Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-04-20
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas New Mexico,
San MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Mickey " Gibpons opened their art
store at Las Cruces.
Mrs. w. Sims, Of Ration, is visitlr
In Indepen hence, Kansas.
Notwithstanding the cold snap
Cruces, the frair Is all right.
Wesley Langford, OF Eddy, announ
ed as dangerously III. is improving.
Cerrillos people will this year deve
op the petroleum fields in that %vicinit.
The members Of the musical clu
were entertained by Mrs. s. w. Ru
sell at Eddy,
j. w. Smith and Miss Carrie
Wyman were married by Justice Ma
tinez, at Springer.
Another car Of very rich ore froi
the "Ortiz' mine is being loaded
Cerriilos for Pueblo.
Regular shipments of iron ore 70
fluxing purposes are leaving Hanover
consigned to Ell Paso.
The Sentinel gives out the news tina
a new republican paper will oon b
started in Silver City.
The Eddy drug company has pul
chased the stock and good will Of w
II. Slaughter, down there.
Joe Whiteman left Roswell for Sal
Francisco thence ho will 60 to Utah,
where he will probably locate.
Louis Castro is a very sick man a
the city hospital, in Albuquerque. HI
is suffering from pneumonia.
g. A. Bottger, lessee Of the Post Elk
change, old Albuquerque, is having
the place newly papered and painted
Corporal J.. j. Bernard, Of Fort
Bayard, will soon leave for Fort Logan,
Colo, there TO be examined for pro-
motion.
Mrs. Clegg has been appointed
matron In charge of the ladies' hos.
pital at Silver City. vice Mrs. Foote,
resigned.
1t is announced that Col. Charles
Whitney will soon lead Miss Mary
Byrns to the hymeneal altar, down at
Silver City.
Freighters are kept busy from
Springer to Elizabethtown hauling
merchandise and mining machinery
from this, the neares railroad point.
Michael Duggan, of Spring Valley,
I'll where he is engaged in the hardware
business, is visiting his brother, Super
intendent James Duggan, at Madrid.
Richard Clemens, of Cerrillos, has
been visiting friends in Colorado for
the past ten days. On his trip he has
taken in Denver, Leadville and New
Castle.
Judge George F. Patrick, formerly
of Silver City, now Of Pueblo, Colo /,
has been elected a director of the new
Pueblo & Cripple Creek railroad. He
is also attorney for the company.
Patrico Montoya, who has been
working for Charles Springer the past
year, has moved to the Clutton ranch,
on the Urraca, Colfax county, where
he will conduct farming operations
there.
J. w. Beck, formerly employed at
the "White ASH nine, and whose son
was killed in the explosion there four
teen months ago, was in Cerrillos from
Gallup, where he has made his home
since last May.
The proper and correct information,
in regard to the legal status of the
Grant county and Silver City bonds,
has been forwarded to Washington.
and will in due course of time be in
troduced before congress.
w. j. Schaaf, who has been a wei.
come visitor at Santa Fe for some
weeks, departed for his home at Peoria,
I'LL. Mrs. Schaaf, who has been greatly
benefited by her s%ojourn there, will
continue a guest at st. Vincent.
P. S. Shear, formerly Of the firm of
A. G, Teichmann 4 Co., arrived in
Cerrillos from Albuquerque. Since
leaving that place he has made careful
investigation OF the Cripple Creek DIS
trici, and is we'll pleased with the out
look there.
The case Of the Territory as. John
Oliver, colored, indicted for assault
with intent to murder Abram Adams,
last November, hear Cerrillos, on
trial at Santa Fe, was brought to q
close, the jury returning . verdict OF
not guilty.
The arrangements have all been
perfected for The Albuquerque Browns
10 play in Santa Fe, on Saturday and
Sunday, April 25th and 26th. and on
,be following Saturday and Sunday
the same teams will cross bats in Al
buquerque.
The Institution of the forty hours
devotion, which Archbishop Chapelle
will introduce throughout the whole
diocese, was inaugurated at their beau
t,ful chapel by the Sisters of Charity IN
Santa Fe. Rev. j. Deraches conducts
the ceremonies.
The New Mexico bureau Of immigra-
lion has just commenced issuing from
the presses and bindery of the NeW
Mexican at Santa Fe an edition OF w.
600 copies of an elaborate and elegant
eighty. page pamphlet on s'The Mines
Of New Mexico"
At a meeting Of the board OF Eddy
county commissioners a settlement was
Effected with w. X. Stalcup for the
amount Of funds collected while acting
as Justice Of the peace, and which were
not turned over. The board accepted
approved accounts for 5000, that
being the amount of the shortage.
lobe Oliver, Joel Levin and Charley
whiteman, Of Roswell, made a trip to
Hagerman and return on bikes, cover
ing the distance OF forty-four miles 10
three hours and thirty minutes. Inc