La Junta tribune., 1905-10-14
JAvsr TO TINE WEST sso.

journal, in tow of Undersheriff
Steward, was out on a jury hunting
expedition last Wednesday. This is
the open season for jurors. as the
district court meets next week. but
the jurors submit to being hunted
with very bad grace. Everybody in
Otero county is busy at present har-
vesting crops. They have no time to
attend to the troubles of other peO-
pie, having plenty of their own, the
principal one being inability to Sc
cure help to assist in marketing pro
life crops When the district court
meets Judge Dixon will have to
listen to a choice collection of ex-
cuses of jurors who want to get
away to attend to their own affairs.
The editor. in charge of the under
sheriff. went to Manzanola on the
noon train. and from there took a
bronchO automobile and journeyed
over to Olney. where it was sus-
piciOned there were several jurors
hiding out, including old Bill
Hanen. The undersheriff, however,
has the reputation being success
full sleuth. and without much diff
Guilty had no trouble in serving due
notice on all of the jurors wanted at
the county seat next week. We
also succeeded in rounding up "Old
Bill Hanen. His family is away at
present, and ''Bill" is keeping
bachelors hall He is quite a fami-
ly man. and says he doesn't mind
being alone during the day. but
when he goes home at night and
finds his house like banquet hall
deserted he feels like taking a gun
and shooting the top Of his head off.
"Bill." you know. is rather strenu-
Gus Sometimes, especially during a
political campaign. but he is still in
the land Of the living. and quite
clipper
Although We have lived in Otero
county nearly nine years this was
our first trip to Olney never having
run for Office. We don't see what a
man would want to go to Olnev for
unless he was running for office. II
is quiet little village. located on
the Missouri Pacific. There is a
depot. postoffice. two stores. sew
eral houses, and the surrounding
country il covered. with alfalfa hay
stacks. In fact. there are more lny-
stacks than people in and around
Olney. We did not count either.
but It certainly looks that way.
Oiney has reason to congratulate
herself on this fact. for there Is
money in haystacks and that is more
than you can say Of some people.
The third cutting Of alfalfa around
Olney WAS prolific this year. equal
ing the first and second cutting
combined.
Seeing Olney" did not take up
much time. and we were soon on
the way back to Manzanola by way
OF the beet dump and the big Auck-
land farm. There is one patch Of
100 acres Of sugar beets on the
Auckland farm grown by the
National Beet Sugar Company. Of
Sugar City. II is certainly an i'm
mense field and seems to reach from
everlasting to everlasting in all di-
rections. Harvesting has just com
menced. conducted by q big gang Of
Russians. men. women and children.
a small tented city being required
to house them. The big field is
averaging twenty tons to the acre,
and at IS per ton the 500 acres will
yield . revenue of S5O.WO- enough
for most any old farmer to retire on
and live in peace and quiet for the
remainder Of his days.
Right ~cros the street" from
the Auckland farm there Was an
other farm" From its appear
aDce il had evidently been sown to
weeds and sunnowess. - there was
prolific crop of both growing
around in every direction. There
wss m Old tumble down dobe
house On the plsre. md about a
quarter Of . mile away in . pasture
these WERE two hornes grazing with
the harness On. The owner of the
animals had evidently eooe to sleep
while vnhitching. There was such
. marked difference between the