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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19
Homestead Entry No. 5019.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

department OF the Interior,
Land Office at Santa Fe. N. NJ,
Sept. 5, 1903.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol
lowing.named settler has filed notice
Of his intention to make final proof
in support Of his claim. and that said
proof will be made before Probate
Clerk Of San Miguel county at Las
Vegas, N. M, on Oct. 18th, 1903, viz:
PERFECTO PADILLA
for the N ~ NE - See. 30. s. ~ Sc
Ia Sec. 20. T. 10 N. II. 20 Il.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation OF said land, viz:
Leandro Sena Of Las Vegas, N. M;
Manuel Sena Of Las Vegas. N. NJ;
Juan de Dios Padilla of Ribera. N
NJ; Simon Garcia of Chavez, N. M.
MANUEL Il. OTERo.
9H Register
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

If every girl thinks she knows how
to play the piano knew how to cook,
the divorce lawyers would 60 into
some other business.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

A rich gold strike is reported in
the Cooney mine property Of the Mo-
COLON Gold and Copper company in
the mountains OF that name.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

Bisbee is looking for a rate war
among the hootblacks Of that town.
There are now five and shines have
gone down to five cents.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

While we never trouble trouble till
trouble troubles us, still we are not
kept waiting long between times, are
we?
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19
The Truth

Il told BY most people. # il were not
the whole commercial and social fabric
would fall to pieces. There are thou
sands upon thousands of people who
testify to the cures effected by Dr..
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

Abdul Hamud might offer the addi
tional excuse that Vice Consul Magell
ssen was only Web Davising.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19
A4
Re Time Table.

sArT Bausn.
No. Z rsss arrive i;ai y. N Dep 2:io D. IN,
! Ne arrive i.s i leepgIs4aa d. ii.
No. the III ted, on We II. sdast an sapr-
days. arr va 4 .6a NJ, ii parts 4 40 i, M.
~ssr souAD
NJ rsse. sfsiys II IS .. N. Dep 20 p.us
No I rass. srriye 5:i5 d N. !" $50 Il. m,
No. .. the California limited, Mondays and
Thursdays, arrives $40 a. M, departs
a.45 IL. h.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19
Many School Children are sIekIy.

Many School Children are eIckiy.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children. usca by Mother Gray. q
nurse in Children's Home. New York,
break up Colds in "a hours, cure fever
ishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles
Teething Disorders. move and regu'
late the bowels, and Destroy worms,
Mrs. Emily Maronn. Meriden. CT,
says: ut Is the best medicine In
the world for children when feverisf
and constipated." Sold by all drug
gists or by mail. CSC. Sample sent
Free. Address Allen s. Olmsted. Lc
Roy; y. =.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

A company has been formed to work
the immense placer gold workings in
southern Santa Fe county.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-09-19

7-s9.4mo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
THE FAMILY REUNION.
No other Dny In All the Year Serves
the Purpose of Thanks
giving Dny.
S. S. Times

Thanksgiving day serves a purpose
supplied by no other day in the year,
says writer in Christian Work. 1t
brings the members of the old home
together once more; it brings up the
old times and recalls to mind the dear
ones, some giving THANKS in far-away
homes of their own, some of them,
alas! not to unite with us at the
Thanksgiving board as in former
years. But none the less hearty and all
the more tender will be the thanksgiv-
ing offered, with gratitude for what she
was-so sweet, so loving, so exalted
her pure life; and there are other
blessed ones of earlier years.
At this time, then, of family gather
ings and family rejoicing, let devout
thankfulness lodge in the heart and
find expression from the lips, as we
recall the blessings Of the family rela-
tion-the love. the joy, the hope, the
blessed memories it nurtures; for these
it is which make paradise on earth
and open up vision of that endless
Thanksgiving in the Paradise of God.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
Mary's
Thanksgiving
Proclamation
BY REV. JOHN T. FARIs

