Certificate of Incorporation of Bitch Cattle Company
Territorial record from New Mexico dated January 2 1908 certifies the Articles of Incorporation for Bitch Cattle Company No 5285. The document lists principal office Agua Seca Ranch Tularosa N M agent Watson L Ritch III object to own buy sell and lease livestock and real estate and to borrow money with board consent. Authorized capital stock 400 shares at 100 each totalling 40000. Founders include Watson L Ritch Lessie Morris Ritch Nellie Ritch Scudder Olive Joy Laderer and J F Laderer with shares specified. Duration fifty years directors named for first three months. Notaries in New York and Kansas attest execution and acknowledgments. Endorsed No 5285 and reference to record volumes.
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New Mexico
Santa Fe
Nathan Jarra
Ritch Cattle Company
Agua Seca Ranch
N. M. P. O. Tularosa
Watson L. Ritch III
Board of Directors
Watson L. Ritch
Tularosa
N. M
Lessie Morris Ritch
Nellie Ritch Scudder
Huntington
Long Island
N. Y
Olive Joy Laderer
McPherson
Kansas
J. F. Laderer
Neltie Ritch Scudder
A. D
Watson L. Rites
Nati Ritce Scupprr
Lussix Morris Arren
Olive Joy Lapgrer
J. B. Lapgrer
Sierra
Emony Hickox
State of New York
Suffolk County
Olive
Socorro Kid Minstrels Delight See Pageant at Opera House
Socorro's Kid Minstrels performed to an appreciative audience last Saturday with several young members praised for singing. Miss Bertha Kealer directed the program, Bob Wright showed talent, and a cake walk featured the event, awarding a prize to Miss Clara Bursum. The exhibition drew praise as a promising debut for many performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Messrs
P. J. Savage
G. E. Cook
W. H. Hill
Clara Bursum
Kid Minstrels
Socorro
Battleships Pass Magellan Straits Under Admiral Evans
The American battle fleet under Admiral Evans moves through the dangerous Magellan Straits on its voyage around South America. Mrs. Jas. Stephens offers milk delivery by wagon with cash terms and phone orders available.
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Admiral Evans
Straits of Magellan
South America
Territorial Republicans Fix Date and Place for Convention
The Territorial Republican Central Committee calls a 10 am meeting at the Commercial Club in Albuquerque on February 18 1908 to designate the time and location for a territorial convention. Delegates will be apportioned by county and proxies allowed within the same county. H O Barsum is chairman and C V Safford secretary. Governor Curry invites congressional committees to visit New Mexico next summer to assess statehood prospects amid a winter truce. The meeting aims to set delegate selection methods and discuss other business.
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Territorial
Republican Central
H. O. Barsum
Charles V. Safford
Albena
Perdis
CEN
Tral Committee
Republican Territorial Central Committee
Territory of
New Mexico
Commercial Club
Albuquerque
Chicago
United States
Territorial Central Committee
H. O. Buxsum
C. V. Sarroro
Washington
Associated 48
Curry
Joseph Cannon
House Committee On Territories
Hamilton
Michigan
L. Bradford Prince
Mexico
Teachers at Examination for Third Grade Certificates
Regular examination of applicants for teachers third grade certificates opened in the courthouse with Superintendent D A Ortega presiding. List includes Della Bolding La Joya Mimie Herbert Magdalena Catherine Pearce Lemitar Florence Ransom Sabinal Babetta Ehrenstein Magdalena Frances Ehrenstein Magdalena Alejo Alde reda Lemitar J A Baca San Antonio Andres Mora Santa Recio Maximo B Baca Polvadera Miguel A Vigil Polvader Alejandro M Sanchez Santa Rita M A Gonzales Sabinal Doloritas Miera San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
D. A. Ortega
Della Bolding
la Joya
Mimie Herbert
Magdalena
Catherine Pearce
Lemitar
Florence Ransom
Sabinal
Babetta Ehrenstein
Frances Ehrenstein
Alejo Alderete
J. A. Baca
San Antonio
Andres Mora
Deaths of Trinidad and Petrita Baca Near Burley
Juan A Baca and Dodi Castillo de Baca announce the deaths of their daughter Trinidad aged five on the 19th and their infant daughter Petrita aged nine months on the 21st. Both were laid to rest in the Chaves y Baca ranch cemetery near Burley beside a young brother who died days earlier.
