Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-08
fHE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
'iExsracts from Our Excnangss.

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A Mexican named f. Candelario
died at Gallup of typhoid fever.
The republicans OF Bernalillo county
will nominate a ticket on October 22d.
Willie Jacoby drove a flock OF sheep
from Hatch to Las Cruces for market.
Frank Barka left Rincon for Benson,
Arizona, where he has accepted a posi-
tion.
A string OF Trinidad horses are in
Ration to take part In the races at the
fair this week.
j. w. Thomas, Of Ration, will go to
Pueblo shortly where he expects to en-
gage in business.
Chief Deputy United States Marshal
LOOMS was in Gallup, looking for one
Felipe Gutierrez.
Whist has become quite a pastime
o. evenings among devotees of the
game in Rincon.
A. X Letton and A. Mckee, shipped
a lot of beef steers to the Kansas City
market from Ration.
Eddy's streets are now undergoing
some much needed repairs, under the
direction of Fred Nymeyer.
Mrs. w. w. Butler, of Albuquerque,
Is improving since her recent illness
and will be out again DON
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Mitten, OF Albu-
querque, are rejoicing over the arrival
at their home Of a baby boy.
Sportsmen report quail in large
quantities in the vicinity of Eddy and
many hours are spent in the hunt.
The Ration baseball club sent to Port
Huron. Mich, for the pitcher Of that
team, the short stop having arrived.
Rev. M. Larson, of Hagerman, of
the Seventh Day Adventists persuasion,
was at Eddy, stopping at the Eagle
hotel.
F. G. Pratt,t the Albuquerque grocery
man, who has been on the sick list the
past week or so, is reported slowly i'm
proving.
Mrs. DO. Allen arrived at Ration
from Arkansas City, Kansas, to join
her husband who has concluded to To-
cate there.
Aug. E. Altgeldt, an attorney of
San Antonio, Texas, was at Eddy, last
week. He is travelling for health and
recreation.
A party of scientific explorers passed
through Pennington from the Chaco
ruins, which they have been exploring
for several weeks.
Fred Kropp. who for q long time
has been employed at the Harvey
house, down at R,ncon, left for his
home in Klnsley, Kansas.
A heavy piece of piping fell upon
Chas. McCarthy's wrist at the beet
sugar factory at Eddy, temporarily
disabling him from work.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Woodward, after
residing some months in Port Huron,
Michigan, returned to Ration and will
again make their home there.
All the horse races entries are we'll
filled, and this feature of next weeks
sport at Albuquerque will be exciting,
and each race will be closely contested.
The coal washing plant for Bloss-
burg, which is expected to arrive
shortly, is the best and most complete
up to date in improvements in the west.
DR.. F. F. Doepp, Julius Doepp and
Mrs. VIM. Doepp, of Chicago, arrived
at Eddy, and are registered at Hotel
Windsor. They are relatives of A. s.
Goetz.
A very delightful party was held al
the hands some home Of Noa Ilfeld in
Albuquerque, given by the Misses
Schultz to a number of their friends of
that city.
The Bryan silver club at Blossburg
elected officers as follows:A Alex Thomp-
sol president; John Cam, vice-presi-
dent; VIM. Jackson, secretary; and
VIM. johnson, treasurer.
The big ditch of Lynch brothers, at
Elizabethtown, To- has a big head of
water, aud Tom Bird, foreman of the
placer diggings, is making the dirt fly
for several hours each day.
It is stated, upon pretty reliable
authority, that a certain colored man
of Albuquerque, who was once al in
mate OF the insane asylum, is again
gradually losing his mind.
Newman & Mendelson, of Ration,
have received good l~ife-size French
bisque figures of four of u leading
politicians. The group consists of
Cleveland, Reed, Harrison and Bryan.
While Harry Davis was turning a
piece OF steel on a lathe, down at Eddy.
q splinter flew off and struck his arm
severing a superficial artery and he
will have to wear a bandage for q
while.
Little Florence Trimble, while play
ing at Gallup, fell on her arm which
was broken some weeks ago, and
which had only that morning been un-
elung. The bone was broken in the
same place and the other bone snapped.
Neill B. Field telegraphs that he will
return to Albuquerque. or Thursday or
Friday night. Mr.. Field has been at
tending a hearing in San Francisco
against the Atlantic & Pacific railway
company for axes due in the southern
district of California.
The Ration mining and milling COM
pany, received a 3.oz. gold button, the
result Of a mill run of four tons of ore
taken from the development shaft of
the "Mountain Witch," which is To-
Gated on the Ute Creek side of Badly.
Mrs. j. W. Marley, of Gallup, was
apprised by her family OF the sad fact
that her daughter had died in Kansas
CITY, about a month ago. The very