EDITORS NOTE This story is based on fact: IL Is
true so far as the two letters concerned. which
actually passed between little girl and governor.
The day before Thanksgiving, and Mary
Tolliver was sick. Poor Mary! How
she had looked forward to the annual
festival! For weeks she had count
ed the days. Grandpa and all the rest
had been invited for that day. And now
she was sick. She had tried to think
she was we'll when her head ached the
night before. But in the morning the
little face was flushed with fever, and
there was family consultation. Then
the doctor was called in.
Just little ague," the doctor said.
Mary knew what ague was; she had
had it before, but never at Thanksgiv-
ing time.
Can you get me we'll for tomorrow"
she asked.
I'm afraid not" the doctor answered,
with a kindly smile. you must be
quiet for few days, and maybe you can
have your Thanksgiving next week"
So word was sent to the relatives not
to come next day. as there would be no
Thanksgiving dinner at the ,Tolliver
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
The Man On Horseback
Mystery of the Battle of KeneSaw Mountain That
Has Never Been Solved

Some time ago." said the colonel,
in the Chicago Inter Ocean, there was
story told of an officer who rode his
horse up the slope of the confederate
breastworks at the bloody angle at
Spottsylvania. No one knew who he
was or what became of him. Now
have story of an officer who rode mis-
horse straight against the dead angle
of the confederate breastworks at
Kenesaw mountain, June 27. 1864, and
it came to me in a strange way. Last
September the survivors of Col, Dan
McCook's brigade, which led the as
sault on that day, held reunion on
the ground they fought over in 1864.
Previous to that members of the
brigade had purchased the ground
about the dead angle, and at the meet
ing last year those present decided TO
erect monument at the angle in
memory of Col. Dan McCook and 9TH
ers or the brigade who fell there.
They invited, through the Nashville
and Atlanta newspapers, the confed-
crates who were in their immediate
front June 81, 1864, to mark with mon
uments the positions occupied by the
men who defended the works and to
give any incidents of the battle seen
from their side which would shed light
on the engagement. In answer to this
invitation several confederate officers
Ger Eakin, of the Twenty-seventh
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

Much depends on Maj Eakin's posi-
ton and its relations to Mitchell's po-
sition, who was to the right of Nc
Cook. II the officer seen by Maj. Eakin
belonged to Mitchells brigade the
question is still, Who was he?
"W. ]. Whitthorn, of the First Ten
nessee regiment (Maney's brigade,
Cheatham's division). says his rcgi-
ment held the confederate breastworkB
at the dead angle against the assault
from beginning to finish. In letter
testifying to the desperate bravery OF
those who made the charge, he stated
that two union flags were planted on
the confederate breastworks, one In
front of his company, and that both
were captured, three men being killed
in the struggle to seize the flags. Mai.
Eakin also speaks of union flag
planted on the breastworks to his
right. Now the only flag that | saw
on the rebel breastworks that day was
that of the Fifty-second Ohio, and
that was not captured. Who carried
the flags that Mr.. Whitthorn says we're
captured in his front?"
I'm regard to Col. Harker," said tho
captain, my recollection is that on the
9th of June, 1864, he rode white
horse. Therefore the officer riding a
dark chestnut seen by Maj. Eakin
could not have been Col. Charles G.
Harker, commanding the brigade TO
McCook's left. Col. Harker was on
horseback at point between the creek
and the confederate works when he
was wounded. l do not believe the
officer described by Eakin came from
Mitchells brigade. l saw Col. John u.
Mitchell commanding the brigade ON
foot, and l think other field officers
had followed McCooks example and
had sent their horses back. know
that 10 Swan, of Company G, Fi%y-
second Ohio, took back the horses OF
Col, Holmes. and that with him were
men leading the horses of McCook and
others. Several of the boys remember
that the body of a chestnut sorrel hoIse'
lay near our line. But this does not
answer Maj. Eakin's question"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

