Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-08
THE DAILY IoPTIc.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lExtracts from our Exonangss.

y Col. j. G Albright, the retire
Journalist at Albui, Q Iq1e, claims tina
The recent cold snap did not kill all tn
peaches.
Miss Marie Abrams, wao has beeI
visiting at the home OF Mrs. Hill, ov,
at Clayton, is suffering with conges
lion Of the lungs.
ID. A. Clouthier has rented the I'm
farm Of H NJ. Porter's, three mile
west of springer, taking ,ssessiol
Wednesday, the 1st.
One thousand head OF cattle wer,
shipped from Springer, part Of then
to Kinsley, Kansas, and the rest tt
Silverton, Colorado.
Arrangements have been made fol
r~e-opening the Crescent coal yard, a
Albuquerque, opposite the freigh'
depot, in a few days, by W. E. Pratt
The frog leg industry OF Albuquel
que is growing day by day, and the
frogs of the Rio Grande valley are be,
ing sought after by the markets Of the
east.
r. II. Cowan has the contract and
has a force Of men and teams at work
on a large reservoir for ii. M. Porter,
on his fine ranch three miles west OF
Springer.
Mrs. A. B. McGaffey, daughter OF H.
i. Fox, the jeweler, left Albuquerque
for Denver, where MIR. McGaffey is In
business. They will reside In Denver
in the future.
John G. Ryan, of Fort Worth, gen.
oral manager OF the Folsom town, land
and improvement company, was In
Clayton on business connected with
his property.
Cards will be issued at Albuquerque.
in q few days, announcing the APP
preaching marriage of Louis Smith to
Miss Mamie, McCue, daughter of Col.
nj. f. McCue.
A sister of Mrs. A. T. Quigg, OF
Halls Peak, arrived in Springer from
Missouri, and will visit with them for
some time, probably concluding to stay
in Colfax county.
George Briggs. who was a resident
of Albuquerque when AL Connors'
.sMarble Hall'' was in full blast, Wis.
tied that city from Needles, where he
is engaged in business.
Mrs. w. H. M~atson, wife of the local
railroad agent at Albuquerque, me
with an accident while attempting to
ride a bicycle, and in the fall suffered
a severe injury to her hip.
P. H. McNamee, of Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, who at one time, in the years
1882, was a resident of Springer, re-
turned there and will do some stone
masonry work In the vicinity.
Mrs. E A. Schultz, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Jost, of the Phoenix no.
tel, left Clayton for Ration, to join her
husband, who holds a lucrative posi-
ton there in the Santa Fe machine
Frank Lloyd, late superintendent of
the "Old Abe" mine at White Oaks,
arrived in San Antonio on the Ozaune
en- route to Old Mexico to look
his mining interests in that To-
Sheriff Hubbell sold at Albuquerque
the Ignacio Silva property. on execu-
ton to j. F. Sulzer for $500. The
Finn property was sold to Gross,
& Co., for $7l5, likewise on
execution.
The Springer and Moreno valley
stage line is about every other day run
ming double headers to the Elizabeth
mining district, and as many
going BY private c~onveyanceu and
livery outfits.
At Gallup, l.. ". Root, bookkeeper
for the Crescent coal %company's COM
department, and Mrs. Lon
Har,igan, sister Of w. I. Henderson,
editor Of the Gallup Cleaner, were
united in marriage.
A veritable "Dolly Warden" dress
was seen at one of the churches in
Albuquerque on Sunday morning. The
pulled sleeves, which were quite vel
luminous, gave The dress an "up-to-
date style In that respect.
Mrs. Harriet M. Dougberty, an ex-
cellent lady Of Socorro, has entered
suit against the Helen mining company
OF southern New Mexico, through her
Neill b Field, of Albuquer-
qle, for 1900, 900 damages.
The Mexican mutual protective as
sociati,n met on Sunday in Albu-
querqne at the court house. Jesus
nomero is president and Juan Anaya
8 cretary OF the association. which is
IL Incorporated; membership ITO.
Carl B ,vard, the youngest son OF
Rev. G. r.. Bovard, was taken seri-
ously i'll at Albuquerque. and for a
time his condition was alarming lt
is now hoped, however, that the at
tack will not be attended with serious
results.
Nick O'Connell returned 10 Clayton
from Endee, where be has been build
ing d dam across the Rama for the
cattle company. He will go
out 20 Gibraltar soon to build a reser-
voir for Luis F. Garcia on his fine
ranch.
Miss Virginia NJ. McCarty, for several
years the excellent public school teach
at FL Rito, Rio Arriba county, who
il we'll known in Albuquerque, Will
soon 60 to Phoenix, Arizona, where
she accepts q position as teacher IN
that city.
s. j. Siane, of Clayton, has been on
a deal the past few days with Q. j..
Smith for his ranch down on the Clm-
arron, and he received word from Mr..
Smith, who Is now in Pueblo, that he
IL roadu 70 oloaa the deal The CON-