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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15
Commissioners Proceedings.

Office of the Board of County Com
missioners of San Juan County, N.
NJ, Aztec, June 4, 1906.
The board of county commissioners
met in regular session sitting as a
board of equalization, present: j. R.
Williams, chairman; F. M. Pierce
and Jose V. Lujan, commissioners,
md L. G. Eblen, clerk.
J. f. McCarty's assessment on
ranch was raised from si,53l 10 S2,0Jd.
Geo. A. Mangrum & Sons assessed
by commissioners with ITO head of
cattle at LOO.
Board adjourned to meet June 5,
at 8 O'Clock a. m.
June 5, 8 o'clock a. m.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Present as on previous day.
J. T. Faulkner's assessment on cat
tie was raised from II head, $125, to
26 head, 1915.
L. Welch's assessment on cattle
was raised from so head, S94O, to 152
head, 81 $40.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway Co. was raised on real estate
from 15c an acre to 25c an acre.
The board of equalization resolved
itself into board of county commits
sioners to consider the following item
of business:
On motion the clerk of this board
is instructed to notify Grayson o.
Hampton, to open within thirty days
the Blanco and Aztec public road to
width of go feet over and across his
land; or else make and construct a
road on the south line of his land and
put same in such condition as will
meet the approval of the road super
visor of precinct No 2.
No further business appearing the
board adjourned to meet Monday,
July 2, 1906. j. r. WILLIAMS,
Attest: Chairman.
L. G. EBLEN, Clerk.
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Not q Worm.

G. w. Mccoy, j. M. Kinsley and
George Allen looked over the fine or
chard of Mr. Mccoy last week and
cut open large number of small ap-
Piles to see ifworms infested the fruit
Not a single worm was found and Mr..
Mccoy is vastly pleased with the con-
dition and size of his apple crop. He
should harvest 10000 boxes of good
apples unless bad luck prevents. The
arsenate of lead has fixed the worms.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15
FLORA VISTA.
BY MRS. EVANS WOOD.

By MRS. EVANS WOOD.
Mrs. j. T. McQuillan spent Sunday
with her mother at Hood.
A. B. Brookfield was a business Wis
itor in Pennington this week.
Early cherries, gooseberries and
Strawberries are being marketed.
Misses Susan and Elsie MUIR spent
Monday with Miss Maggie Gilmore.
Mrs, Hulda Teter is spending few
days with the family of Anton Sever.
People under the Eldidge ditch are
busy repairing hume that broke
Saturday.
W. T. Mullarky has a handsome
new awning for his store-the first in
the new town.
Levi Steinbach and brother are do
ing rushing business shipping vege-
tables to Silverton.
La Plata mail is being delivered at
Flora Vista now on account of high
water in the Animas.
j. R. Hilderbrand, the Aztec real
estate man, was business visitor in
Flora Vista Wednesday
A number of our young people at
tended the play, EAST Lynne" at
Pennington Saturday night.
Mrs. Frank Larrick is visiting on
the La Plata. She is very much
pleased with our country here.
J. B. Heilman shipped a box of
peas and early cherries to his sister
at Monte Vista, Colo, last week.
The first carload of merchandise
ever received in Flora Vista was de-
livered to w. t. Mullarkey last week,
Some of the neighbors lent help
ing hand to the Jones brothers Mon
day In extending the Farmers ditch
to their farm.
+ F. T. Hickman and wife left Satur-
day to take part in the great Ken
lucky home coming. They will visit
relatives there.
Flora Vista boasts more than one
Izaak Walton these days. Although
strings of fish are not large there are
still many devotees to the gentle craft
Of fishing.
Flora Vista needs a Womar's I'm
! ipGoT t3hv oU,5ieUy ~ leplace Une sag,
hedges with more up-to-date aDG
ornamental shrubbery along the mail
thoroughfares of the town.
Plans are being formed for BIZ
picnic here on the Fourth of July
Not decided yet whether it will be a
Sherman Waggoner's or Jas. Mccoy
but everybody come and have a goo
time.
Aztec is not the only place wher
roses bloom. We have some of til
finest ever-bloomers grown in tn
valley. Flora Vista is an ideal plac
for flowers of all kinds. Just look g
the garden of ye scribe as you pal
! by for proof.
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La Plata GaACh for Sale.

