Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-08
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TOPICS.

Du'iuR a storm ut G0lu Hill
Grant county, recently. hail stones a
large as hen eggs fell to a depth OF sew
eral inches. =
The residence occupied by Operator
Mills. near the Sk ters' school, ie
ceived slight damage from lightning
down in Albuquerque.
MIR. and Mrs. T. A. Inselman and
niece, Miss Grace Albro, of Lansing,
Mich, are spending a few weeks al
Santa Fe for Mrs. Inselman's health
Russell Agee returned to Silver CITY
from a SIX weeks trip to Missouri,
greatly improved in health. His sister,
Miss Mary Agee, will not return until
Septemb, r.
Many who have come to Santa Fe
for the summer, brought wheels with
them, and wheeling parties are becom.
ing quite popular with the young folk,
over there.
Receiver E. L. Foster bid In the old
SOuthseess Sentinel material, at Silver
City, for $50, and assumed the liens
and taxes which will probably amount
to over $400.
The quail crop promises to be the
largest known for years. Thousands
Of these beautiful little game fowls may
now be seen on the roa to Dry Greek,
Grant county.
Ralph Halloran, wife and children,
will leave Albuquerque one evening
this week for southern california,
where they will enjoy the ocean breezes
for a few weeks.
The "Crown Point" mine near
Golden, was sold under execution for
1880 by Sheriff Cunningham, at Santa
Fe. w. 4. Gortner bid it in for Chris
Wiegand, of Las Vegas.
Billy Matthews says the 200-acre beet
crop on the Chisum ranch, Chaves
county. Is doing splendidly and that
there will be lots OF work during thin
ming and gathering times.
Mrs. j. G. Lea and Misses Ella Lea
and Willie Day arrived in Roswell from
Texas. The young ladies have been
students at the Carr-Burdette college,
at Sherman. for the past year.
Messrs. Nicanor Baca and Miguel
German are making good progress in
the collection of the city school poll
tax, over at Santa Fe. There are
1900 citizens liable to this tax.
Amado Chaves has returned to Santa
Fe, from the south. During his alb
sence, he paid a short visit to his
friend, Don Ramon de Ibarrola, chief
engineer of the republic of Mexico.
Capt. r. H. Warner, who has for
some time been seriously afflicted with
a complication Of dropsy and heart
disease, left Santa Fe for Santa
Monica, where he will cutter the sol
diers' home.
The new cavalry company made its
first appearance in public at Santa Fe.
Sixteen men we're 10 line, all mounted
on good horses, and they made a
showing that Capt. Strover may well
be proud Of.
John Fayette, who was SO seriously
hurt by a falling chimney on the night
of the sanitarium fire, over at Santa Fe,
is so much better that he is able 10 sit
up a part of each day at his rooms in
the hospital.
j. d. Lea, publisher of the Roswell
Record, left for Dallas and Fl. Worth.
AT the latter place, he expects to meet
Mrs. Lea and the boys, who have been
visiting relatives in south Texas for the
past six weeks
The stockholders of the Lincoln
county ditch company held a special
meeting at Roswell and adj burned to
meet at Lincoln July 9Th, at which
time and place officers for the next year
will be elected.
Mrs. F. G. Wylly, who, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Bee, and little
daughter Alberta, came to Silver City
about two years ago in the hope of re-
covering her failing health, died at her
home in Savannah, Ga.
l.. F. Parker, jr., declares that Com
missioner Rogers, of Santa Fe county,
is a perfect prototype of Richard T.
Bland. the Missouri silver champion,
SIS he appears in his working clothes
At bis home in Lebanon.
The marriage of Miss Ida Mcintosh,
formerly OF Silver City, to DR.. w. G.
Field, OF Mog, lion, has been an
nounced to take place at the home OF
the BRIDES parents at Mogollon, We'd
nesday, July 22nd. 1896.
The Indians at Cochiti and Santa
~, m,ogo pueblos are making unusu-
ally elaborate preparations for their
annual corn dances. The dance ut the
former place will occur July 14th, and
at the latter place. August 4sh.
\ James Grunsfeld and wife left Albu-
aueraue for Ell Psso, where they will
remain for o few days. Samuel Schu'z,
the FL paso carpet merchant, who was
burned out on Fourth OF July night, is
the father Of Mrs. Grunsfeld.
Quite a number OF local candidates
have been noticed in their efforts to
feel the public pulse, down at Roswell
but considering their backwardness 10
announcing, they must not be receiv-
ing the desired encouragement.
There is q movement on foot at Sill
yer CITY to aid the silver cause. 1t is
proposed that during the fall cam
palen, every candidate for q county
Office should be made to pledge himself
nnquali6edly for SILVER asstbe ratio 81
is to /. |
Montague Stevens, the cattle raiser
also receiver for the rs. W. scattie
company, OF Socorro county, left AlPn,