year ago l was pretty successful en-
tertainer of bachelors myself. 1 hope
L"
"Oh, that's all right. 1 don't mind
your doing all you can, but this thing
OF breaking out into society-you
know we agreed to stay in the back
ground. can't afford the kind of a
start we both believe in and"
There you go!" she snapped "Who
said anything about a big society
function? You know l have four or
five dear personal friends-of course
mean girl friends-who would fall over
themselves to attend ever so simple a
party of mine"
"Oh, don't know" said Tom, trying
to read his paper, sip his coffee and
talk all at the same time. 'Of course
If you tell them that Horace is hand
some, young and rich, they'll all come.
Most young women would. They"
How smart we're getting!" sneered
Kate. Then, as he remained silent,
she resumed in tones in which a trem-
olo threatened the asperity. Thomas
Kingsland, you're positively unbear-
able!"
She got UP and was flouncing out of
the room when he caught her hand and
said:
"Oh, here, Kate! Don't get angry.
You know / was sick and tired of these
society people when l met you. / don't
mind Martha, she Is a corker, but
for heavens sake don't go giving a
big party. l wouldn't enjoy it, Hor-
ace wouldn't, and, besides, If you send
out big list the very people you care
least for will come, and the very best,
the kind we need, will stay away.
Isn't that the way it always happens?"
That's just what l was going to say
II you hadn't stopped me with your
horrid objections" resumed the pla-
Gated Kate, my idea would be a nice
little Thanksgiving dinner here at
home with let's say, eight guests. in
Guiding Horace. 1t wouldn't cost"
"Oh, don't care what it'd cost II
there's to be only ten of us, but l don't
think you can get eight young folks
together for just a dinner. and with
married folks. too! They won't come
Kate!"
"They will, Toni"
"Oh, Martha might. dare say
you've been telling her about Horace
and"
"Yes, | have! / don't deny it," said
Kate sharply, sure of her ground
They're suited to each other exactly
and II / can help matters along, you
bet / will! So there!"
"All right, Missie." he grinned, get
ting up; "go ahead. but I'll bet you q
sealskin they all don't come-not even
half Of them."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

tennessee, was sent the proceedings
of the reunion of Col. Dan McCook's s
brigade at Chicago in 1900.
After reading the recollections of
the men on the union side and study
ing the maps made by union officers,
marking positions and the spot where
McCooll fell, Maj. Eakin wrote, recall
ing many things that the men of Nc
Cooks brigade had forgotten. Among
these was the story of an officer on
horseback who rode dark chestnut
horse to within ten steps of the con-
federate breastworks, where his horse
was shot. Maj. Eakin and his men
watched this officer closely as he rail-
lied his men after the first repul3e
and led them in second charge, and
have always believed that he was Col.
Dan McCook.
Noticing, however, that Col. Nc
Cook was shot at a different point in
the line, and that not one of the
brigade at the reunion in 1900 men
toned such an officer, Maj Eakin
asks, ii the gallant fellow was not
Col. McCook, who was he? All the
boys of the Fifty-second Ohio know
that Col. Dan McCook was on foot dur
ing the charge, and that he was shot
at the top of the confederate breast
works. 1t is certain that the officer
was not McCook, and no one of our
regiment seems to have seen any off,
Ger at the point where Maj. Eakin saw
his man.
Maj. Eakin's letter, however, set
the boys to thinking, and S. w. Rilea,
of the Eighty-siXth Illinois, remem-
Bers that after our brigade had fallen
back 81 steps an officer on horseback
passed from the right to the left just
in the rear of our position. The men
were busy throwing up rifle breast
works, and few noticed him. In few
minutes a man came from the left and
rear with buckskin gauntlet, on the
cuff of which was written in ink :he
name of Col. Charles G. Hayker, who,
he reported, had been killed. The
question Is, Was the officer Rilea saw
the officer referred to by Mai. Eakin,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

