Thompson Proprietor Sparks Friday Note in Sierra County Advocate
The Sierra County Advocate dated Friday December 3, 1909 lists Thompson as proprietor in this brief local note.
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
3
The Sierra County Advocate dated Friday December 3, 1909 lists Thompson as proprietor in this brief local note.
A partial roll of county officers includes commissioners in multiple districts, a chairman, an assessor, sheriff, superintendent of schools, probate judge and clerk, and treasurer. Several names appear garbled or incomplete, preventing full attribution.
Gage offers lumber for sale as Christmas nears while residents move, recover from illness, and miners expand work. Chris Schale and family relocate from TV ranch. Grace Dawson recovers from typhoid fever. Other items report tax due, a baby born, and varied local happenings from the Bonanza and Wicks mines to court hearings and visiting residents.
A mixed set of items reports lodge officer nominations at Percha No 9 I C C F births and deaths registration prompts, social gossip and a fatal double shooting at Fairview. It notes Ed Armer injuring his foot, mining and assessment news, a birthday dinner for Sheriff Kendall, and a warning against gossip linked to two men shot dead.
Two Fairview men, James B. Taylor and Isaac Futch, shot each other to death in a revolver duel on Thanksgiving night near Fairview sixty miles north of Hills Antaile. The feud arose from a denied wedding invitation and evolved from a minor social slight into a fatal conflict. Taylor, longtime Sierra County resident and foreman at the United States Treasury mine in Chloride, was widely respected. Futch, formerly foreman at the Winston cattle ranch, was also esteemed by acquaintances.
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