One hundred and iorty-hve acres,
10 acres under ditch, 2s more can be
put Under cultivation under ditch; 5
acres of orchard, 10 acres alfalfa hay
land, new frame house 18x22, with
a brick addition IA x 16 attached,
making a good A-room house, A
good frame stable t4xa9, an Al well
of soft water. Price 80 500 or will sell
stock and machinery at $4,000
if taken In the ne$b 80 days. Call on
or address NJ, W. HUNT,
loft i,a Plata, N, M,
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Hart-SpOhR Land Contest.

Testimony in the desert land contest
filed by Miss BerniCe Spohn, Granville
Pendleton's stenographer, against Alex
Hart, is still being taken before Referee
Eblen. The testimony of the various
witnesses as to the desert character of
the land is almost overwhelmingly in
favor of Mr. Hart. The testimony Of
w. ]. Prickett, thoroughly reliable and
reputable man, follows:
MIR w. J. Prickett, being first duly
sworn in behalf of the contestee, testi-
fies as follows;
Examined by G. F. Ellis, ESQ.,
Question. State your name, age, res
idence and occupation.
Answer. My name is w. j. Prickett;
live in Aztec, N. NJ, age 46 years, occu
patton farming.
z. Have you heard of contest be-
ing filed by one Bernice Spohn for the
81 NW4 Sec. "a, =. 20 N. R. IL w?
Yes sir.
Q. want you to state whether you
are acquainted with that land.
know all the corners and lines.
@. Have you been over each 40g
Yes sir.
@. How often and when2
Quite a number Of times during 1905.
Q. will get you to state if you are
acquainted with what is known out
there as the Creamer ditCh2
Yes sir.
Q. What time during the year 1905
were you out there2
All the year until latter part Of Oct.
O. During that time did YOU see any
water in the Creamer ditch running over
this land you have described?
No sir.
@ State the conditions under which
you went on this land.
Judge Pendleton claimed to me that
he had right to it through the filing of
his son Joe, and he traded it to me-
4. What did you have to pay him.
paid him with 4S3 goats valued at
s5 per head.
Q. In that contract with Pehdleton
what did he agree to do2
Hie agree to secure my filings and
pay all land office fees and put plenty Of
water on it III time for crops of 1905.
Q. Did he comply with any of these
conditions?
None of them whatever.
@. Have you heard since that Pen
dletoti has made remark that he knew
when he sent in this application for fill
Ing that it would be rejeCted2
Yes sir.
Q. And at the same time while he
was possessed Of that knowledge he was
willing to take your goats1
He did do It,
O. You have never gotten anything
Out Of those goats yet, have your
No sir
g., You hope to, do your
Yth sir, hope 60,
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15
The County = /,
9WS


The business IN of Pennington
should take the 7latter of the short
age of lumber u and see if there is
not some way I remedy the present
state o. affairs Other places can
get all the lmpt or tiivy want; why
cot Fumingtod There's a nigger in
the wood pile!
G. O. Pitrst pf Pennington has
been enaorsed b the business men of
Pennington fol he position of coal
oil Inspector 70 San Juan county.
Mr.. Pitrat is X Nblican in politics,
and if the territ rial jobs are being
given to good, raight men, Mr.. Pi-
trat should rece e the appointment,
He is a good ms and, moreover, we
believe he will i ,pect the oil.
%
BIC MFlELD.
By W. A 3ALLINGER.
Chas. McKir oy was indisposed
Sunday,
Frank McClu called ON the folks
Tuesday.
Ninety in the hade is little more
like summer.
Master Tomm. Creamer is getting
to be quite gar ner.
No shortage of water in the San
Juan just at pre- ont
Henry Green IA SAM Walton had
business in Ate Monday.
Sam Walton N,s lucky enough to
lose his watch ii Ae river.
Looks like Wa on's ferry would be
in commission So veral weeks yet.
"a. B. Mcclure and others were re.
ported as visiting the mesa last week.
Those grasshc .,pers won't do a
thing if vegetat on the mesa dries
up.
T. P. Maddox vas over Tuesday
looking up some lines on his mesa
claim.
Laura Mangrur and couple of her
small brothers lce reported on the
sick list.
Oscar Peters is digging new
well and other ! Sc improving the
ranch.
= May Salmt lnnie Hare called
on Emma Ceds ' a couple of lays
during the wee
Mr.. Xmiot of lapco took large
number of goa5s and sheep to the
south side Mon1a via. the ferry.
School election at Green college
resulted in Fran Townsend being
elected director or three years and
George Mangr,m for one year.
Val Finch was own from the ditch
camp Saturday to get broken scrap
er repaired. He leports four teams
at work and qu lrter of a mile oi
ditch completed OF the first weeks
effort.
Emma Cedarho}m spent last week
t with Mrs. LeClercI Emma is one o.
the prettiest little, girls of this settle
ment and if the Noys find out how
well she can cook and bake her father
will soon have to look for new
housekeeper.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15
AVISO

