Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-12-09
FORMER NEW MHxIcANs.

OF East Las Vegas, resides Ia Denver. He
Is intimately familiar with the sins" and
"outs" Of the city, politically and other
wise, and is said to DO succeeding salts
factorily In keeping both the pale horse
and the wolf from his door.
Tony Cajal, the barber journalist, was
thought to be in Denver, editing a Spanish
newspaper for Senator Casimiro Barelas
but II seems the paper aud the men at the
helm have been removed to Trinidad,
Colo, where the work OF moulding public
opinion, politically, is being continued.
T. A. Hendricks, the promising Chicago
attorney in III health, who ~so1ourned at
the Plaza hotel and the Ell Campos resort
for a number of months, is wintering In
Denver, but without a word to say against
the unexcelled climatic advantages Of Las
Vegas and the health aud pleasure resorts
in proximity to the city. .x
Edgar A.. CaypIess, who acquired fame
and recognition As asSanta Fs barristsr,
some years ago,is now : member Of the
Denver law arm Of Caypisss q Brown,
225-227 symes building, Sixteenth street,
corner of Champa. Mr.. Caypless IL said
to be succeeding finely, particularly in. the
criminal practice. He would seem to have
done well when he shifted from Santa Fe
to Denver.
Billy Newman, Of the green-cloth
brigade, is at present holding forth, for an
indefinite season In Denver. He has visit
ed Salt Lake City and other presumably
live and inviting places, since leaving Las
Vegas, but he insists upon it with vehem-
ence, that the Meadow City Is a better
town, even for his calling in life, than any
point yet reached in his almost aimless
travels over the country.
Mrs. J. p. Colp, OF Wilson, Colo, whose
husband Is superintendent of the Mt. Will
con gold and silver mining company, and
who herself spent eight months In Santa
Fe, three years ago, the guest OF the
mother Of Mayor Pedro D~elgado, over
there, recently accompanied her bright
Young brother to the Kelley institute In
Denver, where he is being gradually
transformed into a nav young mao, OF
whose success, 10 the future affairs OF life,
there can be no question.
Jim Mcclure, the old time Las vegan.
who still has a YARN spot in his heart for
the town aud its people, may now DO ad.
dressed In care of the Western hotel, Den. |
yer, Colo. Nc. occasionally, as Of yore,
engages in a game with the boys 10 a back
room. Judging from his appearance,
hurrying along the crowded streets, he
would impress a casual observer as a man
who had a bank account, though . check
book isn't exposed 10 an outside coat
pocket.
G. j. Walsh, Of Guatemala, who, with
his sister OF San Francisco, stopped at the
Plaza hotel about Elk weeks, some weeks
ago. has just finished a curse Of treat
ment for pulmonary trouble by DR.. L. F.
of No. 143O, Stout street, Denver,
Colo, who pronounced Mr.. Walsh cured,
after having been IN his hands only twenty
one days. Young Mr.. W food, in the employ |
Of the Murphey-Van Petten company. west
side, Is likewise in Denver, with his father,
undergoing the new treatment for con.
sumption.
Tom Collins, erstwhile a member OF the
white apron brigade In East Las Vegas,
subsequently, going on the road for a Den.
yer wholesale house, Is still the lordly and
,ontented proprietor of q neat and paying
cigar stand at the corner Of Seventeenth
Champa streets. He now shuns the
bowl as he would a pestilence, Is married,
and he would appear to be on the high
road to prosperity. That he is doing a
good business is evidenced by the fact that
be pays $175 rent a month for the room he
occupies. It's another Tom Collins, though,
who has struck it rich 10 mining at Grip
pie Creek. Men by his name would seem
20 grow on sage brush up In Colorado.
Judge j. d. Whitman, erstwhiIe the
Kingston correspondent of THE OPTIC, for
ears and years, is now 3 Denver mining
'roker, with Office at room 302, Cooper
and residence at No. 2243, Cali
street. The gentleman with the
newspaper instinct has been 9 stat nehh
.lnwavering republican all the days of his
life, but in November the family cast four
'otes for the Bryan electors, his wife and
exercising the highest right of
citizenship for the first time, also his
son. Judge Whitman cards himself
$ promptly quoting gilt edge mining stock
mail or telegraph and as giving par
attention to placing producing
mines and prospects" not stocked or
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