Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-31
THE DAILY OPTIC.
Hast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lnxsracts from our rxcnanass.i

has been in Globe, Ariz , for severaI
months, returned to Silver City.
The sisters in-law OF w, II. Gray
son.. of the El Paso Times, are at pres.
ent staying in Las Cruces, as health
seekers.
Mrs. VIM. Werney and son, Of Gold
Hill, came into Silver City and are
confined at the Sisters hospital with
typhoid fever.
VIM. Bracket and Claude Stockton,
of Ration, spent three days deer hunting
and brought 10 three fine specimens Of
the feet.footed beauties.
Arrangements are being made by
Helen Rebekah Lodge, I. o. U. F., Sill
yer City, for a grand masquerade ball
on or about Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. Samuel Atkinson went up to
Roswell, from Eddy, to visit her hus-
band, prior to leaving for a visit of
some weeks to her mother in Omaha,
Neb.
VIM H. Mullane, editor Of the Ed
dy Current, is making some improve
ments in his Office which give him
more room in the mechanical depart.
ment.
w. E. Bean and Miss Mary Crawford
entered into the blissful state of matri-
mony, down at Eddy. DR.. A. j
Emerson, pastor Of the Baptist church,
officiated.
J.>Mettler, advance agent for the
"Black Crook" left Albuquerque for
Pueblo. The agent tried to get a date
for Las Vegas, but could not secure the
opera house.
Some Of the finest potatoes ever
brought to Ration were sold to Geo j..
Pace, up there, by Frank Love. They
were raised on the mesa. One of them
weighed IL pounds.
George G. Schell, a health seeker,
who has been fer some time at Colora-
do Springs, is now a resident of Las
Cruces and seems to be we'll pleased
with that section.
Owing to heavy floods, many of the
roads throughout Grant county have
been rendered impossible. 1t will re-
quire a great expenditure of money and
labor to restore them.
The well-known Wiley Touring mill
in Albuquerque, which has been idle
for some years, has been thoroughly
renovated throughout, and is now in
condition to do first-class work.
William Brahm, one of the oldest
settlers in Grant county, is authority
for the statement that the ground is
more thoroughly saturated with water
than it has been for twenty six years.
u. S. Marshal E. L. Hall and Chief
Deputy Loomis, of Santa Fe, are in the
southern part Of the Territory after the
four desperadoes who now lave five
rebberies charged up to their account.
L. T. Frank brought a fine specimen
of mountain sheep into Eddy. Many
of the old residents say it was the fin.
est specimen they have eve seen. 1t
was xii ed n the Guadalupe noun
tains.
The publisher of the Cerrillos Rustler
is OF A candidate for any Office what.
9 er. He will support Facundo f.
] inc for the Office of superintendent
of public instruction in Santa Fe
county.
Presiding elder Rev. w. D. Clayton
has arrived at Cerrillos and will assist
in conducting religious services, Sun
day. He will hold the quarterly con-
ference probably on Monday, Novem-
Der 2nd.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
Mrs. Sadie Wolfe and child, who re-
sided in Albuquerque about a year ago,
will confer a favor upon her friends by
reporting to j. G.. Baldridge, mayor of
that city.
Miss Mollie Thomas, an old-time
friend, who with her parents removed
to De Lamar, Idaho, from Kingston
several years ago, is at present visit
ing her sister, Mrs. 1. d. Hilty, of
Kingston.
A Mexican from the Mimbres was
on the market at Silver City with some
of the finest specimens of cabbage ever
displayed there. Wes Welty bought
one for thirty cents that weiged thirty
five pounds.
Randolph Kelley returned to Cerril-
los from the Jemez country where he
has been during the summer months.
He is looking well, though he has not
fully recovered the use of his injured
hand and arm.
Allen Mcintyre, we'll known in the
southwest as an honest and hard work.
ing man. has several men sinking q
shaft on his mining claim, known as
the ssSilver Coin" about 1900 feet east
of the "Anaconda," at San Pedro.
j. F. Cave, who has been seriously
i'll at the Cerrillos house for some
weeks, is considerably improved, and
no fears are now entertained Of his
recovery. His father, B. B. Cave, ar
rived there from Warrensburg, Mo.
The league of American wheelmen
has gained sufficient membership in
New Mexico to entitle the Territory to
q separate consulate. E. Randolph, of
Cerrillos, is the unanimous choice OF
all the members of that vicinity for The
office OF chief consul.
Prof. Edwin Walters, who is we'll
known in the vicinity of Cerrillos, hav-
ing formerly been there with the Santa
Fe placer company, arrived in that
place from Rio Arriba and Taos coun-
ties, where he has been looking over
some properties for eastern people.
The Chinaman arrested at Albuquer-
que. while engaged In the use Of
opium, was fined $40 and costs, and
bis outfit confiscated. The pipe is
about the size and length ola clarionet.