Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-05
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New Mexico News seissored eodlI
From the Newspapers.

s. j. JOhnstun of Olio, has moved tC
Fort Wingate, where he has secured 9
job Of work for the present.
John Holland, wife and daughter
Miss Mary, returned to Ration from q
several days visit I Trinidad.
w. j. Skeed has purchased the
frame residence of ]. NJ. Nichols in
the south part Of Huntington.
e. ]. Dedman, assistant general
manager of the E. p. & N. e. arrived
at Santa Rosa from Alamogordo.
Married, Tuesday morning in Las
Cruces, by Father LAssaigne, Miss
Maria Uranga to Jose Ma. Searbia.
A card at the postofice window in
Ration conveys the information that
hereafter the Office will close at 6 p. m
Buke Maupin left Pennington for
the trading post II Billie Meadows
where he will AXE a position as clerk
Santa Rosa is soon to have a new
furniture and hardware store. The
building for the same will soon be
begun.
Mr.. Ladwig, a wealthy stockman OF
Sumner. Iowa, died of consumption
last Thursday at Corona on an incom'
ing train.
A strike Of gold is reported from q
place 80 miles northwest of Captain
by parties who came from there to
Alamogordo.
Cashier Wyatt Of the international
Exchange bank at Ell Paso is danger.
ously Ill. He was formerly with the
A1amogordo bank.
Miss Marion LeDuc has been on the
sick list In Las Cruces. Miss Beth
Foster has been substituting for her
at the mission school.
The Denver newspapers announce
the engagement of John Pels. a former
Ratonite, to Miss Wright. daughter of
the mayor of that city.
Rev.. Samuel MagiH. pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Ration, is
home from a visit to Phoenix, Ariz.,
and other southern points.
Prof. Skeats and r. H. Williams
came over to Santa Rosa from Pintada.
We are informed that they are putting
up two more water treating plants.
Last Friday night at the college dor.
mitory in Las Cruces Miss Edith Davis
gave a reception to the seniors which
is reported "the" event of the college
social season.
Capt. Wilkerson OF Alamogordo ar
rested P. j. Reddy wednesday upon
complaint Of w Wagner, who alleged
that Reddy appropriated the sombrero
OF the complainant.
+. C. Baird of the firm of Anderson
& Baird, cattle merchants of Ell Paso,
Texas last week purchased HOO head
OF cattle from w. w. Cox. the San
Augustine hereford cattle king.
There are a number of good reser-
voir sites on the La Plata that should
be utilized for storing flood waers.
They are not expensive to construct
and could be made cooperative.
Engineer Small and party of the Ala
mogordo & Deming railroad surveying
outfit, came up to Las Cruces from
Deming to take up and finish the sur
vey OF the road from the Organ noun
tains to ~Alamogordo.
General BENJAMIN Adams came into
Santa Rosa from the oil well on the
Salado Sunday evening. He says
Tho tooIc ore ct;I1 foctopo5 IN tho xrolr
but they expect to get them out soon
and resume drilling.
The Rev. Mr.. Renison Of Albuquer-
que Is strongly urging the need of a
new Episcopal church building in
that place. He writes the New Mex
leo and Arizona Mission that $2,45O
have been promised, leaving $4,000
yet to be raised.
Theodore Rouault, the man who
made Las Cruces famous has tent
Representative Llewellyn a case of his
canned green chill, and each member
of the legislature has been served with
sample cans Of the same.
The report of Territorial Treasurer
Vaughan for the same period shows:
Balance December 1, 1902, $24S,49 9
receipts $237.573; total to be accounted
for. s4s6.022: payments during the
quarter. $126,1S9: balance March 1,
$359,SS3.
Sheriff Littrell and his deputies are
busy serving subpoenas on the cfti-
Gems of Colfax county selected to serve
their country as jurors during the
coming term Of district court. which
will convene at the court house in
Ration Monday, March 10th.
G. w. Naming has entered suit in
the district court of Colfax county
against the London, Liverpool and
Globe Insurance company to ecover
the amount IL $40, which he claims
is due him on a policy on his resi-
dence house recently burned in Max
well City.
Miss Clotilda Stern. of Allegan,
Michigan, and ]. J.. Noise, Of Santa
Rosa. N. NJ, were married at the
Hotel Savoy, down there, at 7:30 o.
clock last Wednesday evening by Rab-
bi Mayer. The bridal couple was
attended by Miss Hattie Noise. Miss
Rosa Stern. Gus Stern and Julius
Stern, brothers and sisters Of the
bride and bridegroom.
Samuel Friedman, of Ration. has filed
a contest on homestead entry 70. 6S44,
made by Eugene J. Smith. May 10,
1901, for the NE Y of section "a,
80 North. Range "a East. He
charges that Smith left New Mexico
about June of 1901. and went to South
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