Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-08
FORMER NEW MnxIcANs.

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II. b. Kelly 4 dselsf III mining proper.
ties at Red Hiyer, Taos county. N. M, hal
just "sraduAted1 from the Denver Kelley
institute. He was accompanied to tina
city by bis wife.
Otto P. johnson, who failed In the boot
and shoe business In Santa Fe. some
months ago, IL now doing bench work In
his own sh Up on Curtis street. Denver,
Colo. He formerly resided IN Silver City,
Capt.J. w. Barney, who was thought to
be sojourning In the state of Delaware,
among friends. was seen walking down
| Seventeenth street In Denver, some weeks
ago, arm in arm with a G. A. r. man.
Billy Hoffman, the railroad machinist
who numbers many friends in Las Vegas,
is still conducting the Magnolia restaurant,
| at 14OS, Seventeenth street, Denver, having
for a ~nartner a young mar by the name of
| Fred Lee.
ED Dixon, who at one time was a bar
tender Ia his brothers. saloon at SAINT Fe,
bucking the tiger a little on the side, when
opportunity offered, o oficiates ~ q
motornser on an electric car In the city Of
Denver and suburban places.
Col. r. M. Force, an ex-clerk Of the New
Mexico supreme court, is still ''mine host"
of the Columbia hotel In Denver and his
popular hostelry seems to be getting a fair
share of the patronage of the people Of the
Territory visiting the metropolis Of the
Centennial commonwealth.
A former commercial agent for the d. &
r. G. railway at Santa Fe, by the name Of
Lewis is now domiciled in Denver indeH.
nitely. With him misfortune would not
seem to come singlv, as he recently sus-
tanned injuries by falling down a cellar
way and by being thrown from a speeding
electric car.
j. I. Reed, once a lodging house keeper
in "the ancient", his place being In prox.
unity to the site of the burned capitol
building and who made money hand over
fist during the sittings of the Territorial
legislature, has embarked In mining brok-
erage in Denver, with a determination that
augurs we'll for success.
Mrs. Lewis,a former Las Vegas millinsr,
disposed of her apartment house on q
business street In Denver, for q
neat sum and has returned to Los Angeles,
Cal. Another former Las Vegas woman,
Mrs. Harris, sister of Mrs. Roberts, OF
Trinidad, keeps rooms adapted to light
housekeeping at No. 2O21, Curtis street.
DLo. naooar Forr,arl~,t -. yyo~u.
and Kingston, is yet the tall but not over
talkatlve member of the commission firm
Of Hopper & Betherton, the latter gentle-
man once upon a time a resident OF DEM
down the country. Their establish
lnent is succeeding finely in getting q irm
foothold In the business center of the city.
s.. WedsIes, the Wholesale grocer who
went to the wall in Santa Fe, the present
ear, is at present a denlzen of Denver, |
with his charming daughter. q gifted
The old gentleman is trying to
catch on to wealth in the brokerage bust. |
ness and he seems from appearances to be
on in the world pretty well, all
,hings considered.
George G Preston, the attorney at-law
who was once associated with Col. G. II. |
3ildersleeve In Santa Fe, in which cathe-
iral city he dropped a cool $35. 900 in reali-
~, etc, etc., has an Office with Wolcott q |
Vale in the elegant, spacious and costly
Equitable building in Denver and is in the
of a lucrative and growing !
practice. John II. Knaebel, who was
known as the book worm of New Mexico
jurisprudence, advises clients in the same