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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
3
Sierra County Advocate proclaims itself the Official Paper of Sierra County under proprietor W O Thompson in the issue dated Friday November 6 1908.
The report notes an quiet election and social events in Deming and nearby towns. Attendants and judges from Deming and Silver City attend court. mining claims, new restaurants, and a campaign dance are mentioned along with a baseball game and a long-lived local resident’s funeral. A new Amarillo to Tacameari cut-off project advances, linking routes from New York to San Francisco and El Paso to Memphis.
District Court with Judge Parker and court officers assembled Sunday evening. Petit and grand juries convened and began work on a light docket. The first criminal case Sotro Montoya for cattle killing ended without agreement. Pablo Marcos was acquitted on a revolver theft charge. Francisco Baca’s Madrid murder link deferred. Mrs. S. F. Keller reports from southern California. uniformed Chinese student clothing market noted. Local ads include medicines and a stage coach venture by Mrs. Louis B. Parker in Sylvanite, plus a death notice for Colonel Clayton G. Coleman.
The Pacific Rio Grande Republican reports a Sylvanite boom with hundreds trekking daily as new locations appear across great sections. Prospects lie far beyond the original camp, with Cripple Creek miners noting phonolite and sylvanite occur together, suggesting a rich find could recreate a second Cripple Creek.
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