Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-14
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
laxsrects from our nxcnanues.

fr,m Trinidad and went over
Qiesta.
Samuel Tweed has returned to L
Belle from Ration and gone 10 work o
his claims again.
John L%schcniich has made q strik
OF some fine ore in his claim below tn
s.Denmark'', at La Belle.
The Club House nine Of Silver Cit
defeated the Pinos Altos nine, at Pine
Altos, Sunday. Score, FL to 9.
B. Reinken, OF St. Louis, who's
brother is an employe at John Becker
store, Bsisn, Is at Albuquerque.
Mrs. j. w. Carey left Albuquerqu
for Joplin and Clinton, No., for a tw,
or three months visit to relatives an,
friends.
The wife of j. II. Robinson, who ha
been quite i'll, the past few days, at AL
buquerqua, is reported much better b,
her attending physician.
D.. Il Brown, who has been official
ing as assayer at the copper mine
owned by Charles Shannon, zeal Nor.
enci, Ariz., was in Silver City.
Roswell has more shade trees set GU
on lis streets and for miles adjoining
the town on the south, than any Other
town of its size in the Territory.
Fred A. Peel was arrested last week
in Grant county by Deputy Marshal
Hardin for making counterfeit money.
Moulds were found in his house.
William Farr, the well-known Sec
ond street butcher, left Albuquerque
for Phoenix, Arizona, where he will
purchase two carloads Of fat cattle.
Arthur Goodell's express team Great
ed some excitement by running away
and demolishing the wagon to which
they were attached, down at Silver
City.
lion. d. p. Carr has been appointed
a member of the Silver City board OF
school trustees, to fill the vacancy &C.
curing by The resignation Of Il l..
Powell.
j. B. Toone, of Otis, Eddy county,
lost a valuable horse by what appeared
to be the eating of some poisonous
weed, as all the symptoms we're as if
poisoned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schwimmer, of Eddy,
accompanied Mrs. Canady to Pecos
on her way to Ell Paso, where she
will tarry a time before going to
California.
John Berry and Will Lenfestey left
Aztec for La Plata. They expect to
be absent several days and will prob
ably visit several Colorado points be-
fore returning.
C. M. TonkInson returned to Flora
Vista from Durango with his horse and
cart that had been stolen from him,
and reports thieves safely lodged in
the Durangojsil.
The contract has been let for the
building of a beet sugar factory at Ed
dy. The Pecos valley people push
things, and are meeting with great sue
cess in their efforts.
Mrs. Geitz has purchased the lots
opposite the hose house on Broad way
street, Silver City, from Max Schultz.
She intends to build a business house
on these lots very soon.
Mr.. Kerr sold a $50 dog to Mr.. Tay-
lor, the new contractor on the beet su-
gar factory, who will reside at Eddy
for the next few months, but now has
all the dogs he desires.
w. III. Graham, a representative of
the Singer Sewing Machine company,
Is in Aztec on business with the bonds
men of w. Ii. Griffith, absconding
agent, formerly OF that place.
Mother Katherine Drexel, founder of
the noble order in the Catholic church
which controls St. Katherine Indian
school, left Santa Fe for Philadelphia.
accompanied by Sister Clara.
Jadson Allen Page, the forger, failed
to give bail-he being placed under
$1,000 bonds by Justice Crawford
and consequently he occupies a cell at
Castle Jones in Old Albuquerque.
G. f. Thomson, the Pecos merchant
who was recently married to Miss Ward,
of thai place, has returned with his
bride from a wedding trip to the prin-
c.pal towns OF Texas, also visiting
Jnartz, Mexico.
A match game Of base ball will be
played next Sunday between the .New
Women and the 'Old Women" at
Albuquerque. The former will wear
bloomers and the latter will wear
mother hubbarGs and have an Obvious
advantage in stopping grcunders.
w. X. Woodmansee and r. j Nc
Grath, two of the four faithful letter
carriers OF Albuquerque, have been
promoted from the third to the second
grade as a reward for excellent service,
with increase in salary OF $3.50 year.
Frank Lee ieit Albuquerque for the
north, having accepted the position Of
travelling salesman'fo Lapp, Harris q
Co., the largest pant manufacturing
house in the United States. His terri
tory is New Mexico, Arizona ana Texas,
and his headquarters will os In Albu-
querque.
Three young men from Carson City,
Nevada, arrived 10 Eddy last Friday.
They are Hugh Kelley, Tom Baglin
and w. A. Beals, the last n being n
brother of the Eddy soda pop man and
plumber, John Bsals. The three new
corners have rented forty acres OF land
from the company and will plant it in
sugar beets.
The comm issioner OF the general
lard office has notified the register and
receiver OF the lard Office at Santa Fe
that publication ofnotice of intention to
make proof on small holding claims