Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-29
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lExtracts from our Excnansss.


received a dispatch, saying her father
was dangerously Ill at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Claire Webber, son Of Z. T. Web
Der, left Santa Fe for Denver, where he
goes to attend school during the coming
term.
Capt. NJ. Balue, Of Cerrillos, is in
Terre Haute, Indiana, and Is expected
to return to New Mexico about Septem.
Der 9th.
The adjourned annual meeting Of
the Ration water works company will
be held at the Office OF the company 10
Ration, IN Saturday. September 26th.
Prof. Walter Skeele, formerly Of AL
buquerque, but now Of the University
OF California, at Los Angeles, has been
very low with typhoid intermittent
fever.
The land court al Santa Fe sustained
the motion of the government that all
adverse claimants be served in the
Salvador and Ojo del Apache grant
cases.
The interior decorations at Lesser,
Lewinson & Co.'s, Albuquerque, are
very pretty and attractive. Frank
6tegner and Phil FARMER are certainly
artists in this line.
The trial of the Barranca grant case,
involving $4,000 acres of land in Rio
Arriba county, is in progress in the
United States court of private land
claims, over at Santa Fe.
Judge A. A. Freeman, of Eddy, and
s ,corro, will make an address in Albu-
querque about September 7th., on the
issues of the campaign as viewed from
q republican standpoint.
A "gold bug" democratic club was
recently organized IN Old Albuquerque.
Francisco Armijo y Otero was elected
president, Jose Golfer, secretary, and
Frank de Luke, treasurer.
Thomas A. Goodwin, of Santa Fe,
has scored the greatest trout catch OF
the season on the Pecos. Last Satur-
day, he caught 178 trout and the Thurs
day previous he caught 107.
Count Juan Miguel Lacerda, who
passed through Albuquerque on Mon
day, went to fatigue from Los Lunas.
Merchant Dow has had him placed un-
der bonds to keep the peace.
The miners of the Cochiti district
have a proposition from Colorado peo-
pie looking toward the erection Of a
milling plant at Bland, to treat the
ores of that camp by the teaching pro
cess.
At a meeting of the Ration school board.
Miss Margaret Graney was selected to
teach the sixth grade vice Miss Mellen,
resigned. Miss Nellie Heath was en-
ployed to teach the Buena Vista school,
up there.
Col. F. r Matthews, of Eaton, has
received a letter from Rev. T. G. Moi.
felt in which the latter gentleman &C.
cepts the call as pastor of the First
Presbyterian church OF Ration, recently
rendered him.
The directors of the Albuquerque
commercial club held a meeting,
at which the resignation of w
C. Purple was accepted as secretary
and director and w. P. Metcalf was
elected to succeed him.
Attorney w. c Heacock said at AL
buquerque that the preliminary hearing
o. Brink and A~rchibeqle, charged
with the killing of Ignacio Selva
would not take place until Monday o.
Tuesday of next week.
Elk Governor E. G. Ross, secretar.
of the Territorial bureau Of immigra
ton, was in Ration procuring data for
new work giving a description of thu
different irrigation systems in the Ter
ritory to be issued by the bureau a.
10 as prepared.
G. Leon Allison returned to Sant'
Fe from San Pedro, whore he is devel
oping some fine ga!ena ore in his new
~ acquired claims in the Lincoln
Lucky district. He has also a force Q
men at work on the "Hopewell" an
.sGood Hope" mines at Cochiti.
The Cerrillos coal mining compan
filed articles of incorporation at SAINT
Fe. The incorporators are K. J
Palen, H. L. Waldo, R. E. Twitchell
directors, E. P. Ripley, G. M. Higgin
son, Chicago; L. A. Hughes, 4. ]
Palen, Santa Fe; r. E. Twitchell, La
Vegas. 4
Mrs. L. Bradford Prince, Of SAINT
Fe, received a letter from Fort Rem
the sad news of the deaf
of Mrs. E. P. Pearson, the estimabl'
accomplished and beloved wife Of Co
onel Pearson, commanding officer
the 10th infantry, so long stationed
Santa Fe.
Messrs. Gillespie and Cameron. Of tt
Arroyo Hondo copper mining con
pauy, came down to Santa Fe fro
Amizett on business connected wi,
their splendid property. former|
known as the "Frazer" mines. The
are preparing for placing machinel
and working this property for all it
worth.
There will be an examination I
teachers at the superintendent oMc
in the court house In Albuquerque
commencing on the 31st. Holders
frst.c class certificates dated two yea
o will take notice that they mu
pass another examination before the
can teach IN the county again. Und'
the present law, first-class certificate
are good for two years, and secon
class and third class for n year.
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1 fMcKinIey Should BE Elected.
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