Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-27
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The town site question In Red River
Is still in an unsettled condition.
The little son OF Sheriff Walker is
sick with pneumonia, down at Eddy.
Watermelons from the Hagerman
district are now selling in the Eddy
markets.
The college glee club at Las Cruces
was organized and are practicing once
a week now.
w. d. Littlefield aud Phelps White,
of Eddy, shipped 10 cars Of cattle
from AMARILLO
f H. Bascom returned to Las Cruces
from a three weeks hunting trip In the
Davis mountains.
w. A. Nash, b~ookkeeper for the
Citizen, returned to Albuquerque from
a visit to his folks in Illinois.
Mrs. Wylie, wife of DR.. Wylie, of
Beaver, and two daughters have gone
to Albuquerque to spend the winter
there.
An eighteen-inch vein of free-milling
ore was struck, last week, by Dorsey
brothers, OF Elizabethtown, in Willow
gulch.
IL. F. Stephenson, jr., is in Las
Cruces again, this time hailing from
Las Vegas. He goes too late to be
qualified as a voter.
Mrs. j. w. McAntire, of Albuquer-
que, was suddenly summoned to the
bedside of her mother at Joplin, Mo-,
who is seriously ill.
J. R. DeMier, OF Las Cruces, left for
the City of Mexico, where be has
secured a position with the Wells
Fargo express company.
For the past two or three days, Mrs.
McCreight has not been able to give
personal attention to her millinery
business in Albuquerque, owing to sick
ness.
Assistant Postmaster Jewett, at Fort
Stanton, has been arrested for en-
bezzlement of money order funds.
Jewett was bound over in the sum of
$500.
Mrs. Clothilda Torlina, wife Of Geo.
Ed. Torlina, died at Albuquerque,
from pneumonia, aged thirty-three
years, eight months and twenty-three
days.
The large two-story addition to the
Jones hotel of Elizabethtown is fin
ished. This popular hosiery is now
prepared to furnish the best of accom-
modations.
Hereafter, the factory whistle at
Eddy, will be blown on the hours of
commencement and stoppage of work,
but any unusual or continued blasts
will mean fire.
Prof. Tinsley. Of the college at Las
Cruces, had an accident at a football
game. In the scrimmage after the
ball. he had a long cash u on the
side of his head.
Mr.. Collins, of New York city, was
in Hematite, taking a look at the camp,
and left highly pleased with what he
had seen and heard in the future gold
camp of the west.
A revival meeting was commenced
at the Methodist church at Eddy. and
will be continued as long rs interest is
manifested. Reverend Patterson, of
Roswell, is assisting.
The Rio Grande hotel at Las Cruces
has been released by r. G. Hatton,
the popular boniface, who received
two car loads of new furniture and
is otherwise improving and repair
ing.
Mrs. Devine, mother of James
Devine, leader of the old Albuquerque
brass band, who was considered seri-
ously ill last week, with congestion of
the lungs, is reported considerably
better.
Married, at the Springer house,
Jacob King, of the Ajax mining and
milling compa' ", at ElizabethtowD,
and Miss Rose Paxton, a sister Of Mrs.
A. T. Quigg, Rev. Phelps, of the M. E.
church, officiating.
A load of fine Pecos valley apples
were brought down to Eddy from the
Chisum orchard, at Roswell. Ben
Davis, Missouri Pippin and Winesap
were the varieties. They wholesaled
for five cents a pound.
Information was received at Noun
tain Station, Lincoln county. that j..
Young had found John G. Root dead
in his cabin. His hands were clasped
over his breast, and he had, apparently, |
died without a struggle, while asleep.
The mail contractor from Richardson
brought in the report to White Oaks
that George Muskgrave had killed a
deputy sheriff of Chaves county at or
zeal the Felix, and threatened to 60 to
Richardson and kill A. M. Richardson.
The scsffold is now 10 course of
erection at the Jail, in Las Cruces, upon
which will be hanged, November 9Th.
Jesus Garcia, convicted and sentenced
at the last term OF court, for the muir
der of Isabel Montoya, at Iona Parda
last July.
William E. Smythe, accompanied by
his wife, arrived in Eddy. Mar. Smytho
is an authority and n Of the pioneer
workers in matters pertaining to irrlga-
ton. He is an ex-editor of the I7iga-
ton Age, and was at one time president
of the national irrigation committee
and congress.
Col. G. w. Prichard and the "North
Homestake" people have formed a
combination under which the promise
is to break through the "North Home
stake" grounds into the grounds of the
Grip Van Wrinkle" claim, down in
Lincoln county. The latter claim is
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