Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-25
rHE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
'Exsracts from our EXCHANGES.

NooiRo WIN. bruggf
man and Sam Williams left Ration 10,
the Bonito mining district.
Married, up in Ration, at the resi-
dence Of Rev. Sinnock, MISS CARR,
Ioung and George Bourne.
Rev. Mundwiler is improving a
Eddy, and will shortly be able to re
turn to his home In Indiana.
The Burns Bros tunnel at Hena
lite Is now In eighty feet and shows {
strong lead which pans good.
The "Gold Bell" people at Hema
tite have opened a new lead on thei
property which pans very rich.
The residence Of t. F. Dougal. nea,
Otis, Eddy county, wac Destroyed by
fire. Loss about $500; partly insured
Harry Hart is at work on the opers
house, Eddy, formerly the Patty ware
house, transforming it into a gymna,
SUM.
II. 7. Brautley, of Pine Springs, N
M, was in Eddy with a load of pote.
toes, which he sold at 81 per 10(
pounds.
H. r. Muse, Of Silver City, had 8
slight stroke of paralysis last week
He has recovered slightly from the
shock.
L. LaBrue returned to Ration from
his farm near Nickerson, Kansas,
where he has been the past eleven
months.
Miss Ollie Farwell, who has been
very III with typhoid fever, down at
Eddy, is improving under the care Of
DR.. Hinchey.
The next society event at San Mar
cial will be the marriage of w. d.
Hitchcock and Miss Ella Roseberry,
about the first of September.
1t only requires a glance at the beet
fields of the Pecos valley to prove that
cultivation, and cultivation with proper
water supply. will make beets.
Mrs. Charles Fox passed through
Ration en- route to her home in Ell
Paso, from a visit with her parents,
Mr. ana Mrs. M. P. Pels, in Denver.
w. N Emmert, of the Galisieo min
ing company, spent the fore part of last
week with his family at San Pedro, on
account of the sickness of Mrs. En-
inert.
Dick Sutcliffe returned to Ration
from a visit Il Herman Stemmer at
the Trinidad hospital. He reports
that Mr.. Stemmer will be out in ten
days.
DR.. Cassels is building a high board
ionco druuuu the entire BACH emu OF
his business lot at Deming, which will
add materially to the good appearance
of his property.
Geo. Williams, OF San Marcial, has
discovered that some Mexicans killed
and consumed his beifer. With the
hide as evidence, he will bring the mat
ter before the grand jury.
Placer mining at Elizabethtown has
been shut off the greater part Of this
season on account of q scarcity of
water. but all other classes Of mining
and milling are working night and
day.
There are 1900 acres of beets in the
Pecos valley that are well advanced
and will be ready to reduce to sugar In
October, while there are several hum
dred acres of later beets, all looking
well.
The killing of the fruit crop in that
vicinity, early in the season, has re-
suited in the people of San Marcial
having to pay higher prices than for
merry. Grapes however, promise a
good yield.
A movement is on foot among the
sport-loving people of San Marcial and
others, to inaugurate a monster roping
tournament and horse races for the
holiday week, for which large purses
will be hung up.
DR.. Paden's melon patch, at White
Oaks, was ra,ded by the s.small boy"
and a roundup was had before Justice
Blanchard, who, after hearing, impos-
ed a fine of ST. and costs against several
OF the supposed offenders.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Langston, Mrs.
T. B. Clements, Mrs. j. F. Williams
and daughters, Emma and Myrtle,
Fred North, Rov and George Green,
returned to Cerriilos from their camp
ing trip at Sulphur springs.
A letter received in San Marcial
from Capt. Jack Crawford, now in
New York. furnishes the information
that be has been engaged at a salary
of 5000 per week to stump the country
for Mckinley and Hobart.
A gentleman who returned to San
Marcial from Mogollon, furnishes the
Information that the mills in that
vicinity have been shut down, with no
prospect OF resuming operations until
after the presidential election
The Tanning Extract company has
in rs ponds near the factory, down at
Dsming, a quantity of small black
bass Of suitable size for stocking ponds
Anyone desiring them for that purpose,
car obtain same free Of charge upon
application.
Since the abandonment of the Union
Pacific branch from Trinidad to Cats
kill, there is beyond dispute but one
route to the EIlzabethtown, Hematite
and La Belle mining districts, and that
is to take the Atchison to Springer
where daily stages leave for these dis
tries.
The democrats OF Chaves county
have elected ten delegates to the. demo.
cratic Territorial convention under
instructions to vote as a unit for the