Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-19
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,


f'At "uu Ationuos toE some
weeks.
Some choice homegrown peaches
nave made their appearance on the
santa Fe market. They come high,
however.
A few couples assembled at the
school building at Lincoln, and whiled
away a few pleasant hours 10 the strains
Of the violin.
The Myrick brothers returned to
Gallup from their old home IN Brazil,
Ind. where they have been visiting for
several weeks.
A. Liebert, the pioneer hotel man at
Taos, who has been visiting his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dolan, at Santa Fe, for some
days, left there for home.
j. F. Bell, Of Aztec, went to Duran
90 late last week with a load OF water
melons, receiving fair prices. He takes
up another load this week.
The leaf roller is working havoc
among the shad trees about Santa Fe,
particularly the box elders. The pear
slug is also at work in orchards.
Major A S. Towar and wife, former
" OF Albuquerque, are visiting Mrs.
Duren and Mrs. Rumney at the sum-
mer home OF Mrs. Duren in Massachu-
sets.
Uncle Allen Mccoy, OF Flora Vista,
and David Sharp and family, of Kan.
sas, were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Will McCey several days last week, at
Aztec.
A fire company Is in course of or
ganizatlon at Gallup. All the business
men are subscribing promptly, and
prospects of fire protection are very
probable.
The Denver & Rio Grande passenger
Office quotes reduced rates from all sta
tions to the fruit day celebration at
Canon City, Colo, on September 18th
and 10th.
The department OF the interior has
posted notices calling for bids for fur
nishing the Fort Lewis Indian school
with forty tons of baled alfalfa hay,
first cutting.
Mrs. Oakley Clifford, at Albuquerque,
PAOoOdtO0 AOA AucUauu VIII u uu6 UdUy
boy, and the proprietor and driver Of
"Ruth," the pretty picnic wagon, IS as
happy as a lark.
Col. Ernest A. Grunsfeld, postmaster
OF Albuquerque, left last Saturday night
for Manitou, Colo, where he will re-
main for a short time and from there
lie goes to Chicago.
Will Mccoy is baling wild hay for
Frank Baker at Mrs. Cell B~lancett's
place, over in San Juan coun'y. Frank
will start teams loaded with the hay to
Durango in a few days.
j. A. McDonaldl and wife, w. A.
Golf and wife and H. w. Benton, all of
White Oaks, passed through Lincoln.
They will spend a few days on the
Hondo, angling for the willy cat.
Katharine Isabel, the little daughter
of Hon. and Mrs. Amado Chaves, of
Santa Fe, who has been very seriously
i'll for the last two weeks. is now pro-
nounced out of danger by the family
physician.
r. w. Tinsley, professor Of natural
sciences. and j. Fl. Paxton, A. NJ. pro-
fessor of languages, who will teach in
the University of New Mexico, are ex-
pected to reach Albuquerque on the
9th inst.
Col. Geo. w. KnaebeI, of Santa Fe,
has been employed by the promoters
Of the Mary Mining & Smelling COM
pany to investigate and prepare the
titles to the lands needed for the
smelter site at Cerrillos.
Miss Edith Royd, who spent some
time in Albuquerque and then went to
California. hoping to find more conge-
NAL air, has returned, satisfied that the
climate of Albuquerque Is the finest
upon the green footstool.
Married, at Springer, August 18Th,
Miss Violet Littrell and Geo. Warder,
both OF Springer. The bride is the
daughter OF Sheriff aud Mrs. Llttrell;
the groom is the business partner and
brother -in-law of Hon. NJ. M. Salazar.
S. H. Beat,ie, now of Albuquerque,
but who was principal of the Springer
Vile, Ariz., school last term, has been
engaged to teach the San Marcial
school with Miss Mamie Randall as as
slstant. School will open the middle
OF September.
The Field Day of the Albuquerque
fire department, which occurred Sun
day, at the fair gounds, was q success
in every particular and served to put
the boys in a pleasant frame of mind
and to undertake other ventures OF q
similar nature.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C. Morris. of
New York, are charming people now
sojourning at the Palace, Santa Fe.
Mr.. Morris is a member of the New
York bar and a lecturer in the Yale
law school. Mrs. Morris is a lady of
many accomplishments.
Down at Albuquerque, w. A. Skin
ner, having rendered his resignation a.
receiver of the Davenport cattle CON-
pany. was relieved from duty, and Ed.
l.. Medler was appointed to fill the a
cancy. Receiver Medler entered suit
Immediately against Henry H. Hosick
for 81 81 81.
Workmen are repairing the Union
gulch road to the washington" mine
at Cochiti, which will begin shipping
. soon as the necessary repairs are
completed. A rich strike of free gold
was made In the north drift of the Sec
ond level at the washington" by the
night shift last Tuesday.
John W.. Prestel. the obliging sales
man at the Golden Rule Dry Goods
company, is the f1attered recipient of a