Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-22
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
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The mining outlook all over Ne,
Mexico Ia brighter than ever before.
The road from Socorro TO tho Mo
gollons will be built during the prosen
year.
Messrs. Taperro & vczetta have re
tired from the dressed meat business o
Kglly.
julius Price, OF Socorro, is so muc
better that he Is able to be around tb
store.
| ii. Gray was taken suddenly slcl
at HiIlsboro and had to be removed L
his home.
Dave Woods and Tom Hendricks, o
Las Cruces. sold 400 head Of cattle /,
Kansas parties.
N. Spatcier, OF Las Cruces, hal
rented his orchard and vineyard I,
Dyer Mitchell for the year.
The wind blew so hard at Socorr,
that the Philharmonic band could no
give tho proposed open air concert.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Samp
son, at Las Cruces, a boy; aud to Mr.
and Mrs, }. II. Quinsenberry, a girl.
Judge Bautx will hold a term o
court 10 H~illsboro, in and for Sierra
county, beginning Monday, April 9Th,
Mrs, G. A. Milman, who has beer
confined to her home by illness, down
Mt Las Cruces, is able to be u once
more.
Jack Cluin will move his blacksmith
shop to the building formerly occu-
pied by A. Guitard, down at Las
Cruces.
Prof. Fredericks, the musician and
jeweler, at Hillsboro, is so dangerously
sick that his recovery is almost de-
SPARED of.
Thomas O'Donnell, Of Cerrillos, says
the ci,izens of the Little Pi,tsbnrg are
going to make q thorough test for oil
ON the Matthews place.
III. t. Wattles,. who went to Las
Cruces about two months ago for his
health, left for his home in Philadel-
pbia in a greatly improved condition.
The water company at Santa Fe is
preparing its splendid farm lands neal
the government Indian school for a
big acreage of Kaffir corn and sugar
beets,
r. D. Darst and Miss Sallie Handy,
who were married at the Alameda a
few weeks ago and left for Redlands,
Nal Laua IansI1I ~ ~ayrr, ~ 90
Cruces.
D. w. Strong, who was thrown from
his wagon, at Albuquerque, IS resting
as comfortably as a broken co!lar-bone
will permit. He will be out in a week
or ten days.
Miss Nettie Small, who went to Las
Cruces about seven months ago from
Ell Paso, returned to that city and will
10 the future make her home with her
sister, Mrs. w. H. futile.
Juan Santistevan, accompanied by
two daughters, departed from Trinidad
for their home in Taos, having tarried
there the past five weeks for medical
treatment of the daughters.
At the regular meeting of the w. l..
A., down at Las Cruces, Mrs. j. A.
Baird was elected a member of the
executive board and Mrs. Phi. Freuden-
thai treasurer of the association.
Fire was discovered in Pat Savage's
stable, aown at Socorro. The ladies
OF the neighb ,rhood organized an I'M
promptu fire brigade and put out the
blaze before great damage was done.
Don j. Rankin, manager of the
Southwestern Brewery and Ice compa-
ny. at Albuquerque, fell from the top
Of a boiler to the fl ,or, a distance of
about ten feet, land was severely injured.
A kid was born in the Angora goat
herd of Daniel Campbell, at Hlllsboro,
with two heads, two noses and four
eyes. II died shortly after. Ray |
Grayson, the taxidermist, is preserving
the skin.
In the Albuquerque court, in the
case of Emma X. Hszledine rs. Nellie
L. Haz.edine, complainant was author
lied, by the court, to borrow 80 600,
and to execute deed Of trust upon GER
tain real estate.
Harry Bailey, Humboldt Casad and
Fred Harding, the latter a famous hun
ter and trapper from Patterson, N. J {,
returned to Las Cruces from the San
Andres mountains, where they spent
three weeks hunting and trapping.
A large number of wagons loaded at
the big Wholesale house of the Browne
& Manzanares Co., at Socorro, for
White Oaks, and other Lincoln county
Seven wagons passed the i'd
g~eytiser Office, down there, within two
hours.
The body of an old Mexican, prob
ably about sixty-six years old, was
found near Chico Springs. Colfax
county, who is supposed to have per-
lshed in the storm OF the previous Sun
day. So far, the body has not been
identified.
Charles Lyon, formerly postmaster
at Cerrillos, was arrested at Cripple
Greek, Colo, by Officer Ryan, on COM
plant CT the p~ostofice department.
lie was short about $1,000 10 his &C.
counts. lie was captured by the means
Ut decoy letters.
w. B. Slaughter, Of Albuquerque,
has gone to Solomonville, Ariz ma, to
assist in The prosecution of the man
who murdered his brother, about two
yesrs sgo. He is accompanied by an
important witness, whom he discovered
10 this Territory.
The Lincoln Nems, speaking OF de-
.velopiDg work 10 the coal field up
49, INo.Ir Ia still hain0 L