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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
1
Attorney Elfeqoq Baga of Albuquerque will appear at all terms of the Bernalillo Valencia and Sierra counties courts. He will negotiate mining property deals in New Mexico involving gold silver and copper amid ongoing claims and business interests.
Reflections on courage and judgment from various quotes. Aged residents and long tenure stories close the piece. Mrs. Williams, widow of Rev Samuel Williams, famed village resident, died at eighty six after eighty six years in Cripplestyle house, rarely leaving home.
In Wowan's Home Companion a visitor notes Colonel Crown appears very literary while surveying the Crown house. An ebonyfaced woman agrees, saying he truly reads and messes up the year’s house with magazines on the floor.
A fragmented excerpt discusses fish building nests for eggs and male care of offspring, then shifts to a whimsical note about writing and inspiration. It includes quotes about inspiration, metaphor, and grammar, set within a period newspaper feel and a playful, editorial tone.
A jumble of vintage clippings describes a fashion note on being in style through a request for alligators, a Fort Scott Tribune story about a farmer’s insomnia and its doctor’s Q&A, and scattered lines from a London Times fragment, all reflecting curious 19th or early 20th century humor and oddities.
Don Nicolas Romero, while building a cellar on his Capitan Mountains homestead, uncovered a stash of over 300 old Spanish coins and relics buried about six feet deep within six flat stones forming a box. Dates range from 1713 to 1740s, with workmen paid two dollars each. villagers swarmed the site but no further treasure was found.
A Pecos Valley tale reports water reservoirs in local cune ras alined with crude oil in Artesia while Bil Smith, a farmer, is called to account by the health department for cows stolen and supplying milk. The piece notes old frontier legends of water in Nigger Head Cactus for survival, now paralleled by oil field reservoirs.
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