Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-26
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New Mexico News seissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

~ NSSh past Win du dttdch Oh Ill
ness.
Mrs. T. J.. Fletcher is very iii al
the home OF Mayor ID. H.. Lucas, suf-
fering from q severe attack Of pncu-
monia.
Mr.. George H. Webster, Jr., the
successful lamb feeder OF Carlsbad,
was in Roswell with j. E. Otis OF
Chicago.
Mr.. Harry jana, the senior mem.
Der of the firm of Jaffa, Calfee &
Co., returned to Roswell from his
trip to Chicago.
Lied. Tuesday night, the TWO year.
old baby daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Howard, on Greene highlands,
In Carlsbad, from pneumonia.
Dorathy, infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Hill of Socorro. is
suffering from a severe fever. Pneu-
monia was feared for a time.
w. II. Sanders was a visitor in So
zorro. MI. Sanders has recently re.
turned from an extended visit in
Texas. Indian Territory and Colorado.
George M. Pendleton has bought
the old Bennett house on Main street
In Cralsbad and is converting same
into a very comfortable and slightly
home.
All reports indicate a large crowd
and an enjoyable n profitable time
at the meeting of the Cattle and
Horse Protective association in Mag.
dalena.
H. c. Barren, who is manager OF
the Hagerman farm at Carlsbad, has
bought the old Mann place in La
Huerta, n will use same as a resi-
dence.
Mrs. j. A. Smiley gave an after
noon tea at her home on Fischer ave-
nue. in Socorro, in honor of her aunt,
Mrs. Isabella Johnston Of Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
E. A. Siegner, whose arrival in
Carlsbad from Ell Campo, Texas, was
~chronicled several weeks ago, has de-
cided to locate and will put in a
lumber yard there.
Wyatt Johnson returned to ROs-
well from Fredericks. o. T., whore he
went to look after the affairs OF his
brother. Carson Johnson. who was ac
cidentally killed there last week.
The third annuel banquet of Dia-
mon lodge No. Is, Knights of Pythias,
given at the Grand Central hotel in
Roswell was like all functions held
by that order, a gratifying success in
every way.
j. w. Wallace and his sister, Miss
Mary, left Roswell for Warren. Ark.
with Raymond, the little son of their
brother, Rev. B. E.. Wallace, who is
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
that place.
Mr.. G. c. MohIer. of Bedford, Ia.
who bought the Rakebrank place
near Hagerman for his son, is so well
pleased with Roswell and the sur
rounding country that he may be.
core a resident himself.
A man named Dan Merritt was &C.
cidently shot by a Mexican bow
name unknown, at Lake Avalon, near
Carlsbad. 1t seems Merritt got in
the way of a shot intended for duck,
but is not seriously hurt.
Wayne Russell, who was in SOcor.
70 from Magdalena thought it would
be an excellent idea for Socorro to
put up a purse for a race on the
Fourth of July between the horses
that ran at Magdalena last week,
U. e. McDaniels of Cooks, has beer
a visitor in Deming. Mr.. McDaniels
is being very strongly endorsed by his
numerous friends, both there and al
Cooks, for the position of county com.
missioner for his district, vice vii.
liam Cotton. deceased.
q. W. Billings and f. O. Creigh.
ton received word in Roswell tina.
their herders and let their herd of
1000 sheep stray of in the snow
storm near Hernandez Lake. up the
H'ecos river. They left next morn
ing TO see If they could find them.
All stockmen are requested to re.
member the date. March 9Th FIR the
neeting OF cattlemen In Carlsbad sor
,se sr.!.se OF %arransiig rians and
details OF work for the spring rOurd.
up for both valley and plains conn
try. = ~
j. F. Hinkle. manager of J.. ]. Hag.
erman's big cattle ranch east of the
Pecos river, returned to Roswell from
C~h1lllcothe, Mo-, where he bought 81
mead OF fine registered Shorthorn
bulls, e and twos. from E. T. Car.
ter of that place.
n old weather of the past weel,
has suspended active work on the
fiume. it being found impossible to
get the men to expose themselves to
the wintry blast: besides, the thick
Ice in the canal prevented the use of
the concrete mixer.
h funeral services of George II
Hutchins at Carlsbad wah under the
exclusive auspices of the local Ma.
sonic lodge. Mr.. Hutchins was a
member of the Abilene Blue lodge
but belonged to the chapter OF the
Royal Arch Masons.
l.. 4. Laidley, J.. II. Sscara S pop..
lar acc ountant at Roswell, has gone
'prr!uIIL. Alc omnseId opcIco) g.
and 1t is quiet1ywhispered that he will
.hcre meet a Burlingto. Iowa, young
lady ir the person of Miss katherine
HciEheke, to whom he will be mar.
ried.
The members of Carleton Post, G..
r.. and the Woman's Relief Corps,
gave a delightful bean bake at Post
hall in Santa Fe Saturday evening. 1t
was a celebration of WashingtOn's
birthday, and the guests of the eve
Efng were the members of the 1egfs.
lature and a few others.
Capt. Matthews states that he is
greatly pleased with the prospects of
business for his telephone exchanged in
Socorro. The number of instruments
called for has already reached eighty,
twice as man. as he anticipated. and
ne thinks the number in use in the
city will yet reach one hundred.
Doctor and Mrs. Duncan are now in
Toledo, Ohio. Word was received in
Socorro that the doctor is improving
repidly every hour and that he has
reached that stage of convalescence
at which his chief hardship is in
waiting for meal time to arrive.
A delegation of citizens of the town
of Old Albuquerque. consisting of Jes-
MS Romero. G. ID. Murphy, Thomas
Werner, A. Zamora and T. G.. Apo
daca, is in Santa Fe actively engaged
in opposing the passage of the bill
introduced by Councilman Albright
providing for a method of annexation
OF contiguous territory by cities and