Casto haa been in bad health and
has gone to Socorro, where he
may submit to an operation,
Brad has charge of the Angus
McGillivray ranch for the pres
ent. There has been a change, rath
er sudden and unexpected in the
Mountainair State Bank, by
which that institution passes to
the control of the State National
Bank of Albuquerque. H. F.
Mathews and J. N. Burton both
sold their stock to the Albuquer
que bank and retired. Probably
others of the small stockholders
will also sell. The change was
the. result of some sort of a dis
agreement among the officers, it
is reported.
W. A. Cross has most of us
beaten in several ways. In the
first place, he has nine grown
living children. In the second
place, he had cattle enough to
sell each one of them twenty
head of cows, and have a re
spectable herd of a hundred or
so left to start business with
himself as a young man. The
cattle sold to the children were
selected and cut out last Satur
day. Some of them will be taken
to the Pecos valley and Texas,
and some of them will remain
here.
There was a pretty destructive
fire in Duran last night, several
buildings having gone up in
smoke. Burglars blew open the
safe in the postoffice, which
started the fire. The fire caused
a break in telephone connections
and it is impossible at this time
to get further particulars. As
far as can be learned here the
burglars escaped.
