Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-29
~TBRRITORIAL TOPICS,

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growing. (.
W. o. Norman completed his shee
delivery, down at Lincoln.
The financial condition OF the Alb'
querquo pubic schools is good.
j. IL. Bowman Is comfortably house
in his new quarters at Clayton.
Il W. Lackey has accepted the pi
sition as collector for Il. p. Ervier
ovsr at Clayton.
j. G.. Sh.rry, boiler-maker of /
Paso, is at Ivaahoe, Grent county, rt
pairing the smelter boiler at this
placer.
The Fats have accepted the cha
lenge of the Leans, and will play bas
ball at the college grounds at Santa /
ut 2:30 p. m, on Sunday.
Several New York parties hav
passed through Ration for Badly, wit
a view OF buying the famous s'Blac
Horse" mire Of that camp.
Miss Belle Downen, who taught tn
Buepa Vista school the past term, wi
leave Ration for Wichita, Kas , wher
she expects TO spend the summer.
Aaron Schultz has opened up a dr.,
goods and gents furnishing store il
tho Parker building, Silver City, for
merly occupied by j. j. McEwen.
Copper concentrates are o beip,
shipped by the car load from Lords
burg to the New Mexico and Arlzon'
smeltcr at Ivanhoe, Grant county.
Lee Weber, we'll known in the Ter
ritory, as representative OF the Rich
ardson drug company. Omaha, is nov
the ON ner Of a big coffee plantation il
Mexico.
ID. Mfr & Co., of Silver City, made
an assignment OF their stock of confec
iionery, glassware, crockery and no
tions, to T.. Ii. Neff for the benefit o
creditors.
o. Fl. Nelson sold his entire lot o.
bulls to j. p. White, for the Littlefeld
cattle company, HAYES county, al
good figures, and left for his home 10
Kansas City.
Charles = III is circulating a subscrip-
ton paper among the business men o.
Silver City to raise funds for a grand
Fourth of July celebration. He now
has about $500.
Little Lille Perry, Of Clayton, is suf-
feriug very much from an attack OF
er~ysipelas, while her sister,. Mary, is
confined to her room on account OF an
attack of measles.
John G. Smith returned TO Roswell
from the mountains, wi b a black eye
and broken shoulder, caused by having
his horse jerked down with him by O
COW at the roundup.
There will be a wedding in Lincoln
at a near day, but the Nens, down
there, has promised to say nothing
about it until thu cake is passed around
and the keg is tapped.
The Miller brothers have discovered
the existence Of ire-c!ay on then
ranch. fifteen miles northwest Of Clay.
ton. This clay is pronounced by ex-
perts to be of excellent quality.
Harry Parker aud Herman Roswell
who were brought to Silver City from
Carlisle, charged with conspiracy to
murder Peter McDermott, were dis
charged, as there was no evidence
against them.
superintendent Joseph. of the Ma
tional cemetery of Santa Fe, authorizes
the NeW Mericon to extend a cordial
Invitation to the public generally to
attend the Memorial day exercises at
the cemetery on Saturday.
G B. Eddy has secured control Of
the ten mil S of grade between Ell Paso
and White Oaks, which was built by
Morris r. Locke in 1886, and has a
force of men now at work grading
north OF that section. Thus it appears
that the White Oaks project is a ''go'
after all.
A civil engineer named Middleton,
who is in the employ of the Rio Grande
company. came down to Aztec from
Colorado for the purpose, presumably,
Of forming an estimate of the probable
cost of a railroad down the Animas
valley from Durango to Pennington,
ria Aztec.
The Ration Reporter has it on relia-
BILE authority that the Mechanical lily
draulic company, which has put in ex'
pensivs machinery in the Moreno
valley. lust south Of E'izabethtown, to
work the placer ground in that vicinity,
made their first test trial and that the
results were highly satisfactory.
The advertisement { I the Pennington,
N. NJ, canning company, Ia our col
aims, this week, says the San Juar
Ipder, informs the public that The
factory will be completed for work by
the irst OF July, next. and urges oul
ranchmen to plant sweet c,rn ant
other staple articles far canning.
The Silver City base ball club played
with the CentraIs, and were defeated
by the latter, the score standing y to y
ID favor of tho Centrals. The game
took place at Central, and many Silver
Cityiies were out 10 see some wonder
full dtxteriiy displayed by their home
team, but the cheering and applaud
ing on the part OF these good people
became very weak before half the game
was over.
1t might be Of interest to the resi-
dents 81 San Juan county. says tn
Under, as we'll as other parts OF New
Mexico interested In raising alfalfa, e
know that il the hay crop OF one yea
was baled 10 bales of regulation siz
ard laid as a pavement from Flor
Vista 10 Durango, a distance OF fit.
miles, a roadway ten feet wide witt
turuouts every half mile could be cor