Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-02
THE DAILY OPTIC.
Rast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lExtracls from our Excnanxes.

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S~orgapize an interestjr 6 club.
w NJ. Reed and family have move'
into their new house at Roswell.
The fruit outlook al Lincoln is bright
thus far. Nothing has yet been in
jured.
DR.. Shaw distributes daily thirty
five copies Of the Globe Democrat, q
San Marcial.
Fredericks' TO- jewelry store in Pet
Gales block, at Hillsboro, is read,
for occupancy.
Little Josie Lewis, Of San Marcial
has suffered from an attack of illness
for several days.
Tom Mcmahon now has charge o
the billiard tables in the Bank Elk
change, at Ration.
Frank Pimple has succeeded Percy
McIlvaine as clerk at the European
hotel in Albuquerque.
Mrs. Julia d. Nelson, who will lee.
ture in Ration May 9Th, is visiting will
Mrs. jerome Troy, up there.
Little Gcorgie Lesnet left Lincoln, in
care of the hack driver. for Roswell, To
visit her sister, Miss Jennie.
G. A.. Whited, OF San Marcial, re-
ceived an order for Black Polish eggs
from N. d. Reid, of Gallup.
James Heating ani Ora Delong, OF
Ration, have gone to Cripple Greek,
where they expect to locate.
Emf Fli.z has been appointed sheriff
of Lincoln u y, by the commission
ers, to succeed G Jorge Sena.
A meeting of the beard of county
commissioners will be held at Albu-
querqne on Monday, April 9Th.
Mrs. Judge J D. Whitman and
daughters left K'rgston for Denver,
whore hey will in future reside.
1t is reported that w. M. Arnold, OF
Lincoln, contemplates moving to the
Salado, where he will conduct a hotel.
Messrs. f. Gillett, of Socorro, and
Frank Selman, of San Marcial, will
spend a month or SO at Polomas hot
springs.
The revival services now being held
in the Baptist church, at Ration, by
Rev. j. W. McClurken. are largely
attended.
The two hose companies and hook
and ladder company at Albuquerque
will elect new officers on Tuesday,
April 14th.
A council of the Jr. Order UuIted
American Mechanics will be established
at Las Cruces, and soon after similar
action will be taken at Raton.
Grand Master N. Il. Stevens insti-
tuted Triple Link, Rebek4h degree
lodge, No. 10, |. o. O. F in the Odd
Fellows hall at albuquerque.
The Highland house at Albuquerque
undergoing some important changes.
will add materially to the attrac-
tive appearance of the interior.
Sheriff IIubbell, who returned to AL
baquerque from San Antonio, stated
that the old Mexican reported to have
been killed, died from natural causes.
Bob Forsythe has completed his task
of well-digging at Father Mejion's,
down at Lincoln. An abundance of
was secured at a depth of forty
five feet.
Senator Nick GALES is at Hillsboro
again from Arizona, to remain sever al
weeks. IL is mining about thirty-ive
miles from Congress station, in that
Territory.
j. L. Eubank, who has been a resi-
dent of Lincoln since last September,
during which time he conducted the
s.La Golendrina'' saloon, left for Grip
pie Greek, Colo.
jesse, the two-year-old son of Rev.
and wife, wandered away
from home at Hillsboro, creating con
siderable excitement and anxiety for
a time by mis- disappearance.
The altar of the Episcopal church at
Hills boro is now complete in all its de-
tails, having had a set of handsome
Dassal hangings presented to it which
greatly improve is appearance.
Mrs. G.. Pet5 returned to R,ton
from a months visit to her former
hone in Keitsburg, III. She was ac-
c~omraalad by her mother, Mrs. Rose,
who will reside there with her daugh-
ter.
Conductor Jim Curry says the recent
cold snap did little damage to the fruit
blossoms in E,panola valley, but up
about Enhudo, where the aprioots are
10 full blossom, the trees look as if they
had been seorched by fire.
Rebekah degree lodge and Canton
Rio Grande, No. 2, Patriarehs Militant,
have taken possession of the hall over
the old ~postofice, down in Albuquer-
que, which will be known hereafter as
the Odd Fellows club room.
TIE Ration single-tax club extend an
invitation to the ladies and
gentlemen OF R1ton and vicinity to
at the opera house, Saturday
and hear Ralph E IL ,yt, of Los
Angeles, California, expound the sin
gle tax.
Sheriff Thomas S. Hubbell and
Deputy Scott knight arrived in Santa
Fe from Albuquerque, Bringing several
to the peniteniiary. jose
Romero aud Emello Baca get eighteen
for borse stealing; Juan Do
Trujilo and Jean Rpy Juancho,
[slrta Indians, will each serve one year
Tor stealing cattle, and Merijlldo
a burglar, goes up for three
O. Monier, the we'll known conirac-