The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-03-27
NEW MEXICO NEWS

The Silver City smelter closed down
last week.
1t is claimed that oil has been struck
near Gallup.
Eli Wright died OF pneumonia at
Lerdsburg last week.
J. W. Harriston, OF the we'll known
firm OF Kelly Il Harriston, Silver City,
died last week of dropsy.
Charles f. Perry, the defaulting
sheriff OF Chaves country, is in South
Africa fighting the Beers.
The Santa Fe railroad gave Ration
reduced rates on it's sewer pipes,
which saved the city 60, COO in freight.
The Hyde Exploring Co. is building
4 telephone line, 100 miles long, from
Durango, Colorado, to Thorean, y. VI.
Il. II. Bachelor, Of the Aberdeen
company, is expected here from New
York tomorrow. He will probably set
things to rolling.-Liberal.
Albuquerque is to have an eastern
outlet and connection with Roswell
and the Pecos valley country by fall.
This will be by the Santa Fe.
Eugene Stickel. the cowboy working
for the San Simon company, who fell
off the windmill couple of weeks ago,
and fractured his skull, is improving
slowly although not yet in condition
to move.
Tho Santa Fe company has resumed
the sprinkling of oil along the road
bed in New Mexico, Arizona and Cal
ifornia, where the dust OF the desert
makes travelling Il burden during the
summer months.
The ice factory and electric works
are nearing completion. 1t is the opin-
ion OF quite a number that brewery
will be added to the plant shortly.
Beer made from Deming water would
have a large scale.-Herald.
Pete Brown. OF Deming, accidentally
shot himself in the left breast, just
over the heart. He was handling a 30
callibre revolver when it accidentally
exploded. The ball entered near the
breast bone and came out through the
muscles under the left arm.
The insurance companies doing bust
ness in New Mexico did pretty well in
1901. They received premiums to the
amount OF 1925, 900, paid losses to the
amount of $l0I, 900, laid out 81 per cent.
Of the profits on expenses and put
away neat little 20 per cent OF clear
profit.
Col. Max Frost, editor OF the Santa
Fe New Mexican, is now a 33d degree
mason, that degree of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite having been
conferred upon him this week as re-
ward for 10 years Of efficient service as
deputy OF the supreme council in New
Mexico.
The new briquet works being erected
at Gallup by the Colorado Fuel e Iron
Co. will employ 125 men. The COM
parry has discovered a process of saving
all the slack from their coal mines by
mixing it with che micals and moulding |
it into small bricks which, it is said, |
possesses excellent qualities for fuel |
purposes.
Las Cruces has six weekly news
papers and another will be added to
the list next week. 1t will be known
rs the Las Cruces Clifton, will be re-
publican in politics, and will be edited |
by Lorenzo LaPoint. 1t is to be hoped |
for the benefit of those papers already
in existence, that the proverbal
''seben come eleben" will not prove
true.
The Bisbee road runs Il daily mixed |
train between Deming and Douglas
The railroad officers say that as soon
as tho passenger equipment. which
has been ordered, arrives there will be
put on regular passenger train be-
tween these two points. Some time
ago the officers promised to put on a
passenger train between Douglas and
FL Paso, running from Deming to Ell |
Paso over tho Santa Fe road.-Liberal.
I. j. Davis expects the inventor and |
builder Of the Vulcan furnace in town
almost any day, to give the furnace a
trial run. The furnace was sold on
the guarantee that it would smelt !
seveutv-tve tons OF material daily, and |
the company has been unable to get
that much material through it. Be-
fore making the guarantee good the
builder wants to have a chance to see
If the furnace will do the work
Liberal.
William Royal Curtis. notorious
stage robber has been captured in
Mexico, and passed through Demiug
IN route to Prescott for trial. He held
up the Hot Springs junction stage.
curtis is a noted character in Phoenix.
He Joined a religious sect in Prescott
md met Mrs. c. II. Knapp, widow of
Major Knapp, for a long time clerk of
he district court. \ sensational love
itfair ensued Mrs. Knapp was critic
lilly i'll when the officers surrounded
Ter house just in time TO be too late to
capture her trusted fiance.-Deming
Herald.
Mr.. Thomas J. Curran, president of