The copper era., 1902-07-31
NEW MEXICO NEWS


will be converted into a -anitarium.
 Up to date New Mexico has contrib
 utcd 3I,I0S.o5 to the Mckinley mem
 orial fund
 Miss Flora Tleury and Thomas Har-
 rington were married at silver City
 la-t week.
 Henry Bell i- in Silver City from the
 upper Gia, receiving treatment for
 di-locatcd shoulder, received by being
 thrown from horse.
 .Iud Neal, cowboy, was shot and
 seriously wounded by Piiuy Burdick.
 ou the Burdick ranch in the upper
 Mimbrc- country last week.
 The druIer7 on the Hatou Oi. & Ga-
 company'- well are working night and
 day and are going down at the rate Of
 l3O feet every twcr'y-four hour-.
 Joseph Bell. we'll known in Grant
 county. died last week in Los Angeles.
 Deceased wa- the fathe~ of Geo. Bell,
 a well known saloon man Of o.lgerC City.
 The railroad machine shops al Ala-
 morgordo were closed down last week
 for an indefinite period, and most Of the men discharged. No definite req son for the suspension has been given.
 tobt Bell, son Of the late Jno. Bell,
 a prominent lawyer, and Miss Allie
 Whitchill, daughter Of Hon. Harvey Whitehill, whom every one knows, were married at Silver City last week.
 An old cave is being explored near San Lorenzo on the AIimbrc7 for span i-h tcca-ure. some MeAicans have the work in charge. So far they have taken out some human bones, and d lot | of turquoise beads, but no treasure.
 Charles Schultz, while going 10 the ' Mnbrc~ with d load Of provisions Sun 1. day last, was caught by d flood in the Mimbrc- river near town and lost the , entire load. By good luck he saved . himself and DeminL Herald. .
 A proposition has been made to the . people Of I;aton to raise SjO,O00 toward . the building of the Cimarron River and Taos Valley Hallway which ha, . bccn surveyed from Maxwell City to . Taos. IT the money i- raised, the . eastern terminus of the road will bc . Eaton instead Of Maxwell City.
 Track laying on the Fl Pa-o X Sputhwcs tern railroad east of Carizillo l i, progressing satisfactorily. The . track k now laid sixty miles east of . the junction and the gap to Fl Paso k . only thirty-Iwo miles. There is no ] doubt but what trains will he running ! over the new road sometime in the . early fall
 Two of the prisoners confined in the . Grant county jail became rcfactory on . Saturday morning last, and for about . fifteen minutes made things very live ly for Jailcr James Dickinson, and had . it. not been for the assistance given him hy other prisoners it k likely he would have suffered severely, for the attack np0n him was trcacherous and . evidently prcarraugcd. The prisoners who made the attack are held on the charge of insanity. Had it not been for the assistance Of several prisoners Dickinson would have been badly used up. AS it was he was compelled toscud for doctor to patch up his iojurics.
 A bolt of lightning. during a heavy rain storm at Silver City last week, struck and killed J. C. Harry, killing him instantly. Mr. Harry was stand ing in the doorway of a building where h. was running q wall paper and paint business when he was struck and fell forward on hi. face. Iii, entire body was frightfully burned. The bolt first struck his straw hat and then ran lown his chest and on the side of his leg. No one was near at the time and Harry was the only one injured by the bolt. The watch that he was wearing stopped at the exact time the lightning ; struck him. The deceased was mem pcr of the Elk, and several other so- |, 'iciice in silver City.
 The Albuquerque, Fl Pa5o and Dcm- ! ug papers, tue last week, have con aiucd accounts of the disappcaraucc 'f the wife of Fred w. Allison. q prominent rauchmau and cattloman i lying on the Mimbrcs. Mrs. Allison with her two year old baby disappear 'd from the ranch homo and about the , anne tjmo d woman answering her q Inscription boarded a santa Fc train It Deming for Albuquerque. She was n accompanied by man. The pair we're tracked to the Duke City by inerjG Baca of Luna county, but there liligcnt search has failed to reveal any . race of thcm. Incidentally it might ' ,c said that Mrs. Allison in her de- ! 'arturc, took along with her about B, 100 of her husbands money which lc had just rec ciycd from the sale Of omc cattle. Cooks items, from correspondent ,f the silver City Independent: 'harlcs Poe, who has charge of the operations of the Cooks Peak Mining company, is doing development work 1 with force Of five men. The tunnel which he has been driving is in now '00 feet, and last week at depth of l0 feet he encountered a body of car ,ouatc orc. This is the old Feel &