First step on big Rio Grande irrigation dam opens
Almost 1,000 residents from El Paso Mesilla Park Las Cruces Dona Ana and nearby areas gathered on the Rocky heights near Leiden New Mexico to witness the opening of the Leasburg diversion dam center gate. Felix Martinez and H B Holt signaled the gates release as officials spoke praising the project for 20 000 acres of Mesilla valley farmland.
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el Paso
Mesilla Park
Las Cruces
Dona Ana
Rio Grande Valley
Leasburg
Leiden
N. M
Mesilla Valley
Felix Martinez
H. B. Holt
Rio Grande
District Attorney's Trouble Captures a Foe in Douglas
The Sierra County Advocate reports that a man using aliases Mills Hall and Mandenhall deceived District Attorney H A Wolford with a $50 scheme. Ranger Dudley tracked him to Douglas, Arizona, where he is jailed awaiting Wolford's action. Wolford had earlier found Mills baggage at Santa Rosa but not the man, and Ranger Dudley knows Mills well. Captain Fornoff and Ranger Dudley are praised for the capture.
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Advocate
T. H. Mills
T. H. Hall
H. A. Wolford
Mills
Wolford
Douglas
Mills-Hall-Mandenhall
Sierra County Advocate
Los Angeles Japanese Residents Granted Fleet Visit Welcome
Japanese residents of Los Angeles asked to help entertain Admiral Bob Evans officers and men upon the fleet’s arrival off California coast. The request was granted in the spirit in which it was made.
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Los Angeles
Bob Evans
Battle Fleet
California
Ohio Unanimous for Taft Delegation
Ohio shows near total support for Taft with every county except one naming delegates to the state convention. All 814 delegates are pledged for Taft, indicating unanimous backing for the national delegation. Twenty one congressional conventions will choose two delegates each, dates running February 13 to 27. Delegates from eleven conventions were chosen at primaries. primaries remain for others.
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Arthur L. Vorges
Taft
Ohio
St .Ouw
Patt
Crumbs for Foreign Missions and Home Work
A preacher urges equal concern for foreign missions and local converts, urging readers to donate even small crumbs toward world wide work. He argues that cost of new conversions is justified and urges ongoing support of missionary representatives until all hear about Jesus. B. C. Meeker.
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Jesus
Corea
Socorro
Paul
St. Patrick
B. C. Meeker
Death of Henry Chambon Ends Socorro Mercantile Era
Henry Chambon, twenty four years in Socorro business, died February 1 1908 after brief illness. The Chambon store will continue under H Chambon with Julius Campredon as manager. Campredon has five years of service. Mrs H Caamnoy named administrator. An assortment of fancy stationery available at the Chieftain office.
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Henry Chambon
Socorro
H. Chambon
Julius Campredon
H. Caamnoy
Methods of Restoring Grasses and Handling Stock
Government plans reseeding experiments on national forest ranges next spring and summer to restore overgrazed areas. Trials will use native and cultivated grasses, focus on stocking methods, with ewe grazing trials in Oregon as a model. Six experimental stations planned across typical conditions, five to six acre plots.
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National Forest
Rocky Mountain
Coast
Northwest
Impaha National Forest
Oregon
Mexican Mine Workers Attempt Fatal Harm at Santa Rosa Mine
An incident at the Santa Rosa mine in Sonora Mexico involved Mexican employees placing sticks of hazardous material under several buildings including the boarding house. The blast occurred during dinner leaving fifteen Americans injured with broken arms and legs but no fatalities.
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Santa Rosa
Sonora
Mexico
Episcopal Services Lead by Rev Fletcher Cook in Albuquerque
The Episcopal church will host divine services next Monday at 8 PM conducted by Rev. Fletcher Cook of Albuquerque. An interesting sermon and good music are planned with a cordial invitation to all, especially men, to attend.
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Fletcher Cook
Albuquerque
Episcopal Church
Packard Delivers Insightful Talk to School of Mines
John R. Packard of Greenville Pennsylvania spoke to the School of Mines faculty and students on his Far East tour. The address, invited by President R P Noble, covered Egypt India China and Japan and lasted forty five minutes. The audience wished for more and invited him to return for another talk when in Socorro.
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School of Mines
John R. Packard
Greenville
Pennsylvania
C. G. Duncan
Packard
Far East
R. P. Noble
Egypt
Hindoostan
China
Japan
Socorro
Mrs Brown Hosts St Valentine Party Social Overview
Mrs C T Brown entertained a well attended St Valentine party at her eastern city home yesterday. The event combined a five hundred game and a thimble party with prizes including a gold bowled souvenir spoon and potted cyclamen. Refreshments followed at two tables, with the hostesses assisted by Miss Anna Hilton and Miss Bertha Hilton.
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C. T. Brown
Brown
H. F. Bowman
School of Mines
John Greenwald
Laura Winkler
M. Cooney
Misses Anna
Bertha Hilton
Exhibit Grapes Trophy Promised by Las Cruces Attorney
Attorney W A Fleming Jones of Las Cruces offers a handsome silver cup as a prize for the best individual grape exhibit at the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress and Industrial exposition to be held in Albuquerque next fall. The note highlights New Mexico grape culture in the Rio Grande valley and civic interest in a local agricultural showcase.
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W. A. Fleming Jones
Las Cruces
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Death toll rises in Baca family with fourth loss
Don Juan A. Baca of Burley reports the fourth death in his family and wife Doha Bonifacia Castillo de Baca. Felicita Baca, wife of Don Vitorino Lopez, died at age 20, leaving a husband and infant son. The remains were buried last Sunday at the ranch cemetery of Don Jose Chavez y Baca as three younger relatives had been laid to rest recently. Lucy Fitch of Painesville, Ohio, arrived in Socorro and stays with attorney James G. Fitch.
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Juan A. Baca
Burley
Doha Bonifacia Castillo de Baca
Felicita Baca
Don Vitorino Lopez
Don Jose Chavez Y Baca
Curry for the Senate Unanimous for Statehood
Washington dispatch reports Congressman Mondell pledging unanimous support for New Mexico statehood in the next session. Other notes include bills on territorial land sales and the Sixteenth National Irrigation congress, plus a Washington birthday social by the Ladies Aid. Also cited are mass labor returns at the Loraine plant and Illinois Steel, and a note on catarrh treatment with Hall's Catarrh Cure offered.
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Washington
Albuquerque Morning Journal
State of
New Mexico
Solomon Luna
George Curry
New Willard Hotel
Loeb
Ballinger
Land Office
Newell
Reclamation He
Mendell Oing
Hoye
Department of Justice
Holcombe
Interior Department
H. O. Bursum
C. M. Carr
Mark Thompson
Congressman Mondell
Wyoming
National Irrigation Congress
House
Cleveland
Loraine
National Tube Company
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Hall
F. J. Cheney
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cony A & Ei
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