The copper era., 1905-08-24
NEW MEXICO NEWS {

IL ID CSlluldlCQ llldl luC OdIIlC ments out of the territory this year will almost double those of last year. There is considerable excitement in Las Vegas as the result of the discovery of natural gas at the in- sane asylum.
 The receipts for the past fiscal year of the internal revenue district, consisting of New Mexico and Ari- zona, amounted to SSO,s43.
 The principal streets of Alamo gordo are graded and there are four miles of first-class roads, constructed by the county of Otero, near that town.
 The contract has been let for the building of Japanese tea garden at Raton, which will be used as recrea- tion and pleasure place by the people.
 The recent rains destroyed the second cutting of alfalfa for many of the farmers near Roswell, and worms are reported to be destroying the garden crops.
 Arthur J. Furney, employed at the office of the Raton Electric Light and Power company, has been miss ing since July ? and no trace of him can be found
 The Good Roads convention is to be held at the Northern New Mexico fair at Las Vegas during the latter part of September and it is expected that same will be largely attended.
 It seems lumber trust is being or ganized in New Mexico. Saw mills in various portions of the territory are being bought up and efforts are being made to control the output of lumber.
 In the Jemez Mountains, twenty five miles from the Jemez Hot Springs, Francisco Montoya of Der nalillo, had 200 head of sheep, which he is grazing in that district, killed by lightning one day recently.
 The records of the United States land office for the Santa Fe land dis trict show that during the month of July, sixty-nine original homesteads were made. These included about 10000 acres of land.
 Judge William H. Pope in the dis trict court of Roswell has decided that if married man in New Mexico expects to give a good deed to his property, he must plan upon getting his wife's signature to the instru- ment to make it valid.
 Within ninety days it is expected that the Rigby Reduction Works at Mayer will be in operation. Two car loads of machinery are on the way and as soon as it is installed one of the most complete plants in the west for the treatment of silicious ores will be ready for business.
 Frank Cline, who worked over the tailings left by the Gold Hill mill, is moving his outfit to the neighbor- hood of Dos Cabezas, Arizona, where he has secured the right to work tailing dump left by a mill. The dump is not as large as the one left at Gold Hill. nor quite as rich. The one-at Gold Hill averaged $5 ton, and MT. Cline took out over $1O,OOO ill gold. If when the ore was first put through the mill this gold had great difference in the prosperity of the owners.-Liberal.
 The republican territorial commit tee is taking a poll of the territory on the statehood question. Blanks have been sent to each precinct and every voter is asked to tell just how he stands on the statehood question. In this precinct fifty-three names had been listed, of which thirty-one were republicans, eighteen democrats two independent, and two expressed no political convictions. They voted as follows: For statehood, single if possible, if not joint, nineteen; for single statehood, and against joint; seventeen; against statehood, seven; for joint and against single, two; joint, one. The poll will be at the Liberal office, and any person who has not voted may do so.
 Ed. Allen, a well known treighter, who has the contract for hauling Frank Cline's' cyaniding outfit from Gold Hill to Dos Cabezas, was at Gold Hill Saturday loading the stuff wher he commenced to complain of a severe pain in his head. By Sun day the pain became unbearable, and he came into town to consult physician. Dr. Crocker diagnosed the trouble as screw worms. He douched the nose with a disinfectant which would act as bug poison, and in few moments two screw worms came from Aliens nose, and the pain ceased. Later in the day he com plained of the pain again, and the doctor repeated the douch. Allen con- cluded that all the eggs had matched and decided to return to his work. The doctor wanted him to stay to see if more eggs matched, but he would not. After returning to Gold Hill the pain returned, indicating
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