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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21
Homestead Entry No. 5361.)
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department OF the Interior,

Department OF the Interior,
Land office at Santa Fe, ". NJ,
December 81. 1904.
Notice Is hereby given that tho ioi
lowing named settler has filed notice
Of his intention to make final proof
In support Of his claims. and that
said proof viii DO made before u. s
court commissioner at Las Vegas,
N. NJ, on Jan. 81. 1905, viz:
NICANOR BAROs.
for the w IL NE IL. Sec. ~. S IL
Sc Ia Sec. /, r, 10 N, II. % Il.
He m the following Witnesses
To prove his continuous residence
upon and cultivation OF said land,
viz.
Conception Atencio OF Corazon, N.
NJ: Catarino Atencio OF Corazon. N.
NJ; Nazario Baros OF Ribera. N NJ;
PeIagio Gallegos Of Ribera, N. M.
MANUEL r. oTERo,
1888 Register,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21
Want to Use Convicts

Why moi employ a couple Of hundred
convicts from The territorial pon'tcn.
tiary 10 build a big loyec system along
the Rio Grandc north of this city
said Joe r. Saint TO the Morning
Journal yesterday afternoon. Mr.,
Saint thinks that he has hit upon the
solution OF the greatest problem which
Ia nov staring the city and county In
the face--the protection OF their re.
~spoctiye property from the ravages
OF the great river In time OF flood.
III Gems to me this Is as good a
plan as has yet been suggested"
said Mr., Saint. "A hundred men
from the territorial prison-and | am
sure We ought 10 BIO able 10 secure
that many-cosld do. fast and cffec-
tive work On the building OF a dyke
which would be extensive enough to
anit anyone. The experiment OF using
convict labor on tho Scenic Route In
the mountains between Santa Fe and
Las Vegas, has demonstrated that
the plan Ia n complete success. Ger.
tainly. the cheapness of the scheme
ought To recommend II, AMI I believe
TIM tUfsFff xagsst31 Ha xuara.Infaa s.Awa
quickly that way than In any other"
II III also suggested that the pro.
vision OF the FERGUSON bill passed
In congress when Mr.. ii. FefggssuD
was delegate, could apply 70 the pres,
ent problem. One OF the clauses OF
The bin provides for tho sale OF 1o1.-
900 acres Of the public lands for the
OF the flow Of the Rio
Grande. While The specific object OF
Mr.. FERGUSON In inserting this
was to raise the under flow 10
the surface by means OF buriei dams,
for irrigation purposes. the building
a levee system TO protect this city
would certainly work a great benefit
TO tho farmers and would IN fact
be improving the irrigation system
the valley. The amount which
could be realized In this manner
would be a substantial help In soly.
Ing the problem Of expense.
j believe that the Commercial club
should take up this matter OF con.
Wet labor" said Mr., Saint, yes, crt.ay
~ speaking nf the first suggestion
and ascertain what can be
lone In the matter. For my part
relieve this II the solution"
The plan IN certainly worth investl.
Meanwhile 1t shows tho gen.
aral interest," taken In the subject.
hat citizens are coming forward
sith suggestions. !
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Homestead ENTRY mo-. 6sl

- ~ SNWs SSNSs
Department OF the Interior. Land OF
flee at Santa Fe. N. NJ. Dec. 81.
1904.
Notice Is hereby given that the fol.
lowing-named settler has filed notice
OF HIS intention to make final proof
In support Of his claim. and that said
proof will be made before u. s. court
commissioner at Santa Rosa. N. NJ,
on Feb. II. 1906. viz: Hilario Ulibarri.
for the NV II. Me IA. II IL, NE ia
Sec. IL. Lots | and 2. Sec. IL, T. IL
N, X. II u.
He anne the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation Of said land. viz:
Albino Baca, Of Las Vegas. N. NJ;
Jose G~regorio Alarcon. OF Las Vegas.
N. NJ: Jose Hilario Montoya. Of Las
Vegas. N. NJ: Anastacio Rael. OF An.
ton Chico. N NJ.
MANUEL r. OTERO.
Ill Register.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21

following described tracts Of surveyed
public lands. towit:
The N. Ia Of the 8. II. Ia OF Sec
tion No a. Township 10 North, Range
II East OF the New Mexico Meridian.
Within the Thirty (30) days
period OF publication OF the notice Of
such application, protests against
said application and selection on the
ground that the lands described, or
any part thereof. are more valuable
for mineral than for agricultural pur.
poses, should be filed In said land Of.
flee at Santa Fe. New Mexico.
MANUEL r. OTERO. Register.
First Publication. Dec. IL. 1904.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21
NOTABLE EXHIBITION or
ART IN PHILADELPHIA,

