Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
iRrtracts from Our Exchanges. i

grippe at FL Paso, but are much better
now.
J. M. Dennis, formerly Of Albuquer
B que, now at Williams, Aiiz ma, IS re
ported to be prospecting in the sawmil
business.
Messrs. Brydon and Sugar are getting
the Fitzgerald mill, az Golden, IL
readiness to treat ore from the ,ssCap,
delaria" mine.
The Southwestern coal and iron com
pany, Of Hanover. are making dali,
shipments OF iron ore TO the FL Pasc
smelling works.
ii. g.. Meyers, a. young gentleman
who had been stopping in Albuquerque
the past few days, left that place fol
Ottawa, Kan.
Agrand ball and supper will be given
at the Exchange hotel, La Bale, Sat.
urday evening, May 23i, in honor OF
Mss Anna Nadcch's birthday.
Harry Taylor has returned to La
Belle from Trinidad and rasumedwork
en- his claims near Red River City. He
got assays from $2i TO $50 per ton. y
The Monte Cristo Mining company
in its welI-boring operations, in Old
Timer gulch, at Golden, struck q body
OF water at a depth Of seventy feet.
G. f. Knauss, who laid the fpunda-
ton for a new residence, last summer,
will complete Its construction during
the present building season, down at
San Marcial.
II Clayton is not in a prosperous
condition now, when will 1t beP There
is not an idle laborer or mechanic IN
town, and the merchants are doing an
immense business.
A cave 10 occurred in the coal mines
at Madrid, resulting in severe injuries
TO a miner named Rafael Bega. His
foot was so badly crushed thai ampu-
tation was necessary.
The two lots south of w. G.. Lanes
residence at San Marcial, have come
into that fgentleman's possession. A
two-story store room and supply depot
will be erected during the summer.
Rev. j. A. Menaul, synodIcal mis-
sfunary-of the Presbyterian church,,
has been elected to deliver the
baceHiaureate sermon at the agricul-
,ural college in Las Cruces, mex,
month.
Inasmuch as the court fund IS ex-
hausted, Judge Laughlin reluctantly
discharged the petit jury at Santa Fe,
although there is much other business
on the docket that ought to be dis
posed of.
Herbert Dawson, after a months va
cation, has again resumed duties as
s'ore-keeper of the Ivanhoe store. Ivan
hoe, and all surrounding camps, are
glad to see him back again at the
counter.
Gen. Wheaton, with SPECIAL car, ar
rived at Halls station, on the Silver
City 6 Northern railroad, the 11th, en-
route to Fort Bayard. The general IS
nn a tour of inspection to all the forts
in this section.
Testimony was taken before Special
Master Pinto Pino, at Las Cruces. 10
the case of Edward Haight, Of New
York, rs. Edward Wilder. OF Topeka,
Kansas. This IS a chancery case in-
v~olving lands included in the Brazito
grant.
Simon Stern was showing at his
store in AlbuqueI que some samples Of
slate and quartz bearing gold from the
..Little Pitts burg" mine, of the North
Canon mining company, from which
w. III. Stevens had made ASSAYS of
1920 and 800.
notwithstanding that no important
Mining deals have taken place in the
ami surrounding San Marcial, a good
deal If prospecting is going on, and
abe feelir q is general that good. luck
ard wealth aw ait several OF the t~oilers.
The o,d;a,s at Fart Ravard we're
ral,, ,nt last satnrda = 10 min forces
from other for.s n snnnress the late
a'n,h,eaL 20 i Anocbas in soutbarn
~ Max;oo and Ar;-ono rbrea nm
dred aftbat tribe Il ia said are ON The
war.patb.
praoson, u;u who was ecentiv
,areo ved az his rood wife in Santa Fe.
10 ia receint Of ) letter conveying TO
h;m,ho sad naws ~ the death Of his
sister, Mrs Snodorass. ana bis niece.
M;ss E.nnr K;na IN scot,shoro. Ala.
Na,;T sx7h Isl ~
ne sahsa n,,a oPps' nnason ra.a
ny ,Is'hei Nnnney, ~ NJ
ne'n ieasso ny 'ne aeens 'n0 Tnsss
,dns,ea II III vicinity Of
s"'"'o -" 1880