THE PAST 100 YEARS

From the Santa Fe New Mexican: Nov. 4, 1918: Miss Demensia Rivera, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rivera, of Pecos, N.M., died of pneumonia Saturday night at a local sanitarium. The funeral took place at 2 o’clock this afternoon from the Cathedral of St. Francis. Interment at Rosario cemetery. Undertaker C.A. Rising was in charge of funeral arrangements. Francisco Delgado, register of the U.S. land office, received a telegram that his son-in-law, Manuel Delgado, aged 26 years, died of pneumonia in Las Vegas Saturday night. Mr. Delgado was a rancher and was highly thought of by his friends in Las Vegas, Santa Fe and other cities where he was known. He married Francisco Delgado’s daughter in Santa Fe several years ago. Archbishop J.B. Pitaval attended the reception following the wedding and gave the couple his blessing.

The deceased leaves a widow and two little children.

Nov. 4, 1968: An employee working in New Mexico during a normal eight-hour day may take off two hours to vote Tuesday, Attorney General Boston Witt told The New Mexican today.

Witt cited an opinion issued in 1960 by Hilton A. Dickson Jr., then attorney general.

The two-hour allowance, according to that opinion, is good for anyone who works at least eight hours, from before 10 a.m. until after 4 p.m. The polls are opened Tuesday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 4, 1993: There is no evidence that Navajo environmentalist Leroy Jackson had a history of illegal drug abuse even though his death officially has been attributed to a methadone overdose, a state police spokesman said Wednesday. The announcement Tuesday that Jackson, 47, died from methadone — a controlled drug used to wean addicts off heroin — surprised Jackson’s family and friends, who insist the activist avoided drugs and alcohol. “He was just so straight,” said Pat Wolff, a Santa Fe environmentalist who echoed sentiments expressed by others who knew Jackson.