Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-10-09

Fair tonight and colder in extreme
south portion Tuesday, fair.
Prof. z. A. Jones will leave tonight
for Rio Pue, co, out west, on a geolog
ical trip.
Attorney John II. Single is re-
| ported to be seriously IN at his home
on south Third street.
Regular meeting of the Woodmen
Circle will occur tomorrow afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock. sharp, in Odd Fellows
hall.
Bert Copeland, a conductor in the
employ of the Traction company, is
laying off for a few days on account of
a sprained shoulder.
There will be a meeting of the w.
r. c. tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o'clock at the old Knights of Pythias
hall. BY order of the president.
NJ. C. McAtee, the contractor and
builder, was a passenger for Santa
Fe this morning, where he goes to
look after some contracts he has in
the capital.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. butcher, after
spending a few weeks in southern Cal
i%fornia, returned to the city last night.
They report having had a most delight
full vacation.
Will Ments, a successful life insur-
ance agent, in the face of all the in
~vestigations going on in New York,
has returned TO city from a trip to
Gallup and other western towns.
j. II. Bearrup, of the Rio Grande
Wooden mills, and one of the progress
sive men of this city, is slowly re-
covering from a siege of Illness. 1t
will be several days before Mr.. Bear
rup is able to leave the house.
Seth Rueb and daughter, Mrs. Bes-
sic Butler, of Topeka. Kan, are in the
city, the guest of John Rueb, son and
brother. The visitors are here to
spend a few days, after which they
will proceed to southern California.
]. A. Blondin, who was the book
keeper and collector for The Citizen
about a year and a half ago, returned
to the city last night, and is again
connected with this office. He has
many friends here who are pleased
to see him back again.
There is a rumor to the effect thai
an attempt will be made to hold the
acts of the recent territorial grand
jury invalid on the grounds that one
of the members of the jury was a res
ident of Torrance county. So far, the
matter has not been brought to the
courts attention. but it is understood
that this will be done.
John Con1ey, accompanied by Mrs.
John Rueb, left last Saturday for Os-
kaloosa, Iowa, in response to a mes
sage that Mrs. Conley, sister of Mrs.
Rueb, was dangerously i'll. 1t is I'M
derstood that Mrs. Conley submitted
to a surgical operation the other day
at Oskaloosa, and her present illness
is the direct result of that operation.
Paul Kempenich, travelling represen-
tative for Charles Ilfeld, of Las Vegas,
was in the city IN Saturday soliciting
trade for his house. Mr.. Kempenich
says that the Northern New Mexico
fair was a success in every way. The
merchants derived a large out of town
trade as a result, and there was no
graft in connection with the fair, thus
enabling the fair association to pull
out of their first fair with a very small
deficit.
The Benham Indian Trading COM
pany has a %porcupine that eats meat,
soda mint tablets and asbestos. Ac-
cording to John Lee Clarke of the
company, it was captured by a native
in the depths of the Zuni mountains,
where the American Lumber company
has a large number of logging camps.
This wonderful porcupine has been
dubbed do Do" and placed on eXhi-
bition in the company's store on Rail-
road avenue.
A. Matteucci, who has succeeded
the firm of Matteucci & LaZori as pro-
prietor of the Porto Rico grocery and
saloon in Old Albuquerque, has made
a number of changes and improve
ments in the place. The merchandise
department has been moved toward
the front of the store and the bar has
been moved to the back, thus revers
ing the former arrangement of the
place. Mr.. Matteucci has also in
creased the stock of groceries and re-
placed the old bar fixturees with new
ones.
Friends in this city have received
copies of the Millbrook, n. Y, Mir
ror, containing an occount of the
death of Mrs. Frances Wheat Hav-
Hand, in Harris Village, near Mill
brook, a short time ago. Mrs. Hav-
Hand came to Albuquerque several
years ago in search of health, she suf-
with consumption, and will be
remembered by those who boarded
with Mrs. Sheckels on South Third
street. The deceased, during her so-