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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
2
The Sierra County Advocate, an official paper of Sierra County New Mexico, announces publication details for Friday September 22 1911. Proprietor C Thompson states its service via Hillsboro Pest Office and U S Mails.
Dr. Hooper and wife of Albuquerque arrived in Fairview and joined Vance Carruthers for a bear hunt and deer pursuit next month. Jos. B. Tomlinson and party moved to Grafton. John P. Dines repairs Carson house for a possible partner. Cuchillo to Chloride travel misadventure described. Westy Peterson reports ore in Slaughter Gulch. C. H. Laidlaw sows watermelons with heavy yields. San Blayne and Mrs rearm visit from last Saturday.
Kingston reports a well attended church service on Wednesday night. Joseph W. Reid returned from Hermosa Tuesday. Joseph W. Jackson has been transferred to the Reconnaissance party as packet and trail blaze. Reverend Boddington spent Wednesday and Thursday in Kingston. John Broehu, assisted by James Drummond, repaired his house. Rufus Brown came from the Reconnaissance party Wednesday and went to Hillsboro Thursday. The Reconnaissance Party camps on Palomas Creek about five miles west of Hermosa and will [await] disbanding on October 16, 1911.
The article outlines term lengths for officials elected in November. Four year terms extend five years to 1912, while two term limits create three year service. Six to eight year terms stretch to seven or nine years, with exceptions for Congress candidates whose terms run until March 4. Terms start on qualification day and end with the next cycle. Santa Fe New Mexico.
The Sierra County Republicans met at the court house last Saturday naming six delegates to the state convention in Las Vegas on September 28. H. A. Wolford chaired. W. F. H. Bucher was temporary secretary. Delegates included H. A. Wolford, Watson Ritch, W. H. Robert Martin and others. Resolutions praised Taft, Governor Mills, and supported New Mexico constitutional amendment. Chavez county touted as the state’s richest, with Poolesville, Md. representative ad appears.
Legal notice detailing a property and mineral claim in Sierra County New Mexico including The Midnight Test claims and Andrews property. Sheriff Wilkendall and officials handle the judgment and publication process with a notice of intent to prove up land claims before November 1011 in Hillsboro New Mexico.
Notice from the U S Land Office Las Cruces New Mexico dated Sept 1 1910 lists A Garcia of Cool NM with Homestead Entry 4485 for NW SE and NE SW in Township 1 S Range 6 W and sets a hearing date November 6 1910 before Andrew Kelley as Probate Clerk Hillsboro NM for final proof witnesses include David Garcia Mixyulitno Garcia and Entemio Padilla all from nearby localities. Also records Deertard entry 1504 (C T) for N E Sec 35 T8 R Wyne MT Mevidian shows C J Graham Karl Graham Emme Wells and others with first publication Aug 11 1910.
Writ of venditioni exponas issued by the District Court of the Seventh Indicia District of New Mexico directs sale in Sierra County. On October 1, 1911 at 10 a.m. at Andrews New Mexico the property of the case John Butecks vs John Reniver is to be sold for cash, including mining tools described such as six miners picks eight shovels and one blacksmith tool.
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