Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-23
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,

with uipnlneria, up AZ hAton.
Billy Jones, Of Ration, who was in.
jnred some weeks ago, 10 improving.
Mrs. J.. d. Lea and children left
Roswell for A'ascoss county, Texas,
10 visit her father, sister and brothers,
Monday, May 4th, Is the date for
the meeting of the democ alto county
convention, at the court house, in Lin.
coin.
DIR. G. II. Grain, of Roswell, will
start to the m untai ns about the 10Th
of May, and will probably remain all
summer
Mrs. Frank Wright, whose mother,
Mrs. Dilman, died at Ration Of pneu-
monia, is hers ELF very low with the
same malady.
Sheriff Fritz, OF Lincoln, went out
to the Salado after a sswild and
woody" cowboy by the name OF Thorp,
but the bird had flown.
Silver City is infested with a gang OF
burglars. Half a dozen stores have
been entered and many articles stolen,
besides, in the past ten days.
T. X. Culley, the insurance agent,
left Albuquerque for Las Vegas and
other points north of the city, and ex-
pc, s to be absent about q month.
Prof. Di Msuro, the well-known
viosinist, left Albuquerque for Chicago,
where he has an engagement for
three months with a musical organiza-
ton.
Rev. Thomas Harwood, commander
of G. X. Warren post, will represent
Albuquerque at the G. A. r.. encamp- |
ment at Ration, on next Friday and
Saturday.
At the Stone Club s.loon, over at
Clayton, Jose Antonio Lopez accused
Teoflo G lego OF stealing $40 from
him. A fight ensued in which Lopsz
was worsted.
W. M. Atkinson, of Roswell, is in
receipt Of a letter from G. S. McCarty,
at hot springs, announcing the death,
from measles, of their infant dau ghter,
Elsie Esther.
S. S. M%enienhall has an outfit OF
teams at work grading the country
road at the east extension of Second
street, Roswell, from the town limits
to the Hondo,
John Spring, manager of the Clay
ton hotel, has added to the charms of
the dining room of that hostelry BY
having it re-painted and papered. A
travelling artist did the work.
Died, at r atom, Mrs. E. l.. Dillman,
after an illness of about two weeks, OF
pneumonia, aged sixty.two years. Ds-
ceased leaves four children to mourn
her loss two daughters and two sons,
all grown.
w. E. Batter, the gentleman called
to Lincoln, some three months ago, to
take charge of Sheriff Sena's off iirs,
during the %latter's absence IN off ;ial
business, took his departure for White
Oaks, his home.
The individual who claims that the
Lincoln Necs did the dependencies" an
injustice when it referred 10 them as
ignorant fanatics, is requested to call
at the NeWs off ,e, and raise his row
with the writer Of the offensive para
graph.
Two Navel, Indians, charged with
stealing 100 sheep fir, m johnson
Bros, and held by a Gallup magistrate
for examination 10y the grand jury,
were lodged in the county jail. at AL
hro,orqu', by Marshal Green, OF
Gallup. (,
The Knights of Pythias met at Clay
ton a appointed a COMMITTEES OF ar
rang sments and then adjourned the
meeting subject to a call Of the COM
mittee, at which time its report will be
heard and il favorable an organization
will be effected.
l.. B. Prince, of Santa Fe, is prepar-
ing an elaborate article for an eastern
magazine on the competition of silver
standard countries with American pro-
ducts, and the ruin thus brought on
various American industries by the gold
lunacy now prevailing. /,
Phlem Humphrey and family left
Clayton for Trinidad, Colo whence
they will 60 to La Belle and pay an ex
tended visit to relatives OF Mrs. Hum
phrey, after which Mr.. Humphrey con- .
templates taking a drove Of horses to I
Od Mexico and engage IN the stock :
business.
Emmett Yates, the young man whom
the cattlemen's association made a
strong effort to prevent being released
on bail, came forth from his cell at
Lincoln, a free man for a time at least.
He gave hail for his appearance in the
sun of $3.50, the bond being signed by
jesse Vega, r. A. Casey and d. J. Al.
A. Jewett.
The fire committee OF the board OF
town trustees, at Roswell, has made
arrang ments with Barnett & Devine
TO keep the FIRE engine at the stable,
down there. This arrangement 10
made at a saving to the town OF $60
a year, besides having the engine at a
point convenient to teams to haul It 10
case OF need.
D. T.. Miller, one Of the best horti-
c~ulturists in the country, has just
completed an examination Of many
Santa Fe orchards. He say there will
be a good fruit crop. Some damage
has been done to apricots, cherries and !
plums, and the pear crop will pc
scarcely so heavy as last year, but
otherwise the outlook is excellent.
The petition, signed by ITO persons
who are actually engaged either IN {