Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-29
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

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Mrs, M. A. King and family started
from Roswell for Manassas, Colo , at
which place she will reside in future.
Eugene Underhill, a we'll. known New
Yorker and the principal owner OF the
San Felipe hotel, arrived in Albuquer-
que from the east.
Terry Bros, have put in a patent
gate at Taylor & Wetmore's feed stable.
at Roswell, that is we'll worth going to
see. The same string opens and closes
1t.
Mrs. F. @. Barker, of Las Cruces,
landed in New York, Monday a week.
on her return from England, and Is
expected to arrive home within a few
days.
DR.. A. j. Emerson, president OF the
Northwest Baptist college, Decatur,
Texas, arrived in Eddy and may de-
eide to locate permanently in the Pecos
valley.
Allen E. Rurnham returned to bis
home in Pueblo from Ration, but will
return in about three weeks to take
personal charge Of his grocery store,
up there.
Grapes, peaches and nectarines are
now on the market at Eddy, though
the supply is scarcely equal to the de-
mand. The average price is ten cents
per pound.
The ~lessees of the "Lady Godiva"
mine in Lincoln county are in a large
body OF fine ore and will arrange for
milling facilities between now and
August LIST.
Murphy & Gray have rented o. G..
Huffman's drug store building, at
Ration, and will occupy it about the
1st Of August with the Racket store
and tin shop.
Chas. t. Springer, the travelling
agent OF the Columbia building and
loan association, presided at a we'll at
tended meeting of the stockholders in
San Marcial.
Next Saturday afternoon at the fair
grounds in Albuquerque, a game of base
ball will be played, the receipts deriv-
ed therefrom, to 60 to the public
library association.
Mrs. d. G. Fletcher moved her kin
dergarten at Santa Fe to the barracks
building, occupying a room opposite
the public library. Visitors are well
come at the school.
D. R. Brant's ability as a fisherman
excels; one ten-pound and one thirteen
and a half pound catfish at the Hager-
man dam, Eddy county, being his
record for one week.
The membership of the bar of the
New Mexico supreme court numbers
121. Of whom thirty-one reside in San
ia Fe, twenty-six in Albuquerque and
seventeen in Las Vegas.
Will Hughes is circulating a subscrip-
ton at Roswell to raise funds for pur-
chasing Instruments for q string band,
and says that the candidates are put
ting up the dough right literally.
Col. E. Mob. Timoney requests the
Roswell Register to state that he will
meet any champion of the silver cause
in open debate at the court house, down
there, at any time agreeable to them.
j. A. Bell, of Fredericksburg, Texas,
is canvassing the Roswell country, look
ing for agents to sell the patent atmos-
pheric churn. He wants agents who
will take a county right and work it.
The school board has hired Miss
Matte johnson to teach the Lordsburg
school, next year. There will be eight
months of school il the funds hold out.
The wages paid will be $40 per month
A. S.. Goetz returned to Eddy from
a visit to his family in Colorado
Springs. He sported the first Bryan
button in Eddy, and is an enthusiastic
supporter OF the white metal champion.
The case OF August Lsrmo, the con-
demned Mexican murderer, who has
been in the Eddy county Jail for such a
long time, will have a hearing before
the Territorial supreme court. this
week.
The orchard of Maynard Sharpe in
La Haerta, Eddy county, comprises
twenty. five acres and contains 400
trees, all of which are doing well, and
a large portion of which bore fruit this
season.
An eqestrian party, gotten up by
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Lester, of Mesilla
Park, and which included q number
of Las Cruces ladies and gen.
tlemen, enjoyed the pleasure of q
moonlight ride.
The new Episcopal minister at San
Marcial is Rev. Gallaudet. Las Cruces,
Mesilla, San Marcial and Socorro con-
s,itute his circuit, each place to enjoy
religious instructions from the reverend
gentleman moe q month.
Hon. Il. B. Catron's address as pres
ident of the New Mexico bar associa-
ton, delivered at the court house in
Santa Fe, was an exposition OF the
speakers ideas touching the character
and qualifications of a judge.
Louis Ilfeld, one OF the buyers of the
big dry goods firm Of Held Bros,
down there, will not return to Albu-
querque from New York until about the
18th OF September. Mrs. Ilfeld and
children will remain among Santa Fe
relatives and friends until then.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Browne were
called TO Lawrence, Kansas, from So
zorro. by the death of Mrs. Brownies
father, a prominent citizen OF that
place. Mr.. Bassett leaves sons aud
daughters, Mrs. Browne and Miss
Josephine Bassett residing in Socorro.
In the matter OF Francisco Gonzales
Y Borrego ct al , plaintiffs in error un-
der death sentence. ps. the Territory of