Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-19
rHE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lExtracts from Our Exchanges

Il. A. Dumont and family left La
Cruces to hin a party who are %tourinI
Mexico.
The Normal school at Silver Cit,
will hold its commencement exercise.
on June 4th.
The Las Cruces 7 ublic school pupil,
held their first annual picnic at a grow
near Captain Casey's.
Mrs. G. r. johnson and family will
leave Roswell ia a few days for Spring
field, Mo-, to reside.
Drs. Grain and Wyllis. Of Roswell
have formed a co-partnership for tht
practice Of dentistry.
Mrs. Ben Peers writes to relatives a
IIillsboro that she and the children ar,
delighted with California.
Oracle, the infant daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Ed. H. Welch, died at Hills
boro, aged about three days.
Sheriff Kahler has put county pris
oners at work matchmaking the cour
house lane, down at Hills5oro.
r. Fry, Of the Hillsboro gold placers,
sports an elegant new cane, a present
from District Attorney Harllee.
Chas Myers, of Hlilsboro. has re-
turned to his Socorro county mines, his
wife's health having greatly improved,
Johnny Dissinger Is getting better OF
fever, down at Hillsboro, but his brother,
George, was taken sick with the dis
ease.
w. E Martin has been appointed as
deputy in the Office Of the clerk of the
cour at Socorro, during the session Of
court.
Deputy Marshal Peter Burleson, OF
Lincoln, went over to White Oaks, to
serve some United States court pa.
pers.
Miss Maggie Fountain, daughter Of
the recently. murdered Col. Fountain,
has opened IN ice cream parlor at Las
Cruces.
The pupils of Mrs. A. M. Changers
school at Las Cruces, held their an-
nual picnic at a grove north of the
Alameda.
Samuel B. Brilliant is Off ,iating as
bonlface at the Rio Grande hotel. at
Las Cruces, during the absence Of r.
G. Hstton.
e. A. Hearne. of Chaves county,
started a herd of 1000 steers 10 the
Panhandle. They are sold to G. A.
Goodnight.
The old Blanchard building, down
at Lincoln, is again vacant, since the
removal Of VIM. Arnold and family to
Eagle creek.
Pratt, Seay & Gill, of Roswell, have
a seed -planting machine on exhibition,
and for sale, that is especially designed
for planting beet seed.
w. r. Cummins has opened Echo
Spring in the building lately occupied
by w. l.. Hughes, mex door to the
Hotel Pauly, down at Roswell.
John Shyrock, OF Las C.uccs, has
gone to Tularosa on a combined bust
ness and pleasure trip. He may
possibly go into business there.
Gus Sllene writes to friends at Hills
boro that The Old Mexico silver mine f
which he recently took charge, as man
sger, is the largest he ever saw.
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Of Las
Cruces, has an interesting article on
the Pecos valley schools 10 the May
number OF the New Msrico Educator.
Ex-Sherlff Walt Sanders has bought
one Of Geo. Powell's houses down at
Hillsboro, for a residence. 1t is said
That Deputy Sheriff Jim Mitchell will
buy the other.
The talk about o regularly organ
lied band Of Lincoln county cattle and
sheep thieves has been revived. But,
70 far as the Ulcers OF the law are In
formed, it is all talk.
Ell Captain cattle company. Of
Chaves county, has u herd of 2 800
steers on the trail to Clayton, where
they will be delivered to their future
owner, j. b. Temple.
w. @. Fawcett, Of Lincoln, has
taken the contract to put the Serrano
ranch, on the road between that place
and Picacho, IN complete repair. This
is one of the best ranches in Lincoln
county.
The day is notfar distant when tame
rabbits will become 8, numerous in
lincoln that some good samaritan will
have to Tin them out with poison, as
wa, done u few months ago with the
worthless ours.
Miss vena Campbell, q bright young
laSy vpho haa bppu n Tor
the Adr0cafe for the past year, left
H"iilsboro for Graham,in the Mogollons,
to visit her sister, Mrs. NJ. Coogan, for
several montbs.
Colonel j. j. Jarvis, a prominent
Fort Worth banker, spent a couple Of
DAYS at Roswell, looking over the
country, with a view to making invest
ments, and was highly pleased. he
will return in the fall.
Another "bad man. has been jiiled
AT Las Cruces who, it is thought, is
closely connected with crime. 1t Is
known that he is a cattle thief mi he
is suspected OF having been impli-
..atad more serinaa crime.
C. w. Keynes, of Chaves county.
purchased nine thoroughbred (regis
iereo) short horn bulls from .. Il
Nelson. They are two and three
year-olds, and in addition to being
bred in the purple, are first class In
dividuals.
Numa Raymond and wife and MISS
Amelia Frenger Icy Las Cruces Tor 2
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