Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-31
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lExtracts from our r1cnangss.l

J.C. Mea1er has purchased Lee
station at Big Dry Creek, on the Mo
gollon road, Grant county.
Indications are extremely favorable
for the early construction Of the Dem
ing-Mexico railroad ,uIn.
Harry Mitchell arrived in Ration from
Nogales, Arizona. to attend the funera
Of his aunt, Mrs. w. B. Tulte.
X. van Antwerp, OF Ration, has &C
cepted a position with the X. Dunn tie
and timber company at Catskill.
The Deming public schools will close
Friday, May ooh. Closing exercises
are being prepared in each room.
Preparations are in progress at Las
Cruces for a calico ball, to be given al
the rink by the ladies OF the w. l. A.
Judge Laughlin will open a special
term OF the district court for Santa Fe
county on Thursday, April 10th, at 8
a. m.
Marriott and House have taken the
contract for carrying thu mail six
times a week, from Silver City to Mog-
ollon.
Mrs. Annie Buntz celebrated her
birthday by entertaining a party of
friends at her home, just out OF Las
Cruces.
The district attorney has instructed
t. N. Childers, the Grant county as
SCISSOR, to assess all bicycles owned in
the county.
Miss E. Williams, who has been WIS.,
Ting her brother, w. M. Williams, at
Las Cruces, left for her home in Wash. |
ington, y. c.
Mrs. A. r. Davisson will leave Las
C,uces for Iniiana, where she will
visit her parents until her husband is
located in Chicago.
The yonng ladies and girls of St.
E~lizabeth's guild, Silver City, have do
mated a beautiful baptismal font to the
Episcopal church.
The A. 0 U. w. lodge of Deming is
making preparations for a grand bali
tortake place on the night of May 1st,
the second anniversary of its organiza.
tion.
The partnership heretofore existing
between Max Schultz & Co. has been
dissolved, down in Grant county. The
business OF the firm was at Mogollon
and Graham.
Peter Tausend, of Hillsboro, and
Miss Nellie Wright, of Golden, were
united in marriage by Justice Louis l.
Marshall, in Deming, at the home of
Mrs. A. Tetzlaff.
j. d. Lee, former proprietor of Lees
station, on the Mogollon road, left Sill
yer City for Texas. He left many
sorrowing creditors, who mourn his
sudden departure.
ID. Seligmen, whose face has long
been a familiar one behind the counter
Of l.. Freudenlhal & Co.'S. store, down
there, expects to leave Las Cruces, the
first # April for Mexico.
M ryan B. Donaho, who purchased
the Fielder ranch on the Mimbres,
Grant county, and who is well known
in Deming. was seriously injured by
being thrown from a horse.
Alfred Hussey and f. l. Crowley
were arraigned before Justice Bayne
at Ration, on the charge of petit larceny
and pleaded guilty. They wero given
thirty days IN the county Jail. f,
The stock of liquors and cigars of
the Blua Goose saloon were sold by the
sheriff at Silver City. Messrs. Bell &
Harvey, proprietors of the Club house, |
purchased the bulk of the property.
Col. Geo. r. Gates, a well-known
banker of Independence, Mo, is at the
st. Vincent sanitarium. SantaF e, with bis
daughter. They are direct from Phoe. !
nix, Ark, and expect to remain some
time.
The Luz II boys, the two Mexicans !
who are supposed to have murdered
Thomas Reed, at the "Copper Rose"
mine, near Hanover, Grant county,
have been located at Casa Grande, in
nj, x;co.
Capt. John T. Forsha, the genial
mine host of the historic Exchange no. |
tel, at Santa Fe, has again leased that ]
property, and will continue to make it
MS home like and attractive as of old
tor the travelling public.
Bernardo Hadiler, the princial medi.
cine man of the Santa Clara Indians, is
dead, and there is great mourning in
The pueblo. He was one Of the Oldest
members Of the tribe, and greatly be-
loved by all the Indians.
A letter recently received at Dem;ng
from RAv. A. II. Durham, for some
time IN charge Of St. Luke's church
there, states that he is now stationed
al B~rownville, N. ", tbirty-ive miles
north OF Utica, where he has a mission
four miles from there.
The Silver City smelling and rein
ing company was Incorporated. with
the following named officers: T. F.
Conway, president; r. B Benham.
vice-president Geo. s. Cartwright.
secretary and treasurer, and s. +.
Bretherton, general manager.
Arrangements have been made by
which The school children of MogolIoD,
Grant county, will give an entertain
ment, called ssThe Cantata." In the
near ia IRE, 10 raise q benefit fund for
Dick Lee, the miner who was injured
by the explosion cf giant caps recently
J. n. Murray opened his private
school Ia the high school building at
Santa Fe, starting with a dozen pupils.
Miss Matte z. Johnson, a graduate OF
the Territorial normal school, at Silver
City, also opened a primary school at
tha eocnnd ward huildinr ovar there.