Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-05
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@. b. McCaddon, the Las Vegas paintefi
Is now Gin line" at the ID snver Keeiey
institute. This IL his second treatment,
once having gone. through tho imam facto-
ry" at Des Molnes, Iowa. Mac proposes to
make 1t stick this time. He looks back At
the pitfalls OF the past, Into which be m
guardedly stepped, and he will certainly
avoid them IN the future
The several Las vegans, who knew the
careful, shrew business man, Theodore A.
Davis, at Kokomo, indiana, and elsewhere,
will sincerely egret to learn Of his death,
from pneumonia, at Telluride, Colo, the
other day. At one time, he was engaged
in the newspaper calling. at Salt Lake
City, but he had gradually drifted out OF
journalism, and into other and more con-
genial lines, at the time OF his death. mn,
Jos. W. Love, year, ago a Sixth street
commission merchant, in east Las Vegas,
in partnership with Cap. L.. Q. Fort, subse-
quently going to Trinidad, Colo, Is now
temporarily sojourning In Denver. He has
been prospecting In the mountains of Colo
RADIO for the past eight months, and will
soon again delve in the bowels Of the earth
for the stuff that glitters, In the vicinity OF
Cripple Greek, along with other parties.
Lutte Wilcox, editor aud proprietor oi
the Denver Field and F0rm, q paper that
has recently absorbed the Colorado Farmer,
has sold $500 copies Of his valuable little
work on irrigation, on the sale OF which he
is realizing quite a handsome royalty. Mr.,
Wilcox will be remembered as having been
a city editor Of THE OPTIc in the days that
were ana will be again In the near future
in Las Vegas, the city that Is 10 every
body's mouth and mind In the queen city
of the west. ct
Rox Hardy, once q member Of the Las
Vegas press gang and probate clerk OF
San Miguel county, still has to do with the
Field and Farm in Denver, in a business
capacity. He seems to possess bis old-time
rustling qualities, and is In touch with the
business and professional men OF the town.
1t is current talk in the Colorado capital
th At Don Rox has lately refused q respons-
ible position with the English capitalists
who are putting in great irrigation works
in the vicinity of Rincon, 10 the lower
part Of the Territory.
James Burton Adams, whose newspaper
name IN Las Vegas was "Jim Csrlin," In
the palmy days of Joe Dixon, is holding
down a desk in the Office OF his brother,
who is q member of the firm of. B. Adams
& Co. handlers of.mining properties, Equit-
able building, Denver, Colo. Mr.. Adams,
as he will now have to be known, will be
remembered as the literary man for Capt.
Jack Crawford, during a number of years
He is still earning ducats and winning
laursls as a space writer, for newspapers
and periodicals, both east and west.
W. r. Macbeth, after whom the medi-
cinal water in the Pete Roth we'll in prox-
unity to Las Vegas takes its name, has an
establishment at No.. 1412, Curtis street,
Denver, where the colorless, heath-restor-
ing liquid is handled exclusively, and in
great quantities. 1t is shipped to this
point in large tanks, and it is roughly esti-
mated that $50, 600 gallons of the water
have been disposed of in this city and i'm
mediate vicinity within a year. Don Pete
has has a fortune In that well, the virtues
of the waters Of which we're discovered by
the merest chance in the world, ard he will
do we'll by himself and those dependent
upon him to hold on to the property till
the ~populace afflicted with stomach, liver
and kidney troubles find out more about
the efficacy of the water and till they get
more money in their weasel skins.