Santa Fe Daily New Mexican

NEW MEXICO NEWS.

Bagnios are not tolerated at Eddy.

Raton is justly proud of her schools.

Fruit crops in Dona Ana county are excellent.

White Oaks will observe Memorial day this year as usual.

Memorial day will probably not be observed at Deming.

New Mexico has coal enough to supply the whole United States.

All northern New Mexico was blessed with heavy rains last week.

Judge Collier expects to adjourn court at Albuquerque on June 1.

Street improvements are the order of the day over at Las Vegas.

Dr. Driscoll is getting some fine ore from his Water Canon gold mine.

The Blue Water canon irrigation enterprise is a pronounced success.

The mining camps of Grant county are displaying unprecedented activity.

Catalpa trees are in bloom and mulberries ripening in Eddy door yards.

The vines of the big Greene vineyard at Eddy are heavily loaded with grapes.

Judge Smith hopes to clear the Colfax criminal docket at the present special term.

The White Oaks region was visited by a general and beneficial rain on Thursday.

Samuel McMullen, a well known sheep raiser, dropped dead at Thatcher station on Saturday.

The Albuquerque schools are reported in a flourishing condition with about 2000 attendants.

D. C. Winters, of Las Vegas, has coined a new word for consumptives, "ozoniers," looking for ozone.

The ex-soldiers of both armies of the rebellion will unite in celebrating Decoration day at Roswell.

Albuquerque Citizen: The people of this city will expend $25,000 on the territorial fair and irrigation congress.

The inmates of the territorial hospital for the insane at Las Vegas were treated to a social hop on Saturday evening.

The Rio Grande has continued at about the same height for several days and no danger of an overflow is anticipated.

The Santa Fe is doing a tremendous business at the present time in carrying oranges from California to the eastern markets.

With proper irrigation facilities New Mexico can become in a few years the home of 1,000,000 happy and prosperous people.

Reports from all along the Mimbres indicate the largest fruit crop ever known and corresponding luck with all agricultural products.

Hon. George Curry has not yet fully determined as to whether or not he will reside in Socorro during his term as clerk of the district court.

A correspondent of the Las Vegas Optic suggests that David Bennett Hill, for president, and L. Bradford Prince for vice president on a 16 to 1 silver platform, would be a suitable ticket next time.

Says the Raton Range: Horse stealing is becoming a little too common in this section of New Mexico. If a few of the thieves could be caught and summarily dealt with it would have a wholesome effect.

Judge Louis Sulzbacher read before the Jackson County Bar association, at Kansas City, a very interesting paper on "Missouri Lawyers in New Mexico." The press of Kansas City speaks very highly of the paper.

The fruit, cattle and sheep shipments over the Atlantic & Pacific have reached greater proportions, in a combined sense, than at any one time in the history of the road.

The Old Abe Eagle has passed into the control of William Watson and John Y. Hewitt under mortgage foreclosure and will be sold to the highest bidder on June 1.

In the older states all farmers know that clover land becomes well fertilized by roots and stubble. Alfalfa performs similar service, being like clover, rich in nitrogen.

It makes a Pecos valley farmer who is harvesting his alfalfa and planting his other crops feel both glad and sorry to read of the frosted corn and fruit of colder countries.

For the fiscal year ending March 31, 1895, the stamp sales and box rents of the Raton postoffice amounted to $4,328.26, an increase of $262.23 over 1894, and an increase of $1,325 over 1890.

Mr. E. W. Parker and wife, of White Oaks, have gone to St. Louis for a month and will return by way of Golden, Colo., to witness the graduation of their son, James H. Parker, at the school of mines.

The Optic: The city council passed an ordinance last evening making nickel-in-the-slot machines pay a license of $100. Dice throwing is prohibited, except for a licensed game, by territorial law.

Columbus Moise, city attorney of East Las Vegas, had an operation performed on him in Kansas City last Monday by Dr. Halley, of that city, but his condition can not be said to be encouraging.

Eddy Argus: E. C. Palmer, of Williams county, North Dakota, a breeder of Shropshire sheep, intends to come to the valley to engage in sheep raising and fruit growing. In the north he raises hay by irrigation, but can not grow fruit.

The Deming public schools will close on the 31st of May, after a term marked by pronounced success both as to the advancement of the scholars and the conduct of the schools on the part of the board.

Hon. W. S. Hopewell is the busiest man in Sierra county, with his work filling a contract to deliver 4,000 steers on June 23, looking after his mining interests and showing up the camp to strangers, he has no time to loaf.