The copper era., 1901-10-03
NEW MEXICO NEWS



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 D. Bauman has leased the Mcdaniel ore concentrator at Cooks. and will move it to Hadley and operate it as 8 custom mill.
 Robert L. Summers, the Albuquerqu ue railroad clerk, plead guilty to rObbing the mails and received a sentence of two years in the penitentiary.
 There are now seventy cadets in at tendance at the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, and the number will be increased to eighty-five.
 Prof. F. w. Smith, Of Alamogordo, received an appointment as teacher in the Phillipines last week. This makes the third appointment of Otero county citizens.
 The Albuquerque council has grant ed franchise to New York company to construct at least two miles of elec- tric street railway in that city within eighteen months.
 The machinery for forcing oil into tte new tank recently built in Lords burg by the Southern Pacific has been completed, and oil has commenced to arrive. The tank cars hold over six thousand gallons.
 Died, in this city Sept. 22, 1901, YripeO Pachecco, aged S6 years, q resident of Deming since the town started and the man who raised the American flag at Las Cruces when the U. ;. Government took possession of the Rio Grande Valley.-Deming Herald.
 The mining camps of Grant county are showing commendable enterprise in getting together exhibits for the territorial fair, and it now seems cer- tain that every camp will be represent ed. The display of minerals thus gath cred together and preserved will do much to advertise her mining resources.
 The mill on the Clifton Copper Co. property at Santa Rita went into oper- ation Friday. and the company is very much pleased with the outlook. Col. r. R. Smith was there to touch the button that set the machinery in mo- tion. The Clifton Copper Co.'S mine promises to become one of the product i've properties of its famous district.- Demiug Herald.
 Deputy Sheriff Wm. Foster, of Graham county, Arizona, arrived in town Thursday from near Clifton, with T. c. Watkins in custody. Watkins is accused of having passed bogus check in Albuquerque last winter. Accord ing to report the check was for Sl 900 but the prisoner generously discount ed it about 75 per cent and then in- vested the proceeds in whiskey, which he afterwards retailed at Frisco.
 The annual report of the superintend- ent of the public instruction says that the grand total of children in the pub lie schools, the territorial institutions, the secretarian schools and the private schools number 1T, zoo out of total number of children of school age of 53,- DOS, the average daily attendance be- ing Fl 500. There are altogether 500 schools; LOGO teachers; value of pro- perty Sl l,000,000; receipts per annum S603, ,209 57; expenditures S453, 129.S7
 Samuel x. Dedrick, who flourished years ago in the cattle business in So- zorro county and who left, going to Mexico, has been heard from. He is mining near Icpachie, Chihuahua. and has made several very rich strikes the past year. He was at Chihuahua city the other day and had with him specimens of ore which carried cUnsid- erable gold. silver and lead. Dedrick is full of ginger and is rapidly getting to the front again.-Albuquerque Citizen.
 Miss Alice Archer, one of New Mex ico's fair daughters. is starring this season in "Jess of the Bar z Ranch" " This play is one which is taken from New Mexico ranch life, with possibly few additions. It is rather a unique coincidence to find this promising young New Mexican actress starring Tn play taken from New Mexico life ! This play has recently had very sue i cessful run in Chicago. Miss Archer i is we'll known in Las Vegas.-Las Veg as Record.
 The territorial irrigation commission ! met last week at the capital. Anapp!i- l cation of J. R. Hinkle and others for I 3O,0OO acres of land along the Rio Hon. do in Lincoln and Chaves counties, ! which they intend to reclaim by build- | ing storage reservoirs, was approved. !! others, for 1000 acres in Eddy county [ for the same purpose was also approved. | The United States land commission was | asked to segregate the lands yet to be | placed at the disposal of the irrigation | 
 Antonio Maggie, the alleged anar- chist, who is said to have declared sev- eral months ago that he knew Presi- dent Mckinley would be killed before l October, had a preliminary trial before 1 d United States commissioner in Silver City last week, and was bound over to await the action of the grand jury at | Las Cruces, which meets on October |, under S10.0OO bonds. He could not !