Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-30
INTERESTING ITEMS OF NEWS
FROM ALL OVER NEW MEXICO

n daring robbery at Ruevelto, New
Mexico, near Liberty. -Four men
armed with Winchesters and with
faces painted black, rode up TO the
only store of the place and sent the
clerk for the postmaster-merchant,
Don Florencio Martinez. When he ar
rived the bandits covered him and his
clerk and ransacked the place. They
secured $500 in checks, currency and
postage stamps from the safe, and
then they loaded what goods they
wanted on their horses. After looting
the place the robbers forced the mer-
chant and his clerk to mount horses
and ride ahead Of them a considera-
bic distance out of town. AS 1t was
after dark when they returned it was
too dark to organize a posse for the
pursuit. The robbers we're Americans,
but there is no further clue to their
identity.
A Santa Fe dispatch says that Sena-
tor w. II. Andrews. president of the
Santa Fe Central Railway Company,
has given assurance that construction
work on the railroad from Camaleon on
the Rock Island, to Santa Fe on the
Rio Grande q Santa Fe railways, viii
be in progress all along the line before
March LIST. The contracts for the ties
and piles has been given to local con
tractors, who have begun their deliv-
cry. All the ties and piles will be deliv-
cred by January Both. Supply houses
for the workmen are under construction
on the Arroyo HOndo and agents are
picking up laborers for the construc-
ton work. The steel for the line is I'M
der process of manufacture. President
Andrews also declares that the branch
line from San Pedro to Albuquerque
will certainly be built as soon as the
Santa Fe Central line is completed,
which will be by the end Of September,
1902.
The eleventh annual convention OF
the New Mexico Christian Endeav-
orers closed at Albuquerque December
Both after a two days meeting. The
following new officers were elected:
President, ID. NJ. Forester, Las Cruces;
vice president, IL. G. Warnack, Las
Vegas; w. H.. Decker. Pinos Altos;
secretary and treasurer, Mrs. c. Don
nelly, Las Cruces; corresponding sec
rotary, Mrs. +. Blakesley, Las Cruces;
Spanish-American secretary, Rev. Ca
bino Randan, Santa Fe; secretary of
prison and Jail work, Miss Edna Ber-
ger, Santa Fe; superintendent of jul
Nor work, Miss Sarah Ellis, Las Cru
ces: executive committee, e. @. Her
low, Las Vegas; f. X. Preston. Albu-
querque; Miss d. S. Miller, Lake Val
ley; advisory board, William Sloan,
Congregational church. Gallup; Rev.
Norman Skinner, Presbyterian church,
Las Vegas; Rev. II. Van V~alkenburg,
Methodist Episcopal church, Lake Val
ley.
New Mexico is third as to the num-
Der Of miles of new railway track con
structed in 1901. 275.41 miles being
placed 70 it's credit. Texas leads with
5S3 miles and Oklahoma Is second with
427.S2 miles. There is only one other
state which reaches 200 miles of ley
railroad during 1901 and that is Geor-
gia, which is credited with 200.45 miles
The commemorative with more than
100 miles of new railroad constructed
in 1901 are Missouri 1S9, Indiana ia
Indian Territory 157, Arkansas 1856
Pennsylvania 1913, Washington 1874
Montana 1877, Tennessee 125, North Da
kota 121, Idaho III, Minnesota Ill, Col
orado 1OS, Wisconsin 105, Illinois I05
Michigan 104, Alabama 1903, West Vir
ginia 1O1, and Louisiana 101. Arizona
is credited with SO miles of new rail
road during the year. The year 100.
promises to give New Mexico equal!
as prominent a position among thu
commemorative with new railroad con
structiOn.-Santa Fe New Mexican.