and was he Col Harker, commanding
the brigade on McCook's left?
This question remains to be az
swered. 1t is desirable that some OF
Harker's brigade mark the exact spot
where their commander fell. This.
may answer the question, but Maj.
Ealiin's description of the officer re-
minded Col. T. ]. Holmes, of the Fifty
second Ohio, that he had heard num-
ber of his men in discussing the bat
tie between June 81 and July 2, 1864,
refer freqently to mounted staff off,
Ger who appeared in the thick of the
fight near three large trees which
stood to the right of the dead angle.
He rode between these trees and the
right of McCook's brigade as it adj
vanced, and while he spoke to no one
he was as cool as man could be. He
disappeared when the assault failed.
No one recognized him, and Col.
Holmes supposed he was a staff officer
acting under orders from Sherman or
Thomas. But who was he?
"Col. Allen l.. FahnestoclI, who COM
manded the Eighty-siXth Illinois at
Kenesaw, is positive that there were
no mounted officers in McCook's
brigade at the time of the charge. He
suggests that Maj. Ealiin may have
seen some officer of Col. ]. G. Mitchell's
brigade. Mitchell had better grounor to
charge over than McCooks brigade,
and many of his officers were mounted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
The Civil War and Crime.

Among the influences which have
powerfully affected the primary causes
of crime and are sources of this pres
ent epidemic is the effect of the civil
war. Though the reabsorption into
the body polite of SO many discharged
soldiers without great and sudden
change in the morale of the people was
most remarkable, and creditable alike
to the institutions and spirit of the
country and to large majority of the
soldiers, 1t is still true that the evil
done by that war to public and private
morality was almost irremediable.-
From James M. Buckley's THE Pres
ent Epidemic of Crime" in Century.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

Some time before the civil war, and
while he resided in southern Illinois.
John A. Logan once found it necessary
to doubt the veracity of a man consid-
erably older than himself, and told
him so.
Don't you call me liar, sir" said
the man excitedly; II have a reputa-
tion to maintain, and mean to main
tain it If have to do 1t at the point OF
pistol"
"oh," said Logan. that won't be nee
essa?y You maintain your reputation
all right every time you tell lie."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
(0nsznH H!g;5zsalyQes H!;5z
1Ez'@ z5z5G1ace
BY John HRdffelT

They were one of those trusting up
to-date young married couples who
profess to scorn the old-fashioned
weaknesses of the newly wed. AL
though they had been one for more
than a year they still hugged the be-
lief that their conduct on the honey
moon had fooled everybody into the
notion that they were well settled
man and wife. They didn't use dear"
nor Sweet" in addressing one another,
and in fact after IL happy months they
believed that their experience was at
least one emphatic mo" to the ques-
ton: "Is marriage a failure?"
Kate" said Tom Kingsland to his
wife at breakfast, Cousin Horace
Capt. Horace Kingsand-is coming
down for Thanksgiving. You know
how he treated us when we were in
Toronto?"
"He was grand, that's what he was,
Toni" she radiated, pouring the cof-
fee with new zest. "He was lovely to
us, and we must"
That's what l was going to sug-
gest," broke in Tom. I'VE must do
something for him"
Just leave it to me, Tom. And say,
Tom, he must meet Martha Dinwiddie.
She's"
"Oh, there you go, Of course!
Matchmaking. Why on earth can't a
man have good time without getting
all tangled up with wom-"
"Thomas!"
81 was going to say why can't a
man, visitor, have good all-round
time without being harnessed up with
a lot of women he never saw before
and may never see again? Now
don't think Horace cares FOR society.
My way would be to"
Your way would be to drag him
round to lot of theaters, show him
the stock yards and maybe get him
a visitors card to that hateful club,
where he might be tempted to drink
some of those horrible high-balls Mrs.
Chatter was telling us about. You
seem to forget, Tom with sly
shrug), that it isn't much more than a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

