Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-12
FROM SILVER CITY.
City Council Complaints Commits
sioners Asked to Help Pardon a
Brutal Murderer,
PROPERTY OWNERS KICKING.

Special Correspondence.
Silver City, n. NJ, July 11.-Dr. Bull
lock, who has charge of the Sisters
sanitarium in this city. which was just
recently finished. states that the build
ings have been complete and furnish
ing will be commenced right away.
They now have seven consumptives
patients in the sanitarium.
Rev. Sawyer, pastor of the Baptist
church, returned yesterday from a
trip east, where he had taken his sick
wife.
Henry Rosenberg, wife and chill
dren, who have been visiting friends in
Silver City for some time past, will
in a few days leave on quite III ex-
tended trip to the Pacific coast. They
will return to their home in New York
about the last of September.
Thompson and Copp, who own the
Virginia, in the Burro mountain min
ing district, will in a few days make a
carload shipment of high grade copper
ore taken from their mine to the FL
Paso smelter. They are at the present
time into some very large bodies of
rich copper ore in their mine and a
good outlook ahead of them to clean up
money at even the present low price
of the metal.
The fruit growers of the surround
ing country have, during the past
week, been bringing in large quaint
ties of different kinds of fruit to sell.
From the present appearance the crop
will be exceptionally large this sea-
son.
Capt. Bert Gilbert and mother left
this week for a pleasure trip on the
Pacific coast.
Louie Abraham, who owns the South
ern hotel in this city, states that the
news item sent to The Citizen by your
correspondent in regard to the Tim
mer house being purchased by several
parties here to be made into a sani-
tarium for the treatment of pulmonary
troubles did not include the Southern
and that no negotiations have been
opened for its sale. Therefore the
statement that the deal would perhaps
include that property was a mistake.
At a recent meeting of the city coun-
ell several complaints were made by
the owners of property near the depot,
that the old sampling works owned by
the Silver City Reduction works, was a
menace to their property as it was
liable to catch fire at any time and ask
ed that it be ordered torn down. The
council passed an order to this effect,
but it seems that the smelter people
are not of that opinion and will refuse
to allow it to be torn down.
The Grant county board of commits
sioners met this week to hear the nu.
merous kicks to be registered by prop.
erty owners, whose assessed valuation
on their property was recently raised
Quite a large number of raises were
sustained. The board also ordered
that a survey of the boundary line be
tween Grant county and Socorro be
made. The survey of the lines between
Grant and Luna counties has been
completed by Surveyor George r.
Brown and the board ordered the bills
paid for the work. The board was also
asked TO pardon a man named Murray
who is serving a life sentence in the
~penitentiary at Santa Fe. stating that
he had tuberculosis. They refused tc
do SO as the crime for which he was
convicted was the most terrible ever
committed in this county. He was con
victed of placing a stick of giant pow
der between his two little boys while
asleep at their home in Pinos Altos
in the latter part of 1890 and setting il
off. When the citizens rushed to the
scene they found the two little fellows
torn almost to pieces and both dead
One of them had a short time before
received $1,000 for damages from {
railroad and by his death he received
this money for which he committed
the horrible crime.