Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-01-28
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er VINO was stricken with paralysis
at Santa Fe remains about the anne.
IL Is probable hat she will be coz
fined to her home for some time.
James d. Langford on his return
home to Pueblo. Colo. from Tam
pico, Mexico, stopped of in Roswell
to visit his old friend, Capt. Lea. He
was surprised at the great growth
of Roswell. saI6n
Sarles & Amis have contracted to
build a four-room cottage for r. w.
Smith in South Roswell. They have
finished the McClane building and
turned the Bates residence over to
the plasterers. 4
Surveyor General Morgan o. Lew
eilyn has been advised by the gen.
eral land office at Washington that a
new map of New Mexico has been
compiled and will be completed in
IA inns to be put on.
The rest Of the new p~ostoffice furn-
iture arrived in Roswell and was put
in place. The iron screens now ex-
tend to the ceiling so that the build
ing may be left open at all times
without any danger of trespassers en-
tering the Office proper.
Mrs. ". &. hencEen died at hsi
rooms in the Delgado building on
the west side of the plaza at Santa
Fe. Mrs. Henchen went there from
st. Louis about ten months ago fer
her health. She was accompanied by
her husband and one child.
The Las Trampas land grant, sit
uated in Taos and Rio Arri' 4 coun-
ties, has been advertised for sale.
The sale will take place n Santa Fe,
at the court house on the Sth day oil
February and will be made by r. ii
Johnston. the master appointed by
the court for that purpose.
Leslie j.. Burns, a gentleman TWEEN
ty-one years of age. who came to Al
buquerque from Muskegon, Mich, a
month ago seeking health. died Sun
day evening at his home on the mesa.
A brother, who is himself i'll, accom-
panied him to the cit. The body will
be shipped for burial after being en-
balmed.
A bill to make Grant county a
separate district, in SO far as it re-
lates to the duties of a district at
torney, may be introduced this ses-
sion and the people Oh SOcorro coun-
ty are said to have similar views
about reducing the territory attended
to by the district attorney for the 9Th
judicial district
III. l.. Logan of Stegman. Eddy coun-
ty, has been appointed a notary pub
lie by Governor Otero. Other notaries
appointed we're: w. +. Buchanan,
of Tucumcari. Guadalupe county;
Thomas NJ. Dubois Corona, Lincoln
county; A. w. Harris. Kingston. Sier-
ra county; William II. Newcomb, Sill
yer City, Grant county.
Homestead entries: Edwin C. Man
ming. of East View. 100 acres of land
in Valencia county: Paul Mccormick
OF C~haperito. 162 acres of and in San
Miguel county. Antonio Gonzales OF
Wagon Mound. 100 acres of Ian in
Mora county: Manuel Bernal of Cleve-
land, 100 acres of land in Mora coun-
~.
AT the adjourned fruit growers
meeting held at the court house in
Roswell, Edwin Green was made per-
manent chairman. and w. p. Turn
err permanent secretary. 1t was de-
cided that a permanent organization
OF the fruit growers of Chaves county
should be formed, and that the fruit
growing industry of the Pecos val
ley may be properly represented.
An application has been received
at Surveyor General Morgan o. LEV
ellyn's office from George Kingdom,
assignee of Jane Hutchinson, for an
amended survey of the Emma lode,
Central City mining district, located
in Grant county. section 3, township
IL north, range IL west. The loca
ton was made October l, 1897, and
was recorded December 8. 1897.
Bills introduced by Mr.. Rodey are
granting a pension to Jose Gutierrez
y Garcia; a pension to Julian Lujan
and to William Reagan. All were
referred to the committee on invalid
pensions. For the relief of William
II. Hugo, to the comfittee on military
affairs. Also resolution for printing
5000 copies of Governor Otero's re
port to the secretary OF the interior
A levy has been made against the
property of Abran Abeyta. ex-treas
urer of Socorro county. ON a Judgment
Cor $4,000 obtained by the First ma
tional bank of Albuquerque. 1t was
generally understood such levy might
be made in Socorro county and it is
understood his private Indebtedness is
about $25. 900. An effort is being
made to stay the Judgment TO pro
tect other creditors.
On request of Superintendent Gran
dali. of the government Indian school
Governor Otero at Santa Fe asked
from the interior department that 9
detail of troops be sent to Santa
Clara. The Indians there are sufer
ing from diphtheria and refuse to per
init a physician I attend them, &C
cording to the orders of Mr.. Crandall
or to observe any quarantine. The
last resort is to have troops take
charge and as a precaution that i:
asked.
An important mining transaction
was consummated at Socorro. Thu
Ida Hill mining and smelling com