Tenemos un lujoso y complete sur
lido de cortes de seda de todos co
ores para vestidor o caracar de-
Senoras. Muy bonitos. Precio regu-
lar 75c la yd., a SOC la yd.
MACLEOD & TOWNSEND
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Q. When were you last on this land?

q. When were you last on this land?
was out there on Sd of this month.
Q. There has been something said in
this testimony about some trees growing
Oh that land What is their condition?
They are partly green and part dead,
Y. Did you attempt to grow a crop
there ir 1905?
No sir.
Q. Why not?
There was no prospect Of any water,
Q, What promises did Pendleton
make when you reported no water?
He was going to have it put there all
the time. ! wrote him when he was in
Santa Fe that he would fool around un-
til it would be too late to make crop;
it would ruin me financially
Q. What replies did you get?
He was always going to have the work
commenced. He promised man any
thing on earth and did nothing. He
never fulfilled promise to me.
OF your knowledge of the man, what
would you state as to his truth and YER
acity?
would not think he had any.
Q. From your personal knowledge of
that land would you consider it desert?
could not consider it anything but
desert land.
Q. How did Pendleton say that he
would file you on the land2
Any way l wanted it.
Q, He was willing then to admit at
that time desert filing could be had2
Yes sir,
Gross examination by Granville Pen
dleton, Esq
Q. When you and Pendleton made
the contract for filing on this land did
not Pendleton tell you that the land was
withdrawn from entry because of Il res
ervoir project, and did you not know #
from your own knowledge2
He never mentioned such a thing or
hinted 1t in any shape or form, or any
body else.
Q, Did not Pendleton tell you at
that time that you could apply for en-
try and that your entry would be re-
jected, You could appeal from the re-
lection and keep the entry alive until
the land was again on the market2
No sir, Did not know thing about
it. You went to the Office and took out
a registered letter for me without any
authority in the world and | came over
for an explanation and you told me
then that the land had been withdrawn
O. Is it not a fact that homestead
application was made for this lahd2
That is what ] made out,
Did you send any money of your own
with the application?
No, you agreed and contracted to fur
nish the money. | believe what you
got the registered letter for was to take
the money out of it,
Q. At that time was acting as youl
attorney and agent to file on this lane
for your
You contracted to but did not do 1t.
Q. Is it not a fact that at that time
you gave . written order to the post
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15
Khaki Suits.

Mems Khaki suits Just received in
all sizes at Macleod g. Tewnsend's,
81 90 per garment,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
The ORIGIN of q Word.

The London Chronicle tries to trace
the origin of the word "typhoon."
"Tai-fung," it is explained in some
dictionaries, is Chinese for "a great
Wind and since the typhoon is a
phenomenon of the Chinese seas it
seems conclusive. But there is no
doubt apparently that ''typhoon,"
which Hakluyt spelled ''touffon' and
Dampier ''tuffoon," comes to us through
Portuguese for the Arabic, Persian and
Indian 'tufan," and it is almost i'm
possible not to see in this a relation
of the ancient Greek "typhos" or "ty
phon," a whirlwind. But these are
practically Identical with the Greek
word for smoke or vapor, from which
come our "typhus" and typhoid" SO
perhaps the Chinese part of it is only
an extraordinary linguistic coincidence,
after all.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Making Paint With Skim Milk.

