Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-17
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lF1tracts from our Ezcnanees.l

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into the Brown building, four doors
north OF the Record Office, down at Ros-
we'll.
Mr.. aud Mrs Frank Cloud have been
receiving the congratulations Of friends
owe the birth Of a daughter, up at
Ration.
Mrs John Hart returned TO Bland
from the %sanitarium at Santa Fe, hav-
ing recently recovered from serious
illness.
The First national bank building, at
Ration, is being ornamented on the out
side ms well as conveniently improved
internally.
DR.. Louis Jack and wife, father and
mother of Mrs. G. G. Shoemaker, ar
rived In Silver City from Philadelphia,
on a visit.
Newman & Mendelson will occupy
one OF the attractive business rooms IN
the Investment company's new block,
up at Ration.
Mrs. j. A. Harlan and son, Of Rim
con, went up to Hudson hot springs,
Grant county, to enjoy an outing of a
week or two.
George Marsh, of the Santa Fe New
Mexican, has been visiting the Co.
chi:i district, where he is interested in
mining properties.
Miss Kate Dsacy, of Springer, re-
turned home after a short visit in
Ration, the guest Of her uncle, j. b.
Arellano and family.
The daughter of Nick Csrper, the
Second street barber at Albuquerque, is
at Colorado Springs, Colo, visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Knox.
Lost or stolen: A check on the
First netional bank of Ration, payable
to F. Trujillo, for $27 95, given by
Jerome Troy, up there.
Oliver Nordpie and Miss Mary
Pickett, of Catskill, were united in
marriage at the Southern hotel in
Ration, by Raw. j. Sinnock.
DR.. c. G. Mckinley left Las Cruces
for Chillicothe, Mo-, to settle up bis
business there, and will then return to
Las Cruces and locate permanently.
The Colfax County Sunday school
association will meet at the Baptist
church in Ration for Its fifth annual
session on August 18th and 10Th, 1896
The big stone business block OF
Smith Bros, up at Ration, is to be three
stories in height, the upper portion
probably to be a first-class, modern
hotel.
Miss Katie Creager, daughter of j..
G. Creager, an enterprising merchant
of Bland, lately arrived there from Dem
YER, where she had been teaching
school.
The board of regents of the Silver
City normal school held a meeting to
select an assistant principal. Arthur
e. Bennett, of Columbus, Kansas, was
selected.
Quite a serious runaway occurred
nea Judge Cameron's place in San
Juan county. Mrs. IL. G. Tharp was
quite badly hurt and the wagon is a
total wreck.
w. G.. Gibbons and wife left Las
Cruces tor a months outing in Soledad
canon. DR.. Bailey will have charge Of
the drug store, down there, during Mr..
GIBBONS absence.
Mrs. jerks, wife of Prof. jerks, the
efficient manager of the washington"
mine, arrived In Bland, and will remain
with her husband at the mine, down
there, during the summer. e
The marriage Of Ben Cordell and
Mi 8 Birdie Bachman was solemnized
at Flora Vista by Rev. Hugh Griffin.
The groom is about eighteen years of
age AMI the bride fourteen.
NJ IS Ella Rsmsberg has resigned as
O 9 of the teachers of the Ration pub
lie schools, for the coming year, and
Miss Lizzie Downing has been selected
by the board to fill the vacancy.
The "Crown Point" mine, at Co.
Chit, is again coming forward. The
other day, they took out some ore
which an assay shows will run thirty
ounces in gold and 700 ounces in sill
YER.
The "Albemarle" mine, 10 the Co.
chit district, is preparing to deliver a
lot o free milling ore for treatment at
the Merton mill, which Mr.. DARCY
ex poets to have in readiness for op-
Q ating, this week.
Joe Campbell met with quite a pain
full accident, up at Ration, while work
ing on the plumbing in the Investment
block. He was using a gasoline stove,
VIII CHI went wrong and badly burned
Ms hand and head.
Many of the leading populists and
democrats of the lower end of Union
county, assembled In Clayton and
properly organized the democratic and
populists union party, more briefly des-
ignated as the union party.
Perley Wason. who operates the
stage and mail route between Bland
and Thornton, on July 1st moved into
the old Harvey house at Thornton, and
will hereafter run it for the accommo-
datlon of travellers and others.
While at work in the bottom Of the
winze of the sI,one Star" mine, in the
Cochiti camp, the operatives struck q
large body of gold quartz, which will
warrant the resumption of shipments
to Pueblo on the part of that mine.
The sad intelligence has been re-
ceived at Cedar Hill, San Juan county,
that 4 Ratliff was accidentally killed
in q saw-mill in Washington state. A
wife and son survive him, and it was
their intention to join him in the near
future.
The katon gun CLUB will give a