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* ‘ v * • »• -' » i *» « v/ » • « l l ft.* »' \y \ I imuddy and the pressure very poor for some days past. The Board of County Commissioners and the City Council should be called upon to remedy these bad conditions.In tomorrow’s issue of this paper there will appear an interesting article describing an episode during the Civil war in the southern part of the Territory and written by Captain George 11. Pettis, who served in New Mexico in the California column and as an officer of the First New Mexico Volunteers. The article contains a graphic description of the crossing by a company of infantry of the Rio Grande near Paraje at. high water and when it was a very dangerous thing so to do. Captain Pettis, who returned to his old home in Providence, Rhode Island, in .180s, is State Sealer ofMeasures and Weights and a respected citizen. He is still greatly interested in New Mexico and is a regular reader of the daily New Mexican.Ex-Mayor Carter H. Harrison and his brother W. Preston Harrison, of Chicago, who spent yesterday in the city, promptly became subscribers t.o the New Mexican. They are interested in New Mexico affairs and wantto keep posted. Besides, they are ot the opinion that the special articlesIpublished from time to time in this paper concerning the history, archaeol- j ogy, ethnology and Indians of the Territory are of great value and are well j worth reading even by busy Chicago politicians and business men.“Billy’’ Smith, who for some monthspast has been a Deputy t'nited States Marshal under t'nited States Marshal C. M. Foraker, has resigned and gone to El Paso, where it is said he will become chief of detectives of the Pass City. jLeo Hersch is having an extension , built to the veranda at his residence which, when completed, will extend across the entire eastern side of the'house as well as in the front. It willmaterially add to the appearance of the building which is one of the handsomest modern homes in the city. Mr. Hersch has had additional trees set out in front of the premises. !A tract of land containing five hundred acres lying six miles north of Las Vegas has been purchased by the Vagoso Ranch Company. The ranch will be put under cultivation by dry farming methods, and what crops areT1the sirWBall; iprofessWW China ter inThing, aifitOCic
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Fri, Apr 12, 1907
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