Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lnxtracts from our rxcnanass.

Mrs. Dave Lockard, at Ration.
There will be an Xmas tree at the
church In Kingston, Xmas eve.
A. s. Belcher has begun the erection
Of a residence, at Elizabethtown.
The New Mexican at Santa Fe was
awarded the Legislative printing.
Frank McGlinchey Is a candidate for
constable Of the Dsming precinct.
Juan Amador will remove shortly TO
his ranch near the Las Cruces depot.
c. E.. Miller, of Anthony. has been
repairing the telephone at Las Cruces
Miss Mary Campbell, of Kingston,
visited Miss Minnie Hager, at the saw
mill.
Henry Foetisch, who has been on
the sick list at Albuquerque, is recov
ering.
New Mexico would like to furnish a
regiment to help whip the Spaniards
in Cuba.
Honsinger and Reay, of Kingston,
have a fine streak Of ore in the sea.
lamity."
Assessor-elect Andy Kelley came up
to,KIngston from the county seat, on a
flying trip.
Miss Hattie A. Stephens has closed
her kindergarten school at Silver City
for the winter.
W. L. Jennings suffered a stroke OF
paralysis. at Ration, and is reported
dangerously ill.
The pupils of the Silver City normal
school have organized a literary and
debating society.
Robert S. Auspach, the Hebrew
preacher, from Vienna, left Albuquer-
que for Los Angeles.
Chas. j Price and G T. Barr, Of
Kingston, are doing assessment work
on the North Percha.
Capt. Hickey was in Kingston from
Carbonate, and reported everything in
iourishing condition.
In response to a telegram that his
father was seriously i'll, Ed. Farr left
Albuquerque for Chico, Cal.
The apron carnival given by the Ia
dies. of the Congregational church at
Gallup, Melted them about $85.
L. S. Preston, of Elizabethtown, &C.
companied his wife to Springer. From
there. Mrs. Preston left for Riverside,
Cal.
One of the tramps who was working
on the streets at Las Cruces, last week,
escaped from the guards and took leg
bail.
A. E. Walker, of Albuquerque, will
accept the position of book-keoper at
the lumber Office of j. q. Baldridge,
in that city.
Sheriff Garrett, Of Las Cruces, has
appointed Irving Wright, of Tularosa,
as chief deputy sheriff of eastern Dona
Ana county.
Elder Howard, after spending severa!
months out on the Dawson ranch and q
short time in Ration, left for his home
zeal Fit. Worth, Texas.
While riding between Mesilla and
Las Cruces, Miss Kate Doughty was
threatened with a hold up by two
tramps, but the young lady whipped
up her horse and escaped.
Ambrosio Madril, the man whose
leg was amputated by DR.. Crosson,
died at St. Vincent hospital, in Santa
Fe, from surgical shock and septice-
mia (blood poisoning) combined.
A letter in the Tularosa Chief from
the Mescalero country says. 'sthe In
dian crops this year are exceedingly
good, especially the potatoes, which
defy competition from anywhere"
The average per cent. of sugar in the
Pecos valley beets, now being manufac-
tured at Eddy, is 16A. The average
at Norfolk, Nebraska, is IA, and at
Chino, California, IS and a fraction.
Gov. Thornton is again confined to
his home by sickness, over at Santa Re.
He suffers from a severe throat trouble,
and it is possible that he may have to
spend some weeks in a lower altitude.
Edward B. Stansell, of Albuquerque,
who war called to Cripple Greek, Colo
RADIO, in response to a telegram an
nouncing the death of his father.
Judge Jacob b. Stansell, returned
home.
H. H. Hankins, the enterprising man.
ager of the stage and freight line be-
tween Springer and Badly, reports
business as growing and the best pos
sible outlook for the Colfax county gold
mines.
Arthur Ross called at The Citizen Of
flee in Albuquerque, and stated that he
had no intention OF disposing Of his
ranch, south OF that city, and taking
up his future residence in southern
California.
Baylor Shannon, sheriff OF Grant
county, passed through Albuquerque
for Santa Fe, having in custody Jose
verrazo. of Silver City, who has been
committed to the penItentiary for
f%lourlshing a deadly weapon.
In the supreme court, at Santa Fe, a
full bench being present, save Justice
Laughlin, who was the trial Judge, the
case Of Josephine Desserant as. the
Cerrillos Coal railroad company, was
under argument, yesterday.
John Connolly, who is working the
ssFrench Henry mine, in the Baby
Ponil district, Colfax county, cleaned
up from his mill rum, last month, a
trile over $l.100 in gold. This month
he will clean up about $4,000.
M. McCabe. of Santa Fe, who has
long been troubled with en- affection OF
the eyes, resulting from an attack OF
er~ysipelas, left for Denver, to place
himself under the treatment OF DR.. T..