Items of Interest December 21, 1899 Issue

Items of Interest

Governor Otero of New Mexico asks that the territory be admitted to statehood. The population, including 25,329 Indians, is 260,500. The territory includes nearly seventy-nine million acres. The assessed value for taxation is over forty million dollars.

One of the interesting features of the Governor's report is the religious. There are two Jewish places of worship in New Mexico, and four churches of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination. The Catholics had the field for a long time. In 1850 the Baptists established a church, and in 1881 the Methodists and Presbyterians. In 1881 the Congregationalists built a church and other denominations have followed.

General Buller suffered a serious reverse on the morning of December 15 while attempting to cross the Tugela River. This was General Buller's first attempt to relieve Ladysmith. The British lost eleven guns and were compelled to retreat.

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