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Show PIONEER OF PIONEERS Passing of Gen. Jose Maria Chavez at Abiquiu. WAS 101 YEARS OF AGE His Family Had Been ln New Mexico for Two Hundred Years He Served Under the Spanish, Mexican and United States Governments and Tought the Ute Indians In 1815 Was a Cavalry Colonel ln the Civil War His Apparent Death and Resurrection. SANTA PIJ. N M Not- -Tho most notable character of the whole Southwest since the days of Kit Carson, Ilea dead at Ahlqulu, thirty miles south of Santa IV flen Joc M irla Chavez apred 101 jcars 1 month and 21 diys He was tho ploneei of nil New Mexico pioneers, and iiotwIthstiindlnK his remarkable re-markable iiRe, he was Inle nnd hearty and of the do treat mind, havhiR lost none of his fncultlca Ills family has been nclltp In New Mexico for more than 200 yeais Ills ancestnis were Illustrious men sltls Kieit Bicai Breat-Brnndfiithor was Don Per mlo Ihiran y Chnves, who came from Spain to Mexico and wns a captain cap-tain under Don DIoko do VnrEis who In 1B12 roenn picrcd New Mexico The father of flen Chavez l'rnnclsco An-lonlo An-lonlo Chnve7 was born at Atrlsoo Netv SIoxIco, but moved to tho Indian pueblo of Santa Claru When the boy was 4 years of an he moved to Abhiulu, on the Cham-i river, thirty miles nttny Troni his earliest days Chatez de-velonod de-velonod ii strone military Renins and was ricoKnlzod nnionK his people ns a leader Iteforo the success of the Mexican Mexi-can tevolutlon In 122 he hell three of Poos undir the Spanish KIiib Ferdinand Ferdi-nand II an I saw active service both In defensive and offensive warfare During Dur-ing the qn irterj of n century of Mexican control he was rapidly promoted until he became n Colonel then military Inspector In-spector of the frontiers of Abl'iulu OJI Cnllrrt nnd l't Illta, and finally was m ide Hi Igadler (leneral In the course of hit life he took part In eleven rrnular cnnipalBna agnlnFt the In Hans, an 1 In at least live of them was cominander-ln-chief These campaigns cam-paigns weip Invasions of the Indian country to punish, to recapture prison ers and lo recover anlmila and other booty that they had carried awny The expeditions penetrated Into Arizona, Colorado nnd Utah The last of these campaigns under Mexican authority was against the lltea In ISM Tor his services on this, as well as on other occasions, he wus presented pre-sented by the Mexican Government with n handsome sword After thn Anierlcnn occupitlon by Cen Kenrivy. ho been mo a citizen of the t'nlted fttates and served tho now government In many olllclil capacities Trnm tho bo-(JnnlnB bo-(JnnlnB of the Territorial goternment bo was a HrlKadlcr-C.eneinl of mil 1 1 1 1 In ISil he was appointed ' y fiov James H Cilhoun prefect of tho Hlo Arriba counts fi'i Merrlwenther commissioned commis-sioned him 1 robale Judge of tho snmo county On the outbreak of the Rebellion he, llko nearly all of the Now Mexlc ins was ready to serve under the Stars and Stripes and on August Wl, he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of a volunteer mounted regiment by Gov Ilencher Oen Chavez lived for ninety-eight years In the house In which he died It Is a fine old-fashioned Mexican ha-ilenda ha-ilenda vtlth w ills and moats built In the curly doss as protection against Indians. In-dians. Ills home for the past (etv sears has been the pilgrimage of ninny who wanted to learn fiom him the secret of his long life or to hear from his lips the stories of the early days His wonderful inemors made him a valuable valu-able witness In cases of private 1 md Brants Ills sons are already patrl ntchs and his grandsons have passed middle life , On July 22, 1501, when he lacked two months of a century of ago, Uen C'h i-vez, i-vez, who had been feeling weak for some days, apparently died All ai-rangementa ai-rangementa were made for tho funeral and then the supposed dead man came baclc to life, In a few days recovering his old-time vigor |