Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-13
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
iHxtracts from our Excnangss.l

surveyor General Easley and Pos
master Tom Gable, Of Santa Fe, wel
down to Cerrllos to attend the Masoni
l,dge.
There is some talk at Cerrillos OF rs
opening the Christian Mission Sunda
school, which has been closed for th
winter.
U. s. D. pu'y Surveyor Pietz wi
leave Las Cruces for the Gold camp |
a few days, to survey some mimi
GLAZING.
j. F. Williams and Joseph Richard
each received seventy-three votes f.
member Of the board Of education a
Cerrillos.
Mis- Miltie Kavanaugh, Of Farming
ton, visited Aztec for the purpose o
making annual proof on her deser
land entry.
G. Wing Hop, better known al
.sCharlie," has re-opened the Scranton
restaurant and short order house, dowr
at Cerrillos.
w. E. Myers and family have taken
up their residence at the turquoise
mines, north of Cerrillos, where Mr.
Myers is employed.
w. F. Shedd, of San Augustine, DCna
Ana county, in the early COS, was
commissary clerk at Fort Craig, and
after that was sutler a Fort Selden.
The association of Congregational
churches will hold their annual session
in Albuquerque, next Wednesday and
Thursday, at the Congregational
church.
Elton McJunkins was kicked on the
arm by his horse, over at Pennington.
The bone was much bruised, and the
young man is suffering with the limb
in a sling.
Miss Mary Cuniff, left Las Cruces,
to-day, Saturday, for San Antonio,
Texas, to visit her sister, Mrs. Bennett.
She will probably remain there for sew
eral mouths.
Judge Kendall, Of Cerrillos, has just
received from Stark Bros nursery,
louisiana, Mo several hundred dol
lars worth of fruit trees for delivery in
thob vASAbtt
Mrs. J. G. Butler with her son, Wal
ter and her daughter, Esther, left AL
buquerque for Manhattan, Kas., with
the remains of her late husband, John
Greeley Butler.
Will Mccoy, Of San Juan county,
has a fine Holstein bull for sale. In
order to maintain the high grade of his
herd, he has purchased a full-blood
short horn bull.
Professor Slocum and wife, of Colo
RADIO Springs, will be IN Albuquerque,
this week. The gentleman will deliver
an address at the Congregational
church, down there.
A lock of dark hair was found at the
Chaco Aztec ruins, San Juan county
fine, dark woman's hair. This treasure
is now in the possession OF William
Ross, of Pennington.
A large vegetable garden will
be started at Pennington, this season,
with the intention of supplying
that district an l the market with the
choicest kinds of vegetables.
The E. N. Shelhamer ranch at Flora
Vista, San Juan county, which was
sold at trustees sale, was bid in at
5000 for the mortgages, the Colorado
& Northwestern Investment Co.
Postmaster Sam Wright was down
at Cerrillos from Golden. He does not
expect any new developments in the
rich gold strike in that
district, before the first of May.
Married, by Squire Cameron, at
Flora Fista, Jas. Brown and Miss
Alice Hartley, both of La Plata, San
Juan county. The newly married
couple will reside in Durango, Colo.
John bigger died at his home in AL
buquerque. lie was aged twenty five
years, and the cause Of his death was
consumption. He leaves a wife who
will accompany the remains to Indian
apolIs.
E. d. Fluke is on duty at Abel's
again, down in Albuquerque, having
filled an engagement at the old town
post, flee. The postmaster, George
Denny, is now able to be a. his place
of business.
The rite OF holy baptism was admin
istered to Mrs. Dean aud the Woods
boys by the Rev. w. Ii. Howard, at
Pennington. The immersions and
religious ceremony took place below
the Animas bridge.
Colonel c. II. Krum was at Albu-
qdclque from Deming, where be repre-
s,nts tue Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe coal interests, and will assist Harry
Bullard in the coal tfice during Wal
ter Buffers absence.
". S. Sheok returned to Pennington
from Gallup and reports the roads very
sandy. Mr.. Sheek got 50 per box for
apples, twenty cents for eggs and fifteen
cents for honey, four to six cents for
beans, capital prices.
Water has been found in the Will
liams & Cor coal mine, near Ger.
rillos, at a depth of about fifty feet,
and about 200 feet above the river bed.
They are working now in a three-foot
vein of first-class coal.
The Rev. Hugh Grlfin. whilst on the
road to his home from Aztec last Thurs
day, was run into by a team and thrown
out of his cart. His leg was injured
and he is suffering considerable pain,
being confined to his bed.
In the last will and testam ent OF Jo-
siah Butterfield, late Of the town OF
Canton, st. Lawrence county, N. T.,