Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-16
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
IExtracts from our Ercnanass.I

~ DtohRR r0AtANd u to"6N
the lungs at White O-ks. :
McGary Jones left Ration for Aspel
Colo, where he will locate.
A son arrived at the home OF Nj
and Mrs. Louis Rossi, In Ration.
j. a. Ancheta and Col. Dick Hue
son left Silver City for the north.
q. ii. Curtis, Of Hanover, made
business trip to FL PAso, this week.
Night sessions continue to be tn
rule in Judge ~Laughlin's court. over a
Santa Fe.
Gov. Thornton left Santa Fe 70
j len to lock after his realty interest
Ia that region.
M, G. Moore, the popular deputy |
Collector Shannon's office, Santa Fe
has gone on a trip to Colfax and Nor
counties.
There are SIX prisoners confined II
the Lincoln county j,il, one Of whom
Emmet Yates, indicted for cattle steal
ing, will be released on bond In a few
days.
Mrs. Il A. Schultz and baby left Clay
ton for Ration, where they will maxi
their future home, as her husband |,
an employe of the railroad shops o.
that city.
Mrs. M. 5. Otero and daughter, Mrs.
G. w. Harrison, will leave Albuqner-
que for southern California. where
they will enjoy the ocean breezes for q
few weeks.
The Duke City quartet, composed OF
E. A. Willism', II. l.. Lane, w.
Anderson and j. Lane, Of Albuquerque,
are arranging t, visit the towns along
the Atlantic & Pac.fis.
j. f. Girard, of tho Armij , house,
Albuquerque, has sold forty-tive head
of his stock of hogs to a man in Chilli,
who has an overplus Of goats, which
he will kill and feed to swine.
At the machine rafl, of H ID. Gil
bert & Co., down in Silver City, Mrs.
Newcomb won the first prize, BY a
throw of "A for high and Joe Sheridan
won the second by Is for low.
By united effort, San Antonio can be
made the vineyard city of the Rio
Grande, there being abundance of
good land adj ,ining the town in every
direction and easily irrigated.
Nothing but the peaches and apricots
will be a failure this year 10 Lincoln
county, unless they have another freeze.
A few of the earlier apples were
killed, but the bulk of the croo is safe
thus far.
San Antonio is agitating the contin.
n of Pine street clear to the
Abosque del Apache grant, making
that thoroughfare fully five miles long,
with trees TO be set out on each side Of
The street.
The Silver City smelling and REIN
ing company has been unable to start
up the plant below town as 500 as
was expected on account of the delay
OF the builders OF the water jacket in
shipping it.
There was a musical and art enter
tainment given at Morrill, opera house,
Silver City, for the benefit of the
Episcopal church, unier the skillful
management of Mrs. IL. HI. Belts and
Mis- Belle Eckles.
Bernard A. Sleyster, for thirteen
years a resident of Albuquerque, and
for much of the time connected with
j. Mr.. Wheeiock, in the real estate and
insurance business, has embarked in
business for himself, down there.
After three days. trial, Mrs. E. M.
Smith vas compelled to close her pri-
vate school, at Hillsboro, its duties
being heavier than she could bear.
Parents generally regret it. An effort
is now being made to get Mrs. Fisk to
open a private school.
NJ. S. Otero, of Albuquerque, OK.
hibited a fine specimen of ore which
fairly s~parkles with free gold, and as
several thousand dollars to the
ton. The specimen is from a mine on
the Ortiz grant, northeast of Albuquer-
que, about fifty miles.
A letter has been received by Sheriff
Fritz at Lincoln from the sheriff of
Maverick county, Texas, which borders
the Rio Grande, stating that John
Thomas, confined 10 Jail down there,
is an escaped convict. The letter also
states that his name is not Thomas but
Connor.'
The Alameda farming company, con-
Of Ii. Shuttle, Charles Mundan-
ger and Il Scheele, the latter gentle
m N Ct Rosenwald Bros., Alouquer-
qar, have cultivated fifty acres at
Alameda, about eight miles north OF
the ci'y, seeding tor the first time this
Ramon G.. Montoya, of San Antonio,
has already brought his ewes to the
river ard will soon be Landing and
shearing his sheep On the west side OF
he Abosque del Apache grant. There
is now an abundance of new grass
up and the outlook is excellent
for a large increase of lambs.
b. Ruppe has been UNANIMOUSLY
chief Of the Albuquerque fire
w. I. McCreight, who has
illed the place acceptably for the past
i've years, positively refusing to
-un ugain; George M. Cundiff was
.hosen assistant; w. A. Kreamer, Sec
and l.. d. Bartlett, treasurer.
Eutimio Montoya, CT San Antonio.
laying the plans to have Nogal
canyon rocked up at its exit and make
, great reservoir three miles long to
latch the flood water from the east
ids slope of the Magdalena noun
.aius, together with the water from
springs of which he Is the
owner, and thus irrigate the mesa land