Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-21
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
EXTRACTS from our Rrcnanass.I

at the M. K. church In Las Cruces,
next Sunday, Rev. G. L. Bovard pre-
siding.
l.. q. Munger, master mechanic 81
the Silver City water works, returned
from q four weeks outing trip IN Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Warder, mother of Mrs. M. M.
Salazar, after a visit of several weeks
at Springer, left for her homo in Mora
county.
Collec or A. B. Laird and Ed Leon.
ard, OF Silver City, have been rusticat
ing ut Col. Carpenters Sapello ranch,
Grant county.
The police apprehended Cook Myers
for stealing $40 worth Of cigars from
his empl yer, A. S. Ward, down in
Albuquerque.
W. F. Clark, who has been quite Ill
at the Grant county hospital for the
past five weeks, Is able to be around,
down at Silver City.
G. E Conway. cashier Of the First
national bank of Eddy, will retire from
that institution September LIST, to take
aposition in Silver City.
Miss Anna Lane, daughter Of Doctor
Lane, of White Oaks, spent a day in
Albuquerque, and left for New York,
to complete her education.
Mrs. E. r. Manning, Of Maxwell
City, died at the home of her father,
Rev. Dsnnison, in Topeka, Kansas.
Tumor was the cause OF her death.
Mrs. A. M. Granger and daughter,
Miss Lsvs, of the Presbyterian mission
school, returned to Las Cruces from
California, where they spent the sum-
mer.
John H. Gillett that he is
a candidate for the Office of assessor Of
Grant county, subject to the endorse
ment of the democratic county conven-
ton.
Miss G. M. Gardner arrived in Aibu-
auerque from Lower Brule, South Da-
kota, and has zone out to the govern.
inert Indian school, where she accepted
q position.
William Goetting, butcher for Will
liam Farr, lost the first joint Of the in
dex finger of his right hand, through
the horse giving a sudden jerk while
hitching 1t.
Hon. 7. d. Burns has awarded the
contract for the building of the Trimble
Springs hote; to S u5bs & Jakway, OF
Durango. The hotel, completed. will
cost about 100000.
Mrs. w. H. White, Of Silver City,
received, by wire, the sad news of the
sudden death by lightning, of her
father, Mr.. Bryant, and niece, Pauline
Smith, at Rogers, Ark.
The entertainment and social given
by the Epworth league and the ladies'
aid society of the M. E. Church, at the
rink, up in Ration, was an enjoyable
success, socially and financially.
The weather has been unusually
warm at Silver City, of late, the Their
mometer having registered as high as
90 degrees in the shade. yet sunstrokes
are never heard of in that section.
Rev. Powell, of Barstow, Texas, tar
ried in Eddy, having just closed a two
weeks series of meetings In Malaga,
where he baptized SIX new converts
and received one by letter into the
Baptist church.
Steve Uhli left Silver City for OH
Caliente, Taos county, where he ex-
poets to spend a month or more in
recuperat:ng his exhausted energies at
the springs discovered and made
famous by Cabez. de vaca.
CLYDE johnson, who has been en-
ployed by the beet sugar company at
Eddy for some time instructing the
farmers in beet culture and in overseeing
the work on some of the company's
tracts, returned to his home in Chino,
Cal.
The Maxwell land grant Offices in
Ration are now 10 the second story OF
the new Ration investment block, and
will be the finest suite of Office rooms
in New Mexico, aud hardly excelled
for convenience and comfort, air and
light, ia the west.
Robert II. Dukes, an aged colored
man, recently employed as porter at
the Elixir saloon, Silver City, was ar
rested on the charge of indecent assault
upon the person of a little white girl,
but was released, no charges having
been filed against him.
Although considerable rain has fal-
len throughout Grant county, compare
lively little has fallen in and around
Pinos Altos. As a necessary result,
water is scarce and II the supply is not
shortly increased, the mills will be
compelled to close down.
The many friends Of Mrs. z. l.. Be-
ward, OF Albuquerque, will learn with
regret that upon consultation with q
specialist in Indianapolis, Ind, her
condition is found to be exceedingly
critical, and a surgical operation must
be undergone without delay.
In a general drunken row in PhGaix,
Eddy county, among Mexicans, Benito
Carasco was shot 10 the breast at the
level of the fourth rib, the ball passing
out at the arm pit and through the
right arm, and Andreas Pinon was
stabbed in the back over the right
kidney.
Town Marshal Ed Coker, Frank
Cloud and Frank James returned to
Ration from the head OF the Sugarits,
with William Mackey, who Is charged
with stealing 8 horse belonging to Jose
Tafuya, Mackey's bond was placed at
$500, and on bis falling to give same,
he was taken to the county jail.