The Snowflake herald., 1913-10-17
News Items From Our Correspondents

in town the first of the week.
Tom Picket was in town the
first of the week for the circus.
B. First and DR.. Wilks returned
home Sunday morning from the
fair at Albuquerque.
j. E. Kleindienst came up from
Winslow the first of the week in
his car to look after his business
interests at this place.
S. w. Jaques and wife came
down from Showlow Sunday and
returned home Tuesday in their
new runabout car.
Henry M. Tanner of St. Jo-
seph, made the first annual proof
of his desert land entry located
at Manila the first of the week.
Mr.. Tanner says that the Gov
ernment requires an expenditure
of a dollar an acre year on des-
ert claims to convert the land
from desert state into a fer
tile condition but that it actually
requires several times the legal
amount to get any results. Mr..
Tanners proof shows an expen-
diture of more than double what
the law requires.
The Cole brothers circus show
ed here Teusday dnring the after
noon and evening and succeeded
in entertaining nearly all of the
kids" under ninety-nine years
of age in the town and surrounding
country during it's stay. The
show was rather small and ap-
parently quite road weary and
very few new stunts usually
found with the best of amphithea-
ters. The menagerie was also
quite limited, the only perform
ing animals Of any consequence
were three elephants, of the large
size in the eyes of the youngsters,
4 who did their part toward enter
tainingthe crow dis
Anton Lopez, section foreman
at Aztec, was run over and killed
by a west bound passenger train
at the curve, two miles east of
town, lastFriday somewhat about
ten o'clock. Mr.. Lopez and sew
eral section men were returning
to Aztec from Holbrook on their
hand car and on reaching the
curve at point of the mountain
met delayed train coming at a
high rate of speed. Mr.. Lepez
ordered his men to jump and he
alone stayed and tried to remove
the hand car from the track,
which he succeeded in partly do
ing, when he was struck by the
train and ground under it's
wheels. Mr.. Lopez was a good
citizen and had lived in Holbrook
for about twenty years, and will
be greatly missed. He leaves a
wife and eleven children, most
of whom are quite small, to mourn
his untimely death. The funer-
al services were held last Satur-
day and the RENAME inferred in
the HolbrOok cemetary.
J. c.. Lathrop was arrested last
Monday for keeping a blind pig
on dry territory, and about a
wagon load of different kinds of
Intoxicating liquors were found
at his place of business at the
time of the arrest by the sheriff's
force armed with a search war
rant. The liquors were carted
off to the courthouse and stored
in one of the cells of the jail pen
ding the findings of the Court.
Mr.. Lathrop was charged with
unlawfully selling liquors and on
Wednesday plead guilty in the
Justices Court and was fined
$4,000, and the liquors seized
were ordered destroyed, which
order the sheriff Immediately
proceeded to carry out by dump
Ing onto the ground and into
mother earth, at the rear of the
Courthouse, the whole outfit con-
sisting of some three full cases
of Rock and Rye, several parts
of barrels of old John Barleycorn,
varied and large assortment of
choice and sparkling wines and
a small quantity of the brands
that bubble when the corks are
kicked out. The dispatch with
which the sheriff's men carried
out the order of destruction Of
the mirth giving beverages was
both exciting and solemn and
many thirst will go unquenched
as a result. The place of the