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source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

steer money that is put into Cadillacs would fence all of the early -day cemeteries that now look like trash piles. — Rhea Kuykendall. H. I. Peck brought out a car load of brood hogs from Kansas, which have been placed on an alfalfa ranch at Duck creek by Lyons & Campbell. Jacob Bennett, father of Judge C. Bennett and Col. J. F. Bennett of Las Cruces, recently died at his home in Marysville, Missouri, at the ripe old age of ninety-two years. The following short biography is clipped from the Rio Grande Republican; Though Mr. Bennett was an old line democrat and v/as never known to vote any other ticket during his life, he was a strong Union man. Three of his sons were in the union army; . V. Bennett was captain in a Minnesota regiment; Cornelius Bennett, quartermaster in the eighth Iowa cavalry; and Col. J. R. Bennett was lieutenant-colonel, assistant adjutant-gen- eral of U. S. volunteers. Mr. Jacob Bennett in the early days of 1874 when the stage line ex- tended from Kansas City to California made the trip together with his wife to Las Cruces, where they lived for several months, after which time they removed to Silver City. Their object was to visit their children and after a stay of two years returned to their home at Maysville. From ihe May 8, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise ROMAN CHIQUITO The Romantic Story of a Mescalero Apache.