Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-23
DEALING IN DEAD iNJuNs.
Gross, Kelly = Co. Have Made
Unique Addition to Their Stock.

Gross, Kelly Co. Have Made
Unique Addition to Their Stock.
Albuquerque Journal-Democrat
Gross, Kelly & Co.. wholesale gro
GERS, have just made an innovation
In their extensive business that is
Likely to attract a great deal OF at
tentiOn- Whether the sample will
be followed by a full stock depends
on the luck of the natives in the
matter OF discovery and impress
sion made Onthe public BY the
sample. The innovation is the all
but perfect body Of an Indian of
giant statue. from his burial tokens
evidently an Apache and q chief of
high standing. Over the half decom
posed bones, and holding them to
gether Is the parced skin. thorough
" tanned by the dry air Of New
Mexico.
Only the feet OF the skeleton are
missing. Without them the body
measures something over six feet.
The scalp has been removed.
Through the body from side to
side hangs the shaft of an arraw.
The body was found in a cave near
Magdaleua, lying in. state, sur
rounded by the implements OF war,
pottery and other equipment that usu-
ally goes with the Apache on his way
to the happy hunting grounds. The
native who made the discovery cart
ed the body 20 the Becker-Blackwei
cOmpany's store at Magdalena
whence 1t was shipped 10 Gross,
Kelly & Co. tn do with it as they
please. The body now lies in state
in the warerooms OF the big ware
house. where many interested spec
tators visited it yesterday.
An expert in pc terry is to be con
suited with a view to asc~ertaining
the age OF the specimens found
with the body, and the age of the
chief, their owner. What may be the
story behind the arrow. through the
body, the missing scalp and feet, will
never be known, unless perchance 1t
be preserved in the legend of some
portion of the dismembered
tribe.
There have been found in the pas.
few years many imperfect skeletons
of Indians in the hills and caves
around Magdalena. but this one is
the most perfect skeleton yet found.
1t is in almost a perfect state of
preservation and for the ,missingg
fest and the partial tearing away
of the left arm would be a perfect
specimen of an Apache manhood.
The whole weight of. the dried
teen pounds.
Politician Out Of a Job.
A member of q New Mexico leg
islature has introduced a bill to give
$50 a month for life to all former
county officials and members of the
legislature Inasmuch as this would
furnish a stipend during the rest of
their days to all the members Of the
present legislature, the bill may be
expected to pass. If this should re-
suit in inducing q large number of
politicians to go into permanent re-
tirement the money would not be
spent entirely in vain.
Perhaps the idea is that when a
chronic office holder quits the field
he confers such a blessing upon-thez
public that he should be paid for it.
1t may that IL we had such q law
in Colorado the defunct board of
county commissioners might be will
ing to take he hint and go without
being kicked down stairs.
1t may be objected that this would
increase the public burden, but as
these men are bound to live off the
people in some way, the pension sys-
might furnish the cheapest and cas-
lest way to take a of them
Denver Times.
Well Known cattieman Killed.
A special dispatch to the AlbuQuer-
que JournaLDemocrat from Engle
says:
]. c. Baldwin, eldest son of Lev,
Baldwin, the cattleman, died here last
night from injuries received by TALL
ing forty feet down a well, which he
had been digging. The accident oc-
Cured yesterday at 4 O'Clock. Bald
win was being raised from the well
by q rope. The cross on which he was
resting slipped in the rope and the
unsuspecting man was precipitated to
the bottom. A special train carried
DIR. G.. G. Cruickshank from San Mar
cial here, but medical assistance was
Of no consequence. Baldwin received |
internal injuries which caused death. |
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