Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-14
The DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
Our PUEBLO LETTER.
Topics Of the Times Discussed In His
Inimitable style by Our Old
Time Correspondent.
10 the Eaator OF the Optic.

Our local dealers in wet hardware
are finding themselves in hard lines
The ladies OF the w. G. t. U. have
commenced a crusade against them
with a view OF enforcing the Sunday
laws which prohibit the opening Of
saloons ON that day. SO far, some
twenty warrants have been issued
against saloon keepers, and Q are
to follow. The circuit court, which will
try these cases, conyenes tomorrow,
and it will be kept busy for a time ia
trying these saloon cases. The saloon
men however, take the matter very
cody, and keep right on violating the
law. The general impression seems
to be that the fines will be only nomi.
nal, and that the Sunday closing Of
saloons will prove a failure In the end.
The saloon Is certainly a potent factor
In local politics, and it remains 10 be
seen whether the ladies Of the w. G.
T. u, eyer with their strong backing
of the churches, will win the victory
ove them.
IL is indeed hard for some people to
admit that there are evidences of return
ing prosperity or that the present ad-
ministration Is making any effort to
bring about a change for the better. To
these calamity howlers prosperity is
nm impossibility, until the people put
Billy Bryan into the presidential chair,
and il their conclusions are correct,
there never will be prosperous times
again, for Bryan's chances to become
president are not worth mentioning
But there is a large-sized wave of pros
perity passing over our land, and we
feel thankful for tin fact, we have
many things to be thankful for. We
have good health, lots OF work, a nice
home TO go TO, when no q wants us
around anywhere else we have friends
who stand bravely at our side, when
we tell the barkeeper to set them up
again, and we expect to get a barrel
full of fun out of the approaching local
elections. That is why II will take a
much larger telescope than is the one
we use in u private observatory, to
see only want, misery and woe 10 the
future.
Booth Tucker, the commander OF the
American contingent OF Pope Booths
English Salvation army, will be in this
city, some time this month, to make
the necessary arrangements for locat.
ing 1000 families on lands to be pur-
chased in this county. These families
will be selected from the deserving |
poor In New York and other large
cities. The money needed for this en-
terprise will be furnished to the COM
mander of the Salvation army, as a
loan. by some of the rich men in New
York, who have taken an interest IN
the matter. The families who will be
placed on these ten-acre tracts of land,
are TO pay for the land in weekly in
stallments. Suitable houses and out
buildings will be put on each tract,
and 5000 will be advanced to each
head of a family, ITO live ON until they
can raise the fist crop and market ~.
In these days of s%elfishness and greed,
this humanitarian project deserves
commentator and encouragement. III
is, perhaps, the only practical why OF
solving the problem of what to do with
the unemployed, deserving poor, that
crowd all of our large cities
The friends OF P. S Sheehau, the
iii h-toned-and strictly moral young
map, who embezzled some 81 600 from
inc Missouri Pacific railway, while en-
ployed as cashier of that company in
this city, are making every effort pos
sible to raise the amount stolen, in or
der 10 refund the company for its loss.
and have the criminal charges against
Saeehan withdrawn. They may sue
coed in saving him from going to the
pen, but the fact that be is an embez
zler cannot be hidden from public
view by the liberal use of a ''pious
white wash" and hush money.
There is a lively scramble among the
men Of both parties, who aspire to the
office of sheriff, to capture the nomina-
ton. There is big money in the %cficr,
and fat pickings, too.
The republican convention for nom
inaung candidates for county officers.
will meet in this city September 21st
There will be plenty Of good material
TO select from, and if the convention
puts up the right kind of men, there IS
no reason why The party should not
come out winner. A lady will, in all
probability, be nominated for school
superintendent. AS the new woman
claims to be up to date in all things, the
same as her fellow brother who wears
bifurcated toggery, we would suggest
to the convention, Gas no man, SO far,
Graves the ofice of %coroner,) the
propriety of nominating n Of the
fair sex for that gruesome office.
The Chiettdm man says he bought
two large cantaloupes for a nickel,
which were worth a nickel each, and
blushed when buying them-blushed,
no doubt, as he thought OF the sus-
picion that would fill the mind of the
merchant, as to whether he had jus,
inherited a legacy; or looted the
company safe.
The lady voters of La Junta, this
state, are evidently NJ in sympathy
with democratic doctrines. At the
democratic county convention, which
met in La Junta, yesterd ay. to nomin-
ate officers, not a single lady was pres.
ent. A disconsolate lot of old stags
they must have been. without one
woman's approving smile TO give them
hope, or courage.
The great coal strike is settled, but
the Chietiain of this city is sill en-
gagged in knocking the coal combine,
that is robbipg our consumers into
the sweet 'spoco tiempo," from which
n ia hoped they cannot return, until