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

Pueblo Now Entitled TO That Name
Some Readable Gossip on Events
of the Day.
To the Editor of the Optic.

To the Editor of the OPTIC.
PUEBLO, Colo, September 9, 1896.
Pueblo Is a convention city. IL 10 a
cold time for the city II there Is not
n convention held each month. Yes
terday, three conventions were in full
blast, tomorrow the republican con-
y%ention Is to be interviewed by the
populist, silver party and the demo-
cratic conventions, with a view OF ef-
fecting a fusion. The republicans,
however, do not seem to care for fu
sion, and will put a straight ticket In
the field.
On Tuesday, the State Association
of Populist Women's club will be held
in this city. Ia addition TO the regular
political bill OF fare. the ladies will add
an interesting program, to liven up
things. Mira. Rsasoner, the vice-presi-
dent Of the local club, will deliver the
address OF welcome.
Colorado is In the swim, POLITICAL
ly speaking. Besides the republican,
democratic, populist and prohibition
tickets, the socialists will also have o
full ticket in the field. OF the eleven
men nominated for. state Offices and
electors, nine are German and two,
judging by their names, are OF Irish
extraction. With five state tickets In
the field, it does seem that all classes
can be satisfied when they come to
make the final choice at the polls.
Chicago's tall and short bandits have
found successful imitators In this city.
On Thursday night the Green Light
gambling house was robbed by two
men, one a tall, the other a short man
and the businesslike q in which
these two men held up forty-fve of the
frequenters of the place indicated that
| they were professionals. Each OF the
bandits had two six shooters ieveled al
the crowd and ninety hands rose high
in the air at the word Of command aud
remained in that position while the
robbers helped themselves to about
$500 of the money in the drawers Of
the various gambling tables.
Oae peculiar incident is mentioned
in connection with the robbery. Every
one Of the forty-ive men who held up
their hands declared there was not n
gun among the crowd, or things would
have Jared badly for the hold-ups. Yet
as 500 as the robbers made their exit
by the back stairs one OF the party
hurried down the front stairs and fired
his six shooter three times to attract
the police. The moral of this is, gun
plays by the party hold-ups are out of
order, while looking down a gun barrel
which for the moment seems as large
as one of the smelter smoke stacks.
The robbers succeeded 10 making their
escape, and a they failed to cave
their address, no clue to their identity
or whereabouts is known.
Candidate Bryan during his "swirg
around the circle" is attracting I'M
mense crowds, and the Bryanites are
correspondingly jubilant, because they
make the mistake of considering every
person present at one Of Bryan's
speeches, a Bryan man. The fact Is
that a large number, if not the MAORI
ty of those who flock to see and hear
Bryan, are simply there to look at the
man who achieved prominence in so
short a time, by the mere gift OF CAB.
From The Optic we learn that
Ourel, the so called boy hypnotist, has
put a man to sleep IN Sporleder's show
window, where he will continue bis
sleep until awakened by Ourel. This
man was in Pueblo q few days since,
and put a man to sleep in A. E.
Nathan's show windows. Mr.. Nathan
had his doubts as to Ourel's hypnotic
powers, and to satisfy himself ii they
were genuine, he called in two doctors.
who soon succeeded in restoring the
sleeper to consciousness, n~otwithstand-
ing the fact that Ourel had positively
declared his subject could not be
awakened by any n until the expira-
ton of q stated time.
Watermelon day at Rocky Ford was
a decided ucces Great STACKS OF
melons were there and sill we're in-
vito to help themselves, which they
certainly did. A large delegation was
present from BATON, and the way the
Ratonltes put themselves on the outside
of those tree melons, would make you
conclude that they had tasted for a
week previously in order to do justice
to the occasion.
The nomination of Generals Palmer
and Buckner, for president and vice.
president will make the defeat Of
Bryan a certainty. Gen. Buckner will
no doubt carry the southern states.
His record as a confederate soldier and
his great personal popularity. will be
too much for the boy orator Of. the
Nebraska plains, and Gen. Palmer's
popularity in Illinois will put that
state safely into the Mckinley column.
The women voters of this city are
getting down to earnest work. They
are beginning to make a house to
house canvass, with q view of ascer-
tanning the political preferences OF
their sisters, and Of getting Q re-
cruits 10 join their respective political
clubs. The political pot is only sim
mering now, 10 a few weeks hence it
will be boiling over.
To morrow is Labor day and the in
dications are that it will be generally
observed in this city. Many of the
business houses will close in the after
noon, in order to give their employees
an opportunity to take part in the
Some unusually rich sylvanite ore
has been found IN the "Gold Coin"
mine up at Victor. The vein is two