Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-09
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
'Exsracts from our Excnanses.I
The Ration fair opened. to-day.

The Ration fair opened, to-day.
Silver City will probably be repre-
sented 10 the base ball tournament d
Albuquerque during the fair by tn
"Club House, nine. Arrangement
are now being made for strongly re
Enforcing the same.
Frank Jones, Of Santa Fe, who hal
charge Of the pigeons shooting contes
at the Albuquerque carnival, has gon,
to Albuquerque to arrange for the re
ception OF the sports, next week.
The Ration social club is giving /,
series of enjoyable dances. The las
q was in the handsome new Invest
ment hall. ]. F. Wilson is presiden
and Jos. Taylor secretary Of the club
No expense or trouble is being spare,
by the ladies' park ASSOCIATION to max,
the grand carnival ball at Albuquer
que, on Friday, October 10th, the besl
and finest that has ever been given Ii
the Territory.
A letter from Col. j. w. Dryer in.
forms the Ration Ranqe that Mrs
Dryer has not yet improved any in
health, but they have great hopes in
the eff cacy of the waters at Excelsior
Springs, Missouri, where they are now
located.
The attention OF U. s.. Marshal Hall
and his deputies is called to the fact
that several of the Nogales bank
spectators are domiciled in south
western Grant county, in the imme
diate vicinity of the Apache mining
district.
A whist club was organized at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. r. P
Barnes, down at Silver City, with the
following officers: DR.. Auerbach, pres
ident; Mrs. Morrill,, vice. president /;
Miss Eckles, secretary: Mrs. Norton,
treasurer.
Charley Campbell, of Hillsboro, a
student at the agricultural college, who
recently met with an accident while
making a chemical experiment., has so
far recovered as to resume his studies
at the Las Cruces institution.
John Creighton, of the business firm
OF Creighton & Graves, Magdalena,
passed through Albuquerque on his
way to Colorado, to negotiate the pur-
chase of a mine there which he says
she has had his eyes oil for sometime"
or all the mining properties situated
in the new plas ser mining district, at
San Pedro, just at present none are
better than the sc. & c." nine, which
is now being worked by its owners,
sinking a shaft down to cut into the
main body of ore found last spring
while drifting.
The new officers OF the children's
home at Albuquerque are; President,
Mrs. A. q. Wells; vice-president, Mrs.
L. E. Parshall; secretary, Mrs. l.. w.
Roberts; treasurer, Mrs. j. NJ. Moore;
auditing committee, Mrs. George F.
Albright and Mrs. A. l.. Chandler.
A Mexican 10 the employ of Col. S.
P. Carpenter filled his tank with bug
Juice, at Central City, Grant county,
and Immediately proceeded to take the
warpath. He opened hostilities by firing
on the cabin occupied by Frank Eaton
He was taken in by the officers at Gen.
trail, and he now languishes in the coun-
ty bastiIe.
Adjutant- General Knaebel, of Santa
Fe, is in receipt of a letter from the
war department announcing that the
charge of desertion, heretofore standing
against Jose Manuel Castillo, as Of
company A, End regiment, New Mexi.
co volunteers, has been removed from
his record and a discharge certificate,
as of the date he left the service,
November 3rd, 1866, has been issued.,to
him.
DR.. H. Ries, of the U. 5. geological
survey, expert in clays, was at Santa
Fe, examining into the commercial
value of the clays which abound in that
region. Col. Bergman had him in
tow, and put in a day showing him
samples OF various clays from the ad-
%jacent foot. hills which the expert de-
clares to be a superior quality.
Francis L. Hall, who has been rum
ming the Fitzgerald mill at San Pedro,
under a lease from Sugar & Brydon, is
doing very we'll so far. The mine is
producing enough ore to keep the mill
running day and night if the supply of
water would justify to do SO, but on
account of the scarcity of water the
mill is only running from ten to twelve
hours per day.