Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-18
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,

rillOs.
Prof. w. II. Fall has rented the
brick cottage formerly occupied by
james A, Baird, down at Las Cruces.
The dimond drill Is still at work
eight miles west Of White Oak 3, and
they have struck several coed veins OF
coal.
d J.. Miller Is the engineer at the
placer works above Cerrillos. J. H
Clarke and Morris Clarke, OF Golden,
are also engaged there.
George T. Reed and party, who have
been out west of Cabaz IN for some
weeks on a United States survey con-
tract, returned to Santa Fe.
The cornet band, down at Cerrillos,
under a competent instructor, and per-
sistent practice, Is improving rapidly
and does itself great credit.
F. +. Crane and family expect to
locate In Albuquerque. Mr.. Crane is a
government surveyor, who Is engaged
III surveying in western New Mexico.
Two Albuques boys caught a six
pound sucker fish in the Rio Grande.
The fish had become stranded on q
sand bar when the boys scooped him
In.
The Continental oil company is lay
Ing the foundation for two 1000 gal
Ion tanks at its storage house near the
AT. & 5. f. depot, over at Santa
Fe.
Messrs. Sto kett and Mcclellan,
lately OF the Fort Worth Gazette, which
suspended publication, arrived in Eddy
and talk OF putting in another paper
there.
O. M. Davis, whose father lives in
Gorham, Maine, died Of consumption
at ST. Vincent hospital in Santa Fe,
and was buried by Undertaken Gable,
Over there.
A. +. Bacus, printer, who has been
in Albuquerque for the past six
months, on account of the i'll health of
his wife, returned with her to Des
Moines, Iowa.
The peach crop will begin to move
at Santa Fe on Monday. While not
near so large as usual, the output will
last about twenty days. Most Of them
60 to Colorado points.
Jacob and Albert Ziegler, OF White
Oaks, received the sad intelligence of
the death of their father, at Coblenz,
on the Rhine, on June 18th. Deceased
was eighty years of age.
Mrs. Thomas H. Mcmahon presented
her husband with a bouncing baby boy,
up at Ration, and Mrs. George Davey
presented her husband with a twelve
pound daughter, up there.
Frank Summers and wife have re-
turned to Ration from Kansas City,
where Mrs. Summers spent the past
three months for health reasons. She
returns much improved in health.
The firm of l.. Prudential & Co.,
of Las Cruces, has assigned to Chas.
Solomon. 1t is understood that the
liabilities OF the firm are very small,
their trouble arising through endorse
ments for New York parties.
H. H. Davis, brother OF Jos. r.
Davis, and general manager of the
Galisteo mining company, arrived at
Cerrillos from Philadelphia, and will
remain there, relieving Mr.. Sanders,
who expects to return TO the east about
August LIST.
Miss Carrie p. Collier, assistant
clerk OF the district court and sister of
Judge N. G. Collier, while returning
home from the court house, on her
bicycle, down at Albuquerque, was
thrown to the ground and quite Sc
verely burt.
Mrs M. G. Stevenson, who is in
New Mexico in the interests of the
chronological department of the Smith
sonian institute, accompanied by Miss
Estella Bond, left Albuquerque for
Fort Wlngate and will visit the Zuni
Indian reservation.
Rev. "A. ". Bryan, a brother Of Major
r. w. d. Bryan, of Albuquerque, is
a missionary at Hiroshima, Japan, and
he sends his brother samples Of IL
lustrated comic journalism in that
country, which is a curiosity in the
way Of crude artistic skill.
The debris from the sanitarium at
Santa Fe, is being put to good service
by the city street committee, in raising
the public thoroughfares in many
places. The teams engaged in the
hauling are furnished by DR.. S.oap,
complimentary to the Sisters.
Mrs. d. G. Fletcher, OF Fayetteville,
Ark, accompanied by her son and sis
ter, are late arrivals in Santa Fe, COM
ing for the ~latter's health. Mrs. Fletcher
is q skilled and experienced kinder
garten teacher, and she has decided to
open a private kindergarten, over
there.
The co-partnership' heretofore exist
ing between George Treat and Nick
Bastion, under the firm name OF Treat
& Bastion, for carrying on q butcher
business in the town OF White Oaks,
has besn dissolved by mutual consent.
The business will be continued BY
George Treat.
About twelve years ago, Pat Breen
found and located n mine In Black
mountain, near Ell Paso. He took out
.of a rich pocket about $4,000 and
,then sold to Texas parties for SIS, 200.
Two years ago, he returned to New
Mexico and found the mine abandoned.
He located 1t again and has recently
opened an eight-foot vein Of rich ore.
The Afro-American mass meeting
held at the A. M. E. church in Albu-
querque selected the following COM
mittee to arrange for a grand picnic
and celebration Of the Emancipation
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