Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-21
THE new MEXICO news,
Extracts from Our Exchanges. /

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Kingston.
VIM. @. Sutherland Is building tn,
ferryboat at Aztec.
District court will convene in Hills
boro on April 26th.
Straw hats are quite numerous, thes'
days, at Las Cruces.
w. 1. A. dance;at Las Cruces, Fri
day night, April 23rd.
Bob Mclaughlin is very sick a
Aztec, San Juan county.
Married, in Mssilla, Santa Cruz Lu.
caro- to Mariana Estrada.
Fourth Of July will be celebrated II
Kingston 10 glorious style.
W. Hamilton and Miss Floy Richey
were married near Roswell.
Work is being pushed on the new
Methodist church at Roswell.
Rev. J.. Montfort will hold services
in Hillsboro on the 25th instant.
w. j. Roberts, of Herrin, ILL.,, diAd
at the Arlington hotel in Roswell.
Fred Bascom is re-modeling his wire
c~loth-cutting machine ct Las Cruces.
A couple Of San Ma~rcialites were Sc
cretly married about six weeks ago.
Miss Dora Conroy, Of San Marcial,
has become the wne Of a new bike.
Smith Lea, of Roswell, started on a
prospecting our to Old Mexico points.
Mrs. j.. G. Kubu IS preparing to con-
struct another dwelling house at San
Marcial.
Bourbonia & Simpson t1rned over
800 head of cattle to l.. Baldwin & Co,
at Eugle.
Mrs. j. M. Cain and Miss Mollie
Thomas. OF Kingston, spent a week in
Ell Paso.
j. p. Hooper's children have been
quite sick at Kingston, but are now
convalescent.
Miss Maggie McGie, of Las Cruces.
has been engaged as teacher at the
Organ school.
Some small boy can earn sfour bits''
by killing a black rabbit which runs at
large in Aztec.
Vic Proctor met with an accident at
Rincon, by which he lost the end of one
of his thumbs.
The cottonwood trees-San Mar
cial's chief attractior-are donning
their spring attire.
L. A. Robirson, L. Clay, and G.. T.
Barr, OF Kingston, have new bicycles
and all are learning to ride.
A Mexican brought to San Marcial a
large sack filled with Buffalo fish
caught in the river near Paraje.
The Reay residence on the old
Kinsey ranch will soon be completed
and then Kingston will have a hop.
Albuquerque Camp No. 1, Wood
men of the World, gave their second
annual ball at the armory in Aibuquer-
que.
Col. w. H. Williams and Fred
Bunker have purchased Sam Smiths
blacksmith shop and dwelling house at
Aztec.
C. II. Laidlaw has returned to Hills
boro and is opening up an assay office
in Smiths old ~postofice building down
there.
DR.. White, of Kingston, and Doc.
Warren. OF Hillsboro, contemplate a
trip to Old Mexico, in the interest OF
dentistry.
Chas. S. Bush and son, of New Or
leans, arrived at Roswell and are rusti-
eating at the Milne-Bush ranch on the
Berrendo.
A fraternal- stag party is on the tapis
at San Marcial. The Oddfellows will
do the engineering and the date is
April 26th.
Rev. Fitzpatrick, who left Hillsboro
very low with consumption, stood the
railroad trip TO his old home in Michi-
gan very we'll.
I. is thought that the new mining
law will be knocked into a cooked hat
in several Of its provisions, II It ever
gets into court.
Geo. Brett, of Aztec, is preparing to
plant seven acres to fruit trees this
spring. He already has quite q large
bearing orchard.
The "Bashi Bazouk" is the peculiar
name on q location monument at a
claim near Granite peak, in the
Hillsboro district.
Among the visitors In Aztec, was
Prof. William X. Moorehead, ~archeoIo-
gist OF the Ohio state university. lie
Is relic hunting.
A petition was circulated at Hillsboro.
indorsing Capt. Thos. Branigan for the
postmastership OF Las Cruces, u was
generally signed.
Capt. J. w. james returned 4 hos
we'll from a months vacation which ne
spent in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tenn
essee aud Arkansas.
Work on the Selden dam In Dona
Ana county has stopped and W. ..
Bradbury & Co., The contractors. are
with their men.
The grading Of the park ct San Mar
cial is finished. In q few days an iron
fence will enclose it and q retaining
wall be placed in position,
George Campbell, Of Hillsboro, has
received a letter denying the report OF
the death at Los Angeles. CAL, OF MS
wife, Mrs. Vim. Kemp.
There are six Communicates Of
knights Templar In New Mexico, one
each 10 Ration, Las Vegas, Santa 70,
4 lbuoupronq Demipg and Roswell.