Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-10
THE DAILY [OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS
EXTRACTS from our rrcusnsss.I

Allen Kelly, formerly with the L.
Cruces Democrat, Is In Albuquerque.
Died, In Buena Vista, Co'fsx county
Mrs. CrucIta RIVAL, after q prolonge
and painful illness.
II l.. Reading, formerly an assaye
at Organ, has gone to Colorado, wher
he will reside IN future.
Miss Mary May celebrated her birth
day at Las Cruces. sac was SUI
rounded by u host OF friends. :
The ladies OF the Methodist churc
at Silver City will give a musical en-
tertainment in the near future.
p. M. Davenport, the coming STRAIT
ton Of the Eliz Abethtown district, wa
In RA,on purchasing supplies.
Capt. Merriott, a government Office
who is now 10 the west appraising II
abandoned forts, visited LIS Crcces.
Fred Lehman, Of Las Cruces, shippe,
a lot of alfalfa seed to friends II
Missouri, who desire to make a trial o
1t.
Mrs M. G. Gale, mother OF Deput,
Sheriff j. Gale, went up to Ration from
Springer for an extended visit with be-
son.
f.. G. Roberts, who represents the
Rio Grande canal company, was a.
Las Cruces in the interest OF his com
pany.
Albert Ellis has removed his barber
shop to a more commodious place In
the Montezuma block, down at Las
Cruces.
r. G Hatton and w. r. Fall, Of
Las Cruces, have been at work ap.
praising old Fort Selden, for the gov
erIment.
Will Sterry departed from Las
Cruces for Colorado Springs, where
he will have charge of John Riley's
butcher shop.
Mrs. Sarah Palmer has moved the
Rio Grande hotel into the Widner
building at Rincon while her hostelry
undergoes repairs.
The purchase of a residence by a
prominent young business man, OF
Rincon, has started people / o guessing
who is the lucky maiden.
A.. r. Railway, an old-time Albu
querque carpenter, who has been sick
for several month";, was sent up the
Sisters hospital at Santa Fe.
Miss F. A. Hough and a little Indian
girl, from Grand Junction, Colo,
stopped at the European, in Albuquer-
que. They left for Deming.
Solomon Garcia, until recently in the
employ of the Rincon Weekly, is now
one of the editors Of Ell TEMPO, the
Spanish paper at Las Cruces.
w. B. Slaughter left Albuquerque to
look after some cattle ia Valencia and
counties south Of there, with the ex-
~pectation of making shipments.
Mrs. P. Markham arrived at Las
Cruces from Deming and went out to
the Black mountains to visit her hus-
band, who is mining in that section.
Miss Mimi Swartz, of Silver City,
and Sam Schiff, of the Mogollon, will
be united in marriage in the near
future. They will live in the Mogollon.
Jack Frost, who made his appear
ance in the Mesilla valley, three nights
in succession. only nipped the native
peaches. The grated fruit promises a
good crop.
The cold weather in Grant county
did a great deal of damage to fruit in
that county, last week. From present
appearances, the peach crop will be
very light this year.
r. II. Greenleaf and Juan Armijo
left Albuquerque on a prospecting tour
in the Manzano mining region south.
east of that city, and expect to be abb
sent about fifteen days.
w. M. Williams, the Las Cruces
timer, who has been working for the
contractors, Mossmann & Thorn, roof.
ing the outer buildings at the agrlcul-
tural college, finished the work.
Major Jack Swartz returned to Las
Cruces from the lower part Of the
Mesilla valley, where he has been on a
surveying trip. He expects to leave
for Eldy in a few days to do some sur
veying.
Madame Dorego, of Las Cruces, has
gone to Colorado Springs to make her
home in the future. She took with
her the remains # her son, who died
there some time ago, and will re bury
them in that city.
There will be a grand musical enter.
k~~.o. oo1 Er1nch Nbapoau Or
Military hat ball in the school hall at
Plnos Altos, Grant county, on next
Saturday night. The proceeds are to
go to the school fund.
The Maxwell land grant company
has Just issued a neat and comprehen-
sive pamphlet, for gratuitons distribu'
ton. giving a description of the gold
mines in Colfax county and the rules
aud regulations governing prospectors
and locators.
Vice President j. a Houten and
superintendent of the Maxwell land
grant, T. A. Schomburg, returned to
Ration from a trip to the gold mines at
Badly, Ute Creek, Eliz Abethtown and
aIema ite. They report everything
prosperous and satisfactory.
Charles F. Lummis, managing edl-
tor Of the Land Of Sunshine. pub
lished at Los Angeles, will be 10 Albu-
quelqne soon, to u a number OF
Indians to take to the fiesta, which is
scheduled to come off at Los Angeles,
April 21st to 25th inclusive.
The chief Of the Albuquerque fire de-
partment will issue his proclamation,
to-day, calling the fire delegates re-
Gently chosen ty the various CON-