Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-02

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was at one time proprietor of the
Ration greenhouse. The bride is the
daughter OF Mrs. II. A. Curtis OF Ra.
ton. Mr.. Bowdry has a responsible
position with the government IN the
construction Of the Panama canal.
Miss Fields Honored.
Miss Catherine Fields, well known
In Albuquerque as a former instruct.
ress In the department Of English at
the university and as a successful
teacher OF a private school, has been
honorcd with the Phi Beta Kama
Key by the Leland Stanford univer.
sity. Miss Fields, who is now teach.
ing at Ventura, Cal, graduated from
Stanford In 1909, having entered with
advanced standing. and was one O.
The ten selected from a class If 300
for the scholarship distinction.
Postofice Remains.
After considerable wrangling and
dickering. the location of the post.
office at Albuquerque for the next five
years has been settled by a letter
received from First Assistant Post.
master General Hitchcock. It will
remain in the Joe Barnett building,
the present quarters. but Mr.. Barnett
agrees TO re~juvenate the premises
throughout and also construct an ad.
ditional two-story building to accom-
mOdate the rapidly increasing post
Office business Of the city. The rec
ommendation for the present location
renewal was submitted after investi-
cation by Assistant Superintendent
Hall OF the general p~ostoffice depart
ment.
ella Forest Reserve.
Within the next ten days the pro
posed additions to the ella forest re-
serve. as recommended by Special
Forester r. E. Benedict, will be made.
The enlarged reserve will contain
1897 ,040 acres, which will mean an
increase In the number of rangers, of
probably five men. The addition will
take In a strip OF country on the east
In Sierra county. the width of one
township and about forty miles long.
On the south a strip nine miles in
width and about twenty miles long.
which lies north and east of the Fort
Bayard military reservation. will be
added. From this strip. the add.
tiOn u n In a zig-zag direction north.
westerly to the northern line of the
present boundary Of the reserve.
Husband Disappears.
B. y. Cavaness, until last Saturday
proprietor Of the chile and tamale
wagon at the corner OF Railroad ave-
nue., In Albuquerque. has disappeared
as mysteriously as II the earth had
swallowed him up. He took with him
$500 OF his wife's money and left a
note with J. H. Shufflebarger, the we'll
known secondhand man, saying that
he was tired of life and had fully de-
termined to drown himself In the Rio
|Grande or any other body Of water
handy. II Is thought. however, that
the announcement of his suicide is all
| a bluff and that he has simply left
for parts unknown. His wife, who is
In delicate health, suffering with
tuberculosis. Is left alone In this city
by his departure and Is much worried
over her husbands queer actions.
Improving Canyon.
The Ration Water Works company,
1.-The Ration Ice company and the Santa
re, Ration 4 Eastern Railway com-
pany are spending thousands of dol.
lars IN improvements in the Sugarite
canon near Ration. The ice company
has built and filed two ice houses
with u capacity Of 10000 tons of ice
and also two additional ice houses
with a large capacity in Ration. They
have a market for this immense
amount OF ice for use In refrigerator
cars. The water company has laid Il
new main into the city with three
times the capacity of the old one and
is making other improvements. The
railway company is pushing the work
OF grading its line TO the Johnson's
Mesa coal field and II is expected that
the ten miles of railroad will be In
operation nv the middle of July.