Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-12-12

fires and usually get saucy when told
70 move on. MIR Lichty threatens 90
make an example of some of them as
a warning TO others.
Robert Locke. chief clerk in the of.
ice OF Jo King at Belen. comes 20
hountainair once each month AMI
te "a ls more ia love with the country
every time ne comes He has almost
.pe sed 10 take claim. settle down,
set married and go to raising cattle.
w " Brown has returned from a
,is't nome folks at Winfield,
Naneas He brought back some hno
Kansas apples and lot Of good coun-
try made sausage, which was rare
re0t IN this country of tin cans and
bologna Mr. Brown had an enjoyable
visit and came home feeling 1ne.
James II. Cant, who has a party IN
he kanZano mountains for the bio.
ogical survey. agricultural depart
ment. has just returned from a trip to
Albuquerque. He Will go to the San
liza mounains in week or two and
rom there will work down the river
=
nd for the season. He has secured =
aumber Of fine animal specimens In
he Nanzauos. but as yet has bagged
| neither boar nor panther, two animals
ne wants most.
w + Bartel has his feed barn al
nos, completed anl will soon be In
position 20 take care OF transient
| horses In good shape.
Frank Dalby, commissary man for
gggeston q Matthews, at this place.
asst summer, writes that he does net
ike Colorado and Is coming back. He
will take a claim near Mountainair
During the absence of Al Cole and
Harry Cluff from their claim the 9th
ar day. somebody stole a lot of fine
dickens, some OF which they had just
gotten home the day before. This
ooks like civilization had arrived
More game Is reported in the Man.
lanos this fail than for several sea.
sons Turkey and deer especially are
reported abundant A party OF Noun
,ainair sportsmen are preparing for a
weeks hunt and will start in a few
days.
There is no question that a gang
# organized thieves is operating in
his vicinity. The thieves are bold
nongh 10 dispose Of stolen meat IN
he nearby settlements. and have ae
yet avoided trouble on account OF in
sufficient evidence to convict, but this
,annot last much longer The Anti.
Horse Thief association at Eastview
has now taken the matter mp and ev-
cry EFFORT will De made 10 stop the
deviiment
James u Cant OF the biological sur
yey. who has party In the Manzano
mountains hal three horses stolen
last wek He took the trail while q
was not ana foJnd one of them stakcd
b a few miles from camp. He found
he others IN possession OF a MeNi'
can. who opened fire with a Winches-
,er as soon as MY Cant made his ap
pearance The fire was returned and
the Mexican sought shelter In the
nearby woods and he has not been
seen since Whether he was part oi
The organized gang operating through
here or was trying his hand alone is
not known. but Mr. Cant says he viii
give him a mighty warm reception Il
ne ever comes back.
The first snow of the season. meas
! uring five inches fed Thursday nigh
and Friday OF last week Stock watei
was getting very scarce and this snow
vas boon 10 the sheep men.
The star route mail service thi'
i side the mountains is an outrage. NJ
other word will express 1t. The mai
, that left Albuquerque on December
reached Mountainair on Monday. De
cember Z TO make matters wors,
The letters that went out Thursday o
last wek came back in Mondays mail
This makes them almost a week late
The mail that left Albuquerque Frida,
Il Of last week Is still In transit
should have reached here Monda,
' morning Hardly a mail arrives tha
y somebody Is not short papers, and a
the people OF this vicinity depend ol
g papers to keep in touch with the out
side world this continual misplace
:. ment OF papers gets monotonous
More than once recently the letter
=, for this place have been side tracke
p, somewhere and arrived two days late
: Such condition OF affairs may in tn
: years gone by have been satisfactory
but there are too many "grlngos' !
p" this valley nov TO put up with II muC
longer And all this in face of tn
~ fact that Mouutainair is only fourtee
. miles from Willard. station on III
Santa Fe Central, from which
:, could be supplied with daily mail 2
- less cost to the government than III
tardy stor route service now enio'
od CD