Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-26
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.


who lived in Ration twenty years ago,
were visitors In Ration St. Patrick's
day and of course attended the dance
The body Of John Coyle, who died
in California the 18th inst, accompa.
panied by his wife and son, Dan, ar
rived in Ration and was buried In Mt.
Calvary cemetery.
VIM. Boulding and wife of Charming,
Texas, arrived in Ration and went out
to the ranch home of Alvin Ash, TO
visit for a few weeks with Mrs. Boul-
din's sister, Mrs. Ash.
The Johnson Mesa postofice, known
as Bell, has been moved from George
Honeyfield's to Jack Utton's residence.
Sign posts at several points indicate
where the postoffice is located.
News from Glenn Woody camp in
the lowr part of Taos county, states
they are pushing WORK on the new
mill and the owners will have the mill
ready to begin treating ore sometime
this spring.
Earle F. Sidebottom has resigned as
st~enographer of the courts OF the 5th
judicial district and has been succeed
ed by w. E.. Barker. Mr.. Sidebottom
has zone to Alamogordo where he will
practice law.
The sick of Red River are all i'm
proving. but very slowly, with Mr..
and Mrs. J. c. McCollum. Mrs. T. A.
Nelson is able to set up part of the
time and Mrs. r. w. Penn is up but
is still very weak.
The name Of the coal mining camp
of Willow has been changed to Van
Houten. and the name Of the side
track and junction which connects
Van Houten with Santa Fee, has been
changed from Hebren to Preston.
Charles c.. Catron a returned from
a six weeks trip to the timber belt in
Washington and Oregon. He Visited
that section for the purpose OF locat-
ing some thousands of acres of forest
reserve script upon the timber land.
Governor Otero has appointed PaC
B. Otero I O be fish md game wardel.
until the legislati.c council next
meets. He has also appointed Anto-
Mo Alarid of Santa Fe county, to be
messenger and door-keeper to the gov
ernor for two years.
Miss Carrie Thomas has opened a
hotel at the corner Of Don Casper av-
enue and Water street in Santa Fe.
The resort will be known as the Nor
mandie. She has condg ted an eating
house in connection with the Claire
hotel up to this time.
B. Maddox and Eric Anderson, own
ers of the Blackhawk group of min
ing claims in Red River, have been
pushing work on that property alt
winter. They have run a tunnel 215
feet to cut the lead which they ex-
pect to encounter any day. The prop
erty is situated up Bitter creek.
o. d. Warnock. Of Alamogordo, an
nounces that he is now prepared to
put up concrete houses made out of
Ancho cement This cement is very
similar to white sands cement, but is
said to be heavier, being fground out
of gypsum rock. while the white SAND
cement is made of the gypsum sands.
C. s. McCurry, a tank man at the
shops, who is well known in Alamo
gcrdo, had an untrustworthy room
mate and in consequence lost about
SIS from his pockets Tuesday night
while asleep. Chas. Hammond, who
has been running a dray wagon for
Jas. Blakely for several months, Is
charged with the theft.
Found rtions have beer broken for
four tr~k cottages on the Glorieta
orchcri on the Cerrillos road, near
the Deaf and Dumb asylum in Santa
Fe. The houses have already been
rented and that before they are built,
and it is said that eight brick cot
tages could just as easily have been
rented even before the foundation
was begun.
Governor Otero has granted a full
and complete pardon to Angel Car
rion. who was convicted in Dona Ana
county in April. 1902. of stealing cattle
and sentenced To be confined in the
~penitentiary for one rear M n
tn. The pardon was recommend
ed by Judge Parker who tried the
case. and by w. ii. H. Llewellyn, who |
prosecuted it as district attorney.
Governor Otero has appointed the
following notaries public: Robert G.
Balcomb, of Algodones, Sandoval
county; John A. Farley. of Portales, I
Roosevelt couSty; Isidor Frueden-
berg, of Bernalillo county; Jose A.
Lucero. of Espanola, Rio Arriba coun-
ty; Thomas J. Pridmore. of Richard
son, Lincoln county; Luther NJ. Shelly,
of Santa Rosa, Leonard Wood county; |
Samuel w. Young, of Bland. Sandovaf
county.
Friday afternoon as Chief Justice
Mills appeared at the court house In
he found a young couple await
ing him who desired to be united In
the silken bonds of wedlock. The
Chief Justice announced that he would
quite happy to perform so pleas
ant a duty and accordingly Miss Elsie
Taylor and William E. Maroon were
made man and wife. Both are from
Trinidad. and were accompanied by |
Mrs. Maroon and Mrs. Hattie Hughes,
also of Trinidad.
The st. Louis Land and Cattle com
pany has been Incorporated with a
capital stock of $500. 900. divided into
500. 900 shares. Of the par value of 81