Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-03
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An oyster supper is one Of the good
things In contemplation for the neal
future at Las Cruces, to be given b,
Presbyterian ladies. :
Owing to lack of time to attend to It.
Q. II. Raitt has resigned as weather
observer at Rinoou and A. j. Goats ap
pointed to the vacancy.
o. X. Snow, OF MesilIa Park. was
held up the other night near La Union
crossing on the Rio Grande, by two
Mexicans and relieved of $45.
Fred j. Glover, a machinist at the
Atlantic & Pacific shops at Albuquer.
que. and Miss Kate Smith were united
In marriage by Justice Crawford, down
there.
Simon Balling and wife, the First
street bakers, left Albuquerque for
Pittsburg, Penn, where they will
Wait relatives and friends for several
weeks.
Charley Campbell has opened his
meat market to the Rincon public and
will keep on hand continually a supply
OF tie best line of meats to be had in
the market.
The Las Cruces Collegian staff for
this year consists of E B. Holt, editor
in'chief; E. E. Casey, business mana
ger; A. M, Holt, associate editor, and
(. j. Coe, exchange editor.
The elder Uhbarris, recently par
doned by Gov Thornton, Of o murder
committed In La Luz twenty years ago,
died 10 Walsenburg, Colo, on the 9th
inst, so a private letter states.
The New York Journal of Sunday
last acknowledges from Santa Fe re.
ceipt OF the following subscriptions to
the democratic campaign fund: E. l..
Hall, $25; G. M. Shannon, $50.
Mrs. X. M. Garden, formerly in the
restaurant business in Albuquerque,
left there for Leavenworth, Kan,
where she will remain about two
months visiting relatives and friends.
The governor Of the state of Sonora,
Mexico, with his family and private
secretary, passed through to New York.
They will visit the principal cities of
the east, and probably visit Europe.
j. r Jetton left Santa Fe for st.
Louis, where he goes as the duly &C.
credited delegate from the Bryan dem
ocratic silver club to the national
meet of the association of democratic
clubs.
Mrs. II. Parmaly, mother of Mrs.
John Schoield, who has been at Albu-
querque the past year, ia arranging to
return to her home at S~toughton,
Wis. She expects to leave Monday
night next.
Messrs. G. E Dodge and E. T. But
lar. prominent mining men from Color
ado Springs, who are interested in the
Red River district and other sections of
Colfax and Taos counties, are visiting
Santa Fe.
Mrs. R. M. Bachelor and Mrs. L. A.
NH er, daughters of Col. and Mrs. j.
M. Moore, with their children. left AL
buquerque for their homes at St.
Joseph, Mo-, after a pleasant visit of
several weeks there.
Andreas Chaves, the Valencia county
shootist, who was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary by the Los
Lunas court, passed through Albuquer-
que in charge of a deputy sheriff, for
the penitentiary at Santa Fe.
The so-called "sonnd money" or
goldite democrats. led by w. B. Child.
ers, have issued a call for a Territorial
convention at Albuquerque, October
18th, to discuss the question of nomi-
mating a candidate for delegate to con-
gress.
The ladies aid society of the Las
Cruces Presbyterian church met with
Mrs. Lowe, and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Mary Lowe; vice president,
Mrs. j. R. McFie; secretary and treas
urer. Mrs. S. A. Steel.
The body Of Dole Brown, a Navajo
boy aged eleven years, was buried
from the government Indian school at
Santa Fe with impressive military GER
emonies, conducted by the pupils. Rev.
Hale Townsend oficiated. The lad
died Of pneumonia. This is the first
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assumed charge, over four years ago.
j. w. Thompson, late of the Lin.
coin News, is now in jail at Las Cru
ces, on the charge OF forgery. He has
been in the employ Of A. j. Papen, of
the Rio Grande Republican, and during
Papen's absence at the republican
convention, Thompson proceeded to
fill up on corn juice, and becoming
short OF change, forged Papen's name
to several checks and drew the none
on them.
Mineral Lodge, No. 4, Knights Of
Pythias. will give a grand ball on
the evening of October 18th at Armory
hall, Albuquerque, in honor of the
Grand Lodge of New Mexico,
which will onven in A%lbuquer-
que, 10 regular session, on that
date. About one hundred mem
bers of the Uniform rank will be pres.
ent, and will take part in the street pa
geant on Friday night of Fair week.