Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-02
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.


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Kingston.
William j. AFFORD, of Blossburg
died Of paralysis.
J.J Rascoe, OF Eddy, has beer
nursing a sore eye.
All the leasers Of mines 10 Kingston
seem to be doing we'll.
Several valuable dogs have beer
poisoned in Kingston.
1t is rumored that q newspaper will
be started In Folsom oon
The leasers on the "U. s." mine o.
Kingston have struck It again.
Mrs. j. E Fitzpatrick received the
sad news at Hillsboro Of the death Of
her mother at Port Huron, Michigan,
Miss Gertrude Strawn arrived 10
Eddy, from StephensvilIe, Texas, and
is visiting her cousin, Miss Berta Law
erty.
The Folsom meat market Is offering
choice four quarters at s cents per
pound and hind quarters at THc. deliv-
cred.
A new telephone line has been built
from the Silver City reduction works,
below town, to the depot and telegraph
office.
Frank Welty and Charlie Anderson
came down to Hillsboro from Chloride
with a drove Of beef cattle for James
Dalgish.
Some of the Eddy county officials are
getting exercised over the Fall bill
which provides for q reduction OF
salaries.
W. F. Baker, the meat market man
ut Eddy, is down with grip and Mrs.
Baker is i'll, she being threatened with
pneumonia.
The Grst lecture of the Ration high
school lecture course. was given by DR.
T. B. Hart, the other afternoon, on
s'Emergencies."
Plans and specifications for the new
brick block 500 to be erected at Eddy,
may be seen by applying to l.. Ander.
son, down there.
L. II. Bartlett, formerly a prominent
official OF the Pecos Valley railroad,
with his family, Is q welcome addition
to Silver City society.
DR.. D. A. White arrived in King
ston from Palomas, where he has been
busy in the dental work. He 10 now
very sick with pneumonia.
At Santa Fe it is said that charges
have been filed against Secretary Mil
Ter, and that he has beep ordered to
answer to the same at one
The Castalian club, at Eddy, 10 now
thoroughly organized and will, in
weekly meetings, discuss topics OF
science and general interest.
The last will and testament OF Joseph
Hodgson, of Colfax county, will be
probated before Judge Francisco Gauna,
at Springer, February Ind, 1897.
Married, at the home of the BRIDES
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Hilton,
o. G. Otis to Miss Bessie Hilton, down
at Eddy, Rev. E. Braatley officiating.
u. T. Gadberry and Miss M. d.
Welch were married, at the home OF
the BRIDES parents, four miles SOUTH
east of Eddy, Rev. Brantley officiating.
Judgments aggregating s24,719 So
have been obtained by creditors ae ainst
Grant county, and levies ordered made
for the same, during the past two
years.
Miss Walsen, daughter Of Fred
Walsen, of Denver, Colo, and niece Of
G. H. Sporleder, Of Las Vegas, is ex-
pected in Santa Fe about the middle of
February.
Last Sunday was probably Rev. J
w. Harris last o at the Baptist
church in Albuquerque, as the new
pastor, Rev. d. J. Bagly, is expected,
this week.
District Court Clerk Marion returned
to Albuquerque from . hurried trip to
Port Henry, N. Y, whittier no went to
accompany his mother and other rela-
tives home.
Gus Grossetite and j. d. Mitten will
occupy house No. II, across the track
from the freight depot, down at San
Marcial, and engage in the upholster-
ing business.
Alfred and Miss Gussie Giller, of o.
sawotamie, Kansas, brother and sister
Of Miss Giller, the popular clerk in the
Walter q. Hadley establishment, ar.
rived in Ration.
Frank Hadson, who has been 0
nected with the engineer corps OF the
Western Homestead & Irrigation com
papy, Of the Rio Puerco valley, return
ed to Santa Fo.
Ed. L. White, OF Saltillo, Tenn, AZ
acquaintance Of ] o Cameron, down
there, and a graduate Of the Columbian
aaw university, Of Lebanon, Tenn,
arrived at Eddy.
A candy-pull and surprise party was
given, at the home of F. C. Peterson,
up at Springer, in honor OF Miss
Blanche C%louthisr, who has left for her
home at Clayton.
William Smith, formerly b%ookkeep-
or for the Mogollon mercantile COM
pany, At Mogollon, has been appoint
ed deputy assessor of Socorro county
by Assessor Baca.
Hess and Walker sold to Tracey &
Godsey. Of Hood Co., Texss, . car Of
range horses, which we're shipped
from Eddy to Baton Rogue, La. Price
about SIS per head.
Mrs. N. c. Hoysradt of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, is in Ration taking
orders for William Jennings Bryan's
book 1.-THE First Battle" and is meet
Ing with splendid success.