The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1902-02-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Summary Of Important Events Con-
densed from the Press Dispatches.

ing its line over the Raton noun
tains.
A thousand people are dying
daily in Punjab, India, from the
plague.
The first through trains passed
over the Deming and Bisbee road
Wednesday.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is re-
covering from a serious attack of
pneumonia.
Admiral Schley has returned
to Washington from his western
and southern trip.
Oil of an excellent quality has
been discovered at Ojo Caliente
in Taos county.
There are 23S convicts in the
territorial penitentiary and they
are all kept busy.
The Philippine tariff conan-
ues to be an interesting subject
of discussion in Congress.
Delegate Rodey made strong
speech for statehood Saturday
before the committee on territor-
les.
Several insurance companies
have lust withdrawn from Texas
on account of the antitrust leg
islation of that state.
There is good prospect that
Kansas City will soon have
union depot that will eclipse the
famous st. Louis structure.
The Pecos Valley and North
eastern Railway will be extended
from Roswell to El Paso to COM
pete with the Rock Island.
Frank James has stopped by
injunction in Kansas City
play depicting the James boys as
train robbers and bank looters.
Mrs. Clara A. B. Corbin made
final proof few days ago on a
a homestead entry covering a
part of the Gran Quivira ruins in
Lincoln county.
Hon. Dan'l H. Mcmillan is
daily expected to return to Santa
Fe from Buffalo where he went
ten days ago on important pri-
vate business.
At an entertainment given by
the Normal School at Silver City
the curtains on the platform
caught fire and a panic was
narrowly averted.
Five thousand sheep were ship
ped by one company last week
from Captain to Kansas points
over the new extension of the
Rock Island road.
A company has been organized
in San Francisco, capital SIS, ,OOO,-
600, with the object of coloniz-
ing the island of Mindanao, one
of the Philippines.
Superintendent H. o. Bursum
of the territorial penitentiary
paid $50 to the territorial treas
urer yesterday to be credited to
the convicts' earnings.
The ransom of Miss Ellen M.
Stone, the Boston missionary
captured some time ago by Bull
garian bandits, has been paid
and her release is expected hourly.
Demetrio Perea, former post
master at Lincoln and ex-sheriff
and clerk of Lincoln county, is
under indictment and arrest for
embezzliug $3.50 of postofice
funds.
The St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat says that the Interstate
Land Company of Kansas City is
before the house committee on
private land claims trying to Sc
cure control of 10000, 600 acres
of New Mexico land, known as
the Beales-Royuela grant, to
which it has not the slightest
shadow of a title according to a
decision of the United States
supreme court.
Among yesterdays press dis
patches was the following: Pur-
suant to instructions from Gov.
Otero, of New Mexico, the sher-
IFS of Guadalupe, Union, Lin
coin and Chayes counties are or
ganizing posses of picked men to
hunt down the members of the
Jack Musgrove band of bandits
which recently terrorized that
region. This means that a war
of determination will be waged
against the outlaws, and exciting
times are expected in that portion
of New Mexico to which the out
laws retreated. They are said tc
be in the fastnesses Of the Capt.
tan mountains.