Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-13
rHE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

A meeting of the North FarmingtoI
ditcn company was held In Farming
tor.
John Morgan has about completes
his planning mill in Pennington, Sal
Juan county.
+. L. Pearce recently transferred hi
insurance agencies to Armijo & Gully
at'Albuquerque.
Rev. Antes, of Pennington, has gon'
off to his mission, about sixty miles
from Jewett, on the reservation.
Mrs. Dearborn, of Silver avenue, ant
Mrs. Giffen will open the Home bak
cry and restaurant in Albuquerque.
The present indications are that Their,
will be no spring term Of the distric
court, In San Juan county. Suficien
money, but not enough business t
justify a term at this time.
The government teams at Fort Bay,
ard are kept busy hauling lumber from
Elders sawmill, a distance of twelve
miles, to the fort. where several i'm.
provements are to be made
Commissioner John j. Lesson, Of
Socorro, brought Antonio Cortesy, who
was struck ON the head by a runaway
team, causing a fracture of the skull,
up to the hospital at Santa Fe.
w. F. Lorenz has resigned his po-
sition as assistant postmaster at Silver
City and has been succeeded by Henry
Carter, G. E. Windrige being en-
ployed In place of D. P. Carr.
Work is now going on at the Flagler
works below Silver City, preparatory
to starting up the smelter. A company,
with abundant capital, has been moor
porated to operate this plant.
A number of Ratonites were down in
the vicinity of Maxwell City, hunting
ducks; countless numbers were seen,
but some of the hunters proved to be
the biggest ''ducks" of the whole lot
County teachers institute will meet
at the schoolhouse, in Las Cruces, Sat
urday. Prof. Blount will deliver an
address. A general discussion will be
held on "The true aim of Education. !"
E. o. Booram, OF Pennington, has
delivered $4,000 pounds Of apples to T.
z. Bryan, of F%ruitland, San Juan III
ty. Mr.. Booram has $4,000 pounds of
apples left, more than he expected after
his sale to Bryan.
Phoebus Prudential and wife, Mrs.
Morris Freudenthal, Mrs. A. Jacoby
and daughters, Misses Clara and Lydia,
of Las Cruces, went down to FL Paso
to attend the wedding Of Misses Evalon
and Rose Solomon.
Charles F. Lummis is expected to ar
rive In Albuquerque from Los Angeles,
about April 9th. He will secure q car
load of Pueblo Indians TO take to the
Los Angeles fiesta, which is scheduled
to take place about April 18th.
The New Mexico and Arizona smell
err at Ivanhoe, Grant county, after be-
ing closed down for about a week for
boiler repairs, 10 again running, as is
evidenced by the consequent activity
now seen in and about that place.
Manager Davis has induced Mr..
O'Neill to give a performance of ssVir-
ginius," in Albuquerque, on Saturday
mig hit, March 14th. Mr.. O'Neill re-
turns to that city from Ell Paso, en-
route to Los Angeles and intended los
ing the night.
The indictments returned by the Ter
ritorial grand jury at Albuquerque in
clude four for larceny, one each for
for forgery, embezzlement, perjury,
cattle stealing; seven for selling liquor
without license, four for assault with
intent to xiii and two for burglary.
Mrs. E. G.. Chapman and daug hter,
Mrs. Add Walker. former favorite
residents of Ration, passed through that
place on their way from Santa Fe to
Fort Madison, Iowa, where DR.. Chap.
man is at the head of the big A., T. &
s. F. hospital.
All members Of Sedgwick Post No.
2, G.. A. R.. Ration, are requested to
attend the regular meeting, up there,
next Sunday afternoon, as arrange
ments will be inaugurated to take care
of the department encampment, to be
held at Ration, on the oath and 25th of
April.
The "Hanover'' copper mine, some
three miles north of Hanover, owned
principally by T. B. Catron, and leased
by j. Sheridan, of Silver City, has
been sub-leased to Arthur E. Dawson,
of Hanover, who is having a shaft sunk
and is taking out a quantity Of fine
copper ORE.
The ~postofice department offers 800
reward for the capture Of the thieves
who recently broke into the postofice
at Ivanhoe, Grant county, carrying
away with them p~ostofice property I;
also, taking several articles Of mer-
chandise from the store in which the
postoficc was kept.
The report for 1895, Of Amado
Chavez, Territorial superintendent OF
education, shows that Colfax county
received the largest amount Of
any county in the Territory for school
purposes. In round numbers, it receiv-
ed 1872, 900 to $40, 900 each for Bernal-
lilo and San Miguel counties.
Will Scott and Albert Blake were
digging on the Blake ranch in an Aztec
ruin, over in San Juan county. The
boys found two bowls in good condi-
ton, and the skeleton of q woman, the
latter in good condition, except the
skull, which was decayed. The skele-
ton was wrapped in a kind Of grass.
Billy Martins of Socorro, reports that,
while acting as deputy sheriff In the
search for the prisoners who escaped
from the Socorro Jail, he met Schlatter,