Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-03
The DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
IErtracts from our Excnanrs,.l

W"ie"S", ~ 'Aoie'nk AAiuhuS III ouut
Fe.
The soiree musicale has been post
poned at Clayton until further notice
owing 10 ONE unavoidable circum
stance. ,
Ross Douglass has severed his con
neciion with the firm of Pratt, Seay 4
Gill, at Roswell, and left for Abilene
Texas.
Cecil Thompson, who has been at
tending the Western normal colleg,
at Shenandoah, Iowa, returned t
Clayton.
The meeting Of the horticultural so
ciety, at Sparks hall, Roswell, was no
as well attended as its importance de
manded.
Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Silver City III,
dependent made its appearance, dowr
there. Geo. Norton is editor aud pro
prietor.
w. II. Mackey returned TO Las
Cruces from the gold camp, on his
way to Junction City, Kansas, to visl'
his family.
The Union church at Clayton has
received four dozen new chairs for the
hall. Every one now a have com
Portable seats.
w. H. G.. McKessou, OF Clayton, is
patenting an adding machine which
adds two columns of figures rapidly
and accurately.
Tom Hyatt and John Hunter, two
Penasco cattle men, passed through
Roswell en- route home from a trip to
the Panhandle.
Judged. S. Trimble, of Albuquerque,
was a delegate from Kentucky in the
national democratic convention at
Charleston in 1860.
J.. p. Church writes that be will close
out his interest at Cripple Greek and
Victor, Colo, and return to Roswell,
in a couple of weeks.
"Shorty" tredericks, until recently
employed on the Albuquerque Citizen.
stopped off at Rincon, bound for Cuba
TO join the insurgents.
During a rain storm, down at Las
Cruces, the house of Rev. Phelps was
struck by lightning, but fortunately
but little damage was done.
r.. NJ. Bonsall left Rincon for Engle,
TO be absent several weeks, re-painting.
papering and otherwise decorating
some of the residences there.
Hon. Matt G. Reynolds. Page B.
O.ero, Abe Kimball, Jack Dixson and
a colored cook left Santa Fe Tor an
outing at the Sulphur Springs.
VIM. Riley and wife came down to
Roswell from their Lincoln county
home, to attend the marriage of their
friends, Joe Wingield and Miss Lutte
Voris.
Gov. Thornton has appointed C,l.
f. III. Bergman commissioner to the
meeting of the national prison assoc;a-
ton, which meets in Milwaukee, next
month.
DR.. G. &. Mckinley reached Las
Cruces FROM Chillicothe, Mo. He has
purchased the interest OF the late DR..
Mickey in the drug firm of Mickey q
Gibbons.
Mrs. j. r. DeMier and daughter,
Miss May, arrived in Las Cruces from
Mexico, Missouri, where Miss DsMier
has been attending Hardin college for
some time.
Miss Josephine Hamm, one of the
public school teachers of Albuquerque,
will attend the national convention of
teachers, to " in Buffalo, N. T.,
in a few days.
The La Belle Cressst reports that the
sale of the ..Midnighs" group Of mines
to a strong Ohio syndicate, is likely TO
prove of great value to the La Belle
gold district.
A number of friends of Postmaster
E. c. Priest gave that gentleman a
happy surprise at his residence. down
in Rincon, the occasion being his fifty
ninth birthday. n
Saran N. Laughlin and daughter. CT
San Francisco, are guests at the Palace
hotel in Santa Fe. Mr.. Laughiin Is
owner OF the Eaton grant 10 south
Santa te county.
A.. d Wilson, of the Whitson
Music Co, who has been in Los
Angeles for the past year, returned te
Albuquerque, greatly improved in
health and expects TO remain.
The cashier Of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, Miss Emma Buck
ley, left Albuquerque for Lawrence,
Kansar, where she will spend a needed
vacation among relatives and friends.
4Ea,her Halterman was in Clayton
and completed arrangements for the
building location of the Catholic
church, which is on Tom Solomon's
claim, east Of and adjoiningsthe town
site.
Married, at the residence of A. G.
Dawson, In Maxwell City,. Manley M.
Dawson, son of J. B. Dawson, to Miss
Grace G.. Strong. an accomplished
9enns lady of .Inliet, Illinois. Rev. J..
Sinnock. OF Ration, oficiated.
Professor Tinslsy, one Of the new
professors at the agricultural college
ut Las Cruces, went up to Rincon on
the train and returned astride a
bronco, which Professor Jordan re-
Gently purchased from Henry Butter
The trial Of Jose Canno, for the
burglary Of J.. A. Johnson's residence,
was held before Judge Crawford,
down 10 Albuquerque. and sufficient
evidence was given to warrant binding
the prisoner over to the grand jury in
the sum of $500.
Father Coorey left Raton for a trip