Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-01-16

shipped from Chama ana LumDertOn.
The sheep which remain will be taken
further south for pasturage.
Thomas w. Strong Of Tres Piedras,
proprietor of several stage lines, was
kicked in the stomach by a horse De
cember Goth and very dangerously in
jured.
On the afternoon Of December 10Th
Justo Padilla, a young married man,
accidentally and fatally shot himself
at the Gragg ranch at RomerOville,
five miles from Las Vegas.
Rev. J.. NJ. Whitlock, while making
repairs to the tower Of his church at
Lumberton, fell twenty-five feet but
escaped without fatal injuries, al
though terribly bruised.
The Pajarito Live Stock Company
has notified the territorial secretary,
j.. w. Reynolds, that it has appointed
A. NJ. Nichols, with residence at Tu-
cumcari, Guadalupe county, its New
Mexico agent.
Harry Xavier Cawker, q graduate
of the United States Indian school at
Santa Fe, has been appointed teacher
in the tailoring department Of the
United States Indian School at Carson
City, Nevada.
Another clash between Pueblo In
dams and settlers of Taos county is re-
ported. This time it occurred at the
patron feast of the settlement of San
ia Barbara. As a result of the row one
Indian was killed and several of the
settlers wer badly beaten.
Pablo Macs, aged twelve, a school
boy at the Second Ward scnool house,
in Santa Fe. was killed at recess on
the afternoon of December 10th, while
trying 10 stop a runaway horse. The
horse stepped on the boys stomach
and throat. Death was instantaneous.
j. G. Scully of Elizabetntown, Col
fax county, has decided to build a
dredge on the Moreno river. 1t is to
be built on the plan of the dredge now
successfully working on the stream.
Mr.. Reiling will also construct another
dredge, and upon its completion an
electric power plant will be built 10
furnish power to the three dredges.
Silver City Methodists will have a
new church built out of the proceeds
of a sale Of turquoise pins. Nj. w.
Porterfeld has donated 1000 turquoise
pins, the stones being from his tur-
quoise mines in Grant county, which
are being sold throughout the country
with the aid of the church papers. He
will also give the church $1,000 more
pins at cost.
Samuel Vigil, a seven-year-old boy,
who was out hunting goats for his
uncle, Marcino Cassius, at the latter's
ranch in the mountains near Albu-
querque, was frozen to death Deem
Der 18th. Searching parties failed to
find the little fellow until the next
Thursday. His body was discovered
frozen stiff and he was lying in an ar
rOya underneath "A pinon tree.
Thomas d. Burns, millionaire mer-
chant and stock owner at TERRA Anna
rilla, is interesting eastern capitalists,
so it is reported, in a project 10 build
a railroad from Santa Fe to TERRA
Amarillo, the county seat of Rio Arri-
ba county, and from there to Durango,
Colorado, opening a section rich in tim
Der, coal and agricultural and grazing
lands.
A Santa Fe dispatch of December
Goth says: The bodies of two sheep
herders, partly burned, were found to-
day at Cabra Springs, near Canon
Blanco, Santa Fe county. Their
sheep had been stolen by thieves, who
probably murdered the shepherds. A
posse of twelve men has started in
pursuit, having found the trail of the
stolen sheep, and it is feared there will
be blOodshed if the robbers are over
taken.
Judge Daniel Mcmillan, in a lengthy
opinion in the case of certain mer-
chants of Chaves county against Mark
/ Howell, collector of that county, ask
ing for an injunction to restrain him
from collecting the taxes on a ten to
fifteen per cent. raise made by the
Board of Equalization on certain
classes Of property, granted the injunc-
ton and hold that the Board of Equal
ization has not the right to raise the
aggregate of assessed valuation.
A dispatch dated at Albuquerque
! December 23rd, says: Tonight at Z
o'clock occurred the death Of Louis
Huning, a well-known capitalist and
pioneer in New Mexico, at his home
in the neighbOring village Of Los Lu-
mas. He had reached his SEVENTEEN
year and was unable to recover from n
severe attack Of pneumonia. Mr.. Hun
ing came from Hanover, Germany, ac-
cOmpanied by his brothers, Franz
Huning of this city and Henri Huning,
a wealthy ranchman of Sholo, Arizona.
He leaves a large estate. mostly in real
estate, in Albuquerque and in Valencia
and Grant counties.
A Denver News Washington special
Of December 18th says: Pat Garrett
has at last won his fight against Sen.
Ator Mark Hanna and the crowd of
disappointed Texas Office seekers. He
was to-day confirmed as collector of
customs at El Paso. Garrett was the
personal appointee of President ROose-
welt, and despite the organized oppOsi-
ton of the Texas organization, was
named for this Office. Senator Hanna,
seeking to protect his national commit
teemen, asked President Roosevelt to
reconsider his intention and appoint a
Texas nan Roosevelt abruptly re-
fused and CARROTS name was sent to
the Senate. He will qualify now and
return to his home Friday"
At Santa Fe on the 18th inst. before
Judge John S. Stansbury Of Washing
ton, ID. c., representing the govern
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