The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-08-04
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Early apples are ripe

\ Joe Prewitt was up from Pennington
Monday.
y Miss Msud Waring visited Farming
toA friends Tuesday.
QChas. sehrader has purchased the
Aztec saloon and taken possession.
Attorney Palmer has been in town
several days this week, on business.
Sheriff Dodson went down the valley
10 serve some legal papers Tuesday.
IN A little child Of W. c. Gamss. north
Of town, is i'll from the effects Of eating
too many green apples.
Miss Mamie Markley Of Pennington
was q passenger on Mondays stage, en-
route home from Durango.
Attorney +, S. Whitehead and Editor
Starr Of the Times we're in town from
Harrington Saturday, attending to some
matters Of business.
a number Of prominent Pennington
citizens we're in town Tuesday en- route
to and frem Cedar Hill, where they were
present at the funeral Of j.. G. Taylor.
\ One day last week Territorial Treas
urer Vaughan received from Treasurer
McHenry for San Juan county S11O.6S
Of 1895 taxes and S745.49 Of 1899 taxes.
A few more witnesses in the Coolidge
Noel contest were examined this week.
The ease is dragging along to a greater
length than it was at first expected to.
G. NJ, Hubbard returned from Silver
ton aud Eureka this week, accompanied
by Mrs. A. M. Hubbard and her children,
who have been visiting AL. near Eureka.
A party consisting Of Messrs. G. A.
Kefer, G. E. Mead, j. II. Finley and
The INDEX man made a trip to simp-
sons store at Canon Gallegos this week.
Read the report OF the cOunty's Hnan-
sial condition on August 1st, printed
elsewhere. 1t makes a particularly
favorable showing for the various
-|ho1l aA1NAAIh4s
Mr.. and Mrs.. !. I. McQuillan Of Flora
Vista went through town Monday, en-
routB 10 Durango. Mrs. McQuiilan con
tinued on to Silvertsh, where she will
visit for some time.
N DR.. Vests camping party returned
from Pagosa Springs Wednesday, with
the exception Of Miss Brewer, who re.
manned at Lumbertou to visit relatives.
All report a good time.
We have repeatedly suggested the
a~dvisability Of buying ice this hot
weather. II you buy it, buy it Of w. s..
Dalton, at the Home hotel.
R. II. Gillespie, Capt. Lawrence
Welsh, Charles Carter, George Salmon
and others Of the San Juan we're in towa
Saturday on business in connection with
Model Ditch company affairs.
Gus Smith. an old time San Juan
county boy, has been renewing many
friendships in this vicinity during a
ten days vacation from Fort Lewis,
where he is employed at the school,
THE INDEX has a letter, dated at
Cirque, state Ok Chihuahus, Mexico.
from T. W Ilif, formerly Of this place.
He wants sample copies Of this sheet, to
get the ran Of events in San Juan
county.
&c. S. Boyd, Frank Baker and Peter
Knickerbocker went to Durango the
irst Of the week, returning Wednesday.
They were accompanied on the way up
by Alpha Highfll, who secured a posi-
tion at the snelter.
According to the gauges at the exper-
mental STATEN, the precipitation We'd
nssday was 1.42 inches. In less than an
hour, an inch Of water fell. The storm
en- the Animas-La Plata divide appeared
to be even heavier. A very strange "des.
ert" have We here in San Juan.
The shareholders Of the Model Ditch
company held a meeting at Bloomfield
Tuesday, at which it was resolved to
commence at once the work OF construct
ing a new head for the ditch. 1t is the
intention to head the canal above Largo.
the n being either siphon.tunneled
or aumsd.
Gee. q. Primm and family left Aztec
this morning for Cleveland, Ohio their
former home. Mr.. Primm came here
some six months ago in search Of health
He left feeling as strong aud "husky" AZ
ever in his life, he said. A legion OF
friends ioin ia Wishing himself and wife
health and happiness wherever they go.
Prof. 9. A. KoGer, of the faculty OF
the territorial agricultural college, has
been paying the s~ubatation at Aztec a
Of inspection this week. He Is en-
route hone to Las Cruces from San
Francisco, where as the representative
Of New Mexico he attended a meeting
Of the agricultural college associations
Of the Uhited States,
You assume no risk when YOU buy
.hamberlain's Collie. Cholera and Diar-
rhooa Remedy. W. II. Williams will
your money il You are not salts
lied after using It. IL is everywhere
,dmitted to be the most successful
10 use for bowel complaints and
he only b thai never fails. 10 ID
pleasant safe and reliable.