Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-21
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
IKxtracts from our Exonanaes. 4

at San Antonio for Los Angeles, where
her mother is now residing.
G. Il. Cary has returned to Albu-
querque from California. His family
will remain at Santa Monica for the
summer
Floyd Bone, organist al St. Johns
Episcopal church, down there, left Al
buquerque for Indianapolis, to take a
much deserved vacation.
N. Cunningham has announced as q
candidate for county commissioner,
down at Eddy, and Milton Philips
withdraws from the race.
II. G. Nisbet, superintendent of the
Greene vineyard tract, Eddy county,
has a fine stand OF beets. He says the
crop should exceed 1000 tons.
The Silver City council met and
made the city tax levy for 1896, five
mills on the dollar for general purposes
and SIX mills for hydrant rental.
Dick Heller drove into Albuquerque
from Cabezon with $4,000 pounds Of
wool and has stored it at the warehouse
OF Grunsfeld Bros , awaiting better
prices.
e. W. Galley has dug a we'll at his
residence, up 10 Springer, securing
good water at twenty-three feet. The
location Is In one OF the highest parts
of the city.
Fred Becker, Of Belen, who has been
taking care of the passenger traffic to
the mines OF the Ladrone mountains, is
making preparations to put in a stage
line there.
Mrs. w. G. Bell. OF Rosedale, in the
San Mateo mountains, will spend a
few weeks at San Antonio, visiting
Mrs. A. H. Hilton and other old ac-
4uaintances.
A great deal of wool is being stored
IN Springer. awaiting buyers to put 10
their appearance. P.ices being paid
now range from eight to eleven cents
per pound.
Oscar s. Knauss, agent Of the St
Louis ore and reduction works, left
Ration FIR Hematite aud Red River
mining districts, where he is putting
in machinery.
Died. at the Sisters hospital in Silver
City, VIM. Ravenscroft, aged about
thirty-f five years. Deceased was a
highly respected resident OF the town
of Mogollon.
Anton Hogwal, who has been keep
ing books for the Hilton Mercantile
Co., at San Antonio, left for the Mag
daiena mountains, on an extensive
prospecting trip.
A few friends of Miss Sophia Hogan
were invited by her sister, Mrs. Calvin
Whiting, to their home on South Edith
street. Albuquerque, and were most de-
lightfuliy entertained. \,
Spurious coins are circulating In
Eddy. A. A. briggs was the victim
Of . lead dollar, but knowing the in
dividual who had given 1t to him, he
induced him to provide for its re-
demption. 1
Flank Jennings, who has been
cl rkfnp in the Czanne hotel, at
White Oaks, left for California, where
be has a good paying ~clerkship await
ing him in one of the mining camps
near Grass valley.
Harry Lang, arrested in Albuquer-
one on the charge of subordinatiOn of
perjury in the Japanese woman muir.
der case, was liberated, down there, as
District Attorney Wilkerson concluded
the evidence was insufficient.
Lawrence & Bergman, OF Trinidad,
Colo have shipped a stock of mer-
lonl;aa f~on, oaofarn v1oryofo ~
Rston, which will be 10 charge Of MIR.
Chavez, who has been for a long time
jn the employ OF the New York fair, up /
NJ Trinidad. L
One of the delightful events Of last
week, down in Albuquerque, was the
'scupid psr'y' given on Tuesday even !
ing, at the home of Judge and Mrs. N.
C. Collier. in honor of the Misses Col {
Iins aud Miss Smith, OF Georgia, who
are guests of the family.
On August let, the Eddy county de-
Ysocraey will hold q convention and
select delegates to conventions to be :
called later, for tbs naming of a can. .
didate for Territorial representative,
and for the Territorial assembly and
council from that district.
4. J. Eafi y, who has been con-
uecsed with tse grocery and banking ]
business Of J.. N. Broyles. down there,
for the past six years, left San Marcial
TO pay a visit Of six weeks to his
smother and friends at Newton. Kan.
thence he will enter Asbbury college,
ut Wilmore, Kentucky.
r. w. d. Bryan, his wife and two
children. left Albuquerque for the east
on an extended tour. Mr.. Bryan will
attend the annual convention of the
commercial law league, to be held at
Omaha, this week, at which a thousand
lawyers from all over the United States
ind Canada will be present.
L. F. Parker, jr., stenographer for
the United States court Of private land
left Santa Fe for his home in
St. Louis. He will return so as to be
present at the opening Of the court on
August 10th, but will then resign as /
stenographer and resume his law stud /
les in the Washington university at st. !
The following named were ia at !
tendance at the Methodist conference +,
i, Eddy: Rev. G. J. Oxley. Ell Paso j
Rev. j. L. Sawders and wifi, Pro-. q (.
b. Smith, I. B Pruitt, Mrs. Cooksey,i
Miss Clayton, S III. Gillett. Mr.
of Pscos; Rev. |. s. Patterson :