Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-01
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES.
New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

Judge Baker set the hearing on the
motion to quash for Saturday. The
title to the Office OF county commits
sioner, now held by Thomas C.. Gu
tierrez and Severe Sanchez is in dis
pute.
The New Mexican's information
from Ration is &c the effect that quite
a large number OF residents OF that
town will be in Santa Fee on Tuesday,
May 5. The executive committee of
the Roosevelt reception should ap.
point subcommittee to look after the
comfort of all who may be there on
that cay and also to secure quarters
for them.
Mrs. Francis Seligman of Santa Fe
and Mrs. Fannie Britton of New York
City, who have been visiting Califor-
mia during the past three weeks, re-
turned to Santa Fe- They were in
San Francisco and also paid a visit
to Los Angeles n other towns and
points of interest in the southern part
Of the state. They enjoyed the trip
very much.
The Coal avenue viaduct in Albu-
querque caught fire in a peculiar man
ner. A spark from a passing engine
lodged in some way on the under side
VI thC SAoao(t iOOA Ala A6nALCu II
structure. 1t was smoking away mer-
rily when the IRE department arrived
ON the scene and extinguished it with
the chemicals. A small hole about the
size of a mans head was burned in
! the viaduct.
Walter o. Purdy, a young man from
the east left ST. Josdph's hospital
about the first of the month and was
taken TO St. John, New Brunswick,
in a very %precariOus condition, little
hope Of his recovery being enter
tanned. Word was received by friends
that the young man is showing mar
velonsly rapid improver ent and ap-
pears to be on the way TO complete
recovery.
Fulton Borden, of Albuquerque, and
Miss Ella C~arstens. of Manitowac,
Wis. were united in marriage at the
home of the Rev. G.. F. Taylor, at So
zorro, N. NJ, on Wednesday, April 20.
Mr.. Borden is the son % Mr.. and Mrs.
b. b.. Borden. of Albuquerque, n is
we'll and favorably known in SOco-ro
circles. Miss Carstens is a niece q
John Becker, of Belen. She was for
merly a school teacher in the public
school at that place.
Another bunch of equine beauties
went through for st. Louis from Oak-
iduus Ndis 1AcI WtIt lsCANt uOA
in the car and all were thoroughbred
nner They have been ~ssintering in
California. Among the horses were
Virgie Dor. Dingley Bell, BuffOOn,
Mike Rice, Phil Archibald and Milas.
The animals are the property of Dave
Waldo, Joe Mcdowell and w. NJ. Rog-
ers, F. Farrar and Mr.. Benson were
in charge of the horses.
Darby A. Day, manager Of the Mu-
tusl Life Insurance company in New
Mexico, with headquarters at Albu-
querque, spent Monday and Tuesday
in Alamogordo. He was surprised at
the prosperous and substantial show
ing made by Alamogordo and express
ed the opinion that it would surpass
albuquerque in size in the course of a
few years.-"Fairy Tales"
Not only in Albuquerque and the
surrounding country but all over New
Mexico reports Of the spring clip
continue to be encouraging. Half he
wool delivered to the market at Las
Vegas is contracted for. but there is
a considerably larger delivery there,
than i'm Albuquerque. says the Journal
Democrat, due to the fact that the
MEADOW City continues to draw the
clip from the mammOuth ranges OF
Guadalupe county and the northern
tiers Of counties including Mora and
Union.
Fred NcKeehan, until recently dep
afy Chinese inspector at Ell Pnso, has
been proomted to the Office of chief
inspector or immigration of Arizona,
WIN Office at Tucson. Mr.. Mckeehan
was for scme time chief deputy Unit
cd States marshal of New Mexico n
lived in Albuquerque. He LETT the
marshals Office here to accept a gov
position nj NOgales. Arfz.,
and after a short stay there he was
transferred to FL Paso. His last
Is quite a n~9motion as the ONCE
OF inspector IT immigration is an I'M
portant ore. Mr.. McKeehan is well
and favorably known in this city n
he has a large number of friends here
who will be pleased to learn of his
late good fortune.
In TO the information filed
by the district attorney of the e
ond judicial district IA az Albuquer-
one. charging two of the county com
mtssioners OF B~ernalillo county with
illegal occupation of office. attorney
for the defense flied motion before
Judge Baker to quash on the follow
ing grounds: THAT the information
fled was not signed Dy the Soiicitoh
general; because it appeared that the
REALTORS had no interest in the nc
which the defendants are charged
with having usurped: because the in
formation showed that the
were entitled to the Offices which
they me charged with usurping."
Deputy Sheriff c. II. Huber return
ed to Santa Fee from Lamy with a
strange oma in his custody who Is
evidently demented. She was put on
of a Santa Fee railway train there and
parties at the junction wired to santa
Fe for the sheriff to go down after
the woman She is not inclined to be
hostile. but where she is from and
ner name sho has so far failed to al.
vulge. She states that she boarded
a Santa Fe train at Denver. but does
not know why she was put on at
IAmy, and seems to care a whole iot
less. She amuses herself by talking
in a rambling strain and singing al
ternately. She is in the county jail,
but application will likely be made for
a berth for her in the asylum at Las
Vegas. The states that b Is
~ French and Italian parentage. and
4 IS plainly dressed. When asked where
h was going when put off the train
she made no reasonable reply.
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