New Mexico Fire Damps Insurance Losses Rise
Reports from Lordburg, New Mexico, say a severe Saturday fire badly damaged Roberts and Lehy’s general mercantile building, potentially wiping out stock. Eight insurers each carry 2700, with total losses about half. Insurance men warn higher rates or uninsurable risk if NM losses stay above average amid rapid growth and winds.
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Denver Republican
Denver Insurance
Lordburg
New Mexico
General Mercantile
Roberts and Lehy
Nation
Scottish Union
Philadelphia
North American
American Central
Northern
Springfield
San Miguel Convicts Sentenced at Las Vegas District Court
Santa Fe grew by thirteen prisoners arriving at the territorial penitentiary on the 19th. Leandro Romero Estevan Dominguez and David Encinias were each given ninety nine year murders. Prudencio Martinez Felipe Garcia Pilar Padilla and Rumaldo Varela faced sentences for crimes including attack on a girl three years five men. Other felons received terms for larceny theft or assault with specific one to two year ranges.
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Santa Fe
Territorial Penitentiary
Las Vegas
Leandro Romero
Estevan Dominguez
David Encinias
Prudencio Martinez
Felipe Garcia
Pilar Padilla
Rumaldo Varela
Josiah Wilson
Frederick Porest
Charles W. Fox
Adolfo Crespin
David Brama
Mateo Padilla
Injured Man May Recover After Teacup Sized Brain Injury
Willis Goodwin of Willard survived a premature dynamite blast while a well was being dug at Bus Woodward ranch. A fragment shattered his skull and tore away bone, leaving brain tissue exposed the surgeons say he will likely recover. Two men in the well at the time escaped injury.
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Willis Goodwin
Willard
Goodwin
Bus Woodward
Forestry Trip Highlights Grand New Mexico Scenery
S. T. Dana of Washington D C and I B Terry of Santa Fe in the Forestry service returned from an overland trip to the Gallinas Planting station and the upper Pecos. They rode from Harvey's upper ranch to Arnold ranch and Indian Creek Trail in two days, praising the scenery as beyond description and the most beautiful to be found.
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S. T. Dana
Washington, D. C
I. B. Terry
Santa Fe
Forestry Service
Gallinas
Pecos
Harvey
Arnold Ranch
Indian Creek
Arizona Scientist Visits Pike's Peak Reserve in Colorado
Mr Dana, based in Flagstaff Arizona, travels to Colorado Springs to inspect Pike's Peak National Reserve while this summer he studies yellow pine reproduction before returning to Arizona.
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Southwest
Mr. Dana
Flagstaff
Arizona
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Pike's Peak National Reserve
New Mexico to send delegate to Paris road meeting
Hon Numa Raymond of Las Cruces proposed as New Mexico representative to the first International Good Roads Association meeting in Paris on October 11. Acting Governor Nathan Jaffa appointed Raymond as delegate and issued credentials, making New Mexico among the early states to be represented at the world wide convention.
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New Mexico
Paris
France
Numa Raymond
Las Cruces
Europe
George Curry
Switzerland
Nathan Jaffa
Mr Raymond
Twelve-year-old Blair found housing after theft case
A Santa Fe church pastor's employee, Alexander Blair, twelve, stole eighty dollars for bicycles and toys. Relatives offered to take him in, and Floyd township residents funded a survey to reduce land boundary disputes, with Tallant overseeing Roosevelt county townships. The Rio Grande irrigation suit was moved to federal court, officials reported from Portales, and New Mexico’s National Guard prepares a July departure for San Antonio with 160 soldiers across four companies.
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Colorado
Alexander Blair
A Basset
Guadalupe
Santa Fe
Thomas Blair
Durango
Floyd Township
Roosevelt County
W. F. Tallant
Tallant
John R. McFie
First Judicial District
Rio Mimbres Irrigation Company
Commissioner of Public Lands
Robert P. Ervien
Territorial
United States
Portales
New Mexico
T. B. Catron
Catron
Chicago
Tarkington
New Mexico National Guard
Albuquerque
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
San Antonio
Texas
Las Cruces
Silver City
Witness Repeats Exhaustion Request For Time On Stand
A weary witness pleads for a recess saying he has spoken the entire truth for two straight hours and is completely worn out. He insists he has never told the truth so long in his life.
Problem in Division Foreman Riddles Ayes and Yees
A terse exchange shows confusion in division work as Laborera states three ayes and the foreman orders the half ayes to rise. The dialect hints at a dispute over counting or agreement among workers, reflecting labor tension in a historical setting.
Roy New Mexico prospers as growing hub in Mora county
Roy New Mexico a fast growing town of about 500 in Mora county sits on the Dawson Branch of the El Paso and Southwestern system since January 1 1907 attracting 800 homesteaders and desert entries. The town shows modern business growth despite money stringency with many investment opportunities and thousands of acres of level agricultural land open for Homestead and desert land filings. Water is available at depths of 30 to 150 feet and well drillers report success, as Roy aims to become the county seat and the north eastern New Mexico's most prosperous community.
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Dawson
EL Paso
Mora County
Roy
New Mexico
Mora County Profile Highlights Agriculture and Terrain
Mora County spans 2542 square miles with a population around 10 thousand. It leads New Mexico in agricultural wealth while sustaining major timbered ranges and Pecos River Forest Reserve land. The topography is rugged with the Rocky Mountain main ridge, peaks above 18,500 feet, and multiple river systems including the Mora and Pecos.
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Mora
Wagonmound
la Cueva
Cleveland
Guadalupita
Chacon
Ocate
Roy
Lucero
Halls Peak
Holman
Weber
Shoemaker
Watrous
Mills
Ledoux
Mora County
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Taos
Bernalfilo
Rhode Island
Delaware
Bernallilo
Rocky Mountains
Pecos River
Pecos
Santa Cruz
Rio Grande
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San Miguel
Forestry
Foreman
Laborera
Indge
Gould
Moquero
Moquero Land & Locating Co
Cassimero Gonzaley
Roy, New Mexico
Roy, N
A, P
Duncan, Prop
J. M. Wilburn
AS. Bushkevits
Pres
Max M. Bushkevitz
Vice Pres
A. Bushkevitz
Leo
and Treas
Great Western
Roy, Moraco, New Mexico
L. H. McConnell
C. E. Farrington
Ters
Clayton
A. S. Bushkevitz
John Florence
Ae New Meale
A. Roy
New Moxilco
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