Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-18
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Luz hcW titl uufoua'v Gu. Ookc
assumed the duties OF his Office
Ration.
II. e. Rickarts. formerly Of Whit
: Oaks, Is laid up with rheumatism 1
Cripple Creek.
Box elder and cottonwood trees ca
be had, for the going after, up th
Sugarite, Colfax county.
Theodore Rouault, If Las Cruces
will put in n large acreage OF tomatoe
this year, probably about 1850 acres.
J. A. Moore, representing Colorad
capitalists, is In the vicinity Of La
Cruces LOOKING for mining Investments
Sol. Lowitzki, Of Santa Fe, is no,
engaged in overhauling, repairing an
r%e-painting all OF his livery barn vehic
les.
Good gramma hay. at seventy v
cents per 100 pounds, by the bale, a
Price & Walkers, down in Whit
Oaks.
Mrs. Phil. Curran will leave La
Cruces shortly to visit her mother II
Denver. She will probably spend thu
summer there.
Mrs. B. G. Keep and her daughter
Mrs l. Duckworth, left Ration for As
pen, Colo, where they will make al
extended visit.
Mrs NJ. Jones left Ration for Kansas
for a short visit, from where she will
proceed to Wales to visit the scenes Of
her childhood.
Miss Myrtle, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Terrell, and Chas. Reeves,
an employe of the railroad shops, were
spliced in Ration.
Jas. A. Woodland was trying to
classify some fine looking collaborating
rock from a new find he is developing
west of White Oaks.
Misses Mary Cuniffe aud Mary
Stephenson left Las Cruces for San
Antonio, Texas. Mrs. James A. Sabri.
eskie accompanied them.
A hotel blk named Thompson ran
against a snag at Las Cruces, and IS
feeding at the county crib, for defraud-
ing the Rio Grande hotel.
A cablegram received at White Oaks
from j. X. Lake that he
sailed from the port at Nal Pals for
McCar, in the Fiji Islands.
Miss Della Finch and Chas. w. Ma
son were united ia the bonds OF we'd
lock, up at Ration, Rev. G. |. Mills
officiating at the ceremony.
The ladies of the guild will give a
strawberry and ice cream social and
hop at the armory, at Albuquerque, on
Thursday evening, April 30th.
Geo. A. and Oscar Hyde, Of Lincoln
county, have purchased the Carlos Ar
milo brand Of cattle on Three Rivers
and will add them to their already nice
herds.
Emil Klelnwort, of the Third street
market, has returned to Albuquerque
from Phoenix, Arizona, where he pur-
chased several carloads of granted
steers.
Justice E. G. Priest, at Rincon, bound
Albino Amador over to the grand jury
under $3.50 bonds on a charge Of -four
ishing and menacing with a deadly
weapon.
w. M. Mcdonald, father Of White
Oaks accomplished teacher, arrived
there on Oz,pne's stage and will re-
main some lime to recuperate his i'm
paired health.
The trial of the Territory of New
Mexico Us. John Oliver, colored, in
dicted for assault with intent to MUIR
der Abram Adams, last November, be-
gan in Santa Fe.
The purchase of the coal claims of
r. J.. Nugent, at Sa'ado, Lincoln
county, by Chas. B. Eddy, was closed
by the payment Of the entire balance
of the agreed price.
The new board of town trustees met
at Roswell, took the oath OF Office, and
organized by electing +. A. Cahoon
chairman, f. ii. Williams, treasurer
and J. j. Jaffa, clerk.
At John Hampel's residence in Santa
Fe, about forty guests ran in on Thos.
Conroy, pook-keeper for Cartwright 4
Bro and gave him a surprise in cele-
bration Of his birthday.
I. Chaves contemplates opening q
butcher shop in the northern portion
of Las Cruces, and M. Valdez, one In
the southern portion. This will give
the town five meat markets.
Rich placer discoveries have recent
" been made in the Jicarlllas and
men operating with dry washers are
making good wages, although not saw
ing rs per cent. Of the gold.
Fred Roth lost, by being frozen, 1926
head Of yearliDg steers out Of a bunch
Of 500, which he was holding in the
corral at Troyburg, Colfax county,
during the snow storm, Sunday.
Having served their full term in the
penitentiary, without violating any OF
the rules Of the institution, Anselmo
Carmora and Jose Sereso MontoYa
have been restored to citizenship.
At a meeting Of the citizens Of Ger
rillns, a committee was appointed to
appralss the property on which such
excellent evidences of petroleum have
been developed and to secure an
analysis Of the stuff taken from the
well.
In response to q request from several
prominent members of the bar, and for
.~hat political effect 1t may have, the
New Merican re produces a careful (P)
REVISION of the terse opinion Of Assoc
ciate Justice Collier ia the Catron and
Spiess disbarment proceedings.
Old Abe company at White Oaks has