Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-26
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
'Exsracts from our exchanges,

Rev. Robert Hodgson returned I,
Cerrillos, from district conference.
MIS- Baer, nee Miss Julia Slime, /
visiting the Misses OFT at Silver City.
Will Hurt rode wei 10 Cerrillos o.
his Columbia from Santa Fe, Monds,
afternoon.
Richardson & Co. are preparing an
other mill run from the &C catherine,
H~lllsboro.
Joseph W%addiugham, of San Mar
cial, journoyed toward. Las Vegas 1
few days since.
Mrs. G. Martin and baby, OF San
Marclsl, are in Deming. The lady IL
visiting her parents.
Mrs. FL. S Luig and children, from
Santa Fee, have been visiting Cerrillos
friends the past week.
J. M. Rogers and family. OF Ger
rillos, expect to move to Texas some
time in the near future.
D.. r. Harkey, Of Eddy, went to
Hagerman, to canvass for votes for
sheriff Of Eddy county.
j. A. Mclean, who left Eddy a few
weeks ago for New York, stopped for
a time in Cripple Creek.
e. A. White and son, Charles, ship.
ped $4,000 pounds of wool from Hager.
man the first OF this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John La Masters, of
San Marclal, are enjoying an outing in
the Magdalena mountains.
Merchant Tom Long returned to
Hill.boro from q business trip in the
north 'rn part of the Territory.
In connection with her fruit stand at
Hillsboro, Miss Maggie Fountain will
sell fresh bread at five cents a loaf.
Rev. T. f. Sessions returned to Eddy
from Pecos City, where he assisted
in a revival meeting for several days.
Mrs. V. r. Humble. accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. Fletcher, left San
Marcial on n visit to Los Angeles, Cal.
f. j. Churchill, clerk for A. g. !
Campbell, left Eddy for Omaha, to be
absent for a couple Of weeks on busi-
Eess.
Mr.. Dickman, manager of the Hills
boro Gold Placer Co., returned to
Hillsboro from a business trip to FL |
Paso.
o. H. Alberts, road superintendent
OF the Pecos Valley railroad, has
moved his family from Eddy to South
Spring.
Miss Robinson, the Kingston milli-
ner, accompanied by Miss Stella Clay,
was In Hillsboro part of last week sell.
ing ladies' hats.
Albert d. Greene, who has been very
i'll at Eddy, at one time considered
dangerously SO, is now better, though
quite a sick man yet.
F. Brooks, brother-in-law of Harry
Hall, left Eddy for Cripple Creek,
Colorado. where he will engage in
business with Mr.. Hall.
Frank McCleary, of Eddy. claims
distinction as a fisherman, by reason OF
catching an elght-pound catfish at the
Hagerman dam, last week.
The Odd Fellows of Eddy have post
poned organization for a few weeks,
having made some misconnection on
s,mc OF the necessary preliminaries.
w. w. Anderson, who left Eddy
last October, with Ed. LYdell, for
Globe, Arizona, returned last week
with VIM. Mulligan, who drove through.
A.. G. Nelson finished the assessment
work on his mining claim in the San
Mateos, and he will now look for a
business location outside of San Mar
cial.
AT the "Suaken mine, Hillsboro,
bins and platforms are loaded down
with ore, and the slopes are producing
faster than the present force of teams
can haul it away.
Mrs. w. A. Griswold and children
left Cerrillcs for Albuquerque, where
MIR. Griswold Is employed with the
Atchison company and where they will
hereafter make their home.
The Savage brothers killed a monster
RATHER in the Organ mountains the
other day. Tom had a narrow escape
from being bitten. He rendered out
the oil, and there was about a quart
of it.
Rev. George w. Read, for the past
year and a half pastor Of the Baptist
church Of Eddy, preached his last SER
NOR there, and left with his family for
Roswell, where he has accepted the
fastorate OF the church.
MRS. j.. B. II. Hemingway and her
son George have been the guests Of
Judge Laughlin and wife, at Santa Fe,
for the past few days. They left Satur-
day for Mississippi, where Mrs. Hem.
;ngwayy vii viii spend the summer. | |
Mateo Conejel, who burglarized the
safe at the Graham merchantile com
pany's store at Silver City, some
months since, was tried and convicted
at Socorro last week. He was SEN
fenced to eighteen months in the peni-
Tertiary.
John G. S warts, OF Las Cruces, re-
Gently on a surveying tip, tells the
Nep MericaB that on the line between
Eddy and Chaves counties there is a
patch ten miles wide and thirty miles
long where the young grasshoppers
are thicker than hair on a yellow dogs
back.
Prof. Lanius, of Cripple Creek, has
the Alderton mill in shape and will
commence the treatment of ore by the
COLONIZATION process, this week. 1t
is not definitely known what ore will
be handled. but probably that from
the "Albemarle" mine, for the present,
at least.
DR.. Charles M. Whicher, whom the
As.,ivs maintained Inst week as having