Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-02-13
INTERESTING ITEMS OF NEWS
FROM ALL OVER NEW MEXICO

pohltOn as anger on the BecOS Forest
reserve, has been appointed deputy
collector by Internal Revenue Collect
or A. L. Morrison.
John Longworth. for twenty years a
resident of San Marcial. who was
brought to st. Vincent's hospital, San
taFe, on New Years Day, died on the
9TH instant Of consumption.
DR.. @. r. Luton of Grand Rapids,
Michigan; A. r. Gibson of Santa Fe
and Walter 3. Douglas of New York
VIII apply for a charter for n national
bank at Lordsburg, Grant county.
Over 1000 men are employed by
Good & Co, contractors, to rush to
completion the gap on the El Paso q
Rock Island railroad to Santa Rosa.
February list is the date now set for the
completion of the railroad.
Tor the first time in its history Of
over 300 years have the Pueblo In
dams of Taos pueblo consented to send
their girls out of the pueblo to be ed
ucated. A number of them will arrive
at the United States Indian school in
Santa Fe in n few days.
The Albuquerque Board of Education
has adopted a report asking the City
Council for an appropriation to erect
additional school buildings, costing
$4,000, before next year. The schools
are at present crowded beyond their
limit, and the halliday system Is en-
ployed in the lower grades.
Alamogordo, like other New Mexico
towns, complains of a shortage in
available modern houses for new com
ers and healthseekers. For each de-
cent house that is vacant there are
four applicants. The demand for fur
nisbed rooms at AlamOgordo also
greatly exceeds the supply.
William Lorion Brown died a few
days since at the home of his sister,
Mrs. A. @. Railey, on Ute creek, in
Colfax county. He was born at Morn
ing Sun, Iowa, on August %, 1861. In
1888 he came to Ranches de Taos, Ia
os county, where he published both an
English and Spanish newspaper.
Sunday night, January 5th, burglars
entered the Economist dry goods store
in Albuquerque by climbing through
the transOm over the door on the Main
street side. They took about $25 in
silver and currency from the cash
drawer and carried away about $500
worth of silks. The thieves made their
exit by unlocking the rear door.
The way that Colorado settlers, pros
pectors and businessmen come fiocking
into New Mexico indicates that either
Colorado has been growing too fast or
tibet Colorado people in general are
awakening to the fact that New Mexico
hn- nwrnr,r IN Asrro IxrnY =, 20 aro. that INpIa-
RADIO possesses and a far more agree
able climate besides.-Santa Fe New
Mexican.
Sam Wilson was thrown from a bug
gy and killed in a runaway in East
Ration on the 9th inst. He was driving
a spirited team belonging to j. @. King,
when the horses became unmanageable
and dashed into a ditch instead of turn
ing a corner. Mr.. Wilson was thrown
some twenty feet, landing OH his head.
He was an old soldier in an Ohio reg
iment, but none of his relatives are
known at Ration. He was buried by
the G. A. r.
The assessors, collectors, county COM
m%issioners and other county officials
of New Mexico met in Santa Fe on the
18th, in the council chambers in the
capital and organized by electing w.
NJ. Atkinson of Roswell, chairman, and
r. p. Ervien of Clayton and Bias Sal
azar of Taos. secretaries. Every county
was represented at the meeting. Soil
citor General Il. l.. Bartlett attended
the meeting, as did the members of the
board of equalization. Addresses on
the subjects Of assessment and tax re
form were made.
Sunday night while Rev. T. G. Beat
tie was addressing his congregation in
the First Presbyterian Church at Albu-
querque, a burglar entered his resi-
dence by climbing upon the porch to
the second story window, and there
breaking a pane of glass. He ransack-
ed every o in the house, but took
only a pair of shoes and an %Overcoat.
When the preacher returned to his
home he found the front door open and
the house in great disorder. About a
year ago he lost a fine riding saddle
by theft, and while in Italy last sum
mer he was relieved Of quite a sum by
pickpockets.
The telegraph line of the Lordsburg
& Hachita railroad, n distance Of for
ty-two miles, has been completed. The
grade Of the LOrdsburg & Hachita
railroad is finished, but track-laying
will not commence until the lei Paso
& Southwestern railroad, now build
ing west Of Deming and out about
sixty miles from Deming, will
reach Hachita. The contractors Of the
LOrdsburg & Hachita railroad are
bound by their contract to complete
the line from LOrdsburg to Hachita
and have it in running order by
March LIST.
On the 9th inst. the Pueblo Indians
OF Taos dedicated the new bell Of their
chapel which they had secured mainly
through the generosity of NeriO Gomez.
The occasion was made one OF great
festivity. The aisle Of the chapel, too
small to hold the throng from near and
afar, was decorated with twelve arches
and with many blossoms. The bell re-
ceived the name Of Maria Geronimo del
Rosario. Twenty-fOur god-parents
stood by the arches. Rev. Father Mar
Her OBLIGATED. The Kit Carson band
furnished music for the occasion. The
Indians after the dedication gave the
tortuga dance.
Colonel w. A. Glassford Of the signal
corDs Of the limited States army. has re-