Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-12
THE DAILY OPTIC,
Fast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lRrsracts from our n.onansss.l

trough a county.
Hon. Antonio Joseph was indorse'
at the Taos county convention as
candidate for the Legislative council.
James III: Walker, OF Santa Fe, !
.'grand-pa" again, a fine boy havin,
been born to Mr.. and Mrs. w. E
Griffin.
The mother Of Neill B. Field, Of AL
buquerque, is in a dying condition q
Louisville, Ky. He has left for he
bedside.
A. Staab and daughter have reache,
New York from Carlsbad. They re
turn to their Santa Fe home on Thurs
day next.
Many Of the thrifty residents OF Blanc
are engaged in adding substantial i'm
provements to their homes and bust
ness houses.
At the Dona Ana republican count,
convention, resolutions were adopted
indorsing the Independent candidacy o.
P. F. Garrett for sheriff.
Mrs. Bernardo Romero, sister o.
Juan and Pedro Delgado, who has beer
dangerously i'll at the home OF hel
mother in Santa Fe, is reported better.
Major E. A. Grunsfeld, of Albuquer-
que, and Miss Jessie Nusbaum, were
joined in marriage at Chicago on the
9th, and it was a pleasant marriage of.
fair.
Matt Breeder, of Santa Fe, has put
in a solid year at drill polishing in the
gold prospect that he, DR.. Sloan and
others are interested in at Monument
rock.
The New York Journal acknowl.
edges the receipt of a contribution OF
ten dollars to the silver campaign fund
from the Bryan silver club of Bland,
N. M.
j. r Jetton has returned to the
"ancient" from St. Louis, where, as
the representative of the Bryan silver
club, Of Santa Fe, he was the recipient
of high honors.
There are t~wenty-six scholars en-
rolled at the Bland school, aud Mr..
Haggerty, the efficient teacher, ex-
presses perfect satisfaction in the pro-
gress of his pupils.
Joseph Lowery and family, of Eliza.
BEETHOVEN, met with an accident.
While returning from Taos, the car
riage was overturned and one of the
children quite badly hurt.
Fresno, CAL, at the present time has
quite a contingent of Albuquerqueans.
Mrs. Mary j. Borden aud children,
Mrs. Scott and son, Tom, and Prof.
Chase and family are there.
r. G. Hatton, mine host of the Rio
Grande hotel, arrived home at Las
Cruces from chihuahua, where he has
been engaged in mining. He expects
to return to Mexico again ia a few days.
Don Romulo Martinez, of Santa Fe,
formerly United States marshal for
New Mexico, has gone to Pena Blanca
in connection with the settlement of
the estate for his late brother-in-law.
Rumor hath il that one of the lead
ing citizens of Hematite has linked his
fortune with the belle of the camp. II
it is not premature, the Miner, over
there, congratulates Lou upon his good
fortune.
w. A. Chapman, of Ponil park, the
Golf x county surveyor and who has
no had a job of surveying for the
county since he was elected to Office,
was in Ration to attend the fair and
convention.
Flank Thoma, Of Ysleta, Texas, has
sid out his stock of general mcrchan-
disc there to A. E. Boulet, railroad
contractor. Mr.. Thoma will open up
a general merchandise establishment in
Las Cruces.
j. A. Weber, who owns some valu-
able mining property at Coyote a n
yon, returned to Albuquerque from st.
Louis, where he had been with the
view of enlisting capital in the devel-
opment of his mines.
The sad news has been received in
Santa Fe that Miss Carrie Nevins. q
lovely young girl of Joliet, H., who
was a health-seeker in the sanitarium
in that city during last winter and
spring, died on the 30th of Sep
TENDER.
There are in round numbers 1900
persons in the city of Santa Fe who are
subject to pay the school poll tax Of
one dollar per head. So far, only 225
have paid. The board of education
has resolved to employ drastic meas
ures to collect this just tax.
Major H. R. Whiting, Of Albuquer.
que, who keeps posted on oil the old
veterans of central New Mexico, in.
forms the Citizen. down there, that
Capt. Joseph G. Hill, who was district
clerk in 1871, ~ and '73, died in Yoke
hama, japan, a few weeks ago.
Secretary Saint, of the Territorial
fair, Albuquerque, has succeeded in
disposing of the following fair priv.
leges: Bar to Joe Badaracco; pool and
score card to Knight and Cundiff; can
dy, peanuts, popcorn, chewing gum
and bananas to George Costello.
Prof. Chase writes from Fresno, Cal.
that the business college and normal
school founded by Prof. Ramsay, for
merly of the New Mexico university
and the Las Vegas academy, is in a
iourishing condition and has a much
larger enrolment than last year.
Miss Wier, the popular and G
full teacher in the First ward school,
over at Santa Fe, has been forced, ow-
ing to i'll health, to retire from active
duties in the school room for a time.
Her substitute is Miss Coperthwaite, a
very excellent lady from Pueblo, Colo,