Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-12
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
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repairs done on his grain and fee
store, on Billiard street, In Silver City
He will have an iron front put IN.
j a Houten and his amiable an,
accomplished wife, left Ration Saturda,
morning for New York and intermedi
ate eastern cities. They will be gon'
three months.
Samples of the sugar produced b,
the Eddy factory are 996 pure. Thu
will be run through the refinery again
and the six one-thousandth parts O
impurities taken out.
The Shuler- Burnam brick business
block, corner Clark avenue and FirsI
street in Ration, is being lowered to tn
level Of First street. McMartin 4
Chapman are the contractors.
The cold weather in the north ha.
driven thousands OF ducks to the warn
waters of the Pecos valley. Duck,
know a good winter climate. and thal
is more than some people do.
The funeral of Hattie, the ninteen,
months-old child OF Mr.. and Mrs. c.. A
Bruce, of Albuquerque, was held or
Sunday afternoon, a very large number
OF friends of the family attending.
There is nc positive information tina,
Black Jack has left this part OF the
country, but it is thought that he has
gone over into Arizona and will get out
OF the country as soon as he can
Hon. Stephen W. Dorsey, ex United
States senator from Arkansas, and one
Of the most conspicuous POLITICAL fig
ures q few years ago in this country.
was a passenger for Denver a few days
ago.
DR.. A. H VanCleve arrived in oliver
City last Saturday and will locate there
permanently for the practice of medi
cine. He has fitted up an elegant
suite of rooms in the Bailey building on
Billiard street.
Messrs. Bell and Harvey have pur-
chased two lots on Broadway, between
the Broadway hotel and the fire house,
at Silver City, and will. sometime in
the near future, erect a handsome two
story building on them.
The choir of the Presbyterian church
in Ration, are arranging to hold a ba-
zaar and Supper December 18Th. 1896
Both useful and ornamental articles
suitable for Christmas gifts will be on
sale at prices to suit the times.
Ralph Halloran and wife, of Albu-
querque, were passengers for the north
night before last. They will first stop
at Denver, thence to Chicago and from
there to New York. Mr.. Halloran
says they will be absent several weeks.
Henry Carter has rendered his resig-
nation as assistant postmaster Of Silver
City, to take effect Jan. 1st. Post
master ckelley has advanced c. E
Windrjdge to the vacancy and appoint
ed Miss Minnie Carvil to the general
delivery clerkship.
A. l.. Hobbs, j, Fl. Smith and VIM
Smith, returned to Ration Tuesday
evening from a three days. hunt on
Red River, with three magnificent deer.
Polk Smiths famous bloodhound
.sBuck" was nj oftbe principal causes
of this successful hunt.
E~x-Sheriff Franz G. Chavez, Of Rio
Arrlba county, was taken from Abb
quin to Santa Fe, by Hank Easton,
suffering from a severe attack Of
malarial fever. He is receiving medi-
cal attention at the home of Mrs. Ortiz
on Water street, over there.
last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Fred
'Brueggeman, Of Ration, charmingly
ontovtoirod n nrr,har 80 hor f;,cda ~
luncheon. Conundrums were the
principal amusement for the afternoon.
Mrs. j Laaby won the prize as the
best guesser, a handsome vase.
Judge S. E Booth, one Of the most
valuable men at Elizabethtown, and
who is doing more than one mans
share in having the valuable resources
of that great gold camp brought to the
attention of eastern capitalists, spent
the latter part OF last week in Ration.
Arthur Hughes and wife, of Hills
boro, we're in Silver City several days
last week. Mr.. Hughes is manager Of
the famous "Snake" group of mines
in the Hillsboro district and ships large
quantities of ore to the Silver City
reduction works. He broughtin a car
load Of high grade ore with him.
Messrs. Il. A. Schomburg, A. L
Hobbs. and E. r. Manning, OF Raton,
have returned from a deer hunt, over
on the Vermejo. They brought in one
deer. A report reached Ration that
the handsome pet deer, that had been
quite q feature at the Maxwell farm,
has been missing for several days.
E.A.Dow,the Tajique merchant, came
in to Albuquerque from the mountains.
He states that his section OF the country
has not been visited by any snow yet
this Writer, aud, as the .'oidest inhao'-
tant'' says, ssthere will be no snow at
fatigue and adjacent country for the
reason that it rained there in October"
The house now occupied by o. Bach
echi & Co., No. 109. First street, in
Albuquerque, is owned by J. F. Luthy
1t is learned, to-day, thai Mr.. Luthy
will add several thousand dollars in
improvements to the property, by
building a two-story brick addition 10
the rear, and adding other necessary
and convenient improvements to the
place.
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