Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-28
The DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

iNAtAuctu from our ExCu0nk0Us
Born to the wife OF Rev. b. b. Scog.
gins, OF Las Cruces, q daughter.
Mr.. Nichols, Of Salado, a prominent
coal man, was in Las Cruces last
week.
Andrew Moore was fined $50 by
Justice Crawford, at Albuquerque, for
carrying q concealed weapon.
j. B. Blythe, OF Canton, Ohio, ar.
rived ut Las Cruces last Monday. Ho
is a health.seeker and is much pleased
with the valley.
Mrs. II. G. Whitcomb, who has been
spending a week with Mrs. Charles
Zsiger, OF Albuquerque, who is Ill,
returned to Camp Whitcomb.
The coal company has 700 men on
the ppy-roll at Madrid, and Saturday,
September 10th was the largest pay.
day in the history of the camp.
Major j. P. Baker and wife, with
their pleasant and popular daughters,
OF Albuquerque, left Sunday morning
for their headquarters at San Antonio,
Texas.
Mr.. w. E. Baker and children, OF
Las Cruces, were on the train from the
south, Friday morning, for st. Louis.
MIR. Baker accompanies them part Of
the way.
jeff AXE and family returned to Las
Cruces from Oklahoma, last week.
They did not like it there, so, after a
year, concluded to come back to New
Mexico.
The governor has appointed Ernest
l.. Brown, of S~ocorro, as q member of
the board of trustees of the New Next
co school of mines, vice E. E. Mold,
removed from the Territory.
John Brockman, one Of the wealth
lest gentlemen Of southern New Next
co, came in on the No. 2 passenger
train from Silver City Friday morning,
and continued on north to Philadel-
phia.
Sam Geek, Of Dona Ana, has been
appointed interpreter Of the grand jury
this term, at Las Cruces; Martin Tru-
jillo, John M. Barncastle and j. G.
Johnson, b%ailiffs, and Numa Buchoz,
court crier.
The many friends of Mrs. G. Conley,
o: Cerrillos, will regret to learn that
she, with her daughter Grace, left
Wednesday for Missouri, where they
will make their future home, Mr.. Con-
ley and the boys having already pre-
coded them.
Bartolla Pana, an old.time placer
miner at Golden, who has been a resi-
dent of that place and a miner since
before the first gold excitement in Cal
%ifornia, was found dead beside his
d~ry-washer n night about a week
ago.
f. M. Metz and four other linemen
went over. to Ration from Trinidad,
lastIAek, for the purpose of rebuild
ia16ce,e long distance Bell telephone
Ionae from Ration to CatskilI. The wires
and some of the poles were torn down
by the recent storms.
Sheriff Max Luna was up from VAL
encia and delivered at the penitentiary
at Santa Fe n Julio Aragon, sem
fenced by the district court to three
months imprisonment for making an
assault with q deadly weapon upon
Carl Dallies, OF Belen.
Miss Eliza Marmon, daughter OF
Col. W. G. Marmon, of Laguna, who
entered the High school the other day,
at Albuquerque, has received the ap-
pointment of assistant teacher at the
government Indian school, that city,
and will be ready to enter upon her
duties at once.
A telegram from Cerrillos announces
that r. M. Carley and Pablo Amanda,
while working the placers near the
San Lazarus claims at San Pedro,
struck a rich seam of quartz two to
four inches wide that is full of free
gold. 1t will yield big returns. Car
lev is at Cerrillos with a number OF
specimens that have created a furore
among the miners. The strike Is on
public land.
The Queen City Mining company has
filed articles with the Territorial secre-
tary reclting the following particulars
Incorporators, Mrs. Jamima Burgess,
VIM. r. McElvaln, Owen M. Dry, W,
III. Long ADD Harvey B. Ferguson, all
residents of the county Of Bernalillo
objects, mining and reducing ores
capital stock, $1,000. 900; life, fifty
wears directors, same as incorpora-
tors; principal place Of business, Al
buquerque.