Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-21
A DESTRUCTIVE
STORM AT SPRINGER
Some Damage Was Also Done at Las
Vegas and Small Portions of the Santa
Fe Railway Track South of the
Meadow City Washed Out.
TWO or The PEC0S RESERVE
TRESPASS CASES WERE DISMISSED
joys Special Daily Service.

| clerk, is on the sick list today.
| Carl Wertz has returned to his ole
| duties at Ilfelds after his vacation.
| The infant of William Letcher, which
| had been very sick, is some better to-
| day.
| Edward Grunsfelds and wife return
ed to Albuquerque this afternoon. Mrs
| Grunsfeld has made quite a visit in the
Meadow City
Mrs. W. Fl. Cheatham, and Mr.. and
| Mrs. w. M. O'Bryne of ST. Louis, who
have been visiting here, went to Santa
| F'e Saturday evening.
Mrs Theodore Hochmeyer left yes
| terday for Eel Paso in response to tel
| egram from her husband saying he was
off for a vacation trip.
F. II. McCraw, a fireman, was badly
hurt about the head as the train was
pulling out of Albuquerque yesterday,
| by a big lump of coal, weighing about
20 pounds, falling on him. He is re-
covering at the Santa Fe hospital here.
The hearing of the motions for new
trial in the Hamilton damage suit
against the city, has been postponed
until the middle of next week. The H.
field VS.. First National Bank case also
goes over until next week, owing to A.
A. Jones, one of the attorneys, being
out of town.
Hon. F. A. Manzanares said to a re-
porter Saturday: "You will see dirt
flying out there on Railroad avenue in
side of two weeks, the beginning Of the
construction of the electrict street car
line, and the work will be pushed as
fast as money can push it,
T. V. Clay, an old railroad man. died
Saturday at the Santa Fe hospital. The
deceased, who had been q sufferer from
dropsy and heart trouble, was so years
of age. A son is working on the Santa
Fe here, and he being absent, the fun
eral arrangements have not yet been
made.
There has been considerable specula-
ton about the captaincy of the infan-
try company on the west side. There
are several candidates, but the most
popular of them, as we'll as the most
efficient, is A. Mennet. Jr. He is pop
ular with the men and will most prob
ably he the one selee.sI
Elmer Taylor came in from Adams
saw mill Saturday with a load of lum-
Der, four horses drawing the team. He
was to take out a load of hay on the
return trip, but in the mean time he
loaded up with corn juice and was in
capacitated for further work. The
team was taken care of by friends, and
Taylor slept off his jag in the city Jail.
The road supervisors have been about
all paid their salaries for the past year,
the payments having just been finished.
The supervisors are allowed maxi
mum salary of $50 year to superin-
They got $1.50 a day for supervising, for
all days they work. An allowance of
81 day is also given when the notifi-
cations to the men to work out their
poll tax is given.
The two trespass cases before United
States Commissioner Bunker Saturday
morning were dismissed. The defend
ants were Pablo Rael and Marcelino
two surveys made of the reserve and
the actual boundaries are in dispute.
The defendants claim that they were
not on the reserve, and under the cir
James Ewing got too intimate with
"the cups Saturday evening. James
is one-legged man, and with the load
he had, two legs even would have been
he could do was to stretch out and
crawl. He was found at 1880 this MORN
ing peacefully snoozing in the gutter
on Railroad avenue, and was taken in
charge and given a berth in the city
bastile.
Solomon Ortiz and friend from the
country made call on lady friend,
Miss Madril, one of the bellies of the
tenderloin Friday night. Solomon took
along a few bottles of conviTiality just
to liven things up a bit, and make the
lady glad to see them. They all got
"bilin' drunk, and being drunk, natur-
ally started a rough house." The usual
result followed a policeman took them
in tow and today they are wondering
who started the trouble anyhow.
One of the west side merchants has
reason to doubt that the religion of
those good and honest Kansas farm
ers" The firm received sample bag
of Kansas potatoes, invoiced at about
12O pounds. When the bottom of the
bag was reached 81 pound sample of
rich Kansas loan was calmly resting
there. The bag of potatoes evidently
had been through real estate office in
the Sunflower state, but our merchants
object to paying about two cents per
pound for even good rich soil.
A little domestic tragedy has just
come to light here, the first chapter of
which was enacted in Cerrillos, the
home of the parties concerned. Vicente
Lujan and her husband. were, as far
as it known, living happily in little
adobe home at Cerrillos. until there ap-
peared on the Scene, another charmer
in the person of Pedro Chavez. Pedro
and Vicente followed the usual path.
began seeing too much of each other
and soon concluded that 1T was n mis-
take for Vicente to have married her
present husband, that Pedro was the
one she really loved. Their inclinations