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Jan ~.
The ART exhibition marking the cen.
tennial OF the founding OF the Penn
~syisania Academy was opened today
with a reception and private view
The exhibition includes hot only The
collection OF works by modern Ame,i.
can and European painters. brit a
great part of the large galleries Is
hung with representative works q
painters whose fame has been $3.50
ciated with the academy during the
one hundred years OF its history,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21

Notice OF Forest Reserve Lieu
eelsetlon-2oot.)
United States Land Offics,
Santa Fe. N, NJ, Dec. 10. 1904.
Notice In hereby given that the San.
IA 10 Pacific Railroad Company, by
Howell Jones. lis Land Commissioner,
whose Post Office address IL Topeka.
Kansas. applied At the u. 8. Land
Office. ut Santa We. New Mexico, on
November 26. 1904. under tho provis.
ions Of the Act OF Congress Of June
9Th. 1897. 70 make Forest Reserve
Lieu Selection. In lieu OF lands sur.
rendered BY said company In the Ban
Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve,
Arizona. TO the United States, for the
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21
CALIFORNIA; Daylight Special.

No. .. the santa Fe's nov iast train.
viii leave Chicago at $40 a. M. every
day and arrive In Las Vegas aLou.
$40 .. m. the day following. This
train viii give seventy.one hours ser.
ice between Chicago and San Fran.
cisco. beating the tim, of No. ] Fix
/. nurs fro a Chicago n Las Vegas.
w. J. L'i3aS, Agent
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-21

II. l.. Thompson. proprietor u a
hotel at Kennedy. was IN Santa Fc
on a business visit.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29

quantity of hydrogen. In Europe the
oxy -acetylene blowpipe is employed
on a large scale in welding, and
proves very satisfactory and economi-
Cal for joining tube plates up to half
an inch in thickness, and for repairs
of tank and boiler plates, bicycle and
motor-car frames, and much other
work.
Asphaltine, new paving material
that is being tested in England and
Germany, gives the appearance of
mosaic marble. 1t is a mixture OF
tar with iron Stag, is comparatively
low in cost, and has been found very
elastic, tough and durable. 1t has
resisted heavy traffic with no signs
of wear.
Solid concrete cylinders, II inches
long by in diameter, have been su b.
mitted by H. Woolson, of Columbia
University, to loads of 10, 600 to $50, :
600 pounds. The pieces we're much
compressed, the diameter being
correspondingIy increased, but there
was no disintegration or powdering.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
MUNICIPAL LUNCH-ROOMS.
Good Results Noted in Foreign Cities
from Furnishing Free Meals
for School Children.

In Berlin the giving of free
breakfasts has brought the Chap
piest results" says the Reader.
children who start from a pov-
erty-stricken home in the morn
ing without a sufficient, and often
without any, meal to sustain them,
cannot be expected to give their
minds to their studies in the same
degree as the children whose bod
les are well cared for. A consider
able falling off was consequently
noticed in the attendance of the
lll-fed and weaker children-the
very ones who could least afford to
neglect the studies required to fit
them to earn their daily bread in
after life-until the system was
adopted by the municipal authori-
ties of distributing food free dur
ing the sO-called breakfast hour
to these poor waifs." In Chris
tiania, Norway, the principals of
the schools report that "the free
board has had a good effect upon
the children, as they take more in
terest in the work and are more
wide-awake and lively; their ap-
pearance also shows better health
and more strength" The report
comes from Havre that the free
meals there have been found to
encourage school attendance as
well as to benefit the children
physically, mentally and morally.
The people of Brussels conceive it
to be their duty to have "every
school child medically examined
once every ten days. Its eyes,
teeth, ears and general physical
condition are overh8.uled. If it
looks weak and puny they give it a
dose of cod-liver oil or some suit
able, tonic. At midday it gets d
square meal :. and the great
est care is taken to see that no
child goes ill-shod, ill-clad or i'll
fed"
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
FIGHT CHINESE PIRATES.
Private Junk Attacks Merchantman
and Efforts to Cut Loose Are
Without Success.

