Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-07
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

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Amatism, IS improved.
Ned Fugate and John Scott lei
Ration for the Elizabethtown mininI
district, on a prospecting trip.
Died, at her home in Deming, after
an illness Of over five years, Mrs. Jo
seph MEEK, aged sixty five years.
Paul Reed has been bound over Il
two separate c,ses TO appear befor
The grand jury at Eddy for cattle steal
ing.
John Corbett returned to Denim,
from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is nov
playing lawn tennis with the rest of tn
boys.
j. Z. Foster and sons and J. II. AL
lison, OF Grant county, have sold thei
yearlings to eastern buyers at $40
head.
About l 800 Grant county cattle wer,
driven through Hillsboro to Mutt ste
ton, to be shipped to Kansas City
purchasers.
w. e Francis, a cattle buyer OF
Newton, Kas., was in Raton oD bust
ness and-visiting with his friend, G. M,
@. Houck.
Rehearsals are under way at Dem
ing for the presenting, by local talent,
of .Jacob Schlaff's Mistake" and .sMy
Neighbours Wife"
The poverty ball, given at Deming
by the Deming orchestra to members
of.the. social club and guests, was an
unparalleled success.
, Cattle shipments are being made
from Dsming right along, and the
number contracted for is largely in
excess of former years.
Geo. Emmett has moved his barber
shop at Deming from the bank build
ing to the room formerly occupied by
the Gem shaving parlor.
Mrs. Jeff N. Miller orders her Eddy
Argus mailed to Troy, Ohio, which
would indicate that she is to make. her
home there, at least for a time.
II. r. Besing has been awarded the
contract for stone work on the Presby-
terian church building at Eddy and is
now engsg' d laying the foundation.
The public generally IS requested to
be present at the Arbor day exercis s
of the public schools at Ration, next
Friday, April 10Th, from IL a. M, to
IL m.
Now that the fishing season is on,
there is talk of building a suitable
: hanse on the bank of Eddy lake to more
conveniently accommodate the persist.
ent angler.
Mayor Easley, of Santa Fe, received
an alarming telegram, notifying him of
the serious illness of his wife an FIRE.
mont, Neb and calling for his pres
ence there at once.
About 100 Deming citizens witnessed
a novel sight, when Alvlno Miranda
and Peter Avera were made man and
wife before God and man In the midst
of one Of Deming's sand storms.
Homer Hirsch and Willie Glasson,
tao fve-year-old boys, wandered away
from Hillsboro and were lost, and
when found by an anxious search party
were in the vicinity of the s'Snake''
mine.
Solomon Luna, who purchased the
Balm ranch in the San Mateos, has
placed several thousand sheep thereon,
in charge of several herders, who will
DE kept very busy during the lambing
season.
Mrs. F. b. Hunt, of Lava, was q
passenger for Bernardo, San Diego
county, CAL, in response to q message
announcing Inc illness of her hus-
band, the owner OF an orange grove at
that place.
DR.. H. G. Green, the eminent ocu-
LIST, who with his wife has been spend
ing the past four months at the Ala
media, left Las Cruces for the soldiers
home at Dayton, Ohio, of which he Is
surgeon in charge.
The giant cottonwood In the railway
park, vest of the depot at San Mar,
cial, under which many q weary trav-
eler had found shelter and comfort
prior to the birth of new San 'Marcial,
was laid low by the axe and SOW
While Des Dow and James Blaine
we're driving into Eddy from Rocky
Arroya, the pole OF the vehicle dropped
IRON the neck yoke, causing the team
10. run away. In jumping. Blaine
bro Ike both bones Of his right ankle.
The Ration hose company. through
its secretary, Joseph Campbell, has
notified the New Mexico volunteer
fremen's association that they intend
10 be present at the tournament to be
held in Albuquerque during the week
of Fourth of July.
Iuasmuch as the Grant county cam
paign is coming on, the Headlight has
secured and publishes for the beneht
Of those interested a list OF the demo-
cratic and republican central commit
tees as they were composed during the
campaign Of 1894 and still exist.
Tie International Stockgrowers'
protective association, of southern New
Mexico and the state of Chihnahua,
Mexico, has been organized, and all
parties desiring to become members
should make application to Walter II.
Quincy, of Deming. secretary OF the
ASSOCIATION.
While sinking a shaft for water in
Silver City, on j. A. Heathsr's pro-
ptrty, a flow of water was encountered
which rose to a height of twe,vs feet
in q few hours. The shaft was down
forty-four feet and the men had been
wo,tirg through a stratum Of granite