Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-16
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

Cox, returned % their Eastern home
after spending the winter months in
Silver City.
Seven Rock Island cars while
standing on the side track at Tucum-
carl were entered and more or less
goods stolen Merchandise, dry goods
and clothing were taken.
Dennis Sullivan, formerly of DENIM.
son, Texas, ex-superintendent of the
Choctaw division, NJ. X. & T., has
been appointed trainmaster Of the
Dawson railway at Tucumcari.
Mrs. Jay A. Hubs left Albuquer-
que for Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. She will spend a month at the
resorts Int will be in Los An
geles for the annual flower fiesta.
Farmers in the vicinity of Socorro
say that prospects wore never so
promising for a full crop OF all kinds
Of cereals, alfalfa and fruit as the in
dications are for the coming season.
+. Il. Stuart and Senior Alyerez of
Mexico will receive a large bu2ch of
horses at Tularosa on the 22nd inst,
n another bunch at AlamOgordo on
the 23rd inst, and ship all to the City
Of Mexico.
A mica discovery is reported to have
been found on the east side of the
Socorro mountains in Socorro county.
h specimens are said to have bee
very fine, but the quantity has not
yet been proved.
Preparations are being made for
the test of Alamogordo clay one mile
northwest of town, for brick by j. H.
Laurie, Carl Rubin and ". E. Car
SON. who have organized a company
and will burn a kiln Don
Irrrfnu fhn most yrAnr onunrn1 rod
ing outfits have arrived at Tucum-
sari and begun work q the Cn0c-
taw extension from Anna lila to this
place. Contractor O'Hearne has the
Contract for thirty miles Of the work
and the first ten miles out of Tucum-
carl. -4Asf sz<R
A petition was circulated in ROs-
well during the week which received
a large number Of signers. 1t re-
quested that w. C. Reid be appointed
Judge of the district in the event {
b retirement of Judge Daniel H. Nc
MILAN. -.A~akn1
A big cattle deal was closed up in
which r.. p. Bean of Roswell s1-1 to
J. " Cannon and Mrs. X. r. Jail ais
ranch at Van Horn for about lfsy
thousand dollars. Ine s~,e inciuaed
the ranch and several hu. red head
of cattle. s1nfa
The Odd Fellows and Rebecca
lodges of Pennington and Aztec are
making arrangements to hold a joint
celebration on the eighty-fourth an
niversary of Odd Fellowship in Amer
lea at Pennington on Saturday, April
rs, the 26th coming on Sunday.
Russell A.. Chaplin of the contract
ing department of the Colorado Tele-
phone company, has been in Farm
ington arranging for a county tele-
phone exchange with central Office
at that place. The line will be ex-
tended to Fruitland and the La Plata
n Aztec.
In the case of b. Ruppe VS.. j. Vein
mann n j. Barnett. in which plain
tiff tried to Gov for losses sustain
ed by the caving in OF the store he
rented. the jury was instructed to re-
turn a verdict in favor of defendants
on points of law.
anti Rita was a scene of a double
killing Monday evening, in which
two men Francisco Portillo and
Guadalupe Mendoza. met their death
at the hands of ii. T.. Muse, deputy
sheriff. The men were shot while re-
sisting arrest, and the %coroner's jury
returned a verdict generating the Of
ItcT lTOn all DldInc.
AT 4 O'Clock Monday afternoon,
April 6. little Katie Blankenship, the
4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. B~lanNenship of Tucumcari pass
ed away after a brief illness. The lit
tie one was taken sick about wv
weeks ago with throat trouble and
gradually grew worse until the angel
of death relieved her suffering.
The Alamogordo Street Railway mad
Land company is n of the enter
prises that is moving along to attain
results. This wee the county COM
missioners granted a franchise to the
company, for operation along the
streets of Alamogordo and the SUI
drbs. for a period of so years.
Mr.. Jessie Mcdowell died Monday
morning at A o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Foreman in Roswell. Mr.. Nc
Dowell was so years of age and the
cause of his death was pneumonia.
He was a teamster by occupation n
Is survived by a wife n three sons.
interment was made in the Southside
cemetery Monday afternoon at 4
O'Clock. tSsH
J. J. Clark, who for some time has
been employed as cigarmaker in the
Rothenberg & Schloss Cigar COM
pany's factory at Roswell, and Miss
Helen Mccall. formerly of st. Louis,
Mo-, were quietly married in the
Methodist parsonage at Roswell. They
left on the evening train for Douglas, |
Ariz., where Mr.. Clark will engage in
business.
Pat F. Garrett. has gone to Austin
from FL Paso to be in attendance
when an operation is performed on
the eyes of his daughter. Lizzie. who
is at the institute for the lin She |
has been there since she was six
years of age. She is an accomplished
musician and a very bright pupil. The
doctors believe that her sight may be
restored.
Pumper O'Brien. of the E. Pm. E.
at Pintado. was knocked down by a
train and killed. Mr.. OsBrien was at
tempting to cross the rack ahead OF
freight cars that were being
switched, when his foo caught in a
frog and the moving cars struck him.
The left side of mis- head and left arm
were cut Off
The New Mexico Oil and Gas COM
pany, after spending about $3.50 in
fishing for lost tools. have decided
TO change their location and will drill
another we'll about a half mile north
west of their present location. Work
are now engaged in removing
the derrick and machinery to the new
location. which is n of he points
that Oil Expert Jones located
Zone OF the largest locomotives in
world is run by compressed air,
with a pressure of from 600 to 900
hounds per square inch 1t runs be-
Ween Alamogordo and Canyon, New
a 81 mile stretch up the noun
taius. 1t weighs lao TONS says the
Democrat. Somebody
must have beer having fun with the
of the Tucumcari paper. The