Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-20
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

H-ouN Aalncl Vi q n~iut-pOuUU girl.
The Confidence mine at Fairview
has temporarily closed down and work
transferred to the Iron mountain
claims.
George Tindall has moved down 10
Springer from Halls Peak this week
with his family and will farm the
Winburn place, two miles northeast
OF the city.
The school attendance in Springer
has fell of during the past two weeks,
so that the directors have decided TO
discontinue n room for the next
month, merging those scholars into
the other rooms.
The snowfall at Cloudcroft for II
months was COS inches, no other sta
ton in New Mexico reporting such a
precipitation. The abundant snow
fall in that neck of the woods is what
makes the woods.
Miss Carrie Johntz and Edward
Johntz and Miss Alice Sterte of Abb
lene. Kas.. and Miss Mabel Brinker-
man of Great Bend. Kas., raw in
santa Rosa. The party are visiting
NJ. II. b.. Jones. his mother and his
sister, Miss Vera Jones.
Injunction paprs were served on
George Richardson Thursday from
the Dur of the third judicial district
forbidding him to prosecute an action
Tor damages against the Z. p. & N. Z.
Railway company outside New Mexico,
under a decision rendered last week
by Judge Parker.
Manuel r. Martinez, formerly edi-
tor of the Democrat of Santa Rosa.
came down there from Clayton in re-
Spouse TO a telegram informing him
OF the serious illness of his little sis
ter, Eloisa. He arrived too late. how
ever, to see her. as the i lie sufferer
was dead when he reache there.
John Brockman. who has grown
wealthy through his minl... interest,
in Arizona and in southern New Mex
leo, is in Albuquerque. Mr.. Brock
man is the manager and oIe of the
owners of the celebrated Common
wealth mine at Pearce, Ariz. he
makes his nome in Los Angeles.
C. c. Small, surveyor of the Alamo
gordo az Deming short line railway,
was in town Tuesday for supplies.
The outfit is camped about fifteen
miles from town. They are voting
on the second survey of the roaa-
all OF which looks migi. y Favorable
for the early construction If the line.
J. M. Jacobs and family, Tho for a
number of years have so successfully
conducted the Springer hotel, will
sometime about the first OF May leave
for Tuscon, Arizona, where they will
make their home. Mr.. Jacobs will
id a curio store at Tuscon, a
business he considers more profitable
than running a hotel.
Five hobos were arrested for break
mo a lnnE an N frafnh T. ~
Santa Fe yards at Ration. T.. zee of
them were fined S. and costs. and the
other two have not yet had a trial.
The three who were fined were as
devoid of money as a newborn babe
is of teeth, and the entire quintette
rests in durance vile in the county
bastile.
Frank Roy of Roy, enc of the best
citizens of all Mora county, spent
Wednesday in Springer. returning
Thursday To his home. He, with his
brothers, own the TOWNSHIP of Roy and
are d~isposing OF some of the lots al
ready. There are about fifty people
living there. and MIR. Roy expresses
great hopes of making it quite 4 ;hriv-
ing little town in the not far distant
'uiu y res,onse - a. ,nou,rr =
torney II. q. Robbins of Santa Pc,
Judge Mills advises him that Guada-
lupe county or Leonard Wood county
viii have no spring term of court.
The reason given is: No court house
or jail in Santa Rosa. and no suitable
place for holding court. This will be
lard upon prisoners n expensive to
the county. Some of the inmates of
the county jail have been imprisoned
for a year without trial.
Last Monday evening, ten miles
yest of Roy, at the ranch home of
Trinidad Lucero, A. S. Bushkevitz and
ID. III. Boyd engaged in an alteration
in which several shots were fired by
both parties. AAJ no one was hurt. 1t
Is said that Boyd called Bushkevitz
out of the house and commenced
shooting at him, when Mr.. Lucero and
William Bushkevitz came out of the
house and took q hand. The affair is
the result of an old feud existing be-
tween Bushkeyitz and Boyd.
While George Davenport and wife
were on their way to the Cook ranch
near Ration from that city, when near
the Red river bridge above Dorsey
their team ran away, throwing Mrs.
Davenport from the wagon and break
Ills uNI it5 bCioW lily hhCC. lhC was
on ran over Mr.. Davenport, bruising
him up considerably. A son of J. NJ.
Higgins was along and took them to
Ration fcr medical attendance. where
they are getting along nicely.
Judge 8. Z. Booth returned to Ra-
ton the first of the week from his so
journ in California. He says he has
seen but very few sunny days since
he ha been on the coast and is glad
to get hack to the country of dry. pure
air and sunshine. The judge states
that Jones, the expert oil locator, who
made some locations in the Ration oil
field for the New Mexico Oil and Gas
company, is regarded as infallible in
southern California.
At Grafton the Sunset Mining com
pany. W. l.. Harper. manager and
principal owner, is at present en-
gagged in timbering the main tunnel,
c. NJ. Root and associates of Hills
boro have closed a bond deal on the
Happy Jack mine owned by Messrs
I.annon & Ryan. The mine is show
ing up well and they nave a good sup
ply of ore ON the dump ready for
treatment and they have leased the
Andrews mill for that purpose. The
mill has been put in good order and
ore is being hauled thereto.
The ease of the territory VS.. Libra
do c. de Baca of Pena nianca
charged with the forgery. of a check
Of Santos Ortiz of Santa Fe on tue
First national bank, was tried in Ai5u'
ouerque. and the jury this morning
returned a verdict of guilty. h ter
ritory's evidence showed that the de
PENDANT had. vii out authority. signed
the name of Sci -os Ortiz to a cheek
for 50 upon ne first national bank
which he had cashed at the saloor
of Bachechi & Cent. which the Frs
national bank paid. and was unable
10 charge to the account of Ortiz. me
defendants story was TO the euec'
that he and Ortiz, with n nae