Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-28
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.


Miss Lou Hughes. who has beer
making I'm extended visit with friends In
Denver, returned to her Albuquerque
homu.
Mrs. Bernard Ilfeld. who has b. on
quite i'll the past few weeks, down IL
Albuquerque, is reported considerably
improved.
Mrs. Burns, wife Of internal reve.
nue. collector at Albuquerque, Is visit
ing friends at New Orleans and will be
gone several weeks.
Mrs. NJ. Mandell will return to A.
buqusrque next Saturday from New
York. having been visiting there for
the past four months.
A Mexican woman at Tome, valen.
cia county, had one OF her feet split
open by lightning, but the woman re-
ceived no other injuries.
Frank Hart, a painter, who is a reg.
ular morphine fend, was locked up at
Albuquerque as a subject worthy Of a
room at the insane asylum.
L. X. Hanna, Of San Marcial, is
cutting his second crop uf alfalfa and
It yields a heavier crop than the first.
He will get three good cuttings this
year.
A. Bradley meets his intended bride
at the Armijo hotel In Albuquerque,
Tuesday, and will be Joined in we'd
lock by one Of the clergymen at high
noon.
DIR. l.. II. Chamberlain, of Albuquer-
que, will change his location. August
LIST, to the Ferguson building, and will
occupy the suite over H. E. Fox's jew
elry store.
An important strike Of high grade
ore is reported in the ''North Home
stake" at White Oaks, which will ne
cessitate the firing up of another mill
in a few days.
II. w. Lard has bought the meat
market business of w. K. Chapman,
down at Cerrillns. the latter haraaftar
conducting wholesale butcher
business, only.
Little Marguerite Josephine, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Fran
els, aged TWO years, seven months and
eleven days, died at San Marcial of
catarrhal Group.
j, j. Speir continues to increase the
number of Singer sewing machines
used in Socorro county. 1t is said that
he can sell machines by merely smiling
on the fair victim.
At last weeks meeting of the Junior
Order, down at San Marcial, Joseph
Montgomery was installed as coun-
cilor and w. j. Sickles as recording
secretary, for a term Of three months.
Andy Adams, brother of Will Adams,
Of the Atlantic & Pacific offices, who
has just finished a three years. law
course at Stanford University, is IN
Albuquerque and may open an Office in
that city.
The New Mexico supreme court met
in regular session at the court house in
Santa Fe at 10 O'Clock, yesterday
morning, with Chief Justice Smith pre-
siding and Associate Justices Laughlin
and Baniz present.
The Springer Stockman is informed
that the necessary papers have been
made tor the land, the royalty fixed,
and a company being organized for the
development Of the newly discovered
oil fields west of Springer.
Louis Turner, a fellow who stole $40
from Ella Clark, a lewd character, was
arrested by the police in Albuquerque
and placed under 500 bond to appear
before the next grand jury Of that
county. Turner gave bond.
Mrs. w. s. Strickler, wife of the
popular cashier Of the Bank of Com.
merce, with her children and nurse,
left Albuquerque for Shippensburg,
Penn. where the remainder of the
summer months will be enjoyed.
Tomas Gutierres, who was arrested for
throwing rocks through the windows of
the Cochiti saloon, down there, doing
damage to the extent Of 800, was
sentenced by Justice Crawford, at AL
buquerque, to twenty days in Ill and
TO pay a fine Of $50.
S F. Valdez, Of Colfax county, has
replevined the sheep, lambs, etc., at
tached by P. p. Tale 10 secure the
payment of a judgment held against
Mr.. Valdez, who claims the stock is
the personal property of his wife and
they had no legal right to attach the
same.
f. A. Dow, the general merchant OF
Tai'aue, called at the Citizen office, IN
Albuquerque, and stated that the Bra
lillian count, Iacerd,, is still 10 jail at
Los Lunas, but expects to be liberated
es soon as a letter is received from
friends now supposed 10 be somewhere
so Arizona.
P. II. Durack, of Pecos, while out
bunting some twenty miles north OF
Van Horn, Eddy county, ran upon an
old Spanish mine. 1t has a deep shaft
with several levels, some OF which ap-
near to be sealed. The find has caused
considerable interest and an investiga-
tion is in progress.
Oscar s. Knauss, general agent for
New Mexico of the National ore and
reduction company, Of St. Louis, re-
ceiyed word from the company that
the forty-ton smelter for the Liberal
mining and smelling company at Red
River City, Colfax county, would be
Skinned from St. Louis the 18th inst.
A meeting Of citizens was held at the
Off e of Judge Bayne, up in Ration, to
discuss plans for the proposed fair this
fall. After a full discussion, Nat Old
ham and G. NJ. BayDe we're appointed
a committee on grounds with authority
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