Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-03
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New Mexico News scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

Santa Fe Will no receive the Fort
reply to the memorabilia sBtasl
Governor Otero has appointed Bon
ham H. Baker, of Portales, Roosevelt
county. a notary public.
The following final homestead en-.
tries were mad yeterday: Jose
Abran Sanchez, Wagon Mound, 100
acres in Mora county; Rumaldo Tru.
jillo. Trementina. 160 acres in San
Miguel county.
X. L. Campbell, who was a mem
Der of the bridge gang working for
D. Lantry & Sons on the Santa Fe
cutoff near Belen, died in Albuquer-
que yesterday morning from pneu-
monia.
Colonel George w. Knaebel, collect
or and treasurer of Satan Fe county,
has paid to j. H. Vaughn, territor-
ial treasurer, the sum of $298.53 ter
ritorial taxes for Santa Fe county
for the month Of March.
District County Clerk A. NJ. Bergere
has made a settlement with the ter
ritorial for the quarter ending March
81. 1903. turning over to the treasury
district court fees for the first judi
cal district received during the quart
err amounting to $4,000.
Charles Foetisch, the father Of Mrs.
Peter Scheck of Albuquerque, died
at carlton, Kans., on the morning of
March rs, n the bereaved daughter
left that night for the grief-stricken
Kansas home. Deceased was about
20 years old and was a prominent
stock raiser and buyer of carlton.
j. Il. Mosley, of Lincoln county, Mis-
souri,, who has been in Santa Fe since
last July with his daughter, Nellie,
VIII go home in a few days. He
brought the young woman there for
her health and she is now improving.
She will remain there for an indef-
mite period.
After April 5 tn mineral divisions
of the surveyor geaerals' Offices of
Colorado, Utah, Wy ming, Idaho and
New Mexico, which are sustained by
deposits from the individuals desiring
he surveys, will be placed under the
the entire force of the offices named
under civil service.
The cen territorial Legislature
passed a bill appropriating the ada
quate sum of $500 for the coastruc-
tion of an armory building in Las We
gas. The bill will have to be passed
upon and approved by congress be-
fore it becomes a law. Major White
mar say there IL little doubt bu
what the bill will come a law, as j.
is for a worthy eau.
Surveyor general l. EVELYN has is
sued an order for the official survey
of tho Whale group of lode mining
claims, comprising the Whale and
Whale mine No. 1, lodes situated in
the Bromide mining district, in Rio
Arriba county. The claimant is the
Bell Royal Copper Mining and Mil
H. nh w,sl1 10
made ny Duane Wheeler, United
States deputy mineral surveyor.
OF all the fiourishing lining camps
near Silver City, Santa Rita stands
the highest. The claims work
ed are beyond reckonink. their num-
Der going far up into the hundreds.
$4,000 worth of copper is ship
ped from the camp every month. Men
are arriving daily from all parts of
the country seeking and receiving
employment.
Deputy u. S. Marshal r. z. Leath-
erman. at noon yesterday, placed
Alonzo A. Avilla in the territorial pen
itentiary. Avilla was found guilty in
the present term of u. S. district court
at Albuquerque of h crime of adult
terry and was sentenced accordingly.
Mrs. ]. Nj. Diaz of Santa Fe has
been sick the past few days. She will
on recovering go to Denver for a
DR.. John Tascher, Of Albuquerque,
has Just received one of the most i'm |
proved X-ray machines from w. Schei-
del & Co. of Chicago. The machine
has been installed in the surgical Of
flee Of DR.. Tascher in the N. T. Ar
milo building. and is attracting n
siderable attention. With this ma
chine a photograph can be taken
through the body of an average man
in a minute and a half.
Tom Sheehan and George Mosher
were picked up in Albuquerque with
a new style of fake jewelry in their
possessioa. which they were trying to
dispose IF below cost. The judge
evidently did not like their appear
ance And the fake jewelry business
not being a strictly honorable Occupa-
ton, he prescribed ten days each OF
the city labor look out for them.
Mr.. J.. A. Bell, who is connected
with Prof. F. A. Jones, Athe well-known
geolOgist and mining expert, confirm
ed the report that he and Mr.. Jones
have disposed of their mining prop
.rty fifty miles east of San Antonio
to the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany. The company had paid down
the sum of 100000 and in July next
will pay over an additional sum or
s25. 900.
j. l.. Hubbell. the stock raiser and
general merchant of Granada, AriZ.,
is Iii Albuquerque on a visit to his ram
ily. He says the valleys and noun
tains of his section of Arizona are
covered with a fine growth Of new
grass. and reports all the water holes
full Of good water. He says the sheep |
men. likewise the cattle raisers. are
jubilant over the fine spring pros
poets. and it is his opinion that the
sheep raisers will realize 80 per cent
in lambs this spring.
Governor Otero today appointed the
following boards of managers of ter
ritorial Institutions: Deaf and dumb
r. j. Pafen n S. q. Cart
wright OF Santa Fe, and Jose A. Lu-
of Espanola: miners hospital, |
A. r. Streicher and M. r. Mandelson
Of Ration. and w. F. McCash of Fol-
som; reform school, Thomas D.. Burns
If Tierra Amarillo. Venceslao Jara- |
milo of Ell Rito, and Pedro Sanchez |
Taos: blind asylum, A. j. King and
A. p. Jackson of Alamogordo, and A.
j. Hager of Mesilla Park.
Governor Otero has accepted the
designations of Captain Bonifaclo LII
rero. First Lieutenant Adolph Men
net and Second Lieutenant Louis
former officers of Company
K. New Mexico National guard, OF
Las Vegas. He has appointed the fol-
as officers of the company:
Captain, A. -R. DaCosta; first lieuten-
Bonifacio Lucero; and second
lieutenant j. C. Lynch The resigna-
of Captain F. HI. Strong. OF Al
buauerque. acting quartermaster OF
the First Regiment of Infantry, was
accepted. o. A. Matson. of Albuquer-
was appointed first lieutenant
and adiutant of the second battalion