Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-30
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,

OF kincon, o SOD.
Harry Whigham returned to Ration
from his eastern business trip.
Las Cruces has a resident dentist,
DR.. Brock having located there. =
The movement to incorporate Las
Cruces appears to be strengthening
daily.
Mrs. w. J. Allison left Ration for q
visit Of several weeks to relatives In
Denver.
Allen Burnam, the Ration grocer,
went to Pueblo TO visit his family TOR q
few days.
Mrs. E. Ewing returned home to San
Marcial from . two months visit 10
the east.
H. w. Entz, Of Albuquerque, pre-.
sides over a chair In the San Marciai
barber shop.
Engineer E. Comstock, Mrs. Com
stock and the baby left San Marcial
for Denver last Thursday.
The leap year dance at San Marcial
Thursday evening, was q decided sue
cess from every point OF view.
Mrs Russell Walters, a resident OF
the Rio Grande valley for many years,
died at Las Cruces Of pneumonia.
Ralph Widner, of Rincon, wei
out to his mine, the past week, 10
age a load Of supplies to his working
force.
The handsomest chandelier in the
Territory IS now being put in the AL
buquerque Methodist church by r. L
Dodson.
Mrs. j. r. williams moved from 81
Paso to San Marcial last week. MRS.
williams aunt, Mrs. O'Keefe, is OF the
household.
Prof. E. o. Wooton, formerly OF the
Agricultural college, IS now STUDYING
botany at Columbia college, New York.
saws the New Mexico Educator.
The motion for a new trial in the
case Of Edward Trout, convicted Oh
murder IN the second degree, Will oe
argued, this week, at Albuquerque.
Messrs. Thayer & Rankin, attor-
news at Washington, D c., desire to
ascertain the address. II living. o.
Thomas j. McCord, who formerly lived
in Santa Fe.
W. w. Arnold, the popular Atchi'
son relief agent, is holding dowI
the Las Cruces Office during the alb
of Harry Miles, who has gon'
east on a visit.
Delegate Catrou leaves Santa re to.dS
for Washington. Mrs. Catron will follow
in time to reach there before the holi
DAYS, the children remaining at SAINT
Fe during the winter with Mrs. Casron'
mother.
Gov. and Mrs. Thornton entertaine'
a c~ougenial company at Thanksgiving
dinner, on Thursday. The guest
present we're Msjor John L Bulls an
wife. Mr.. and Mrs j. d. Hughes, Mrs
r. A. Carver and L. A. Hughes.-Nea
MericGn.
Frank Anderson, who has a ranch 0
Barela mesa, out from haton' raise
81, 900 pounds of potatoes on TWO an
a quarter acres of land. Potatoes al
worth 81 per hundred. How is tn
for farming in New Mexico, witnot
irrigationP
Miss Jettie Sonichsen, sister OF Mr.
r w. Williams, was taken sudoen
IN in the Methodist church at San Ma
cial Tuesday evening. Her prese'
condition is far from encouraging. y
Cruickshank defines the malay 70
spinal meningitis.
The masquerade ball at the lnyef
ment hall, given by Ration Pass iodg
No. 221. B.. of r. T., was one OF I
most enjoyable affairs of the kind ev
g;ven in Ration. About n hundr'
neople we're in costume, some OF wnl
were very elegant. -.
Judge Andrew Johnston, OF All
nueroue, is confined to his room at I
Commercial club and is likely TO
there for several days. While rial
his bicycle, he ran into some oosta
nv the wayside, which caused MIN
fall, bruising his knee cap.
The rattle "crazev seems to have
Rincon good and hard. Three ram
in which a rifle, a revolver ano .
fox were the prizes, took place
past week. Miss Grace Con, !
Hamlin and Operator Woodland "
successful in the respective DRAWN
There ia one admirable thing 40
the work OF the district d at al
Uneroue, and that is the no delay 9
ton. At the present term o. GO
Two murder cases have been TIL
The Killings out Of which these CO
grew occurred since the last term
court. Il.
we'll attended meeting OF citiz
was held at San Marcial to periec'
arrangements for two days OF spor
San MarciaI, commencing with Cni
mas and concluding on the Satur
following. The purses ofereo
liberal and the different events va
enough to suit the tastes OF all
Victor Falknau, OF Chicago, arr
IN albuquerque and will likely sp
The winter in that place. he
member of the Falknau Construc
company who built the Auditor
hotel at Chicago and the hock IS.
railway in Kansas and Nebraska.
IL the largest company Of the Kan
the United States.
James Hughes, o son OF n. nus
formerly well-known in Lordsour
now running q saloon a. ChsPp
near Prescott. Last week q oru'
Mexican commenced shooting gu
lights in the saloon, n Jin
owntied a double barrel shotgun
him, killing HIM instantly. JiD
surrendered to the officers.
ft.orro Gruni