Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-20

THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
'rxtracts from our ExcnanGsssl

leo.
The Fifteen club met at the home
Mrs y. L. Hall, at Santa Fe, yeste
day.
Q, B. Eddy passed through Rincol
bound for Colorado Springs, the otht
day.
Gerry Van Rieper was in Rincol
from bis ranch, a day or W the pas
week.
An enjoyable time was had ut
baile at Guadalupe Pena's, down
Rincon.
II. d. Gilbert, Of Silver City, is i'm
proving The store room he occupies b.
painting.
Hon. Acheson McClintock, Dom
Ana county commissioner, was a visito
to Las Cruces.
Mr. and Mrs. Il. r Young, OF Ros
welly are rejoicing over the arrival Of
new daug liter.
Mr.. Bennett, from Chihuahua, Mex
leo, is visiting Mrs. Casad, Of Mesilla
Dona Ana county.
A large number of Trinidadlans were
in Ration, TO attend the firemen's ball,
at the opera house.
Two itinerant peddlers, with dry
goods and notions, were visitors to Rim
con. the past week.
Mrs. Ira Duckworth, at Baton, who
has been quite Ill, is recovering as fast
as can be expected.
A. b. Golfer, the genial tonsoral ar
list IN Murphy's, Raton, is out again
after a weeks illness.
There was a leap year party given in
honor OF Lizzie BraDham's thirteenth
birthday, down at Silver City.
There.will be q regular me citing Of
the Albuquerque commercial club on
Saturday evening Of this week.
Henry Rosenberg has returned to
Silver City from the east, where he
was buying a large spring stock.
Mack and George Green and Ora and
Marshal belong, returned to Ration
from q hunting trip to Salt Lake.
Miss Mamie Bib, one OF the school
teachers at Central City, was in Sill
yer City on a visit TO Mrs. B. T. Link.
Quite a number of Post people were
at Silver City, Sunday, TO hear the
bishop preach at the Episcopal church.
Assessor Childers, of Grant county, |
is actively engaged in making the as
sessment Of that county for the current
year.
The foot race at Park View, San
Juan county, last Sunday, between
Mercure and Wallet IS, was won by the
latter. w
A man laboring under the h%a,luci-
nation that he owned all the silver
money coined, was in Rincon the past
week.
Robert Collier arrived in Silver City
from Williamsburg, KY, last week, to
visit his father, j. nj. Collier, at Pinos
Altos.
Lee Smith returned to Roswell from
a three months visit to relatives and
friends ia and around GAINESVILLE,
Texas.
The second ward democratic club,
Of Santa Fe, of which A. Z. Hill is
president, met al Trinity hall, We'd
nesday.
Miss Addie Clayton has accepted a
position at Baxter Bishops confection-
cry and news stand, at the Silver City
postomce.
Sylvester johnson, of Roswell, will
attend a session at the Springfield,
Mo-, business college, leaving for there
in a few days.
A report to the Eagle that
two of Silver City's most prominent
society young people will be married,
sometime in April.
Mrs. Walker and two daughters ex-
pect to leave Silver City soon, for New
York, where Miss Oracle will receive
her musical education.
Grant county cattlemen, who have
stock to sell this spring, will find a
ready market. Buyers are thick and
they offer good prices.
The Chautauqua reading society. Of
Silver City. met, last Saturday, at
Mrs. DR.. Whites. The next meeting
will be held at Mrs. Bantz'.
Engineer Ballard and corps crossed
the pecos, last Friday, and are. doubt
less, out near San Juan mesa BY this
time. says the X swell Record.
J j. Speir made a strike at the
aCactus'' last week, which promises to
create additional interest IN Socorro
mountain mines. The ore runs well in
gold, and the indications point to a
large vein.
An Odd Fellows temple at Albu-
querque is among the possibilities, COM
mittees from the local lodges having
been appointed to arrange matters
looking toward the fulfment OF the
laudable object.
siKit". Carson. of Pennington, spent
yesterday in the city. Carson camp
was named after him. He has rented
his ranch for the summer, and will
spend a few months in the mountains
prospecting.-Dm-ango Herald.
But q short time and the patient fish
erman will sun himself upon the rivers
bark and angle for the finny creatures
Already the necessary tacAle is being
~oveihauled and put in condition for
the service o to be required OF it.
The Albuquerque city directory Is
out of the printers hands, and the
binders are at work in finishing up the
mat adition NJ the kind ever issuci In |