Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-04
The DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
'Entracts from our rxcnansss.I

Ill at Katon.
W. s. Hopewell, OF Hillsboro, is o
new daddy. Boy.
Rev. j. M. Hackett has charge Of the |
public school at Kelly.
Nine murderers are under sentence /
OF death IN this Territory.
Chas. Mason has moved into his cosy
new home In north Ration.
The Methodist mission school at Las |
Cruces will open next Monday.
Mrs, A. Petip, Of Las Cruces, Is suf-
fering from an injury to her foot.
Mrs. @. T. Jordan Is home at Las
Cruces from her visit to Virginia.
A. Morton. the Springer banker, be.
came the happy father Of a new son.
The round up boys have been work
ing in the neighborhood of Kingston.
The Hermosa road is said to b.
washed out and dangerous to travel
Miss Farley has resumed her posi-
ton 10 Coin Bros. store, up at Ration.
The ladies Of the Episcopal church
at Silver City served Ice cream and
cake.
Miss Lilly Smith returned to Deming
from nearly a years visit to her father
In Mexico.
Frank Bennett and Miss Claypool
are to be married at Mogollon, on Sep.
TENDER 9th.
Deputy Postmaster Jas. Mcpherson.
of Ration, is recovering from quite a Sc
we're Illness.
The enrolment at the agricultural
college, Las Cruces, promises to be
quite large.
Mrs. G.. d. Bantz end Miss Lucille
returned to Silver City from their visit
to Larned, Kansas.
Con Whitehill and Earnest Child
ers, of Silver City, made the ride to
Hachita on their wheels.
About twenty members of Silver City
lodge, X. of r., will pay a fraternal
visit to Pyramid lodge, Saturday night.
Normal school and tbe public schools
of Silver City will open for the fall ses-
sions in that city, next Monday morn
ing. /.
Miss Alice Montgomery and mother,
who have beer spending the summer in
the east, returned to their Las Cruces
home.
Sister Inez. the new mother superior
of the Academy of Visitation, at Las
Cruces, has arrived and taken up her
duties.
The family of S. E. Pelphrey, of El
Paso, have taken up their residence in
the Lemon house, Las Cruces, and
will reside there during the school
term.
DIR. w. Nom. Luttrell went into Las
Cruces from the agency and left for
Knoxville, Tenn, to place his two
motherless children in charge of their
grandmother.
DR.. G. G. Cruickshank, of San Mar
cial, sold TO Z. j. Lujan, book-keeper
for S. G.. Hanna & Co., four lots in
block 16, on which the latter will erect
q neat residence.
There has been 1852 poll tax collect.
cd 10 the Silver City district. More
than double this amount should be paid
and will be or the collector will Learn
the reason why.
George F. Albright, of the Albuquer'
que Democrat. instead Of taxing In tSe
Jemez hot springs, has gone to south
ern California, where his family Is al
present s%ojourning.
Miss Mary Trip, who has been Wis
iting her sister, Miss M. j. Trip, al
Las Cruces for the past. two months
left for her work as missionary at Farm
ington, on the Navajo reservation.
Mrs. Wallie Locke, OF Santa Fe
while en- route to Ell Paso, was forced
to leave the train at San Marcial. ow
ing to illness. She went to the resi-
dence of Judge J. McQuillin, dowr
there.
Geo. Bell and son, Harry, returned
to Silver City from their California
trip, leaving Mrs. Bell and JOSEPH
Bell, her aged f~atber-in-law, to enio.
the delights of the sunset state a few
weeks longer.
Mis-. W.. H. Small, wife of the drug
gist at Lordsburg, accompanied by ne
niece, Miss Marshall, passed throug|
Albuquerque for Topeka. where Mis-
Marshall will attend the Sisters o
Bethany school of the Episcopal church
Gustav Wormser, formerly the hea'
of the large establishment Of G. Worm
ser & Co., in Deming, has entered tn
wholesale grocery business at No. 40
Market street, San Francisco. unde
tho Arm name of Sussman, Wormse
e Co.
Hide Inspector Gus Duvall left Hills
boro on a trip through the county t
inspect hides. His territory takes !
the whole of Sierra county and pol
tions of Dona Ana and Grant counties
and it takes him about ten days
travel it.
Col. "A. w. Harris of Hillsboro, ]
said to be in receipt of q real, lv
friendly letter from Major Mckinley, !
reply to the -colonel's request Tor cam
paicn literature to set him and hold hir
on the right track in this campaign Q
our Lord.
No person shall kill, ensnare or ira
n wild turkey or quail within thi
Territory between the first day {
March and the first day Of October !
each and every year; provided turtle
that II shall be unlawful to trap or 81
snare quail at any time.
Rumor was rife in Aztec, San Jua
county, to the effect that q lynchin
party was to be organized on the pa