Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-19
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
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at Ration.
Died, in Eddy, of catarrhal pneu-
monia, H. 0, Davis.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John Angel,
at Eddy, q boy baby.
Conrad Hilton at San Antonio has
been appointed collector for DR..
Swisher.
The young ladies of Ration will give
q leap year ball on Tuesday evening,
the goth.
Heitkamp & Heating have again en-
tered into business and opened a saloon
ut Ration.
Captain G. w. Cook, OF Ration. who
has been quite Ill for some weeks, Is
slowly improving.
The ladies Of the Episcopal Guild at
San Marcial gave an apron social at
the San Marcial house.
Chester Greenwood, one Of the own
ers of the "Lone Star" mine at Bland,
left Santa Fe for Ell Paso.
Mrs. M. A. Vencill has q petition In
circulation asking to be retained as
postmistress at San Marcial.
Miss Jennie L. Pratt. Of Columbus.
Ohio, arrived in Eddy, and will make
her home with her brother, A. N. Pratt.
David Segura, OF San Pedro, went TO
Albuquerque to be treated, tho man
being almost blind from a cataract.
Messrs Waldie and Irgler, evan
gelists, are holding services IN the M.
E. church al Ration, every evening this
week.
Escobar & Arellano are the pub
fishers OF El Amigo del Pueblo.a bright
and newsy Spanish paper published IN
Ration.
Baughmsn & Potter have secured a
first class jeweler in the east, to come
out and take charge of their business
in Eddy.
Citizens of Midland, Texas, are re-
ioicing over the fact that they will
soon be supplied with sugar from the
Pecos valley.
W.. P. Metcalf received a letter from
Montague Stevens at Albuquerque an
nouncing his marriage to Mrs. Allen
at Washington.
Master John Gibson, OF Nogales. Ar
izona, is at Ration on q visit, the
guest of his former playmate, Law
renee Blackwell.
Col. j. W. Dryer and wife, Of
Ration, have gone to Kirkvllle, Mo-, for
. short stay prior to returning home,
Mrs. Dryer is improving.
Mrs. M. A. McMartin returned to
Ration from a three.months visit to
friends in the east, principally in Penn
sylvania, her former home.
Y. Bell, of Pinos Altos, shipped two
gold bricks to New York from Sllvel
City, which weighed S38 ounces and
represented a value of over $4,000.
Sheriff-elec McAfee left Silver City
for Pueblo, Colo, to visit his family
His little daughter. who is receiving
medical treatment there, is improving
Miss Eleanor B Lyman, who IL
spending the winter at Hotel Windsor,
Eddy. gave an e~locutionary entertain
ment at the Christian church, IN Kos
well.
DR.. Whicher has erected q street
lamp at his residence in Eddy, q beacon
to oil who find it necessary to summoI
the physician in the dead hours o
Eight.
Professor Townsend returned to La
Cruces from an extended trip through
Texas, where he was engaged il
chronological work for the govern
ment.
Mrs. W. o. Thomas and childre'
will arrive in Las Cruces abou IN
23rd from Macomb, Illinois. The
will occupy the rooms next to the post
Office.
Mrs. s. w. Cressy has rented tn
Downes house, down at Eddy, also on
of the Fox cottages there, n 81
will conduct a boarding house aud rer
rooms.
Messrs Wimerstedl and Hersperge
returned to Eddy from their huntln
excursion, minus deer, but with Plen'
OF quail, several ducks and WI
pigeons.
The wholesale and retail merchan
of the Territory can do much towai
aiding a great future indu strv for ne
Mexico, by handling the product OF u
Eddy sugar mill.
There is more prospecting gong {
at present In the vicinity contiguous
Silver City than for years, ana son
rich Developments are confidently g
pected in a few days.
One new irrigation ditch IN 81
Juan county will put 5000 acres
land under cultivation. II is sucn q
terprises that give proof that the IL
ritory is progressing.
II is stated on good authority u
Miss Del6na Garcia and Antonio va
cia will BIZ married at Albuquerque
New Years day. Mr.. Garcia Is We
buyer for Eisemann Bros.
w. A. Wilson and bride. Of Kans
City. Mo-, we're in Silver Ciy' :
guests of Hon. 7. F. Conway M
Wilson is a member OF the wnoies'
Arm of W. A. Wilson & Co.
James T. Taylor, the newly-appoi'
ed chief engineer of the irrigation col
nany. arrived in Eddy from Los Ane
les, and has devoted a week 20 pos1i
himself on the water system.
Louis Traver returned to Albuqu'
one with the remainder OF 2 600 ne
n sheep which were loaded and Sc
rV.a~L;raau Kan. ".