Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-05
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.


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Monday.
DR.. Bowyer has opened an office In
Las Cruces.
Santa Fe has hopes Of again secur-
ing a military post.
Fairmount cemetery, at Ration, has
been greatly improved.
F. A. Hill left Ration on a two
months trip to Wyoming.
Tom White was seriously stabbed by
Joe Woods, in Chaves county.
There are about $40 children Of
school age in the Silver City district.
Sim Newman, Of Roswell, is the
father Of another bouncing democrat.
There will be a short but vigorous
campaign in New Mexico, this fall.
DIR. Z. H. Skipwith will return to
Roswell from Fort Sumner in a sholt
time.
Tom McCord returned to Roswell
from q visit to his parents, at Coleman,
Texas.
Miss Birdie Biting left Eddy for Re-
anoke, Va, where she will attend
school.
Mrs A. Z. Page left Roswell for a
months visit to her old home al Apple
ton City. Mo.
w. M. Oliver is president Of the
Mckinley club at Ration and w. L
Grey, secretary. .
1t is reported that DR.. Van Cleve
will remove from FL Paso to Silver
City, where he will locate.
Rev. G. W. Reed started from Ros-
well for Weed, to participate in a Bap-
fist revival at that place.
There is a shortage of grapes in the
Mesilia and Rio Grande valleys, this
year, owing to a lack of rain.
Miss Julia Hyde left Albuquerque for
Manchester, Iowa, to make her home
il the future with a brother.
The Ferguson hook and ladder CON-
pany, Albuquerque, intend to have a
grand time, Tuesday evening.
Rev. Allen and family, who have en-
joyed their vacation in southern Cali
fornia, returned to Albuquerque.
Ed Burleson. of Seven Rivers, brought
his little daughter, who Is ill, down to
Eddy, to be treated by DR.. Whicher.
New mown grarnma hay from the
prairie below that place made its ap-
pearance in the market at Santa Fe.
Rev. T. F. Sessions, who had been
at Roswell assisting in the Methodist
revival services, left for his charge in
Eddy.
Mrs. Harry Strauss, wife of the dec
orator at Ilfeld Bros Albuquerque. had
a narrow escape from being badly
burned.
George baltimore, at his residence in
north Ration, has secured a splendid
supply of magnificent water at a depth
of thirty feet.
S. N. White was in Eddy with q load
of chickens, which he disposed of and
reloaded with provisions TO take back
to his ranch, near Hope.
The Political Study club at Albu-
querque held a regular meeting Friday
evening, at the usual honr and place,
Catherine Field, secretary.
Charles Mccarthy, formerly with the
sugar factory at Chino, California, ar.
rived in EDDY. He will assist in set
ting the la &c engines at the factory IN
Eddy.
Mrs. CO. Cushman went to Needles,
California, from Albuquerque. She
was accompanied by Miss Lillian
Hughes, who will be away several
weeks.
j. van Houten, vice-president OF the
Maxwell grant company, accompanied
by his wife and Miss Hetfield, left Ration
for Elizabethtown, where they will
spend the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mckee were
presented with a fine baby boy, down
in Albuquerque. Mr.. Mckee is the
efficient assistant cashier for the First
national bank IN that city.
Albert Jones has returned to Santa
Fe from a trip through Taos county,
He says the Taos valley is a beautiful
and fertile section and is just now II
the zenith of its summer glory.
Mrs. C. N. Blackwell read an enter
tanning and instructive paper before
the Ration woman's CLUB on the "Reigr
of Terror" and Miss Minnie Collier
read a paper on the "Jacobins and
Girondists."
Capt. Sam'l F. Miller, of the Mesca'
lero Indian agency, arrived in Las Cru
ces with t%wenty-one four-horse teams,
for goods for the agency, which
consist OF coffee, sugar, flour, etc.
and agricultural implements, such al
mowers, rakes, etc.
M. M. Michael and Grace E. GiggJ
were married at the Lead avenue Meth
odist parsonage, Albuquerque, Rev. a
w. Atkinson officiating. The young
people are both from San Francisco
and are stopping at the Golden kuit
lodging house, down there.
Elk Gov. E. S. Stover's declaration
that .sthe protective tariff is the MAR
issue OF the campaign and his plant
i've plea for everybody to ''te'i TN
truth !, has brought forth q forcloit
reply, in the New Mexican, from Hon
ID. p. Carr, of Grant county.
The fair association at Albuquerque
that their collector is nov
calling on the subscribers for the pay
ment Of subscriptions, and they re-
quest prompt payment, as It IS aoso
lu,ely necessary to have the FUNDS II
hand at the earliest possible date.
The fag-raisiug at Gov. Prince
new Rio Arriba house was a very pleas
ant and interesting occasion. 1t wa'
simply a neighborhood affair, gu