Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-12
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New Mexico News scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

shape IOT an early start at Elizabeth
J. b. Ashcroft was in Pennington
from Fruitland arranging for some
contract work on the Independent
ditch.
Doc Wallace was in Pennington
from Simpsons trading post. He was
fully as fat as when he made his last
visit.
Horace and Roxie Putnam came
over from Elizabethtown to Red Riv-
er on account Of the sickness Of his
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. McCollum of Red
River, are both down sick. A physi-
clan was called to see them Tues
day.
DIR. r. r.. Green Of Questa, went to
Red River on professional business.
He was called there to see Mrs. Mel
son a.x.xln
T. C. Bryan Of Fruitland, was in
Pennington. He had just completed a
new store building and gave a dance
in 1t
Miles Parker OF Pennington made
a business trip TO Durango and found
the roads almost impossible from Az
tee up. tnassikl;
Tom Sewal is expected In Eliza
beth town from the east soon. He will
then start h work or the Grand
Duchess mine. *.
Ed Terrell of Flora Vista. had his
arm broken by the kick of a colt. He
came to Pennington n had DR.. Ro-
senthal dress the limb.
G. M. Elliott, the manager of the
Pennington Durango stage line, is
building a large frame barn on his
ranch east of Pennington.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. j. Young and three
youngest children left Red River to
visit a few days with friends and rel
atives at Sanford, Colorado.
Mrs. G.. Smith and Mrs. Thomas
Craig of Ottawa, Canada, arrived in
Pennington On a visit to their
brothers, j. c. and Kit Carson.
John Tenny of Bloomfield, was in
Pennington and reports things look
ing promising for the people under
the Hammond ditch this sunni -.
Mr.. Beebe is an applicant for post
master at Elizabethtown. to succeed
DIR. l.. l.. Cahill who has sent in his
resignation to take effect April LIST.
j. NJ. Horn is reported to be very
Ill with paralysis in q hospital at San
ia Fe. Milt's many friends at Hills
OOAV AVRS W AN0A Vi Ills c0Ily lGCOv.
cry.
John Bess is still working the Re-
becca mining claim at Red River. He
this property lately, and from reports
he will make a mine of it.
The Albuquerque lodge of Wood
men OF the World enjoyed a pleasant
evening at their club rooms. Music
and 0vtcs vvorn xho onkc~t-sc
ing features of the evening.
Jesse HARDWOOD is having the ma
terial placed on his grounds and he
expects soon to erect an upper room
to his shop which will be used for
lodge purposes at Pennington.
Mrs. N. ID. Fisher, Owensborough,
KY, came to White Oaks. Master
James Owen Fisher a grand son. is
with her. Mrs. Fisher is visiting her
daughter. Mrs. Atwood Littell.
Rodman p. Bouck and Joe Prewitt
left Pennington for Denver, where
parties in regard to business matters
affecting the San Juan Stores Co.
Mrs. Penrod will close her private
school at Pennington and her pupils
/. will give an entertainment and lunch
at 1hC SCAOOf AOuSC. MIS. AllGu >
room will continue another month at
least. ,s@,E
VIM. Huntington of Pennington,
sold twenty acres on the peninsula
to Clark Duncan for a consideration
Of $1,000. Mr.. Duncan expects t. raise
beets. a business with which he is
familiar. Ia.
The Knights of Pythias entertain
ment at White Oaks was attended
by about eighty people. The address
delivered by John A. Haley was a
story of ~Pythianism tersely told. The
program Of music was good.
VIM. Symonds, father of ex-Justice
Symonds of Pennington. came in last
week for a visit with his son. He re-
sided north of Colorado Springs but
is much pleased with the Pennington
country n will probably remain.
C. H. Laidlow came down from Fair
view to H~illsboro. He had business
before the probate court on Monday.
He says mining matters in northern
Sierra county are looking better than
at any time during the past fifteen
years.
John KAISER. general manager of
the Hillsboro Gold Mining company,
has ordered sufficient 3-inch pipe to
convey water from the Percha below
Hillsboro to the company's mill in
Ready Pay gulch. The pipeline will
be about IL 1000 feet long.
Our mail service for thirty days
past has been --. says the White
Oaks Eagle. The old raw hide line
once in operation from San Antonio
to White Oaks and Lincoln with its
bronchoS, broomtails and hOld-ups,
was a peach compared to a Mogul in
a snow drift as has been the case on
h Rock Island lately.
A team of young horses belonging
to Professor Ross of the Presbyterian
mission school in Albuquerque, tool
fright at some unknown object in
front of the p~ostofiice down there and
broke away from the curb to which
they were hitched and ran up Silver
avenue. creating considerable excite
ment. At Fourth street they locked
with a telegraph pole, breaking the
harness In many places. The horses
were captured a little further up the
street.
Henry Hull, one of the pioneer In
dian traders of the Pennington val.
ley, vas up from Jewett. He has
cleaned out below and is taking a
little recreation, but will be back in
the business again. his old friends
say. He just can't keep ont, you see,
S. E Shoemaker. the government
farmer for the Navajos. was in Farm,
ington from Fruitland looking fol-
some heavy teams which he wished to
purchase for plows to be used on the
Navajo ditch. Mrs Shoemaker accom-.
panied him.
Governor Otero has appointed the
following notaries: William F. My
ers. La Costilla. Taos county; c. A