We had been in the fog but two
or three hours when a large junk
suddenly lOomed up at our port
bow. Our captain, who was an old
East India and China trader, took
one look at her and said: "My
God! Here's an Internal Chinese
pirate junk! Make all sail quickv "a
We did not need that order, re-
lates Pearson's. Almost as soon
as l can tell it we had the sails up
and drawing, but not quick
enough to escape the junk, which
bore down under full head, her
decks crowded with men, her
graphing irons on a long pole,
ready to hook into our chains.
The Oneco, being built for the
China trade, was armed. We car
ried four guns in each broadside
and two swivels on the taffrail,
with an ample supply of boarding
pixies, muskets, pistols and cut
lasses. If the pirate succeeded in
boarding us it would mean a hand
to hand fight, and what with max
ing sail and getting ready for bat
tie, we had not fired a gun before
his graphing irons were in our
chains. But at this moment we
let 60 a broadside of our our
port guns, which must have dis
abled the men in charge of the
graphing line, for they did not sue
ceed in making it fast around their
bits until they had drifted about
two hundred feet astern. We at
tempted to cut this line, but the
hook was attached first by a long
chain which we could not sever,
and the angle was such that we
could not hit it with a shot.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
NeViIls Tells of Money Demand.

! William A. NevilIs, while on the
witness stand in Judge Murasky's
court yesterday, testified that Abra-
ham Halsey demanded $4,000 from him
in 1887, when the quarrel between
Nevills and the Flemmings, culminat-
ing in the suit on trial, began. Nevllls
said that he considered Halsey's de-
mand unr1ghteous and did not want to
| have any further dealings with him.
Halsey was the secretary of the
Amador Tunnel Mill and Mining
Company and the Hamilton Gold
Mining Company. Stock IN these
companies was purchased by the
Flemmings from Nevills and ex
Senator John P. Jones. The suit was
brought by Nevills and Jones for
S1E0, 900, the balance of the purchase
price. The Flemming side asked for
the return of the amount paid, over
500, 600, alleging that NeviIls was
guilty of fraud. Halsey was a wit
ness on the Flemm1ng side. His de-
position was first taken, and when
his testimony was wanted he came a
few months ago from his home in Los
Angeles county, and court was held
in his room at the St. Francis hotel.
he being too Ill to go to the City
Hall. A short time ago the old man
died.
HasIey was member of the board
of directors of the companies, holding
few shares of stock, which Nevills
put in his name. Nevills thought
that Halsey was against him because
he did not get the $4,000 be wanted.
After Nevills declared that he con-
cluded to have nothing more to do
with Halsey, Attorney William j.
McGee produced letters written by
Nevills to Halsey in the three years
following 1887, beginning '"Friend
Halsey." 1t also came out that for
twenty years after the alleged de-
mand Nevills allowed Halsey to retain
his position as secretary uf the COM
panies.
Nevllls admitted that he was pre-
sent when Halsey's deposition was
given and when his testimony was
taken at the st. Francis.
"Why did you not ask him then
about this $4,000 episode?" inquired
McGee. ,.:-,.>s ..,
''He was sick and:I did not want
to annoy him" responded Neyills.
'sBut you would smlrch his reputa-
tion, now that he is dead," said
McGee. st ..3-..4; ...sf ...--..
''Well, ] am sorry to- have to tell it,
but you brought itaout,'' Nevills
ed.-Call. .,iidaa r.. s'.-.., ,
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
YACHT CLUBS AND HOUSES
Immense Amount of Money Invested
in Pleasure by Devotees-Esti-
mated at Many Millions.

F. P. Aldridge, in an article re-
Gently published in Pearson's Mag
azine, estimated that more than
$43, 100000 is invested in yachts,
$6,000,000 in club houses and club
property and that over $4,000, 900
is spent every year for pleasure in
yachting. There are now 800 clubs
devoted to yachting in the United
States. A careful examination
of the records of the yachts shows
that there are 512 steam yachts,
1919 auxiliaries, 205 schooners,
1 ,422sloops and cutters, 226 yawls,
146 catbOats and 30S launches with
gas, electric or naphtha motors,
making a total of 3, 11S yachts.
No record is kept of sailing craft
that are less than 25 feet long on
the deck and there is no list of
launches that are less than 25 feet
long. Of these, it was estimated
by a prominent builder recently,
there are more than 10000 in the
waters of this country. There are
512 steamers; 129 are built entire
ly of steel. These steel vessels are
worth $17,294,000. All modern
boats are built of steel, and the
seven that are over 300 feet in
ength are among the handsomest
Ii the world. The % vessels of
composite build are worth $9G9,OOO
and the wooden boats are worth
S7,099,G00. This makes a total for
the steam yachts owned by Ameri-
can yachtsmen of $25,362,00O.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
oNDER THE SCIENTIFIC BAN
Nothing Safe TO Eat and Mrs. Good
wife Is Afraid to Serve
AnythinR,

