Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-06
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lEn,racrs from our Excnangss.i

DR.. w. O. Owen Is the post surgeon
OF TT. Bayard.
Las Cruces has several aspirants TO-
appointment as coal oil Inspector.
Federal court, for the third judicia
district, is in session at Silver City.
Sheriff Pat F. Garrett, of Las Cruces,
has gone to Texas on a business trip,
John p. Casey, jr., has embarked in
the real estate business at Las Cruces
j. B. F. Arid, of Pratt City, Ala,
has been appointed commissioner oil
deeds for New Mexico by the governor.
Little Louise and Lawrence Je nkins
have both been on the sick list at Rim
con.
Nearly every week develops a new
aspirant to the postmastership OF Silver
City.
The Clayton literary club meets
every Friday at the court house at 1880
p. m.
The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Partridge was gladdened at Madrid by
the arrival of a dainty girl. baby.
Prof Carrera, of Las Cruces, aspires
TO be surveyor general of the Territory
His petition is now in circulation.
Over 500 dozen quails have been
shipped from Rlncon to different parts
of the Territory already this season.
A petition is being circulated among
the laboring men OF Santa Fe, asking
that no convict labor be employed in
re. building the capitol.
The poultry business continues to
grow in Ration. Engineer McCue has
now two of the finest pens Of Light
Brahmas in the southwest.
Representative Mulholland, of GAL
lup, made a gallant fight at Santa Fe
for the passage of mis- Summit county
bill through the house, but failed.
The crowd OF federal office-seekers
after endorsements legislative at Santa
Fe, is becoming beautifully smaller.
The members of the legislature have
tried to be generous and indorse them
all.
Senator Curry, chairman committee
on fnance, at Santa Fe, is already at
work on the appropriation bill for the
appropriation bill for the various Ter
ritorial institutions.
Ella Clark, colored, q regular victim
in police circles, was up before Justice
Crawford, down in Albuquerque, for
disorderly conduct. She was sent to
the bastlle for thirty days.
DR.. Mahaffey, physician at the gov
m Indian school, Albuquerque,
is kept busy these days, as no less than
sixty.tw Indian children have had the
mumps since the new year.
The nHome Ranch" re-opened by
Houts & rruda at Ration, a few months
ago, has changed ownership, Truda
retiring. B. F H uts is now the
owner of this popular resort.
The team of horses owned by Gle
mente Duran, of the Ration wood yard,
got frightened and ran away The
driver, Rafael Baca, was thrown OF the
wagon and was severely bruised.
In the case OF the building and loan
association Us. j ,hn X. Brown, a DE.
cree prO c0nfesso was entered at Albu-
ouerque and the case referred TO At
torney E. L. Medler to take testimony
Died, in Johnson's park, Colfax
county, of pneumonia, William Allison,
aged eighteen years. The deceased
was the second son of Charles and
Sarah A. Allison, formerly OF Ration
Bill Smith, who for some time has
had charge of the Abbott ranch. Union
county, for the bar I cross company,
has resigned his posi- ion and is going
to Indiana, Charley Norris has taken
his place.
Archbishop Chapelle and Rev. An.
tonic Fourchegu passed through
Albuquerque for Tucson, A. T., where
on Sunday they will conduct the
dedicatory services at the new cathedral
at that place.
j. B Fitch,J. j. Baca, E. IL Browne
and Col. Grorty, regents Of the scnool
of mines at Socorro, met with the gov
ernor at Santa te for a discussion OF
the best methods of raising revenue for
carrying on this institution.
A little freakish piggy was born the
past week on Russell & Elgin's ranch,
out from Rincon, which, had 1t lived,
would have been quite a valuable
curiosity. The little fellow had two
heads, six legs and two tails.
San Miguel county leads 10 the num-
Der of convicts in the New Mexico
penitentiary, having 43; Bernaliilo has
81. Out Of the 1876, ninety nine are
natives OF the Territory, and the re-
mainder are from almost every country
on the globe.
A substitute was offered in the conn
ell at Santa Fe, exempting all sugar
beet factories erected now, or to be
erected IN the next two years..
taxation for six years; amendments
were offered, also, exempting wooden
mills and smelters and ore reduction
plants from taxation for the same
length of time.
Trarsito Candelario, of Atrisco, just
across the river, from Albuquerque
was up before Justice Crawford. down
there, and placed uader 500 bonds to
appear before the next grand jury OF
Bernalillo county, on the charge OF M
p~ersonaling a justice of the peace,
when he bias no commission showing
that he holds such an office.
The governor, recognizing the i'm
portauce OF having New Mexico's re-
sources and products fittiDgly repre-
sented at the Tennessee centennial ex-