Stir into a gallon Of milk about three
pounds of Portland cement and add
sufficient Venetian red paint powder to
impart a good color. Any other colored
paint powder may as well be used. The
skim milk will hold the paint in suspen-
sion, but the cement. being heavy, will
sink to the bottom, so that it becomes
necessary to keep the mixture we'll
stirred with paddle. Mix only enough
at time for one days use. Six hours
after painting this paint will be as i'm
movable and unaffected by water as a
month old paint Cases are on record
Of this sort of paint being in good con-
dition after twenty years. and it has
preserved the wood admirably. The
addition Of carbolic acid or some other
disinfectant makes it very suitable for
dairy work, as it then has a cleansing
effect.-St. Louis Republic
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
He Disappeared.

Jerome K. Jerome once figured in
what the reporters call mysterious
On wager he agreed
to vanish, and took himself off while
his friends were still on the alert. He
disappeared while they were reading
a mysterious letter which he handed
to one of the party. When last seen
he was stepping aboard houseboat on
the Thames. Then for a month he
seemed to have gone out of existence.
His friends put the police on his track,
calling for his arrest for stealing the
boat A month passed and then the
novelist and the boat appeared at the
latters old mornings. What he had
done was simply to take the boat a
little upstream, then during the night
erase her name and substitute another
and change the color of the paint here
and there so as to render her as unlike
her former self as possible. His scheme
was a success in every particular.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Luminous Paint as Night Lights

The connection between earthquakes
and luminous paint would hardly be
apparent to any one without eXplana
ton. 1t nevertheless exists, and the
use to which it is put invests it with
the utmost Importance just for the few
critical moments of the shock. In the
Philippine Islands, where earthquakes
are not uncommon, small metallic
plates coated with luminous paint are
so placed about the premises that at
the first warning the inmates are
quickly guided to the door and thus to
the street. In Manila it is laid on in
patches about the bedrooms and stair
cases. serving as guides for the door
handles and the stairs, night lights be-
ing considered especially dangerous, as
likely to set fire to the falling houses
and thus to roast the inmates in their
own homes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Dron- Eeetles.

Drone beetles Lave reputation for
weather wisdom among country folk,
who regard a flight of beetles as a sign
of fine weather NJ Fabre. a French
naturalist. wishing to ascertain if this
supposition was correct. Gagged num-
Der of beetles One fine evening when
everything indicated equally fine
weather for the following day not
beetle flew about In fact, during the
night a storm broke out. and rain fell
all next day Another evening, where
there were no signs of fine weather.
the beetles flew about in all directions.
During the night the clouds vanished,
and next day there was brilliant sun
shine According to M. Fabre, drone
beetles during three months are living
barometers, more deserving Of Gre
dence than physical instruments. their
keen sensitiveness to the electric ten
sion Of the atmosphere being much
greater than that Of mercury. 1t has
even been demonstrated that drone
beetles are affected by atmospheric
disturbances a long way off and that
they sometimes grow restless when
there is a storm more than sixty miles
awaV
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
The City of Munich.

Munich is one of the most beautiful
cities in Europe, with broad streets,
frequent fountains, many stately stat
ues, numerous open squares, large
wooded parks, swift river flowing
directly through the center of the
residence section, galleries that contain
several of the finest recollections Of
pictures and sculpture in the world, Ii
braries. academies of design, schools
of science, a magnificent opera house,
theater that was erected exclusively
for the production of Wagner's operas,
and various other attractions which do
not disturb the classic atmosphere,
but appeal to the artist, the student
and whoever seeks for beauty and for
rest No city of equal size has so many
noble monuments and public buildings.
while probably larger number of
the population of Munich is engaged
in study and artistic and scientific pur-
suits than may be found in any other
city. The Royal library is one Of the
greatest in existence, probably second
only to the British William
E. Curtis in Chicago Record-H erald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
The City of Great Britain.

Unless we command the sea we can
not keep open the roads by which our
people are fed. Britain has in effect
ceased to be country. She is now,
considered from the political and mill
tary pant of view. a city, though
city with very large parks and pleas
aunces and kitchen gardens in which
to grow her flowers, fruits and vege-
tables. A city, from the point of view
Of war, may be described as place
which If besieged long enough must
fall, since supplies once consumed can
not be replenished. Britain answers to
this description. The moment the sell
roads to her are closed by an enemy
she is, ipso facto, in state Of siege.
Face to face with need so imminent,
1t would be madness for us to give
any consideration to what we hope or
believe are the intentions of this or
that foreign power. All that we can
rightly do in considering how to secure
our national safety and independence
is to count ships and guns and to COM
pute the units of naval efficiency
London Spectator.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Moving on the InstaIlment Plan.

