Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-07
The DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TOPICS.


ilDxtracts from Our Excnanres.i
Frank Crossan, who has been con-
Quoting the curiosity shop In A~lbuquer-
que, will shortly move to Hot Springs,
Ark, to engage In the same business.
The ladies Of Lead avenue M. f.
church, Albuquerque, are arranging to
serve q supper on the evening OF the
10th. They will also have fancy arti.
Giles for fale.
Mrs. N. s. Berray returned to Silver
City from her extended visit east and
joined her husband at Copper Flat,
where Mr.. Berray has prepared a COM
Portable little home.
Estevan Baca has commenced a con-
test suit for the Office Of county clerk
OF Socorro county. According to the
face Of the returns, Ed Fortune was
elected by six votes, and holds the GER
tifcate of election
Mr.. Overstreet, of Texas, who moved
his family from that state 10 Golden
and intends putting up a mill, has
plenty of water In his we'll in the Tuer-
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lumber have been ordered from Glori.
eta, which is now expected daily on
the ground, to build the mill house.
The Albuquerque Odd Fellows or
ders have purchased the lot, corner of
Lead avenue and Second street, down
there, which is known as the McMinn
property, adjoining the Methodist COL
lege, and will erect a hall in the near
future. The consideration paid was
$4,000.
The WILDER Stock Co., which played
in this city a short time ago, are at
present In Denver, playing to crowded
houses. Floyd WhItson, who Joined
the company while al Albuquerque,
write, that he is getting along finely
and likes the theatrical business very
much.
In the district court at Albuquerque,
Friday, Felix Apodaca, who was con.
nected with Pedro Garcia in the killing
of Maxine s ,ndoval and Pedro Lobato
in the Nacimiento country in 1895, was
convicted of murder ia the second de-
gree. Pedro Garcia escaped from the
officers and is a fugitive.
L. j.. Armstrong and A. &. Alcock,
two English tourists who have been
touring the west for some time, were
In Albuquerque last Thursday night
while en- route from Phoenix, A. T.,
back to the old country. They liked
"America" very well with one excep-
ton it was too "blooming, blawsted
hot, don'cher know
The Albuquerque market men all
join in saying that game is unusually
scarce for this time of the year. Deer
and antelope are brought In from the
Manzanas mountains, quail from the
hills and mesas around and occasional
ly a wild goose or duck appears. Wild
turkeys are scout of sight" technically
speaking.
John Gleason was seriously injured
at Hachita through a cave in on the
ssHornet" mine. He was taken to
Deming by his wife and friends, where
he was examined by Drs. Swope and
Raglan. 1t was found that he had
three broken ribs, besides a fractured
collar bone and a number of painful
scalp and flesh wounds.
j. M. Mccormack, of Las Vegas, and
w. w. Olmstead, Of Albuquerque, set
tied a wager by engaging in a fifty
yard foot race on First street, down
there, much to the amusement OF the
b~ystanders. Mccormack was too fleet
of foot for Olmstead and is a box Of
cigars richer in consequence.
John Creighton, who bought thu
"Candelaria" mine from Col. Hutchin
SON, has kept a big gang OF miners
at work extracting the refractory ore
which has been shipped to the Crelgh'
ton & Graves smeIters at Magdalen'
for treatment. The ore taken GU
is very rich and there is o the ieas
doubt OF its paying big, as the yer,
best mining men are ia charge, an
the vein matter gets richer as they g
down.