She had just attended a meeting of the
Pure Substenance society, at which the
learned Plot. Scarem had talked On food
@cuitsratiCn, relates the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
No. George" she said, 81 can't give
you any coffee for dinner"
And why not?"
Because, Gear, it is adulterated with
chicory, pea hulls and wheat middlings."
1T is. Ell? Who says so?"
Prof. Scarem.- He knows all about it.
You should have seen him when he
showed us what cream of tartar is really
made of. Nothing but plaster and phos-
phate of lime"
We'll, don't want any cream Of tar
tar. Haven't you got some kind of jelly
on the tak,e?"
Jelly, George! Oh, I couldn't think
of giving you jelly. OF course, you don't
know that most of the jellies are made
from the refuse of dried apple factories.
They consist of starch paste sweetened
with glucose, colored with coal tar dye.
favored with chemicals and preserved
with salicylic acid"
you don't say SOL"
ITS true, George, every word of It,.
And most of the flavoring extracts, such
as lemon, orange and vanilla, are poison
GUS, being 80 per cent wood alcohol.
That's what we use for seasoning-a
deadly poison like that"
We'll, it's mercy any OF US are alive.
Anything else?"
"Oh, yes, dear. The professor gives us
another talk tomorrow in which he
will inform US how poisonous tea is, and
milk. and meats, ard bread"
We'll, say. will you tell me just what
there is on the menu that is safe to eat?'-
Yes, George. The professor says that
fresh vegetables are usually pure. But
our grocer seems to be always out of
them"
Never mind, my dear. l won't be
home tomorrow night. I'm going to the
club to get something to eat"
Why, George!"
Yes, my dear. 1t may argue poor
taste on my part, but I'd rather die by
slow poison than starve to DEATH"
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
Origin of the HONEYMOON.

The honeymoon used to last month.
The accepted notion is that it must
be spent away from home, in order that
the happy pair may get thoroughly &C
quainted without being victims Of the
curiosity of relatives and friends. 1t
is so called from the habit of the an
cient Germans of drinking "hydromel," )"
which is a mixture of honey and water,
for 80 days after marriage. Hydromel
fermented contains enough alcohol to
make man intoxicated in short order,
so that the honeymoon really was a
royal old drunk. Attila, the Hun, in
dulged so freely at his wedding that he
died.-N. Y. Press.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
Not at All Satisfactory.

She is the little daughter Of the min
lister, and already she has learned that
the position has its disadvantages. 1t is
next to not having a mother at all to
have one who is always attending church
societies or assisting in the parochial
calls. Usually she is very brave, but the
other day when she wanted her mother
very much it seemed more than human
nature could bear.
II don't think it is nice at all to have
a mamma whose husband is a minis
ter" she burst out. "She has to go out
with him all the time."-N. Y. Times.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
The Science of Smiles.

To the woman who wishes to make
her path through life an easy and
agreeable one, the science of smiling is
a most necessary study, says the Pitts
burg Press. 1t is thing in which only
practice can make one perfect A little
theory may go long way, but it is
enough to remember these two rules
First, the honey of smile catches more
hearts than the vinegar Of frown, or
the pepper of sneer; second. it is not
the mechanical beauty. but the signifi-
c.-sS 4 tAa spils that makes it attract
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
THE ILL-FATED DONNER PARTY,
Tragic Chapter in the Early His
tory of CaIifnrnia.
(By Prof. Rockwell D. Hunt. J

