Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-22
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lEztracts from our ExcnAngss.

iExtracts from our ExchanRes.I
At a meeting OF the promoters OF the
Ration county fair, 1t was decided
70 hold the fair the first week In Octo-
Der.
Ray Thomas has taken the place
formerly occupied by Neal Mausur
In the First national bank, up at
Ration.
Messrs. p. B. Otero, l.. F. Parker
and . party Of friends left Santa Fe TO
spend two weeks at the Hot Sulphur
springs.
The populists will probably hold a
Territorial convention at Las Vegas to
choose a candidate for delegate to
congress.
Pedro Martinez and Miss Adelina
Paltenghe were united In wedlock at
Wagon Mound, Mora county, the
BRIDES home.
james II. Walker, register OF the
U s land Office at Santa Fe, has been
suffering with an acute affection Of the
right eye for several days.
The new house built by Hon. l..
Bradford Prince at Upper Espanola is
almost completed, and the family will
move there in a few days.
The citizens Of Clayton are indebted
&c L q. McKesson, of Colorado Syringe.
for a very entertaining discussion on
the silver ps gold question.
Ella Clark, colored, an old.timer,
who has been a regular visitor at the
city lookup, was given fifteen days for
vagrancy, down in Albuquerque.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows will
meet in annual session at Albuquerque
on the 9th of September and will
continue in session for three days.
John L. Burnside himself
as a candidate for collector of Grant
county, subject to the endorsement of
the democratic county convention.
Hon. John S. Delano, formerly Of
the Delano- Dryer ranch company, and
largely interested IN Colfax county,
died at Chicago, Illinois, Of apoplexy.
Don Pascual Baca, of Anton Chico.
was in Santa Fe on land court bus
ness. and reported range grass, cattle,
sheep and crops all O.. k. in Guadalupe
county.
The fiend with a mania for poison
ing harmless dogs continues his con-
temptible work, down IN Albuquerque.
Mrs. L. j Rummell's pet dog is the
latest victim.
George o. Perrault, at the solicita-
ton of his many friends all over that
county, has consented to be a candi-
date for the republican nomination for
sheriff Of Grant county.
George Timmis, the eleven.year.old
son of George Timmis, who disappear
ed from Albuquerque, and was after
wards restored to his parents by the
police, has strayed away again.
T. M. McCord left Roswell for a
short visit to his old home at Coleman,
Texas. He was accompanied by his
sister, Miss Girlie, who has been visit
ing in Roswell for the past two months.
DR.. Connely, of Decatur, fexas, In
terested in placer mines near Embudo,
has arrived in Santa Fe with his family
for q long soj,urn. They are comfort
ably domiciled In the Gildersleeve
house.
G. H. Wilkie, of Mogollon, left Sill
yer City for Rosedale In the San Mateo
mountains, east of San Marcia', where
he will have charge of the con-
struction of a new stamp mill to be
erected in that camp.
L. B. Morrow passed through Silver
City en- route from Mogollon to Car
Isle, where he goes to accept the posi-
ton of assayer for the great mining
company which is developing the vast
of that wonderful camp.
The cooperative exchange, of Dali
las, Texas, has written a letter to Sec
rotary Miller at Santa Fe, asking for
information as to securing tracts Of
land in New Mexico for the establish
ment of colonies for the unemployed.
A number OF the young ladies and
gentlemen of Silver City met at the resi-
dence of Miss Bessie Hood for the pur-
pose of organizing a social club. Miss
Belle Eckles vas elected permanent
chairman and Miss Florence Laizure
secretary.
James H. Tracy, of Deming, is in
receipt of a letter from VIZ st. John.
acknowledging the receipt of the
money contributed last month by the
free silver citizens OF Dem,ng towards
the expenses of the Bryan and Sewall
campaign.
The Pacific mill at Silver City has
started up and is running full blast,
working principally on "Paciic'' ore
at present, but will have ores from all
points as fast as teams a haul 1t.
Spiller & Mclean are the managers of
the new venture.
The collaborating mines in Pinos
Altos, the Rurro mountains and other
localities adjacent to Silver City, are
being generally worked and ore ship
ments being made, but the silver prop
critics are not being worked to any ex-
tent with a view to producing.
Major Kimball, surgeon U. s. army,
now stationed at Fort Wingate, after
careful chemical analysis, declares the
water in the Rio Santa Fe, from which
the reservoir at Santa Fe is filed, the
finest and most healthful he has found
in all his thirty years experience as a
surgeon in the army.
The teachers employed to conduct
the city schools at Santa Fe during the
ensuing school year have been assigned
$50 ~ No. lit -k~~I NH