The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1902-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Summary Of Important Events Con-
densed from the Press Dispatches.

pie near Telluride, Colorado,
Saturday.
President Roosevelt will visit
the Charleston exposition despite
the warning of Senator Tillman.
New Mexico's contribution to
the Mckinley memorial fund
now amounts to almost a thou
sand dollars.
Eastern Pennsylvania has been
visited during the week by the
greatest flood and snow storm for
twenty years.
The house has agreed to a
conference report on the Philip
pine tariff bill. It now goes to
the president.
A military sanitarium for con-
sumptives to be located on the
Fort Marcy reservation, Santa
Fe, is talked of.
Prince Henry of Prussia has
this week extended his tour of
the country as far west as St.
Louis and Chicago.
A firm has put up forfeit of
81, 900 to build an electric street
car line in Albuquerque within
the next six months.
Diphtheria has been raging
among the Pueblo Indians at
Taos. Forty persons have sue
cumbed to the disease.
Pennsylvania was visited We'd
nesday by the heaviest snow
storm since 1884. Two feet of
snow was reported in some places.
The Beers fought the British
the first of the week at Klerks-
dorp, killing, wouudiug, and
capturing 632 of the British
force.
Track laying on the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient railroad
will begin this month. This
road will pass through New
Mexico.
According to data prepared by
the weather bureau at Santa Fe
the month of February this year
was warmer and drier than the
average.
In compliance with the wishes
of the committee on territories,
Delegate Rodey has introduced a
new enabling act in the house of
representatives.
The American Cattle Growers
convention in session this week
in Denver adopted resolutions
advocating the leasing of public
lands for grazing purposes.
A Las Vegas firm has bought
1,500, 1000 pounds of wool in north
ern and northwestern New Mexi-
co. The wool will be secured at
Las Vegas before being shipped
east.
This mornings dispatches an
nounce that the robber arrested
this week and now in Jail at Ala
mogordo is not the notorious
George Musgrove as was at first
supposed.
There is great danger that the
Ell Paso delegation in Washing
ton will succeed in having the
house committee on foreign af-
fairs report favorably on the in
ternatioual dam project.
Boer representatives called on
President Roosevelt Wednesday
to enlist the offices of the United
States in behalf of their people.
The president informed them that
the government would not inter
fere.
A bill, known as the Lacey
bill, has been introduced in the
house of representatives, to set
aside ten townships near Espafi-
ola, N. NJ, to be known as the
Pajarito National Cliff Dwellers'
Park and the Jones Buffalo Re
serve.
Major General Macarthur,
who visited Albuquerque last
week to select a site for the mill
tary post soon to be established
there, left on Saturday for Dem
yer. He said that the post would
require over 1000 acres and 100
buildings.
The United States supreme
court has reversed the decision of
the lower court in the Elephant
Butte dam case on a technicality.
The case was sent back to the
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