Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-05-11
LOCAL MATTERS
OF INTEREST

DR.. Ottosen of Willard calle
on friends here Sunday.
G. W. Ferrel and family move,
to La Jara Ranch Tuesday.
Persons wishing to buy goot
dairy cows, call on Mrs. Olive.
Fine Clothes. For an up-to
date suit, and guaranteed fit
see S. N. Jenson.
Mrs. H. C. Williams visited ir
Willard from Monday evening te
to Tuesday morning.
For sale, 160 acres decided
land, 6 miles west of Stanley, N.
M. Write Box 26, Alamogordo,
N. M.
w. w. Wagner has ice to sell,
but will deliver once day only,
before 8 a. m. I. N. Shirley, at
the old Hughes corral, has
charge, and will receive and fill
orders.
One new Melotte cream separ-
ator 700 pounds per hour capaci-
ty, one good 8-year-old work
horse, one good saddle pony, gen.
tie and will work; all for sale, or
will trade one or all for young
cattle.-Wm. Winkel, Encino, N.
M.
W. H. Hancock, formerly a
resident of the valley, now of
Las Vegas, came in last week
for a visit with old friends and
to look after business, and re-
mained several days. Mr.. Han
cock says that the valley looks
natural and familiar to him.
c. j. Wallace and family, old
settlers in the vicinity of Nc
Intosh who left several years ago
and have been in California
since, were on Tuesdays train
bound for the old homestead.
Mr.. Wallace says they have re-
turned to stay.
1t appears that George Mum
shower got in the tree planting
game a year or two ago, and the
little trees in his enclosure look
very pretty now in their new
green dresses. George can sit
under the shade of his own trees,
if not his own vine and fig tree.
M. T. Dansby, a colored con-
vict who was working at the Tt
jeras road camp, made his get
away a few days ago. Word
was sent to the officers here, and
J. A. Britain and Frank Laws
gathered in the colored brother.
He was returned to the peniten-
tiary at Santa Fe Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Senter
picked up lot of the trimmings
from the trees planted in town a
few weeks ago and planted them
on their ranch where they can
be watered by a windmill pump.
Nearly all of the cuttings are
growing and roofing nicely. In
d few years they will have more
trees than anybody.
D. S. King, who has been
working on his mining claim in
the Priest canyon district, re-
turned to his home near Nc
Intosh last Friday with his eyes
out of commission. He was
caught by a blow out in his mine
work, and his eyes were 80 badly
injured that he will be disabled
for some time.
Willard, N. NJ, May 6.-Word
has reached here of the finding
of decomposed body of a man
about four miles north of Scholle.
1t is thought the man had been
dead about one year. Also, the
remains of two horses, each one
showing a bullet hole in their
heads, were found. There was
nothing to indicate the identity
of the man, and the whole
thing is mystery. Mexi-
can.
Monday was a warm day, per-
fectly cloudless and calm. but
the air was full of very fine dust.
Looking at objects under mile
distant the dust in the air was I
not apparent, but it was there in :,
sufficient quantity to obscure the
mountains so that but a faint
outline could be distinguished.
The theory of the wise ones is s