Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-12

New Mexico News seissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

byterian church Of Ration, is visiting
In El Paso.
NJ. Keleher and A. c. Gutierrez,
cattlemen Of the Trinchera, we're in
Ration on business.
Weems & Anderson are about ready
to resume shipments from the Apache
mine lea Hachita.
Miss Helen Snyder entertained a
few of her young friends at her
country home near Roswell.
Mrs. A. G.. Armstrong returned to
Hachita from a five weeks visit with
her parents at Dragotn n, Ariz-
Colonel Millican Of Cooks Peak is
in Hachita looking to the welfare of
various mining claims It Old Hachita.
j. ID. Bell has been Ill from eyr-
sipelas at Roswell. His place in the
Office has been taken by Emmett Pat
ton.
X. L. Hearne. son of w F.. Hearne,
was in Roswell from Temple, Tex.
He will probably make that place his
home.
John Williame came in from the
Burro mountains to Silver City to pur.
chase supplies for the camp at which
he is located. "a
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lewis of Am
arillo arrived in Roswell on a few
days visit with the Cowells on Mil
itary heights.
w. NJ. Hays of Hachita, purchased
William Brock's fancy saddle horse
n will hereafter take his exercise
on horseback.
Mrs. Rafe and daughter left Ros-
well for Oklahoma City, where Mr..
Rafe is now engaged in business.
Joseph p. Liddell and Miss Lennie
Carter were Joined in marriage at
the Carter home in Ration. Rev. B.
+. Lawler officiating.
w. IL. Carnes, a prominent citizen
of Wellington, Kansas, came to Eos-
well He is delighted with the coun-
try and will probably invest there.
Sheriff Higgins of Chavez county
left with Joe Taylor for Santa Fe.
Joe Taylor will serve a term i'll the
penitentiary for assault with intent
to kill.
Mr.. +. ID. Trickell. a prominent
lumber dealer of Wichita, Kan-ss. ar
rived in Roswell to visit Mr.. Stock
of the Schrock & Fletcher Lumber
company.
F. Obermiller, a mining, expert
from Bisbee, AriZ.. left Hachita for
that town. He has spent three days
looking ove the Daisy" and adjoin-
ing properties.
X. Z. Maddux, the popular and eff
ficient marshal OF Roswell was taken
dangerously ill with pneumonia last
Saturday and for a day or two was
in a dangerous condition
Lordsburg has had mor than its
usual share of hobos this winter, for
tramps of every description and from
every walk of life have apparently
taken up their headquarters there.
Mr.. McClung, who is now in with
Jaffa, Calfee & Co, at Roswell. re-
ceived word last week of the death
of his brother j. Z. McClung at his
home in Covington, Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lyons were
in Silver City from the ella. While
there Mr.. Lyons made arrangements
for a long distance telephone line to
be put in from Silver City to his home
on the ella.
Judge Lucius p. DENIM came in
from the Burros to Silver Ci : as full
of business as " While in town
he attended to several important nat
tiers connected with mining operations
in the Burros.
George Bashford was brought to
Santa Fe under arrest charged with
having attempted TO rob the p~Ostoffice
at Tres Piedras on Thursday last. 1t
is understood he will have a hearing
on Thursday.
The postoffice of Silver City, fog-
merly owned by Bayne Bros, has
been sold to L. b. Venable. The
store Will keep its same stock and
be conducted in the same manner as
it has been in the past.
Miss Edith Dukelin. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Dukelin, and Bert
Etheredge, both of Ration. Will be
united in marriage Wednesday. Feb
ruary Is, at . O'Clock p. m, at the
Baptist church up there. Rev. j.. o.
Willett officiating.
Frank A. Hill, undersheriff of Col
fax county arrested a man giving the
name of j. J. Raymond, in Trinidad,
and took him to Ration. The prison
er answers the description of a man
wanted in Alabama on a charge of
murder. Mr.. Hill will hold the man
for identification.
Charlie Kanen, of the firm of Sam
uel Brown & Co., the grocers OF Ros-
well. received a telegram from Fred
erick, o. T.. giving the information
that one of Mrs. Kanen's brothers,
CarEG-i Johnson, we'll known there,
had been accidentally killed by the
discharge of his gun.
1t was with regret that the people
of Lordsburg learned of the death OF
Father p. Jos. Immel, which occur
red 1t Colorado, N. NJ. last Monday
He was pastor of the Catholic church
there with headquarters at Colorado
The cause OF his death was pneu
monia, and his illness was brief.
w. F. Buchanan, J. A. Street and
A. d.. ~Goldenburg form a party OF
Vpnnnnnn A..c r--
Guadalupe county, who passed
through Albuquerque bound for San.
ia Fe, where they go 10 lobby for a
bill making a new county from parts
taken from Guadalupe, Union and
San Miguel counties.
Henry Lyons and Felix Grundy OF
L~ordsburg were recently arrested
charged with having gathered in
fresh beef not belonging to them
They were brought before the justice
of the peace in the Fulkner district
and waived examination and gave
bond for their appearance at the next
term of district court.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist church met
at Mrs. Cobean's in Roswell. There
was a small attendance, but it was q
very interesting and helpful meeting
Miss Carlton, a former missionary to
Cuba, and a new member of the so
ciety, gave an interesting talk on
her work in that field.
A. b.. Mcdonald of Ell Progreso, Va
lencia county, a sheep owner, was il
SaLfa Fe to hire men TO take care
of the fiocks during lambing time
He finds it very difficult to secure
labor of that kind. Mr.. Mcdonald re-
DOrtS that meu were engaged six
months ago and their wages paid
them in advance in order to hold
them. The outlook for sheep is fine
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