Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-04

TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
IExtracts from our rronanses.I

lh1urhctb from our
Sheriff Fritz and Peter Burleson re-
turned to Lincoln after a weeks hunt
for the murderers Of Mr.. Parker, near
Roswell.
Tom White left Roswell for Con
zales, Texas. to spend the winter with
his parents and recuperate in health
and strength.
DR.. Fred f. Doept, mother and sister,
OF Homewood, ILL.,, have been In tina
Pecos valley, visiting their cousins, A..
s. and A. e. Goetz.
Mrs. Henry Hamburg and children
lett Roswell for Bisbee, Arizona, Tues
day, where the husband and father is
engaged in business.
Harry Holabird has been at Roswell
from Eddy, enjoying himself hunting
n fishing. He sent his family a fine
mess OF bass by express.
Tao house Of George Wickham was
destroyed by fire, some two and a half
miles from Wingate station. A boy
and some matches, did the work.
Mrs. Fred Hart, who has been in
California for about two months for the
benefit of her health, is very much i'm
proved and will return home to Gallup.
The ladies of the Catholic church at
Gallup will hold a fair commencing on
Tuesday, December 22nd, IN the
Kitchen g. Kennedy opera house, down
there.
VIM Stone, for years a resident Of
Eddy, has been laid up for nearly a
year from the effects of a broken foot
received in an accident by falling from
a buggy.
Ben Sage, the workman in the round
house who was arrested at Eddy on
suspicion, was discharged, he having
proven not to be the man wanted 10
Mississippi.
A social meeting IN the Windsor, in
Eddy. was addressed by VIM. E. Smythe
on colonization. Mr. Smythe IS a flu
ent talker, and his address was highly
appreciated.
Mr.. Robey, of Chino, CAL, arrived
at Eddy and will remain in the Pecos
valley. Hs is an experienced beet
raiser, and will prepare to put in a.
c'op another year.
w. w. Strong, who was suddenly
called to,,the bedside of his sick broth.
err at Colorado Springs, returned to
Albuquerque. He reports him on the
way to recovery.
A young gentleman by the name of
Phillips arrived at Eddy from Atlanta, |
Georgia. He is a brother of Bomar
Phillips, so long in charge of the Greene /
ranch, near that place.
Miss Allie Champion, who has been
attending school in Eddy during the
present term. came up to Seven Rivers
and will attend school there the re-
mainder of the year.
The Episcopal bishop of New Mexi-
co and Arizona, Rev. Kendrick, will be
in Eddy some time In December, when
he will administer the rite of confirm
alton to all who are DESTROYS of r%eceiv-
ing it.
Mrs. Lizzie King Kemp was married
10 Mansfield, Louisiana, to a gentle
mar named Norman e. Young. Mrs.
Kemp will be remembered as the form
er wife of ex-Sheriff Kemp, of Eddy
county.
The NeW Mexican says that w. E
Dame and Tony Mes became involved
in q polite Il discus sion at Cerrillos,
on Saturday, and after hard words
they anne to blows, but friends soon
parted the combatants.
Thos. Hobson, Of R attlesnake ranch,
Eddy county, was kicked by a horse,
receiving a broken arm, which was set
by DR.. Whicher. Mr.. Hobson was as
slsting DIR. Rearup drench a horse when
the accident occurred.
A character known as "Rattlesnake
Jack, but whose real name is O'Neil,
was arrested at Eddy, charged with
the larceny of a revolver from Sam
Cornett. O'Neil proved his innocence
and was discharged by Justice Roberts.
A. N. Elliot, while seeking in the
dark, at Eddy, for a medicine bot
tie, by mistake secured the n con-
tanning carbolic acid, and took q
draught of it before discovering his
error. For a time he was quite a sick
man.
The sugar beet barbecue, for which
plans were outlined at Eddy, several
weeks ago, and which it was proposed
to hold some time during the next six
weeks, after the crop had been harvest
ed, has been postponed to a later
period.
Miss Mabel Cornwall, who was call
ed to her Texas home by sickness oil
her mother, resigned as teacher in the
second primary department OF the pub
lie school at Eddy, and Miss May
Young was appointed to fill the va
caDcy.
Rev. e. H. Ashmun, superintendent
of the Congregational Home Mission
ary society, r~eturned*sto Albuquerque
from Gallup. On Sunday, he dedi-
Gated the new Congregational church
at that place, recently built at a cost OF
So. 300.
At the district court at Alhuquer-
que, in the Ease of the Territory Us
Jose Yrlssarri, the jury brought iE o
verdict of not guilty. Defendant, IL
was alleged, shot at several Albuquer-
queans while they were duck-hunting
at Alameda.
The farmers held a very interesting
meeting at Eddy, to consider the best
method Of harvesting the beets. A. >.
Goetz, general manager of the beet
sugar company, addressed them, and
expressed himself we'll satisfied with
this years. work.