Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-17
THE DAILY. OPTIC,
Fast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,

AiouqueIques ihsU nignt.
Rev. Robert Hodgson preached hi.
farewell sermon at Cerrillos, and, witt
his family, left for his new field O
labor at Pecos City, Texas.
1t is expected that Rev. L. L. Glad,
ney will arrive in Cerrillos and conduct
the Sunday morning and evenipp
services, at the Methodist church.
Fred Lacey was drowned at Santa
Rita, Grant county. He was a resident
Of Pueblo, Colo to which place bis
heart. broken widow has returned.
But few Silver City citizens were
represented at the Territorial fsir a
Albuquerque this year. hard times
and politics %precluding their attend.
nee.
Richard Green returned to Cerrillcs
from Oregon. His health has been
greatly improved by the trip. Clay
Green will PROBABLY not return fol
several months.
William Tregay and Ralph Gun.be;
have scored a contract for Stopping COZ
feet of ground on the 300-foot level OF
the "Golden Giant mine at Pinos AL.
tos, Grant county.
The free coinage question in genera
and a scrap over the local pie in par
t%icular, caused a heap OF trouble to fall
upon the Sooorro county republicans al
their county convention.
The G. L. S. c., at Albuquerque,
will hold an extra meeting, next Tues
day, and will take up The study OF the
first two lessons as mapped out in the
October number of the C~hautauquian
Jas. w. Mullens, editor of the Ros.
we'll Register, will have his throat
operated on, for catarrh, by a Fort
Worth physician Of the same name an
probably a relative OF the newspape.
man.
A. E Banner, Of Las Cruces, CHIEF
deputy under Sheriff Pat T. Garrett
arrived in Santa Fe and brought to th4
peniten.iaIy one Jesus Padilla, who
goes in for seven months for horse
stealing.
William P. Dorsey, an old-time
resident and prospector in Grant coun-
ty, and who owns valuable mining in
dustries in that section, returned to
Silver City from a lengthy tour in
Colorado.
At the close of the registration books
last Saturday, down at Silver City, 532
names had been entered on the regis
ter. 1t is expected the number will be
swollen to 575 by tho tine the books
are closed before election day.
The Fort Sumner lad and cattle
company has filed a certificate with the
Territorial secretary, designating
Charles Fore as its agent with head
quarters at Fort Sumner, cice Warner
s. ~Chadderton, removed from the Ter
ritory.
DIR. G. N.Wood, of Silver City. has
purchased the nragaw mill properly RI
Gold IIill, now being operated BY
Cline & Sharp. The mill Is a ten.
stamper and will be run in injection
with mines owned and operated by the
doctor.
A dispatch reached Albuquerque to
the effect that the men who held up
and robbed the stages running between
San Antonio and White Oaks, a week
ago, were captured by the United
States postal authorities near the Tex
as line.
Captain j. A. Rurdick, store-keeper
at Madrid, says it is a mistake, the re.
port that The hard coal mines have shut
down. There are now 500 men en-
ployed in and about the Madrid mills
and mines and all ara prosperous ant
happy.
The last New York Journal acEnowl-
edges the receipt of SOL from
forty different persons in Deming,
N. NJ, which the Journal promptly
doubled and transmitted to Treasurer
St. John, of the democratic national
committee.
Steve Uhli started ont in Silver City
on a rustliug trip in the aiG of TIE
cause of Bryan and silver. In couple
of hours, he collected $3.50, hin1sell
contributing 1926. The money was
sem east. where it will be used
effectually.
w. II. Newcomb is shipping be-
tween twoiani three car loads ofiron ere
from his illegal TENDER mines, Grant
county, daily. The ore, which is
highly priced for its fuxing qualities,
is being slipped to the smelters at
Pueblo, CoIo.
All railroad companies operating in
Grant county have been ordered to ap-
pear before the board of county CON-
missioners at a special meeting, Nov.
9th, and show cause why they have not
complied with the law relative to the
fencing of their respective roadbeds.
The tax rolls turned in by Assessor
Childers. showing the assessed valca-
ton of Grant county to be 1854 ,49o,
have been approved by the board OF
county commissioners. Upon this
amount, tie county commissioners
should derive $S5,067.44 a. taxes tor
all purposes.
Rev. Ira q. Patterson, who has 80
ably filed the Roswell charge of tie
Method st church, has been transferred
back to the Florida conference, he be-
ing succeeded down there by Rev. e.
). Oxley, who drew up the anti-prize-
fight bill, for which Delegate Catroi
got the credit.
The Eddy county democrats have
nominated the following excellent tick
ct: Probate judge, A. Green; sheriff.
j. L. Dow; probate clerk, w. r.
Owen; assessor, W. F. Cochran;
county commissioners, N. Cunnin-
49, " nr.,on Dotor farm .