An expressman who called at a
Ninety second street boarding house
for two trunks was asked by the land
lady where they were going.
Il don't know" he said. you see, l
do only half the hauling l will take
the things to our Office and somebody
else will take them the rest of the way.
The boss at the desk will know the adj
dress. The moving is done on the in
stallment plan to keep you folks here
from finding out where the other peo-
pie went. They were afraid to trust
me with the number for fear you might
worm it out Of me, so they told it to
nobody but the manager Lots Of peo-
pie who move often make the trip in
sections like that. Half the time when
l take trunk away from a boarding
house | don't know where it will wind
up. That is generally done when there
has been row and the folks who leave
don't want to be followed. Been a lit
tie trouble here, l imagine" he added
tentatively.
yes" sighed the landlady. "a little"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Where Cicero Took the Mud.

Marcus Tullius Cicero bathed in the
mud Of Lake Aguan 1000 years ago
in order to get rid of the govt The
mud of the standing waters in the dis
trict west of Naples was famous from
early times for the relief Of arthritis.
The luxurious high livers of the i'm
perial days knew its efficacy and no
doubt did their cure" there in much
the same rough and ready fashion as
their modern representative does now
It is no doubt to the sulphur and
other deposits that the mud of the lit
tie lakes on the promontory of Cumae
owes its health giving properties, AID
as nature works much the same way
now in that region as she did in the
time of the Caesars the effect upon
twentieth century govt is probably
much the same as when the great Tul-
~ soaked his inf1amed joints in the
ooze of the Phlegraeaen fields.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
A Shooting Gallery Secret.

do you see this glass ball?' said
the shooting gallery man. 1t was
ball of hollow glass, an airy glass soap
bubble, that had swung all season at
the end of thread in the foreground
of the clay pipes, bells and what not
that had made up the gallery's targets
'"This glass ball." the man went on, lis
my great money maker. All season
long people tried to hit this ball-it
was bigger and nearer than any other
target-and everybody failed Thou
sands of bullets were fired at the ball,
thousands of nickels were spent on it.
yet here it is, still untouched, my best
breadwinner All wise shooting gal
lery men have a glass ball like this. It
makes such tempting target, yet it is
never hit. 1t is never hit because the
air that precedes a gun charge is suf-
fcient to blow the ball aside, out of
the way. You might fire a hundred
shots at it, but, like a living thing, like
a timid soldier, for instance, it would
dodge each shot
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Running as Exercise.

The fact that a person is capable of
doing the best running and speed
walking before the thirtieth year need
not lead those who have passed the
third decade to think that they are on
the down grade of life, says an author
ity. These exercises call for elasticity
Of the arteries, and that lessons soon
after the thirtieth year, but powers of
endurance increase in the we'll pre-
served man or woman up to fifty or
fifty-five or even later. Soldiers of if
ty are like leather and can perform
feats of endurance that would kill the
STRIPPING, and the same is true Of
women
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Mary AnderSOn's Voice.

Miss Anderson's voice was always
her predominant charm. Certain tones
in it-so thrilling, SO full of wild pas
sion and inexpressible melancholy
went straight to the heart and brought
tears into the eyes. The voice is the
exponent of the soul. You can paint
your face, you can pad your person.
you can wear a wig. you can walk in
shoes that augment your height, you
can in various ways change your body,
but your voice will sooner or later re-
veal you as you are. Just as the style
Of the writer discloses his character,
so the quality of the voice discloses
the actors nature. 1t seems unlikely
that Miss Anderson's melting, tragic
tones were uttered in any Of her girl
ish impartments, but the copious, love
~ voice was there, and it gained her
first victory.-William Winter in Sat
urday Evening Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-07
Gagged Until Married.

On certain island in the Pacific it
is stated that the natives are still in
the habit of combining their girl chill
dren in cages until they are of an age
to marry. These cages are constructed
of palm branches, and the girls are
imprisoned in them when they are two
or three years old. They are not al
lowed to leave their cage under any
preteXt whatever, and they are only
taken out once day to be washed.
The children are said to grow up
strong and healthy in spite of their
Incarceration.