Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-03-07
HI DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MlGOEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
ln1tracts from our Ezcnansss.I

n huhoeI ol VASES OI Schrlet leVe
are reported In Ration.
Assessor +. A. Hubbell has appoint
ed as his deputy Major II. II. Whiting
OF Albuquerque, who is one OF th
most competent men In the county 70
the position.
Comrev Bros. started up their Jica
rilla mill, Lincoln county, on Eureka
ore. 1t is the intention of the owners
to'keep this plant in operation from
this time On.
George Eaton, Of La Plata, received
twelve head Of fine large horses
from the Barnes lumber company Of
Durango, which he is feeding ct Sam
Nichols ranch.
G. B. Cartwright Is home, at Ration,
from Kansas City, where he was on
business connected with the keystone
mining and tunnel company, OF which
he is treasurer.
e. r. Cline, amalgamator at "Old
Abel mill, White Oaks, for several
years, took advantage of the two
weeks suspension of the works, to
visit friends east.
Attorney George Hill Howard, who
was called to San Diego, Cal, on &C.
count of the sickness Of his wife,
writes that he will return to Albuquer-
que in a few days.
Nose Hilliard, formerly with the
"Old Abe" at White Oaks, and u first
class miner, has accepted q situation
as foreman at Cripple Creek, to which
place he has gone.
James A. Lang, formerly of Albu-
querque, but for the past year or more
aresident Of Oakland, CAL, writes that
he will leave the latter city and expects
to settle in Cripple Greek.
The Christian Endeavor and Young
Peoples society held one of their
pleasant meetings at La Plata. They
are doing a great deal of good among
the young people of San Juan county. |
Judge N. B. L~aughlin, having been
granted a leave OF absence by the de-
partment of justice, left Santa Fe, with
his wife and two little daughters, for
the City Of Mexico, for needed rest and
recreation.
County Collector Hugh Smith, of
Colfax county, is having the ground on
First street and Puerco avenue, up at
Ration, prepared for a three-story
business house, which he is about to
have built.
The feast of San Albino, patron saint
of MesilIa, was celebrated in that town
by a procession and by services in the
church. Priests from Las Cruces, FL
Paso, and other places, assisted in the
celebration.
Miss Fannie Salmon, daughter of
P. M. Salmon, of Bloomfield, chair
man OF the San Juan county commits.
%sioners, was married to Chas. Carter,
a prominent ranchman and cattle
owner, of Fairpoint.
A portion Of the male population Of
Aztec adjourned to the north OF town
to witness a pony race. The animals
were owned by Lee Gaylord and Jim
White. The formers pony won by a
neck; distance, onc-quarter mile.
John Firebaugh is very i'll with the
measles, at La Plata. DIR. Rosenthal
has been called several times to attend
him. He recently brought Jay Full
cher down from Durango, who was at
the time suffering with the.ailment.
Cattlemen In the southern part of
New Mexico find no difficulty in dis
posing of their stock at good prices,
but as most of the stock raisers have
been selling for the past two years,
.Loro ave not u.pu arHafa hla catfla |
left.
The turkey shoot brought out a large
crowd, at La Plata. The marksmen
iiled at a target, the nearest shot to the
center taking a prize. 1t took quite a
while to decide who were the ~victors
and one or two turkeys starved to
death.
There will be a "hard times" ball
given at La Plata, next month, the
date of which as yet has no been de-
cided. The invitations will be written
on grocers' wrapping paper, in home
made ink, with the old fashioned goose
quill pen.
The jolliest gathering that has met
at Espanola for a long time came to-
pether at the house of Mrs. Hensel,
over there. 1t was a birthday sur
prise party. Bona Hensel was the
surprised party, it being his sixty
fourth anniversary.
Died, in the Silver City jail. Jesus
Ruel, the man who tried to break in
Geo. Dickinson's house, down there,
not long ago. The coroner turned in
a verdict of natural causes, heart fall
ure and old age, be being about
seventy-fve years old.
Frank Allen, the popular clerk at
Fred II. Bascom's, left Las Cruces for
the Mescalero agency to visit bis
mother. Miss Lena Gibson, a teacher
at the agency, who has just returned
from a visit to relatives In Raymond,
Kansas, accompanied Mr. Allen.
r. @. Hatton, one of the owners OF
the lead mines recently discovered in
the Caballo mountains, eighteen miles
west of Rincon, arrived in that place,
accompanied by Governor Thornton
and jose Serrano, who were j~oinedsby
J.FW. Akers and together the party
went out to the mines.
Ten men with teams and scrapers
commenced work at La Plata, building
4he reservoir dam located near jack
son. in which the Mormon colony are
interested. When completed, the
pond will cover twenty-five acres, and
besides serving as a storage reservoir