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Juan A. Baca
Dodi Bovifacia Castillo de Baca
Trinidad Baca
Petrita
Don Jose Chaves Y Baca
Burley
Ladies Aid Meeting With Mrs Herrick Tuesday
The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs W H Herrick on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o clock for a community gathering and planning session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid
W. H. Herrick
Mrs Anna Freeman Is Free From Prison
Mrs Anna Freeman, once a sensational figure in Socorro, has been released after serving a ten year term for larceny by embezzlement. With good conduct time, her sentence was reduced by three years and friends will help her return to an upright life. The issue also features an advertisement for Draughons Practical Business College Co. with a thirty college chain from Washington City to El Paso.
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Socorro
Anna Freeman
Santa Fe New Mexican
Dona Ana County
Draughon
Practical Business College Co
Washington City
el Paso
County Treasurer Records Tax Receipts Total 3165
Official Santa Fe territorial treasury records show January receipts from Jose E B Torres, treasurer of Socorro County. Taxes for 1904 amount to 41 cents and 1906 1907 total 2070.54 dollars, with overall accumulated total described as 3165.
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Santa Fe
Territorial Treasury
Jose E B. Torres
Socorro County
Otal
Bo Ekss
Probate Court Minute Highlights and Appointments in Socorro
At the regular Socorro county probate term Judge Domingo Baca presided with clerk E H Sweet sheriff A C Abeytia deputy S C Abeyta interpreter E S Stapleton. The final report hearings for Anastacia de Ortega and others were scheduled or continued. guardians and appraisers were appointed for estates including Cornelio Aragon Robert T Collins and Josefita B Baca. The inventory of Louis Liot and the estates of Everett Fuller and John Kennedy were approved. the administratrix was permitted to sell property after debt deductions. The notice includes an unrelated Catarrh cure advertisement and medical remedy claims for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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Socorro County
Domingo Baca
E. H. Sweet
A.C. Abeytia
S. C. Abeyta
E.S. Stapleton
J. A.torres
Anastacia G. de Ortega
Pedro Ortega
Alejandro Garcia
H. M. Dougherty
P. J. Savage
John F. Cook
H. G. May
Thomas Cook Silliman
John E. Griffth
Cynthia A. Bruton
Cornelio Aragon
Mary E. Collins
Jose E. Torres
Robert T. Collins
Louis Liot
Michael Cooney
George A. Duborrow
Dan Higgins
Louis Gramas
C. H. Storey
E. S. Stapleton
C. B. Fuller
Edness
Jase E. Torres
Episcopal Services in Albuquerque Monday Evening
Rev Dr Cook of Albuquerque to conduct Episcopal church services Monday February 3 at 8 pm. Sermon topic The Grandness of Men. Public invited with special invitation to men. An assortment of fancy stationery at the Chieftain.
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Lletcner Cook
Albuquerque
Episcopal Church
Dr. Cook
Death of Sister Euphrosyne noted in Socorro
The death of Sister Mary Euphrosyne, born Elizabeth Catherine Thompson in 1843, was mourned across Socorro. A pioneer educator with the Sisters of Loretto, she long led Loretto Academy work in Santa Fe Taos Mora Las Vegas and Socorro, serving as mother superior for 25 years and influencing many campuses in New Mexico.
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Euphrosyne
Socorro
Las Vegas
Mary Euphrosyne
Lebanon
Marion County
Kentucky
Elizabeth Catherine
Benjamin Thompson
Sisters of Loretto
Loretta
St. Benedict's Academy
Portland
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Taos
Loretto Academy
Mora
Sisters of
Loretto
Francisca Lamy
Ad Metlusky Dead in Idaho Death Telegram Reaches Attorney
A telegram received last Sunday morning from Wardner Idaho reports the death of A J McClusky the day before. He was a resident of Socorro about twenty years ago engaged in the saloon business on the plaza's south side. He moved to San Diego during a period of emigration from Socorro to the growing city. McClusky was well regarded during his residence here.
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H. M. Dougherty
A. J. McClusky
Wardner
Idaho
McClusky
Socorro
San Diego
Mr. McClusky
A Busy Month in February Noted for Many Observances
The late month of February hosts Chinese New Year Washington's Birthday St. Valentine Day Lincoln's Birthday Ground Hog Day Five Pay Days and Leap Year. These events make February a busy calendar month.
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Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Territory of New Mexico
Nathan Jaffa
Bitch Cattle Company
Doverass Conxtin
State of Kansas
McPherson County
D. P. Sixplay
Cor. Ree
Nathan Javen
M. To. O
Socorro's Kid Minstrels
Chicago White Sox
California
Arizona
Albuquerque Browns
White Sox
Duke City
Presbyterian Services
B.C. Menken
Bursum
Congressional Committee
Territory
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Episcopal Services
DEATH
Metlusky
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