Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-31
rHE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
EXTRACTS from our Exchanges.

Z, M. Keithley, of Las Cruces. tool
trip TO the mountains the past week
Tom Bouroonia left Rincon for Kan,
sas City, to be absent a week or two Of
business.
Walter Matthew sustained a bat
cash on his head by being thrown from
o bicycle at Ration.
d. w. Bethel, at Rincon, has bee,
quite Ill for several days past, and i
undsr the care of DIR. Edmundson.
Mrs. Lea Shellenberger, who ha.
been visiting friends at Rincon 10,
some time, left that place for e
Paso.
Rev. w. A. Phelps and family re,
turned to Las Cruces from Van Pat,
tan's res 'rt, where they havs been the
past month.
The marriage ceremony Of Mis-!
Mable Gilbert and A. H. Reiling, was
performed at the Episcopal church
Silver City.
officer johnson at Las Cruces ar.
rested a Mexican charged with steal.
ing a calf. The animal was found in
his possession.
Arthur Hand, whose arm was shoI
off at Carlisle, two weeks q last
Monday, died probably from the effects
OF secondary shock.
To Miss Lizzie Black is due the
ere dit Of growing to a perfect state o.
development the first water lily ever
grown in Silver City.
G. Sommers, who has been ser.
iously i'll at the Commercial club, AL
buquarque. is recovering. He was
able to sit up Wednesday.
Katherine Miles enjoyed the COM
partnership Of q number of her play
mates Thursday at Las Cruces, in
honor Of her seventh birthday.
j. d. Bryan, ex-register of the land
office at Las Cruces, will resume bis
practice of law, and has fitted up an
office in the Dessauer building there.
The Southern hotel dining room,
wnich was opeutd about TWO weeks
ago, by Mrs. Williams, has closed for
want of patronage, down at Silver
City.
W. j. Kennedy, clerk at H. E.
Fox's jewelry store, will leave Albu-
querqus, on his vacation. He will
probably visit Denver and Salt Lake
City, before returning.
Smith & Brockmeir's bicycle estab.
lishment will be moved to-day from
the old postoffice building to the o
formerly occupied by the Columbus
cafe at Albuquerque.
Rev. A.. A. Hyde is giving a series of
sermons in allegory, entitled changers
of the Wilderness" down at Silver
City. Next Sunday night the subj ect
will be changers OF Strong Drink"
The Silver City 6 Northern railroad
has been seriously damaged by the late
floods; many bridges totally swept
away. 1t is being repaired, however,
and will in a few days be in operation.
The demand for a sporting park in
Silver City has been growing for some
time and the enterprising citizens who
have been promoting the scheme, are
just putting their ideas into practical
execution.
Contractor Strong, Of Albuquerque,
is making a large book case eleven feet
long for the officers library at Fort
Wingate. 1t will contain drawers,
shelves and pigeon holes and will be
shipped to the fort in sections.
Archibald Cousland and Miss
Maggie Murphy we're married at the
Southern hotel parlors, Silver City, in
tho presence Of a small party OF
friends; Rev. e. $. Cross, Of the
Episcopal church, performing the
ceremony.
The family Of Chas. O'Conner left
Ration for Illinois, where they will leave
Norman, who recently recovered from
q spall Of sickness. 1t is thought the
low altitude OF Illinois will prove bene-
fetal in his case.
s. E. Bretherton. manager Of the
Silver City smelling and reduction
company, is purchasing and hauling
copper ores from Santa Rita. He has
made q successful run with his new
furnace for several days, only closing
down once on account Of LACK of lime.
Mr.. Simpson, Of Boston, owner Of
the cooper Fiat" mines, and Man
agcr Beray, were in Hanover, We'd
neaday. They report many rich finds
and expect to ship ore in large guam
titles as rapidly as it can be taken
from the ground. A boarding house
is being built at the camp to accom-
modate the large forces OF men recently
get TO work there.
Chung, a Chinaman cooking for
Supt. p. H. McDermott, at Steeple
Rock, Grant county, was gambling
with a Mexican, name unknown, last
Thursday night, in the Mexican's jl:al.
The final pot was won by Chung. The
Mexican tried to scoop in the pot;
Chung objected with q 1872" get
ting the Mexican in the bowels. The
Mexican is still alive and Chung has
the pot.