Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-22
THE TERRITORY.

,rief Resume of the Important
Doings in New Mex
leo Towns.
INES, FARMS, RANGES, ETC.
The second cutting of alfalfa around
.ztec. San Juan county, is better
han the first.
There Is d vacancy for Santa Fe
ounty for a cadet to the Military In.
titute at Roswell.
The Ration Gazette looks fat and
prosperous under the management 81
,lr new friend Burke.
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Let's all get busy and stay busy for
Ration. This is no time for drones
ind lukewarmness .Raton Gazette.
Henry Cox, u Of the old-timers 81
he Black Range country, died last
week at Edwards camp. He Is sur
siyed BY his wife and several daugh
tiers.
The board of county commissioners
Of Rio Ariba county has adopted a.
resolution to refund Its funded indebt-
edness 81 $4,000 that bears Q per
cent interest with refnnding bonds to
bear 8 per cent interest.
Tucumcare asserts that 1t is -four
isshing dlspite the stoppage of work
on the Choctaw extension. Several
new houses are being erected. the
streets are being graded and other
improvements are In progress. :.
News Of the serious Illness of Mrs.
g. q. Bryan, at Alamogordo, was rel
ceived in Ration Monday and her ia
ther, Postmaster Collier, went to her
bedside on the first train. Mrs. Bry-
an had Appendicitis. An operation
wal performed Tuesday and the pa
tient is reported better.
Or. r.. d. Harper has located at AL.
amogordo, for the practice Of medi-
cine. DR.. Harper followed his profess
sion In Gallup for the past eighteen
years, having been surgeon for the
coal companies and the Santa Fe rail
road. He was considered one of the
best physicians and surgeons in this
part OF the country.
Alfred Jelfs, grand master Of New
Mexico. /. o. o. F., left Rator
| Monday on a tour Of inspection Of thu
| lodges In the territory. The orde
now has twenty-one lodges and ur
ward OF one thousand members II
| New Mexico. and Is In a very prosper
GUS condition. In point Of members
Ration lodge carries the banner.
A surveying party OF the Unite
States geological survey which IN
aud Paraje has moved Into norther
and Praje has moved into norther
Dona Ana county. The party col
sists Of seventeen men and two tw,
horse teams. Part Of Its task Is I
bore for artesian water below the Eli
plant Buttes on the Rio Grande rive
ID. 8. Miller Of Lake Valley, N. NJ
and Lewis Sly have bonded the
partner3' interests In the Log Cabi
mine at TERRA Blanca. The surfas
workings Of this mine made q famo,
output from 1887 TO 1890. The or
while being In pockets and sma
pipes, was exceedingly rich and ca
loads would net thousands over wor
ing expenses.
.
Complaints continue to pour
about the spollation OF historic al
prehistoric ruins which abound espe
+. Iaily in western New Mexico. A
most at evsfs .o,n: where there n
3 such ruins parties are at work 81
cling for relics and destroying VIII
J they cannot carry on. Some par.i
are making as high as $500 \ wei
!, from relics which they dig out and 81
70 curIo dealers,
II Allan Young died NJ st. vincen'
: hospital In Santa Fe OF typhoid few
/ after an Illness OF ak weeks. For 70
d weeks he had been AT the hospi'
having come from cerrillos. but Z
= malady would not yield TO treatmel
Mr., Young was aged about 90 yea
o ami for the past fifteen years b