Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-16
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE NEW MEXICO news.
IErtracts from Our Exchauges.

Mrs. Martin Maher, Of Silver City
has gone to California to spend th'
summer.
The young peoples whist club me
at the home Of Miss Laura Stockton,
up IN Ration.
Mrs. G. N. Blackwell entertained heI
Sunday school class very pleasantly, uI
at Ration.
Louis Bishop, OF Silver City. went t.
Bisbee, Arizona, where . situation
awaited him.
The boy who was accidentally sho|
at the Indian school in Santa Fe, may
possibly recover
The pupils OF Prof. Hughes room o.
the Silver City public schools picnicked
at Silvear's ranch.
L. P. Chambers, a practical jsweler,
has opened business in Whitehill's
store at Silver City.
Under the new law, there are 2,3l7
eligible jurymen in Dona Ana county
and 80 in Sierra county.
Water is rising rapidly 10 the Conan
che and a couple of small bridges near
La Belle we're swept away.
Dabney NJ. Scales. special examiner
of Indian depreciation claims, Is in San
Juan county on official business.
Antonio Aban G~allegos, a boy about
thirteen years old, died at Buena Vista,
Colfax county, after a brief illness.
j. A. Hughes contemplates starting
the erection Of a 25x60 IT. store build
ing at La Belle, Taos county, soon.
Collector Frederick Muller. of Santa
Fe, is preparing for a collection trip to
outside precincts. Taxes must be paid.
c. G. Perry, the abscoh1ing sheriff
Of Chaves county, has written from
South Africa to a friend in Santa Fe.
John Conkie left Trinidad, Colorado,
for Red River City where he expects to
embark in business in the near future.
Miss Katie Burr is home in Trinidad,
Colorado, from Spring Hill, N. NJ,
where she had been teaching school
The rise in the prices for wool and
cattle is already doing much for the
Territory, and the first start has only
been made.
Bicycles continue to multiply in Eddy
and it is safe to say hat it will verita-
bly, bs a town awheel before the sum.
mer ends.
While riding in the store delivery
cart of Max Schultz, down ct Las
Cruces, little Katie Schultz was thrown
out and severely hurt.
Celebration of Easter Sabbath in the
Presbyterian church, at Ration, will be
conducted at the usual hours, and at 8
O'Clock in the afternoon.
The sugar company at Eddy, cor
tinue to send out seed to Pecos valley
farmers who are DESTROYS of engaging
in beet culture this season.
Harry Slime, Of Abilene, Kansas, ar
rived in Silver City and has gone to
Cliff, where he will become foreman
for the Gila farm company.
The cantata ssSnow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," was rendered In a very
creditable manner by home talent, al
the court house in III illsboro.
A baker arrived at San MarciaI from
Denver, and Immediately took charge
of the San Marcial Mercantile Co.'S,
bread and pastry department.
One of the prettiest little orchards in
the lower Pecos valley, in fact in the
entire valley, is that on the property Of
#. G. Tracy, just south of Eddy.
The Methodist church at Silver City
is to be made unusually attractive for
Easter services. Easter services will
be held both morning and night.
Henry Openheimer, a wealthy gen.
tleman from New York, has been look
ing over some OF the valuable mining
propositions in Grant county.
Miss Lena Cochran, an accomplished
young lady OF Quaker City, Ohio,
who spent the last three months at
silver City. returned to her home.
Mrs. Thos. Floyd, a highly respected
lady Of Blossburg, died in Denver.
She leaves a husband and q large fami-
" Of boys to mourn her sad death.
The young mems social club OF Ra-
ton give a grand ball next Thursday
evening, April 22d, for the purpose OF
raising money to be used in q gymna-
stun.
j. T.. Dillon returned to Trinidad,
Colorado. from Red River City. He
went ria Catskill and reports the Cats
kill-La Belle stage line in good condi-
tion.
Perry & Roberts have purchased 300
head of one, two and th~ree-year-old
steers from Stockton, Shirley and
Others, to be delivered at Silver City,
May let.
/. s. Roberts, member of the Terri
torial republican committee from Eddy
county, is an applicant for appoint
ment as postmaster of that thriving
town. Eddy.
The papers 10 the purchase OF the
San Felipe hotel properly at Albu quer.
cue by Frank Sturges from Underhlll
& Franklin were filed in the probate
clerks Office.
Mrs. E. Dietrich, mother OF Mrs
Arthur O'Quinn, who has been visiting
her daughter in Eddy for several
months past, returned to her home 10
Natchitoches, La.
At the Socorro city election, G, I.
Brown was defeated for school director
BY Joe Epple, the driver Of the delivery
waeon for the Illinois Brewing com
psny. by two votes.
@. M. Tomlinson and Howard Snod-
crass returned to Hillsboro from their