read Mary Tolliver's letter twice, and
then called messenger.
Billie" he said, ''go down town and
buy the biggest turkey you can get, and
express it, with lot of cranberries and
celery, and all sorts of Thanksgiving
goodies, to this address"
Then he called his clerk, and sent Mary
a letter.
Wednesday morning Mother Tolli-
yer handed her the big envelope.
This is what she spelled out:
Having been informed that Mary Toll
liver was Ill on the 2Sth of November, and
was thus prevented from joining in the
festivities incident to Thanksgiving Day,
therefore, recommend that at con-
venient hour on Thursday, December 5,
Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver, together with their
family and such young friends as Mary
may choose to invite, assemble in the din
ing-room and there with hearts full of
thankfulness for country, for home, ana
for the blessed influence of children, par
take Of such bounties as are usually
served in Christian America on the day ap-
pointed for National Thanksgiving, and
that especial attention be given that Mary
shall be bountifully supplied with such
portions OF the natlonal blrd ana WITH Such
other delicacies. as are most congenial to
her."
Just see his name at the bottom,
mamma-the governors name" shouted
Mary. "And the letter is all ribbons anL
red wax on the back. Just to think he did
this for mel"
"Yes, he did it for you, Mary, and you
shall have your own Thanksgiving Day.
But what will you be thankful for, a
week after the time?"
"Oh! I'll be thankful I'm so well again.
Will that do? And can't just as we'll be
thankful this week as last?"
And Mother Tolliver thought she could.
S s Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
ThnnknEIyinR.

Thanksgiving hath her songs of praise.
Her hymns of gratitude and love,
AS favored peoples gladly raise
New anthems to the One above.
King, Ruler Father, Thou whose power
Safely in dangers threatening hour
Gave not defeat. but deigned to bless;
In time OF sorrow bent so near,
Yelling with hope the lonely way;
In our bereavements draped each bier
Newly with amaranths;-to-day
Give we our mete of thankfulneBa.
-L4ana Mitchell. in Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

house. Two days after Thanksgiving
the fever was all gone, and Mary was
very quiet.
What is my little girl thinking OFF,"
Mother Toliver asked.
Il was wondering If we could have a
Thanksgiving day next week, as DR..
Brown said" Mary answered.
ooh, no! Mary" she was told; mot till
next year. You know the governormakes
what he calls proclamation and tells
us when to have Thanksgiving"
But Mary was not satisfied. She
thought all day, and made her plans.
Monday morning she asked If she
might write letter. Just my very
own" she said.
Mother Toliver gave leave very will
ingly But 1t must be short" she added
1t was a short letter which Mary
handed to her mother two hours later.
This is what she said:
"Dear Governor: Please can we have an
other Thanksgiving Day, and have It next
Thursday? l was Sick and SO Grandpa and
the others didn't come, and could not eat
amy Turkey. / amt very big, but like
Turkey. Please let us have 1t.
"Your friend.
MARY TOLLIVER."
wont you send it. mamma?" she
pleaded,
Mother Tolliver thought 1t would not
hurt TO send 1t. so the letter went that
might
At the capitol the governor was very
busy. II was near the end of his term
and hs hBd q great deal to do. But he
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
RIDICULOUS.

Mrs. Turkey-Where have you been,
pa?
Mr.. Turkey-I've been seeing that old
hen around the corner, who tells for.
tunes. She's fraud You ought to
have heard the character she gave me-
Said l was Eighty and likely TO lose my
head told me was going to be mixed
up in some kind of an affair with dark
lady, and warned me to look out for Q
bald-headed man with an ak. Did you
ever hear of anything so absurd2-Chi.
cago Record Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
His Preference.

Martingale-she worships the very
ground he walks on.
Gildersleeve-That's all right but he
would rather she'd worship hIn'.-
Town Topics,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
Weight of Shells.

The 13-inch naval gun throws a mis-
sile weighing 1.1CO pounds; the 6-inch
100 pounds.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

year ago was n pretty successful en-
tertainer of bachelors myself. 1 hope
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20

At the capitol the governor was very
busy. 1t was near the end of his term.
and hs hBd great deal to do. But he