Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-08
BIG GARDENS.
Las Vegas Has Fine Truck Gardens
Ping Pong in Evidence.
INTERESTING DIVORCE CASE.

Las vegas, July t-INedr LdS NeSdS
is developing one of the finest truck
gardens in the territory, and next
year Las Vegas will have fresh vege-
tables in abundance, although even
this veal the market has been fairly
well supplied from the same source.
We refer to the big gardens of Mr..
Ccmstock, the gentleman who is max
ing an Eden out of the old Lewis
ranch, about one and a half miles
southwest of town. Mr.. Comstock has
10 acres there, and has 10000 heads
Of cabbages, besides much other truck
we'll along and growing as fresh and
green as a weed in a swamp. MI. Com
stock has about twenty-five acres un-
der perfect irrigation, getting the wa
ter from a ditch, the right of which he
has secured, and the vegetables are
remarkably fine: really a curiosity for
this arid region.
The lecture delivered last night by
Rev. A. NJ. Lumpkin on Rome and
Other Cities at the Methodist church,
was a real treat, and a large crowd at
tended. Rev. Lumpkin has been all
over the ground he lectures about, and
displays a keen perception in the way
he handles his subject. His style of
delivery is good and the lectures most
enjoyable.
1t has struck town at last. Several
have got the fever. Ping pong we refer
to. Several of the younger enthusiasts
at the Montezuma club are figuring on
RELOCATING the writing table to the fear
and using it for a ping pong court. The
disease was contracted back east by
some of the young men who have been
visiting there, and it bids fair to be-
come epidemic.
Mrs. Mary Sellman has instituted
suit for divorce against her husband.
Christian Sellman. She lanes n
Stella Fox as correspondent and al
leges cruel treatment and threatening
use of a pistol toward her in her pa
pers.
Juanita Trujillo de Abeytia has filed
suit for divorce against her husband.
Atilano Abeytia. She states that they
were married in 1879, and that they
lived together as man and wife for
only three years, he leaving and aban-
doning her, she claims, on account of
his fear of arrest for some crime he
had committed. She says she has been
faithful all these twenty years and
now asks the court to release her from
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probable her husband is dead, as she
has heard from him only once and
that soon after he left.
Julian Perea, who was just released
from the penitentiary last March, is
again under the ban of the law on a
charge of horse stealing and Is now
In the county jail awaiting the action
of the grand jury, he having been
bound we by Justice Baca of precinct
5 last Saturday, and failed to raise
his $500 bond. Stealing comes as nat
ural for some hombres. as eating, and
Perea seems to be n of that ilk,
Raymundo Romero, son Of Eugenio
Romero, came in yesterday with Is
son. Eugenio, from his home in Arkan-
lsas. Mr.. Romero has been away five
years and is a locomotive engineer.
He will make a lengthy visit here.
The county commissioners and me
probate court are in session today.
John Ellsworth returned yesterday
from Denver with his family and has
resumed his duties at Ilfelds.
Ralph Halloran came in from the
east last evening and stopped over be-
fore proceeding to his home at Albu-
querque.
A suit to replevin ONE horses that
were stolen from A. j. Jones has been
filed I'M Union county against Jess
Gleason.
There will be a joint installation
OF officers at the Odd Fellows n Re
becca lodges next Thursday night at
the Odd Fellows hall. A big spread
and good time will be in progress.
Constable Antonio Delgado arrested
$1,000 HAp4ta nt nc Ala
Saturday night for getting too pro
miscuous with a knife and cutting an
other fellow on the head. Both were
drunk and Garcia will be brought here
for trial this week.
Miss Carrie SchmluC returned yes
terday afternoon from a school in the
east hat she has been attending.
George Hunker went down to Santa
Rosa this morning to look after some
legal business for Charles A. Spiess.
Rosito Bruno. daughter of Trinidad
V. de Bruno, died Saturday of fever
at the age of IA years. The deceased
was left behind by smallpox a few
years ago. She was buried today.
Miss Annie Smith expects her sister.
Mrs. Marshall, in from California this
evening.
nun ho ~ oPiNSo W. - hh
afternoon from Silver City, where he
was on legal business.
Miss Marion Winters will entertain
a number of ladies and gentlemen
friends tonight at cards in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Hockmeyer.
Fred Logan and Wilbert Dunlap
have been complained against by the
owner of Green's lake for unlawfully
6cbinU tharp and the case WIS heard
before Judge Wooster this afternoon.
The law provides that in these cases
the minimum penalty is S25 and costs;
one-half of which goes to the complain
ing witness. The young men probably
did not know that they We're trespass-
ing by ~snagging a few fish this morn
ing. The law is very stringent in
these matters and everyone should be-
ware.
The rumor about Arthur Sweet be-
ing made assistant TO the general man