Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-09-17
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naaA-A sas Aosas Il II p@ssats.
800 Eneiaa as@nae, knedesick !. ilar-
yx&. ~ . ocAeA yesterday aiaeEaaoa
i4ls osaah was deg % easasamn1saas
gAlea caused a llagrElng Illness iar
the past thTee years
M. returned fEoGa AZ extensive va.
In SeS Mexico. where be Ind hoped
10 regain his health. and had eeea
home q week. helms unconscious to
the sass minute. He as > years and
D.. months old. leaving . Frustrated
mather, father. sister AID affianeed
wife, Miss Lily Godfrey, tn naonEn his
loss.
Raneral services were held On FRI
day a \ O'Clock.
After helns buried alive IN the tana'
lis vault nj Kansas City from January
= 20 the middle Ut May. Frederick j.
Harvey, one of the wealthiest men In
Kansas. came hack 10 life Tuesday.
September 4. married his Beaver
Sweetheart. Miss Lily Godfrey. who
MAS instrumental In restoring him 70
life. September 8. departed On his
honeymoon the same day, and Gill ar.
rive here next week TO visit relatives,
MIR. Harvey L. the son of Bernard
Harvey and grandson VI the deeeas-
ed Fred" Harvey. the millionaire
owners Of all the eating houses on
the Santa re line. aud most OF those
on the Frisco. The family Is we'll
known throughout the United States.
Az the time Of Mr.. Harvey's death.
as the family stiil term his intomb-
ment. he had contracted a severe cold.
which developed into pneumonia. His
already tubercuiar system Wa not
strong enough TO throw off the add.
tionai trouble. and physicians pro-
nouneed him dead, Death from pol.
soned gas arising from the lungs was
given as the cause.
A Kansas City press dispatch re.
flutes the above story AZ follows:
The crazy story In Denver about u
man named Frederick J. Harvey. said
10 be from Kansas City. seems TO have
its origin In the head OF some bemud.
died reporter. No such man a. the
one described q be discovered here.
The family Of the late Fred Harvey
has no knowledge Of any man Of the
name given and much less a man
equal 10 the wonderful achievement
credited to Frederick J. Harvey" He
not only never lived. but, having new.
er lived he never died. and having
never died he had no funeral. and not
having a funeral he vas never buried.
and never having been buried he vas
eve resurrected.
The Denver reporters were always
fond Of everything wild and weird.
The whiskey In that country Is bad.
and the altitude gives II terrible po-
tency.
A. E. Lewis. a machinist In the EN-.
ployment Of the Southern Pacific at
Kern City. Cal. was married to Mrs.
Jennie Payne at the residence Of M.
X. Means, Saturday afternoon, by
Rev. A. p. Morrison. superintendent
OF the New Mexico English NJ. e. mis-.
sion. The happy couple left on No. l
that afternoon for Kern City, their fu.
ture home.
The St. Louis. Rocky Mountain &
Pacific railroad has erected temper.
airy water works at Cimarron, N. NJ.
A pumping plant on the Cimarron riv.
er supplies the town with water
through pipes laid from tanks. The
company has also begun work on its
shops and round house at that place.
The round house will have eight
stalls. with a seventy-five foot turn.
fable.
william Hannum. formerly a COM
ductor running out OF Las Vegas, now
having his domicile in Wichita, Kan
sas. passed through for Flagstaff, Ari.
iona. yesterday afternoon, accompa.
MED by two friends. They are out on
a hunting trip aud win take to tall
timber for big game.
-
r. c. Larimore. station agent for
the Santa Fe at Ration. who had been
laid up at home and hospital in this
city for some weeks, with a broken
leg, has left for his post of duty in
the Gate City.
General Superintendent r. J. Park
er's special train went east from Las
Vegas at 3 o'clock Saturday morning.
Other officials on board we're: Divis.
ion Superintendent James kurns, IL
E. Fell, his chief clerk; G. H. Gaunt,
assistant general manager. and NJ. r.
Williams, superintendent of the
bridges and buildings department.
The railroad pay checks put in an
appearance late Saturday afternoon.
consequently the business houses on
both sides of the river we're thronged
to the doors with customers. cash in
hand and purse. Saturday evening.