Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-27

field at Santa Fe on the 10Th was an
elaborate affair.
J.. f. McNally has been promoted
from assistant superintendent to divis-
ion superintendent OF the Rio Grande
division Of the Santa Fe, from Albu-
querque to lei Paso, and all the branch
lines south.
Fior.n Kopjar vas arrested at Albu-
querque as a vagrant. Later he called
Marshal McMilen to his cell in the
jail and condded to him that he was a
deserter of the regular United States
army. He said that he preferred go
ing to prison to lodging officers any
longer.
A reception was given at Albuquer-
que under the auspices Of the CONNER
cial club to Honorable Benjamin 5.
Baker, the newly appointed associate
Justice of this district. Fully 500 rep
resentative citizens attended. After
the reception a ball was given in which
all INDUCED and the whole affair was
pronounced the most brilliant ever held
in the city.
For the purpose Of drawing tourist
travel into the South, the Santa Fe
luAAAOd0 pun D0StH " toAuuiicA az AANh
Biological and chronological museum in
Albuquerque. The management Of
the road is of the opinion that If the
prehistoric wonders of New Mexico
and Arizona were gathered into one
place the attraction would secure much
of the tourist travel which m west
every year.
Secretary of the Interior e. A. Hitch
cock has denied a rehearing and re-
view of the homestead contest Of the
Benigno Padilla VS.. Martin Barerras
of Puerto de Luna, Guadalupe county,
and has closed the case, it having been
decided in favor of Padilla, who had
rented a school section from the ter
ritOry of New Mexico upon which Mar
tin Barerras had made n homestead
which he claims to have occupied
since 1867.
The Washington Times says: 1.-THE
PostOffice Department receives tele-
grams almost daily reporting the rob
berry Of postofices in various sections
of the country, but a dispatch received
from a postmaster in New Mexico is
unique in that it reports the theft of
an entire pOstotfice. 1t is as follows:
The Postmaster General: l notify you
on the 23d day of December n gang of
four humanitary men assaulted me
and my deputy on that day at noon
The Fred Harvey eating house at
Rincon, on the Santa Fe railway, a
two-story frame building, "a burned
to the ground Tuesday morning. 1t is
supposed that the fire, which started at
$50 o'clock this morning, was caused
by a lamp being overturned or eXplod-
ed. At 2 O'Clock this afternoon the
fire burned itself out. The railroad
employees worked herOically and thus
saved the depot. No one was hurt, but
several narrow escapes from burning
are reported.
Almost J%effersonian simplicity
marked the Inauguration of Governor
Otero Saturday. In the afternoon a
citizens committee escorted him from
the executive office to the Supreme
Court room in the capitol. Here be-
fore the bench of the Territorial Su-
preme Court Chief Justice w. j.
Mills administered the oath of Office
for the third time in a little V four
years to Miguel A. OterO. As no invi-
tations had been sent out for this part
of the Inauguration, but few citizens
witnessed ii. In the evening at the
Palace hotel a reception was rendered
Governor and Mrs. Otero by the people
of the territory, almost every county
being represented. After the reception
the Inauguration ball took place and
was a brilliant society affair.
Las Vegas is agog over the prospects
nf N hiO pn6naffon nlonf hafnr plaoaI
in that city. p. w. McCaffery of the
Union Extraction and Reduction Com
pany of Denver is in the city and
after personal investigation of the ores
in the vicinity has made a proposition
hat is meeting with favor. He pro-
poses to put up a reduction plant here
If $4,000 can be raised here and a
ten-acre plot Of ground for a site is
donated. This money is to be sub
scribed for stock in the parent com
pany of Denver and then the company
viii put up n 100-tOn plant. 1t is said
between 200 and 300 men would be
employed by the plant and the mines.
Low grade copper ore exists here in
practically an unlimited quantity and
1t is believed that If this plant should
prove successful many other larger
ones would follow. The executive com
mlttee Of the Board of Trade is now
at work on the proposition.
The fire in the Cook & White coal
mine at Madrid is not yet under con
troll; on the contrary, It is reported to
be spreading and now covering a dis
lance Of 600 or 700 feet up and down
the stope, though, as all entrances and
air shafts are closed, II is not clear how
this can be positively known. Grave
apprehension is felt among the officials
of a gas explosion, which, if it occurs,
will greatly damage the property. The
water supply for the purpose Of Hood
ing the mine is limited and is mostly
pumped from the hard coal mine near
by, and also hauled by train in tank
cars from Waldo and CerrillOs stations,
on the Santa Fe. There is not one
chance in a thousand that the two inn
prisoned miners are still alive, and no
hopes Of saving them are entertained.
1t Is known positively that all escaped
except the two Italians. The Cook a.
White mine furnishes all the soft coal
coming from this district, the product
being known as "CerrillOs coal" Is Of