, an auxiliary or
der of the Knights Of Pythias, has been
organized In Silver City. This is the
first lodge of the order in New Mexico
The Ration high school held it's elev-
enth annual commencement last week.
The graduates are: Misses Hannah
Mary Sower Viola Ethel Bussey, Elva
Violet Stevens, Alice Mary Thomas and
Lulu Perry.
The new owners of the Casa del Con-
suelo hotel at Hudson's Hot Springs
have made arrangements for the or
ganization of a stock company, which
will soon be incorporated. The springs
are to be made popular summer re-
sort.
Grant county has paid all Of its out
indebtedness for the years of
1894, 1895 and 1897, and last week made
a disbursement of $1,000 to be applied
on the 1896 accounts, which will almost
wipe out the claims Of that year. Since
the beginning of 1899 Grant county has
reduced It's Indebtedness from $2S3,O0O
to $235, 1000.
Bids have been requested for the in
stallation Of complete new sewerage
system at the government military san
itarium at Fort Bayard. and this will
be followed soon by a similar notice for
a complete new water works system.
The government Is expending from s2,-
500 to So, 600 monthly on repairs at that
post
SAN JUAN COUNTY.
The Presbyterian congregation at
will build a steeple on the
tower of their church ediflce.
A mass meeting was held at Farm
ington to organize society to hold a
fair there this fall
Henry M. White, Of Richmond, Ray
Mo-, Is at Aztec looking for To-
cation for a Missouri colony that he
'epresents.
Misses Josephine and Laura Myers, Of
Cripple Creek, Colo. have taken up
heir residence at Pennington with
heir brother Harry.
DR.. J. J. Risk, Of Aztec. who has large
property interests in San Juen county,
las gone to Memphis. Mo-, to work up
colony of Missourians for San Juan
C. G. Brewer and True Brewer have
,old their ranches on the San Juan to
lanes l.. Deaton, of Utah, who has al
'eady taken possession. The deal in
rolved $50 acres.
g. r. Blake has made an arrangement
With the gas and oil company. and will
AXE sole charge Of the boring plant
lear Pennington. He will at once re-
,ume the work of sinking for Oil and
yas.
A company has been organized at
Fruitland to establish tannery at that
place. A company was organized and
he following directors were appointed:
J. 3. Ashcroft. ]. T. Nelson, John r.
Young, II. T. Stolworthy and B. d.
Black.
Judge Alfred Hand and DR.. J. w.
Coolidge, of Scranton, Pa, who have
large property interests In San Juan
county, were at Pennington last week,
and made arrangements for the COM
pletion Of the Coolidge canal down the
San Juan valley as far as Jewett, which
will place several thousand more acres
under ditch.
BERNALILLO COUNTY.
Two Italian miners at the Gibson
mine were caught by a fall of top rock
and coal. One of them had his back in
Jured and the other had one leg broken.
They were taken to the Harper hospi-
tai at Gallup.
A. L. Watkins, formerly of Gallup,
was found three miles from Congress-,
In Arizona. with a bullet hole in his
head. He had been dead apparently a
week before his body was found. He
had started on a prospecting trip with
three burros. He left about 1850.
Several colored soldiers from Fort
spent day at Gallup last
week. They filled up on whisky and
rode through the streets in Rallop.
When they passed the electric light
plant they fired several shots. In row
1t saloon one Of them struck another
colored man in the face with a pistol.