Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-06
LAS CRUCES
NEWS NOTES
Probable Candidates for Office Chamber Of
Commerce to Be Established Petition
to Governor of Arizona Praying
Olemency for Simon Alderete.
S65, 900 IN TAXES TO Be COL.
lECTED FOR The YEAR 1902

Politics is at dead stand-still The
Republican party is in splendid condi-
ton; apparently all of the present
county officials will be renominated and
of course elected. The opposition is as
yet without form or shape and does not
know what it will do A shrewd obser-
yer predicts that the kicking elements
will in the end get together, endorse
one or two of the Republican nominees,
the sheriff ana clerk, for instance and
tempts to capture the other Offices par
ticularly the members of the legisla-
ture.
Dame Rumor has it that S. w. Sher-
fey is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for school superintendent;
also that Marcia1 Valdes and Jose Con
zales would like the same office. Henry
Rynerson is said to desire the Repub-
lican nomination for collector if the
present collector Oscar Lohman, does
not again want the nomination. The
Santiago Ascarate for collector, and of
Willie Ascarate for the legislature are
also mentioned on the opposition tic
ket.
Sheriff Lucero has just returned from
the lower end the county, where he
went to investigate the circumstances
of the death of the man whose body
was found in an old prospect hole,
headless. The coroner's Jury came to
the conclusion that the deceased COM
mitted suicide by blowing his head off
with a dynamite cartridge in a fit of
the "blues' following prolonged
spree, and that the body was after
wards found by some unknown parties
and robbed. The deceased was one Of
the civil engineers working with the
Bisbee road.
The county commissioners met last |
week and appointed the various boards
IF registration, to serve at the ap-
preaching election. The Democrats |
were given representation upon all the |
boards.
Colonel John Hogan is in Las Cruces |
his week to meet some st. Louis capt. |
.alists interested with him in the |
Black Mountain properties.
Labor day was observed in Las Cruz
res by the closing of all the stores and
as a general holiday
A petition is being circulated in this |
county, directed to the governor of Ari-
IONA, and praying the exercise of clenl-
sncy towards one Simon Alderete, who
s under sentence of death for murder
n that territory Alderete was reared
n this county and is well known here.
The petition Is being well signed.
Las Cruces is assured of a chamber
# commerce. Since my last communi-
ation several meetings have been held,
constitution and bylaws adopted and
committee appointed to canvas for
So far nearly every lead
ng business and professional man has
igned the roll, and a large, we'll or
ered and energetic commercial body Is
ssured. The chamber proposes to go
after the much talked Of
rock Island cutoff, an electric line be-
ween Las Cruces and Ell Paso, an ap-
ropriation of not less than $25,O0O out
f the national irrigation fund to sink
Or artesian water, and besides to ad-
ertise the county's resources and in
uce immigration.
There are II inmates of the county
all, the major portion of the number
eing Gin. for minor offenses.
The tax rolls for this year for this
ounty's portion Of the money is to be
ontributed at $65,s24.6O. OF this sum
bout 25 per cent goes for county and
like 25 per cent for school and court
urposes; the remaining fl|f goes to .
le territory and the education and
email institutions. The total assess
lent is a little over $20O0,OOO.