Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-29
~TDRRITOaIAL TOPICS.

from Cimarron.
Mrs. Robert Hodgson is q1ite III
down at Cerrillos.
w. A. Griswold is back at Cerrillos
from Colorado Springs.
The green grass is about ready fol
wnibbling up in Colfax county.
Mrs. Geo. Curry and Miss Jennie
Lesnet we're in Eddy from Roswell.
Tom Burns, Frank Maxwell and
VIM. Coin left Ration for Hematite.
G j. Devliu, manager Of coal prop.
critics for the Atchison company, was
10 Cerrillos.
G. e. Bigot, president of the Ortiz
mining company, returned to ST. Louis
from Cerrillos.
IL. G. Norman and family have
moved into the cement works property
south OF Springer.
Croqaet is quite a popular game In
Springer, and young people there seem
to enjoy the game.
Great interest is felt In Santa Fe
over the development of artesian water
In south Santa Fe county, near Mad
rid.
The development work On the "Aztec"
"What Is L." s'Climax'' and ssJim
Dandy" goes on steadily, up a La
Belle.
The Southern hotel, up at La Belle,
is being fixed up inside slowly | ut SUBJ
s%tantiaily. Olaf Thomson is the pro-
prIetor.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Clancy, who
number nearly the entire poi ulation
among their friends, spent Sunday in
Santa Fe.
McCrary & Jackson started work on
contract on some claims belonging to
G. g. Cotton, and others, near the La
Belle tunnel.
At Hematite Dold u Co. are putting
in a hydraulic plant with which to
work their extensive placer fields in
that locality.
Mrs. j q. Butler, who accompanied
the remains OF her husband to Man
haitian, Kansas, for burial, has returned
to Albuquerque.
Olof Lindfos has just completed a
large paint shop, over at Clayton,
where he will do house, sign and car
rage painting.
A "Mum" social, under the auspices
of IA. to ORC. will be held at the
residence of j. j. Bresnahan, at Ration,
Thursday evening.
Mr.. Potter, recently of New York, ar
rived in La Belle, and is looking over
the camp carefully-probably with a
view OF investing.
Jack Darlington, of Elizabethtown,
has started hydraulic placer mining on
Red river with prospects of a large
output this summer.
1t is rumored at Clayton that MIR.
Loveless, of the Currumpaw, lost thirty
head of cattle out of a bunch of 100
during the late storm.
Mrs. Davis and her two little grand
daughters, Evelyn and Winnie Shuler,
of Ration, have gone to Colorado
Springs to visit relatives.
The "U. & l." dancing club will
give a grand May party at the Ration
opera house, Friday, May 1st, to which
everybody is cordially invited to at
tend.
There is considerable mail awaiting
Healer Schlattcr in the ~postofices at
Graham and Silver City. Many of
the letters appear to contain handker-
chiefs.
X. c. Hunter arrived in Eddy, with
his family from Port Lavaca, Texas,
and has succeeded Mr.. Damn in the
Railroad eating house, or old Louisiana
house. L
The Presbyterians of Las Cruces
have decided TO build a new $4,000
church, the board of church erection of
Philadelphia contributing $1,000 to-
ward it.
Barney Lohman, who was called to
Philadelphia, Pa, on the strength OF a
telegram announcing the serious ILL
ness of a relative, returned to Aibu-
querque.
Ned Fugate, of Ration, who is pros.
pectlng in Grouse gulch, near Eliza
BEETHOVEN, with John Scott, writes that
they have struck an eighteen-inch lead
which locks well. \,
Wool is beginning to arrive In Albu-
querqne, in considerable quantities,
life Id Brothers having received several
wagon loads in the past few days,
mostly from the natives.
Chairman Nymeyer, of the Eddy
county central committee, has called a
mass meeting of the democrats of the
county for May 23rd, to elect delegates
for the Territorial convention at Las
There were four burglaries in Silver
City last week. The only clews left
were a couple Of jimmy marks on each
door. Nothing was stolen bet the
money in the cash registers. +,
Clyde, the 6 year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Phil Mann, of Eddy, was thr own
a burro Monday, sustaining a
compound fracture Of the left arm. At
counts the little fellow was i'm
proving, with good hopes of saving the
arm.
The strike recently made in the cross
cut tunnel of the edison" exceeds
anything yet found in the La Belle dis 4
trict. Ten feet Of the vein has been s
ard all shows free gold in large
particles all through the rock, and es- ]
pecially in the hematite. :
Sherrard Coleman and surveying !