(By Prof. Rockwell D. Hunt.)
On an April morning of the event
full year 1886 little band of thirty
one emigrants set out hopefully from
Springfield, illinois, for far off
California. The party, made up
mostly of three families, had been
originated by James F. Reed, but it
received its name from two brothers,
George and Jacob Bonner, and their
families, who had decided to Join
Reed.
To the train of ten or twelve wagons
we're united other emigrants along
the route until, on reaching the
valley of the Platte, it numbered a
caravan of many times that number.
Filled with eager expectations and
free from thought of peril, the young
er members found themselves for
many days ENJOYING novel pleasure
trip as delightful as it was novel.
The sky was bright, the spring air
baImy, and big game abounded every
where. By early July Fort Laramie
was reached, and there Independence
Day was celebrated in true patriotic
style. But the parting of the ways
was soon reached. Should the eager
emigrants continue on the old Fort
Hall road or should they take the
Hastings Cutoff" along the south
ern shore of the Great Salt Lake?
The majority wisely proceed on the
old road, and in due time reached
California in safety. Had not the
other members of the party, eighty
seven persons in all, decided, on
evil counsel, to save time and three
hundred miles of distance by the
short cut, the "ilI-fated Donner
party" would never have been a fact
in our history, for thegreat disaster"
would never have befallen.
The Haskings Cutoff was in reality
not road at all; indeed there was
not so much as trail. The frightful
canyon was almost absolutely impass-
able, and when at last the shore of
the great lake had been reached it
was found that an entire month had
been consumed instead of a single
week, and that the iaded cattle were
quite unfit to Cross the wide strtching
desert beyond. This, we are told,
"was dreary, desolate, alkali waste;
not living thing could be seen; 1t
seemed though the hand of death
had been laid upon the country"
Any attempt to describe the perils
and privations of the desert would
fail to convey an adequate impression
to one who has never actually ex-
perienced them.
In spite of the rigid economy
practIced by the party an inventory
of the provisions on hand showed
Enthusiastically that the supply was in
sufficient to last through to Califor-
mia. Recognizing the gravity of the
situation, c. Il. Stanton and William
McClutcheon bravely volunteered to
hasten on IN advance to Suffers Fort
for additional supplies for the belated
travellers.
Guides Quarrel.
A most unfortunate quarrel between
James Reed and John Snyder ended
in the killing of Snyder and the con-
sequent banishment of Reed from the
company. Thereafter Reed pursued
his solitary way in advance, but he
was careful very frequently to leave
some sign or communication for his
distressed family in the party follow
ing on behind.
Days and weeks dragged weariIy by;
progress was painfully slow; and the
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
Trials of the Digestion.

Dr. Brouardel, the chief of the Paris
laboratory, writes thus of the trials of
the digestion in Paris: When a man
takes milk for his early breakfast pre-
served with formic aldehyde. when he
eats at luncheon slice of ham kept rccG
by borax. with spinach or French bsans
made green with suiphate of copper and
when he washes all that down with ha:f
bottle of wine cleared with an exces 5
of plaster of Paris. and that for 20
years. how is it to be expected that such
a man can have stomach?"
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29

The mission of "EarIy Risers" is
to clear the way I'D give nature full
sway. These famous little pills rid
the stomach and bowels of all putrid
matter, thus removing the causes of
headache, constipation, sallow COM
plexion, etc. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers never grippe or sicken. A safe,
pleasant, perfect pill. Sold by all
druggists.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
OOmeLu.ug Awful.

~ suspect" said Mrs. Oldcastle,
"that our new minister is a trans
cendentalist." "Oh," replied her
hostess, as she carelessly tossed
her rope of pearls over the back of
a chair, "do you think so? My!Pd
hate to be one of them. should
think they'd fall downstairs or
something gettin' up and prowlin'
around that way in their sleep"
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
The Donkey in Egypt.

The donkey, next to the camel,
is the most useful and hardwork-
ing animal in Egypt. He is in
much request among tourists, and
may also be seen creeping home at
sunset, so laden with clover, with
a full-grOwn man and a child
perched on the top of the load, that
nothing is visible but his head and
tail.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
Not the Real Thing,

Love in cottage is generally a
case of vivid imagination.-N. y.
Times.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29

Contracted Disorders, Loss Of Vital
Power, Kidney and Bladder Troubles,
Lost Manhood, Mucus Drains, Etc.
We have the most modern, rational
and perfect method of treatment for the
quick and permanent cure of all newly
contracted, nervous and chronic dis
orders of men and guarantee a cure
in every case undertaken or no charge.
We are permanently located In Stockton.
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
WE M
CURENN

Suffering
from delicate dis
eases, such as
p h y ysical and
mental decay,
Varicocele,
Structure, Piles,
Blood Diseases,
Pr0StaticDisease
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29
The Season of INDIGESTION,

The season of Indigestion is upon
US. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indi-
gestion and dyspepsia will do every
thing for the stomach that an over
loaded or over worked stomach can
not do for itself. KodoI digests what
you eat-gives the stomach a rest
relieves soui stomach, beIching,
heartburn, Indigestion, etc. Sold by
all druggists.
Call and see the immense new stock
at Pete Piccardo's.
We make speciality of printing all
kinds of notes, receipts, checks, etc
Send your orders to the Ledger.
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Pioneer Flour always has been and
still is the best
Amador ledger., 1905-12-29

Ch.nloO RECORD Herald.