Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-29
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
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erection OF a pretty brick cottage
on Cerrillos road. near the capital, to
Harvey & Eastgate.
Epifanio Martinez and Gabriel Teno-
rio fired a few shots at each other at
Veda h other day. No one was hurt.
They were up before Judge Spring
Thursday and he bound them over to
the grand jury for being such poo
marksmen.
Ross anG Mort Mcmillan and Jim
Berry started Wednesday on horse
back for the Bursum & Mcmillan
sheep ranch east of San Antonio.
Their was a promise, express or inn
piled. that they would regale their
friends with bear meat on their re-
turn.
w. n. Fleck and j. G.. Cravens, stock
men of Delta county. have purchased
the McCorkle cattle, about 1000 head,
paying for them SIS, 900. These cattle
are ranging between Tularosa and
Nal Pals and will be rounded up at
once and located at Windy well, below
Dog inc
The following homestead entries
were made yesterday: Antanacio
Chavez, Grants postofice, 100 acres,
Valencia county; Herman l.. Sails
bury. Ration postoffice, 100 acres, Col
fax county; J. V~ialpando, Jardin post
office. 100 acres, Mora county: Modes
to Padilla. Jardin postoffc 159 acres,
Mora county.
w. G. Mcdonald Of the Carrizozo
Cattle company has shipped during
the week from Carrizozo station. over
one hundred head OF cows. They go to
Kansas for feeding and pasture. Early
IN May the same company will ship
TO Canada $500 head Of steers. NJ.
Mcdonald is disposing of all of his
loft colored'' stock and will in the
future run only cherry reds with white
faces.
The forty men selected as an escort
to President Roosevelt at ! lbuquerque
have left Fort Wingate and IRE riding
overland to this city, being scheduled
to reach the city Sunday morning. The
baggage and camp outfit will come
along on the train. The soldier boys
are under Lieutenant Poillon, and con-
stitute three non-commissioned Off
GERS. n hospital corps man and thir-
ty-six troopers, all of the amous Four
teenth cavalry.
Superintendent Aliens little son,
Joe. of Carlsbad, had the misfortune 10
break an arm Saturday afternoon.
While playing he fell our of his little
express wagon into The drain ditch,
Ill Alameda street, ,.ri sustained a
fracture of the arm above the wrist.
He IS getting along Hicely, but NJ
Allen thinks this country is hard on
children's bones, as only a short time
since. his little girl fell off ner burro
and sustained injuries to one of her
arms.
On Tuesday. the directors and a
number of the members Of the Carls-
bad Improvement league met 1T the
court house for the purpose of consid-
cring some appropriate manne of Gel.
ebrating the completion of the on
crete aqueduct. and its baptismal with
Pacos river water which it will here
after perform an important part in
conveying To the farmer. fruit raisers
and stockmen of the lower Pecos val
ley Banquet. ball. speechmaking will
eventuate.
At 2:36 o'clock yesterday afternoon
in A~lbuquerqrr the fire department
was called CT, by a still alarm for a
second tim to e~xtinguish a fire in the
floor of the Coal avenue viaduct. The
timely arrival of the firemen prevent
ed what might have been the total
destruction OF the viaduct. The wind
was blowing a fierce gale. and had the
flames gained any heajway whatever
the fire could not have been controlled
before having consumed at least one
half of the big structure.
Manuel Chavez. an officer in Alamo
gordo. heara that a drunken Mexican
made a gun play at a woman Meeting
the man The officer asked him have
you got tat gum" Yes. here it is"
was the answer. as he began to shoot
at the officer. The latter returned
the fire. No one vas hurt. Then the
hombre ran away. but being caught
was fined $50 for carrying a pistol.
He had $47.50. which was paid over.
Then Justice O'Reilly gave him a Jail
sentence for resisting and shooting at
the officer.
While at the ranch of MaximilianO
Garcia i'm La Luz canon Sunday night
last. Estevan Balderrama killed Ga
briel Duran, a son of Victor Duran. an
old resident of that section of New
Mexico. The boys had been drinking
wine at Garcia's place. Without any
p~rovocation Balderrama called Duran
to the door. saying not a word there to
him. and deliberately shot him dead
i'm the doorway. and then left for the
brush. Balderrama's family live in
Alamogordo. Information of the kill
ing was not received by the sherifs
office until Tuesday
Lumber mill No. l at Alamogordo
will be started up next Tuesday after
several weeks idleness h a a new
boiler could be rlaced and a general
overhauling be SVEN. The capacity
for producing win be 40 per cent more
than that of IN Il No. 2, which is now
used as a substi re. The pond of No
| has just been cleaned after long ser
vice. ZOO sunken logs and 5000 yards