Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-23
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lExtracts from our rrcnsnsss.I

hoHe IN Cnlcugo.
Frank Amador, of Las Cruces, Is
visiting in Juarez, Mexico.
School begins in Springer sometime
about the first Of next month.
w. d. Howard returned to Bland,
from a short trip to Santa Fe.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen
Stroebel, of Las Cruces, a girl.
Deputy Sheriff Brent returned to Las
Cruces from q trip to Tularosa.
Harvey Chandler and wife were In
Springer from Cimarron last week.
Jack McGonigal was In Bland from
his ranch and reports everything thriv.
ing.
President Jordan, Of the Agricultur-
al college, visited FL PAso from Las
Cruces.
Hank Woodland was In Bland from
his ranch with a lot of fine vegetables
for sale.
Hon. Geo. P. Money, assistant U. s.
attorney, returned to Santa Fe from
Silver City.
Hon. H. L. Warren is at Santa Fe
from Albuquerque in attendance at the
district court.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. W. @. Pea
cock, down at Victoria, below Las
Cruces, a girl.
Several Springer citizens will attend
the Indian festivities at Taos the last
of this month.
James Cory, Of Springer, went to
his ranch on the vandoritas, Friday,
and spent a week there.
Two Apache Indians were in Eliza
BEETHOVEN last week, each carrying q
deer thrown across his horse.
N. Handy, an old California placer
expert, is in Santa Fe to investigate
several mining propositions.
Juan Baca and Adalaido Baca, of Pc.
ma Blanca, were visitors to Bland and
the family of R. M. Stephens.
w. d. Mccoy and H. T. Nichols, Of
Bland, took a trip to the river, Cochiti
and -Pena Blanca during the week.
Tom Ashby, Of White Oaks, and
Miss George Maxwell, Of Tularosa,
were united in marriage last week.
Codnty convention to elect eight
delegates to the democratic Territorial
convention meets in Springer, to-day.
The w. I. A. ladies' met Tuesday af-
ternoon with d. q. Billings, to do
sewing for their bazaar down at Las
Cruces.
Major E. G. Ross has returned to
Santa Fe from Rio Arriba and Taos
counties in the interest of the bureau
immigration.
Hon. John A. Lee, one of Albuquer-
que's solid citizens, is visiting Santa
Fe. He has many friends there to bid
him welcome.
Harry Lewis, pleasantly remembered
at Bland, writes from Cripple Greek
that he is doing well at mining in that
great gold camp.
w. A. Thomas and brother, DR..
Bailey and w. w. Chute left Las Cru
ces for a months outing in the Sacra-
mento mountains.
While in Badly last week a repre-.
sentative of the Miner learned that the
famous "Aztec" mine and mill were
about ready to start up.
Mrs. E. Pascoe, mother of Mrs. N.
Forth, who was at Albuquerque on a
visit the past few weeks, returned to
her Springer, N. M. home.
Mrs. Jones has commenced the cree
ton of large addition to her hotel at
Elizabethtown. The increase of busI-
ness necessitated having more room.
The family of w. E. Baker expect
to leave Las Cruces within a few days,
for a visit in St. Louis. For the pres
emit, they are the guests Of Mrs. w. A.
Phelps.
A birthday party was given last SUM-
day at the home of Mrs. John Leikem,
at the Model farm, east of Springer.
The Germans of that city largely at
tended.
DIR. M. R. McCrory, as medical ex-
aminer, and A. j. Baca, as lnterpre-
ter, accompanied a life insurance man
to the mountains last week from
Springer.
w. G. Burnett, OF the New Mexican
Miner, came down to Springer from
Elizabethtown and returned Wednes-
day morning loaded with business to
attend to.
A. s. Belcher, a mining investor OF
Texas, accompanied by his wife, is a
recent arrival In Badly mining camp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Belcher will remain In
the mountains for the winter.
For the second time within a year,
d. E. Phillips, chief Of letter carriers,
of Albuquerque, has been savagely Bit
ten by a big. curly, black dog belong
ing to Chas. Keppler, No. 922 south
Edith street.
Conductor Sam Heady, Of Albuque--
que who has been on the sick list the
past two weeks, will resume his run on
the Atlantic & Pacific this morning. He
reports his wife, who has been quite III,
much better.
The smelter has arrived at Red Rive,
tcity and the work OF erection is going
ON rapidly. The smelter is being put
in by a company to do custom work
and will undoubtedly prove successful
;as there are some valuable properties
there. "A
Miss Florence and Thomas Scott,
who have been in Chicago for some
time, arrived in Albuquerque from the
east aud continued west to Fresno, Cal.
accompanied by their mother, Mrs.
Mary Scott, where they will reside in
the future.
VIM. G.. Corbin, an old army vster,