Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-24
n LAS VEGAS LAcoNics.
Batch Of Interesting Topics From a
Northern Town.
Special OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

ltcid lett sunday afternoon 1Or SOcOrrO
to attend United States court. which
opened there today. The two principal
cases on the docket this term is the
trial of the postmasters of Captain and
Lincoln. who are charged with embez-
Element.
Charles Chandler. who has been fore
man of the shops here and lately in
charge of the air brake department,
has resigned and left Sunday night on
No. 8 for Springfield, Mo. where he
has a fine position in the Frisco shops.
Mr.. Chandler has many friends here
and has a splendid record with the
Santa Fe. He was with the Santa Fe
Eve years and was foreman of the La
Junta shops and la gang boss at Ra-
ton. His father is in i'll health at
Springfield and that vas one of the
reasons for his leaving the Santa Fe
here: besides his family is now back
there visiting and Mr.. Chandler o n
/ Guided to just move back to "Miz-
zouri."
Hon. John S. Clark returned Satur-
day night from his stay on his ranch
on the Salado.
Governor NJ. A. Otero concluded to
stop off here Saturday evening, as the
train was so late and, with Major w.
Il. Llewellyn, of Las Cruces, spent the
night with friends here, and Sunday
continued their journey on to Denver.
Mrs. ]. c. Rickerman and daughter
returned Sunday afternoon from her
sad journey back to Kankekee, ILL.,,
where she laid the remains of her hus-
band 1T rest. Mrs. Rickerman will
continue to live in Las Vegas.
Walter b. Neill, the second house
man at the Montezuma, at the springs,
who was beaten up by the cooks at the
hotel some time ago, and who has been
spending some time since in the La
dies home and city Jail. shows some
signs of losing his right mind and is
carefully watched.
Mrs. A. o. Wheeler returned Satur-
day evening on belated No. 2 from her
visit of a week at Santa Fe.
Thomas Fleming, formerly of this
city, and who has many friends here,
passed through Saturday evening from
his former home in Nevada, where he
had just sold out his general merchan.
dising business and was en- route to
Kansas City.
Paul Morton, third vice president OF
the Santa Fe, passed through Saturday
evening with a party of five en- route
to Chicago from a trip to the coast.
Hon. Eugenio Romero left Sunday
afternoon from a business trip to San
ia Fe, where he will look after his tie
business.
Hon. Benjamin M. Read came in Sat
urday evening from Santa Fe to SEE
his wife here.
! M. C. Gam and wife, Of Folsom
!, passed through Saturday evening Ell
route to Santa Fe.
Mrs. B. M. Read, on whom an opera
ton was performed the first of the
week for cancer, is having a remarka
bic recovery and is o able to sit VI
[ and take solid food. The operation
> proved a success.
The Thanksgiving exercises giveI
Friday by the pupils of the high schoo
| were well attended and the pupils fur
l nished a splendid program. The frs
i part of the program consisted of mus
: ic and recitations, after which tn
l play, "Courtship of Miles Standish,
i vas given, Miss Anna NJ. Foster takini
: the part of Priscilla" Charles Hedg
cock the part of miles %Standish" an,
i Waldo Twitchell the part of John A
{ den. The play vas excellent and re
E flected great credit upon all the partiC
ipants. The high school is forgin
ahead in a way that is most satisfaC
| tory, and even those who at first oil
= jected to divorcing it from the norma
are now glad of the change.
District court convened yesterda
k morning and transacted quite a It'll
business.
Wyatt Berkeley, who pleaded guilty
the theft of a p~ocketbook, was give
e sixty days in Jail.
f The case of the territory VS.. Pedr
e Fadilla, for assault and battery, Wa
dismissed.
The case against Doniciano Baroi
e for larceny of sheep was dismissed b
L AZ CiiANoi 90 "a % o5oAh
Simon Garcia and Bandido Padilla fC
the same crime.
The case of the territory against r.
k mundo Castillo and thirteen other
an old murder charge, was dismisse'
The murder Ease against Aparici
t. Tapia was also dismissed.
In the civil business the most in
pl~to ~ nogn urae that pf NJ rftA ID
nero, as administrator of the estate
a Juan Leyba, who was killed in the La
"a Vegas yards by the switch engin
The case was dismissed. The attorne
for the plaintiff then asked for an a
s. peal to the supreme court, which W;
granted.
Court then adjourned until Mondi
morning, when the petit jury will
re empaneled for the trial of the Grimm