The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1899-01-13
9 aND OTHERWISE.

Mrs. ". h. Williams is visiting in
Durango this week.
Price Waltsru' children have been on
The sick list this week. but are recover
ing.
II. o. RsgnisE, Lum Scott, Wm. Bar.
din and others Of the La Plata we're in
the county seat Saturday.
Go to ". @. Chapman in Durango for
general hardware OF ell kinds, Balm
wagons. etc. He carries q full line at
low prices.
Tuesdays precipitation Of the beau.
tiful amounted to four inches. according
to the measurement at the experimental
station. Ten inches Of snow are equal
10 one OF rain,
DR.. ]. A. DUFF came up from Farming
ton today aud continued on to Durango
whore be will visit q few days. He will
ill his regular professional appointment
here next Wednesday.
Ars. Mary Noble, who was teacher OF
the AEtSo school q portion Of last winter,
arrived in Aztec last night from Florida
to remain pernsnOntly. She is stop
ping ct Or. and Mrs. Wsst's.
4 telegram from Detroit, Michigan.
to Mr. and Mrs. E. r. sizsr announces
the death Of Jno, B. Davis. their son-in-
law, which occurred at hat place or the
9Th inst, Of typhoid pneumonia.
The Durango Democrat Guyu: There
IL . rumoE aAoAt that the Denver &
Rio GTandS Railway company are eogi-
tAting the extending OF q road to Farm
ington. II this be true let it be soon
Aud via AEtes, always.
The probate clerk iS receiving q mum
bsr Of papers for filing, uuaeeompanisd
By internal OVenu stamps. The clerk
is not required 70 record instruments
unless they bear the l. r. stamps re
ouirsd b. Law. or their equivalent IN
cash.
The Aztec hardware store has some
thing new in the way Of 4 water purity.
ing apparatus. It 10 the Sanitary still
and turns cut distilled water that il
chemically pure. 1t will take out all
the alkali aud other impurities. Every
family that desires pure water should
have one.
George Brrtt aud Jesse Wslling are
putting up q frame store bulldog on
the reservation. az Oio Alamo, IS miles
south OF Bloomfield. in the district
known az the bad lands" They will
open en- Indian trading store ~ soOn
a. the building iS completed, carrying 4
full line Of Indian supplies.
Harry Baldwin in Durango Tuesday
reported a hard winter In his SEQ.
tion on the lower Ban Juan. The Snow
10 two OF three feet deep aud the mer
curry registers IS to 20 below eVsry day.
The great herds OF sheep and horses
owned by the Navajo Indians are dying
from the cold by the thousands.
We have discovered a surs panacsa
Cor all the lille the hOsh is heir to. Use
Horseshoe or pride Of America" -four
made by the Durango Milling 4 ElO-
vator Co, and you will find your diges-
ton improved; it brightOns the eye,
sWOstens the breath. cures that tired
feeling" and prevents the pants from
bagging at the knees.
The 0rsendSld Mo- Rustic says
y. r. Finley sAd wife wore here Wed.
nssday, pa~troniEing our photographer.
Mr.. ghinkle. While here Mr.. Finley
came into Dur ofieS and exhibited q
bsautiful breast piu, made Of gold stone.
which Was taksa from the rock in New
Mexico aud sent as a present BY John
d. Finley TO his tsp-sistsr, Miss LULU
wilson"
Bays the Santa Fs New Mexican.
Captain Banker of San Juan eOuaty
Who is 10 the city on the grand jury
VA FsmaEkinE this morning on the lOSl
Of much good water in his county be-.
Gauss there vas not means Within reach
- spread the several 6ne rivers up there
over thS soil. These rivers do not run
dry. and il there was q e~omprshsnhVo
system Of irrigation in San Juan eoun.
~ The results would DO marvellous"
o. u. Rimball, Of H~oWardBVills. Colo
RADIO was ia town yesterday en- route e
FarminEtOh. He is prominsat con.
tractor in the SilVOrtOn mining district
and has been in the southwest fol
twenty ave years. Twenty years ago
be made q trip through the AnimaS val
10y 10 eompnny with 3 party Of pros pee
tors. SurmisoS as 70 bis present mission
are many and various, bat ~ TO that
verify, verify. dSPonont Sayoth not-foI
publication.
A sharp contest and . fell vote
marked the election foE i%ussiss Of the
poaee ahd constable IL Aztec. Seventy
nino votes we're pollsd, only nine lee
than the NOvomber vote. Price WaltorI
and John I. Green we're voted iol
Tor justice. the former bping sueooasfu.
By . vots Of a. Il 81 The sans vote
vas given the candidates TOR constable
frank BAKER recolviuo she larger nun
Dor TO 50 iof A. u. BroHh The eeeiior
was DO q spirit Of insndly rivalry poe
Che prscinst viii BE- veil served BY th'
tEesra chosen