Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-18
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

contest at Ell Paso.
J.. E. Hopkins, who lives just acress
h line in Sierra county. and a mill
er by trade, was in Las. Cruces the
first of the week looking owe the
Lehman Touring mill with a view to
renting. ].
]. Leonard Knapp came up to So
zorro from San Antonio where he is
in III employ of the company b a is
making improvements on the Bosque
del Apache grant with a view to at
tracing settlers.
Dell Cobb, who some fifteen a
ago was part owner of the Silver City
Enterprise. but who is at present rail-
road editor of the Fort Worth Mining
Register, published at Fort Worth,
Texas, vas a visitor in Deming.
Garfield Hughes of Chicago teie-
graphs his motehr, Mrs. Thomas
Hughes. OF Albuquerque, the interest
ing news hat his wife had presented
him with a bouncing baby boy. Moth
er and child are reported doing nice
ly.
Albino Carrie and Jose Alverez, the
Mexicans who were in Jail al Alamo
gordo under $500 each t o appear
before the next grand jury, for break
ing into a U. s. bonded car. were re-
leased, having succeeded in getting
bail.
The X. p. Hall Association of Ala
mogordo sold TO JACOB Shower the
inside lot that was recently purchased
for 500. Mr.. Shower will probably
erect a building on the lot IT. the
near future. usipg the north wall Of
the X. of p. building.
Nnr-- - The l~ctl - Iycw~~ TT re
fin at Sonora, Mexico has been re-
ceived in Albuquerque. Harry Ciflin
was fofr many years travelling sales
man for f. J. Post & Co, and had
many friends in Albuquerque. Death
was caused by pneumonia, after ten
days illness.
Rumor has it that George Long
moor the veteran sheep man, who
operated in San Miguel county years
ago, but has been a resident of Colo
RADIO for several years, and Is quar-.
cred at the Shelby, in Roswell. may
invest there and become a resi-~nt OF
Chaves county.
A telegram was sent to the Postal
authorities at Washington from Ros-
well asking why it is that the mail for
Roswell has been held at Amarillo
for a week, when it could be sen via
Fort Worth and Pecos. There has
been general complaint about the
matter and it will be looked into.
Two good suits of mems clothing
were found on the river bank near
San Antonio a few days ago, says
the Socorro Chieftain. In the pockets
of one Of the suits there was a small
sum of money and a pawn ticketfrom
a shop in Texarkana. Did the owners
go in for a swim and neglect to come
out again?-that is the question.
There is an excellent prospect that
several families of Germans and
Scandinavians will soon settle in the
vicinity of Socorro. That will be ex-
ceedingly fortunate for SocOrrO as
well as for h people who come. The
Grande valley possesses attractions
of soil and climate that are bound to
compel recognition sooner or later.
The members of the Roswell fire
department held their third annual
banquet at the Grand Central hotel
down there. The banquet, which waz
attended by the members of the d,
partment, representatives of the city
council, the insurance companies and
of the local press, was an affair OF
much pleasure to all who we're present.,
The first base ball game of the sea
son at Albuquerque vas played at the
fair grounds. The competing teams
were the Old Town Tigers and a pick.
ed team. The Tigers won by a score
OF 10 to L.. The Tigers also played
two innings with the Como Estamos
team. The score was s to IL in favor
of the Tigers. The Tigers will n
bats with the Santa Fe Pacific boys
on next Sunday.
The New Mexico Oil and Develop
ment company has struck water IN
the well being sunk near Flat Top
mountain out from White Oaks. The
strike was made at a depth OF 24D
feet. The water rose 100 feet imme'
diately after it was struck. The drill
is now in blue clay which is consid-
ed to be a very favorable oil indica-
ton and which forever destroys the
theory hat oil. If any ever existed,
was burned up by the Ma Pals erup'
ton, as in that case the clay should
be a reddish brown cast instead OF
blue.
Doctor Kittell has, at the solicita'
ton of the city council, consented to
take charge of the city park. 1t Will
of course, take some time to restore
the park to the condition In which
DIR. Kittrell left it two or three years
ago. but it will be done. Citizens have
already subscribed over a hundred
doll rs to meet the Immediate ex
peuse necessary. 1t is to be hoped
that this, the only really ornamental
public spot in the city will never
again be allowed to be brought to
the verge of ruin at the hands Of
jugglers.
Special officer Billy Smith of Ala
mogordo arretsed a man who gave hi!
name as Thompson on the charge o
unlawfully carrying a concelet
weapon. He is unknown to anyone
there. He had on two pair of trous
ers and between them he carried
large number of pistol and rifle car
tridges. He also had a rifle in an olt
pice of quilt. The man would give n,
detailed account of himself but sait
he came from Douglas. but had M
scrap of paper of any kind by which
he could be identified. This. in addition
to several suspicious circumstances
led the officers to believe that he Il
an scaped convict from somewher,
and his picture was taken and officers
in various parts of the country ar,
being communicated with. Thomp
son. which is thought to be ar as
sumed name is nov in jail.
Last Thursday evening, while en-
gagged in drawing water in the old
fashioned way from an ol~d-fashionet
well with it's two old fashioned buck
cts, the 15-year-old step-daughter o
Anastacio Tome of Las Cruces. wa!
hit on the head by N of the buckets
thrown to the bottom of the well,
distance of fifty feet, and instantl.
killed. A little sister was near and saw
the girl plunge into the depths of thu
well. and, booking after her. saw thu
unfortunate one laundering in tn,