Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-28
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
EXTRACTS from our Excnansss.I

IL r.. winners, ex-c0unty commits
s%ioner. was exchanging greetings will
numerous friends in Aztec.
An informal meeting was held at the
Office of r. P. Barnes in Silver City
for the purpose of organizing an asso.
citation for the fostering Of out dool
sports, etc.
Col. Walter G. Marmon has appoint.
cd j. E. Elder, of Albuquerque
sergeant-major, First regiment, New
Mexico militia, rice Emerson, promot-
ed to adjutant.
Isaac H. Hughes, the new principa.
OF the public schools al Silver City,
was married, and is expected to arrive
from Auburn, Logan county, Ky, with
his bride, soon.
DR.. II. w. Blanc, who went to Sill.
yer City an invalid in 1898, died al
Asheville, North Carolina, and his re-
mains we're taken to New Orleans, his
old home, for burial.
The Navajos are making great prep
arations for a big pow-wow, camp
meeting and dance, to be held on the
San Juan river below Bloomfield about
September 4th, to continue nine days.
Frank de Thomas Spanish history
OF New Mexico has been adopted as a
text book by the Territorial bureau OF
education and will be henceforth used
in all the public schools OF the Terri
tory.
The United States court for the third
juticial district will be convened in
Silver City on Monday, September 7th,
and will remaIn in session for about
two weeks, probably closing on the
10Th prox.
The rgold democrats will meet in
Territorial convention, at A%lpuquer-
que. on Saturday, next, and designate
six delegates to represent New Mexico
in the national convention at 1ndianap-
oils, September End.
A bicycle race is being talked of be-
tween two Cerrillos riders, Messrs. Ed.
McNulty and Randolph, from Cerril-
los to Santa Fe, around the park once
and return to Gerrillos. a distance of
about forty-iive miles.
The public school building In Silver
City has BEEN thoroughly overhauled
and renovated during the summer va
cation and is IN perfect order for the
opening of the fall term, which will be
on the 9TH of September.
In the United States court of private
land claims, over at Santa Fe, the trial
of the Nuestra Sonora de los Dolores
mine grant case, Mariana S. Otero,
claimant, was concluded and the cause
taken under ~advisement.
Elias E. Day, of Aztec Lodge, No g.,
A. F. and A. M, Las Cruces, passed
through Albuquerque on his way to
Gloucester, Mass, in response to the
announcement that his father, Capt.
Sargent S. Day, is seriously i'll.
D. P. Carr reports 1925 poll tax COL
lected for the Silver City district, up to
date, and says that after September
10th all deIinquents will be brought
into court and asked to explain why
they did not pay up as the law pro-
vides.
Arthur Strong shifts around quite
often, down in Albuquerque. For some
time, he was in the employ of the w.
A. Maxwell drug company, then at the
drug store of John G.. Berry, and now
he can be found at the grocery store of
A. J. Maloy.
Jas. S. Palmerlee came into Silver
City from Mogollon and gave the ad-
ditional information that a Mexican,
also, was drowned, and that his own
loss as lessee of the telephone line be-
tween that place and Mogollon would
amount to about $3.50.
Judge w. Brack and N. S. Stewart,
cashier of the First national bank of Ell
Paso, represented by Judge John r.
McFie, OF Las Cruces, were before
special master Thos. s. Helm, of Sill.
yer City, several days, taking testi-
mony in the case of the First national
bank of FL Paso Us. Curran & Pierson.
1t is understood that Major Owens,
formerly OF the San Felipe hotel, down
there, will r main in Albuquerque and
conduct the lodging apartments in the
N. T. Armjjo building. The final
settlement of the deal between Mr..
Owens and the present proprietor, j.
H. Madden, is expected to be made
next Monday.
Rev. w. D. Clayton, the presiding
elder of the Southern Methodist church
of this circuit; Rev. w. +. Foulks,
pastor Of the Highland church, and
Rev. T. L. Adams. of the Gallup
church, arrived 10 Albuquerque from
the south, where they attended a Meth
odist camp meeting just closed on the
ella river in Grant county.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. P. Stamm, of AL
buquerque, have been entertaining for
the past few days Ray Morley and Miss
Lorraine Morley, children of Mrs. Ada
Morley Jarrett, who recently returned
from the east. Miss Morley left for
Stanford university, California, while
her brother, Ray, will join his mother
on the ranch in Socorro county.
r. H. Miller, the Albuquerque brok-
er, sold "Nlmble Jim" to Fred. Lewis, |
realizing quite a nice sum OF money. |
"Nimble JIM was the fine trotter
owned By Frank M. Jones, the latter
selling the horse to Mr.. Miller, yer a
month ago On a good track and han
died by a first-cIass driver, "Nimble
jim" can go a mile in less than 2:30.
Secretary S saint, Of the fair associa
ton, Albuquerque, has appointed
Frank Lee his assistant, and he is a
rustler 10 every direction Mr.. Lee