Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-16
QUARREL
DROVE GIRL TO
TAKE HER LIFE
MISS HANSEN'S LETTERS
SHOW SUICIDAL INTENT
Bitterness Of County Division
Fight Shown by Defeat Of
Justice Bope Of Las Vegas,
Prosperity in MeSiIla Valley
IspecIaI corre.ponaenee MornInE JournaI.l

Especial correspondence Morning journal, I
East Las Vegas, y. NJ. Jan. ID
II Is now generally conceded that Miss
end to her life, although the kind OF
poison used has not been ascertained.
The doctors says it was not carbolic
acid and no trace Of any other poison
was found in The room. Friends of
the young lady now say that she had
had a quarrel with George Bryll !, tie
young mar she was to have married /,
thap Bryan had arrived in town on the
DAY of her death and she had made
inquiries about him several times dur
ing the afternoon and had expected
ne would come to see her. but ne
failed TO do 90. Bryan roomed a. the
same house, but up to mid Ugh had
not returned,
The letter left for Miss McSehooler
IS said to show eonclusively that scr
destruction was contemplated. the
young lady was one of the most spot
less reputation and friends in accept
Ing the suicide theory feel positive
that grief over the trodbia with her
lover, and "a report that Bryan was
going to marry someone else, were en-
tirely responsible for her death.
Few young ladies in fne city were
more popular tn IN Miss Hanson. She
was a pretty. retiring CIR refined ana
amiable. "a years of age. Ter father
is an old time resident - Tie .itN.
She was q niece Of r.. w. Hayward,
one of the leading mer 1ants Il the
ci!A.
Something Of the bitterness of the
fight that is being waged over the
division of the county mt! be mag
when 1t is necessary to admit
leading members of the republic
can party in the city and old time
Of Frank Bope, voted against
him at the polls yesterday, in the JUS
tice of the peace election, because he
to sign the petition for the
creation Of a new county. T. is no,
however. thought that Bope lost more
twenty votes on this account.
has had a way of enforcing the
regardless of consequences, IL
! leading citizen happened to get
drunk he was treated in exactly he
manner as though he were a
1obo, and if IN man came hespre
Bope a second time. for the SAM Of
he was pretty sure to get me
init. Chronic drunks and meier do
wells. who had long been accustomed
o settling their little difficult
I'VE Wy P1NNA6 NV JA'NfN& hh'
,osts. were a little disgruntled
when they had TO hand oven
I $40 fine or perhaps do some hlrd
work on the streets. Consequently law
ind order IN the city have never be-
'ore been SO well preserved. and the
and bob-tail element all got
,ut to work against Bope. He had
tlso offended the saloon element, and
he saloon men and gamblers went
.nliH a nafnet him A ,stsa xraI tRfth" fIaGo 1
dement's were not a few old line DEM
over six hundred votes were
.ast, something beyond all record In
Justice of the peace election.
H. +. Brown, the democrat who was
leeted, is honest and well enough
..quipped for the place, though his
PERSONAL following amounts to little
nd Bone was considered about the
most popular young man in the city.
has served several terms as
Unstable and is well versed i'm stat.
tie law, but Bope will leave him a
ecord of efficiency that will be hard
. equal.
Judge f. VI. Long has returned from
county where he has for the
lst week been collecting evidence in
he election contest against Delegate
.ndrews. 1t is claimed by the demo-
tlldl IlldnN tNlutitfr VI iIUuu hlt Z
cling secured in COlfax and that hum
of votes east at the last election
III be proven to have been illegal.
DR.. j. II. Bailey, a physician and 1
aiding ranchman OF the Mesilla val.
y, who has been visiting his
iughter, Mrs. Henry Van Nalkcn- ,
urg. here for a few days. says that J
the property values have trebled {
the last few months. He quotes
stances whore lands which sold a /