The Sierra Co Advocate Opened Ice Cream Season and Local News
The Sierra Co Advocate details the opening of the ice cream season, local movements such as Miso Nona Murphy’s El Paso trip, district court convening May 25, and various community notes. It mentions school director elections June 1, Episcopal services by Rev Ruffoer, and multiple residents traveling or returning from El Paso or Nogales. The piece covers property sales, a jail inmate, a funeral, and local incidents including a bronco busting episode ending with Abel Chavez injured but alive.
Letter From Alaska Describes Camps and People
A letter from Hollis Alaska dated 4 29 03 recounts life in a mining camp on Kodiak Island. It notes the Crackerjack group idle amid disputes, bonds by C D Lane, and prospecting by Indiana settlers. Descriptions cover missions, hunting, cannery work, and early inhabitation of the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holliss
C. D. Lane
California
Lane
Hie Placer
Nome
Indiana
Klawak
Shakau
Weat
Kasaun
Hollis
Alaska
Behring Bea
Kasaan
Kassan Bay
Twelve Mile Arm
Kasagn Bay
Dolomi
Copper Mountain
Broncho Busting in Town Sparks Calls to Police
The rider, after rapping down Chaves, did not take a wild ride but kept on and vanished into a cloud of dust. Officials, of whom there are several, should end broncho busting and furious riding within Kanita town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abel Chavez
Dr. Given
Kanita
Resolutions to the Memory of Thomas Cam Brie Mall
A 1903 Kingston New Mexico lodge meeting offers condolences for Thomas C Hall a respected member of Hingaton Lodge No 16 A F and A M It resolves to drape the treasurer’s station in mourning and to spread copies of the resolutions in the lodge minutes and send one to the widow of the deceased including statements of his character and the widow’s loss in the May 7 1903 notice
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinceton
New Mexico
Thomas C. Hall
Waxneas
Thomas C. Haji
Hingaton Lodge No
Warness
Thomas
Hall
Tuennconr
Kingston Lodge No
Marcelino Duran
Blazrs County
Maid County
Waneten
Inland camps yield limited prospecting and scarce gold
Numerous small camps dot the inland with little work done to reveal value. Gold appears on several creeks but not in paying quantities. Heavy Amber and swampy creek bottoms hinder placer prospecting and would require very rich deposits to cover costs. Winter remains severe, deer along the beach are scarce and weak. An Indian tea and a goat horn goblet note ends with a personal sign-off from W. E. Taviog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigle
W. E. Taviog
Fire damages households in Chloride amid town visits and notices
Fire destroyed stable and corral fense belonging to Chas Anderson on May 10 while his house narrowly escaped. Austin Crawford’s house burned twice during the conflagration. Residents Harry Reilly and W. D. Reilly visited Chloride this week. Mesere Shadford and Anderson from Phillipsburg were in town. Various local notices mention a planned cement factory near the Pecos river, medical ads tout cholera relief and stomach aids, and postal office changes in Tucumcarla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Anderson
Austin Crawford
Harry Reilly
Chloride
Mesere
Shadford
Phillipsburg
W. D. Reilly
Cough Remedies, Murders, and Local Disturbances Brought to Light
A Ardently advertised Chamberlain remedies claim cure for persistent coughs and colic, with testimonials from H P Burbage in Greenville DC and others. Alamogordo reports deaths by cholera and a murder case near San Jose, while local farmers report rheumatism relief from Pain Balm. A new Alamogordo restaurant is planned and a large sheep theft is noted. Authorities cite Laxative BromoQuinine for cold relief and a mystery gas of disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eremberlain
H. P. Barbage
Greenville
D.C
Burbage
Chamberlein
Lacon
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Sierra CO. Advocate
W. ©. Thompson
Proprinter
Bingle
Miso Nona Murphy
el Paso
District Court
Wade Armstrong
iEl Paso
Albert Pearson
Jceman
J. E. Liggett
North Perohs
James G. Fitch
Lod Hillsboro
H. W. Ruffoer
Silver City
Union Church
N. J. Gehring
Portland
Frank Cox
Nogales
Arizona
Billy Mead
Jono Opgeworth
Animan
C. A. Miller
Arug
8. F. Keller
Geo. T. Miller
Kingston
4. B. Elliott
Bryant
John Gardiner
Hilly Mead
Frankx
B. Carroll
iPaso Electrical Supply Company
Rye County Bank
Hilleboro
N. M
Levi Strauss
Thomas Cambrie
Mise
Minnie James
Mrs. Calhoun
Misa Effie Mabry
Bisbee
Aris
Pecos River
Roewell
Day'r
Tthe
A.C. Simmons JR
MEDI
Danaon
Huot
White Mountain Country
Tucumcarla
Will Pelphrey
Alamogordo
Articultural College
Joseph Pominville
Stillwater
Minn
Aiea
Ioward
Chamberlain
Jamberlain
Wharton & Co
Hondo
John Ryan
Adam Montoya
San Jose
Cubero
Valencia County
Mondey
Montoya
Adolph Sanchez
Ernest Snowell
Bruce Jones
Here
C. P. Rayder
Patten Mille
N.Y
KE. W. Grove
Tonto Basin
Gils River
Uandied
Tament of
Mar
Oece
HL. Wielch
Lessee
Hillsboro
Sierra County Bank
Hillsboro, New Mexico
J. W. Zollars
W. H. Bucher
T. G. Long
Keller, Miller
Sassoors
Lake Valley
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